Team Leadership & Performance Management

• Provides strategic leadership, forecasting accreditation readiness and resource allocation needs.

• Supervises Coordinators providing ongoing coaching, direction, and performance feedback.

• Assigns, prioritizes, and monitors workloads to ensure timely, accurate completion of accreditation tasks.

• Evaluates team performance and identifies opportunities for growth, skill development, and improvement.

• Ensures adherence to accreditation processes, documentation standards, and quality expectations across the team.

• Communicates expectations, goals, and deadlines, ensuring clarity and accountability.

• Supports hiring, onboarding, and training of new team members within the Accreditation function.

Accreditation Workflow Oversight

• Oversees accreditation workflows for assigned UP and Post-Professional programs, ensuring alignment with accrediting body requirements.

• Ensures accuracy, completeness, and consistency of accreditation documents produced by the team, including narratives, appendices, data tables, and supporting materials.

• Identifies risks, gaps, or delays in accreditation workflows and implements corrective actions or escalates issues as needed.

• Ensures faculty documentation workflows are executed accurately and that CVs, qualifications, and contemporary expertise documentation meet accreditor expectations.

• Reviews high-risk or complex accreditation materials prior to submission, providing guidance and final quality checks.

Continuing Education (CE) & Residency Accreditation Oversight

• Ensures accurate and timely CE submissions (PT state boards, BOC, AOTA, ASHA/SLP, ARC-PA) by supervising the work of Specialists and Coordinators.

• Monitors CE status, compliance requirements, and deadlines, and ensures documentation is maintained accurately.

• Ensures residency accreditation tasks are completed according to established processes and accreditor expectations.

• Provides guidance to the team on CE and residency requirements, escalating complex issues when necessary.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Communication

• Serves as the primary Accreditation contact for Coordinator led workflows, including faculty documentation, portal uploads, and related accreditation support activities for assigned UP partnerships.

• Coordinates with Program Directors, faculty, Operations, and UP leadership on Coordinator led accreditation workflows and collaborates with Accreditation Consultants on programmatic accreditation requirements.

• Facilitates accreditation-related meetings, ensuring agenda alignment, discussion flow, accurate notes, and timely follow-up.

Process Improvement & Operational Leadership

• Evaluates accreditation workflows and identifies opportunities to improve efficiency, clarity, and quality.

• Implements improvements to templates, tools, and processes in collaboration with the Associate Director.

• Ensures consistent application of accreditation standards across the pod and contributes to the development of best practices.

• Supports strategic accreditation initiatives, including readiness planning, cycle forecasting, and operational improvements.

General Duties

• Performs additional job-related duties as assigned.

• Protects organization’s value by keeping information confidential.