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UGME Director of Assessment

By josebelle cruz | April 23, 2025

The Faculty of Medicine at The University of British Columbia (UBC) invites applications for the position of UGME Director of Assessment. This is an administrative role with a three-year term appointment, renewable subject to satisfactory review. The position has a time commitment of 0.5 FTE, equivalent to two and one-half days (2.5) per week. The incumbent must have sufficient protected time during the working week to fulfill the requirements of this role.

The UBC Faculty of Medicine plays a critical role in training the health professionals of the future. Students in the accredited Doctor of Medicine (MD) undergraduate program have the opportunity to learn medicine at one of four geographically distinct program sites – Island Medical Program (IMP), Northern Medical Program (NMP), Vancouver Fraser Medical Program (VFMP) and the Southern Medical Program (SMP), where they gain invaluable training and mentoring from highly skilled clinicians.

The UGME Director of Assessment is the academic lead in providing strategic leadership for the integration, delivery, advancement, and continuous quality improvement of student assessment components across all four years of the MDUP, ensuring that objectives, and MDUP Exit Competencies are assessed within a programmatic framework.

Reports to the Associate Dean, UGME and liaises and works closely with the UGME Director of Curriculum, the Regional Associate Deans and Assistant Deans, the MDUP Directors of Administration, Senior Manager, PLAT, and other faculty leaders to ensure clear lines of communication are maintained and mutual needs and expectations are met.

The UGME Director of Assessment will act as a key advisor to the Associate Dean, UGME, providing leadership and tactical advice in relation to student assessment; foster engagement and inclusivity and creates an environment that promotes excellence in all aspects of work and culture, and aligns with the Faculty’s values of respect, integrity, compassion, collaboration, and equity where civility, diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and cultural safety are paramount and central to all encounters; ensure all student assessment activities align with the MDUP priorities and plan as well as institutional policies and procedures; provides strategic leadership to the student assessment portfolio across all four years of the MDUP, ensuring alignment with program objectives and MDUP Exit Competencies within a programmatic assessment framework.

The successful must hold a UBC faculty appointment or be eligible to hold a UBC Faculty appointment. The successful candidate will hold an MD and/or PhD.

The successful candidate will have:

  1. Demonstrated excellence and experience teaching within the MDUP.
  2. Knowledge of the University of British Columbia MDUP.
  3. Knowledge and experience in curriculum development and delivery of the MDUP.
  4. Familiarity with CACMS accreditation standards.
  5. Administrative experience; excellent organizational and time management skills.
  6. Collaborative leadership skills and ability to work effectively with students, faculty, and administrative leadership.
  7. Excellent interpersonal, communication, and collaborative negotiation skills.
  8. Demonstrated commitment to inclusive excellence and applies an equity and inclusion framework to their work

A detailed job description, including a list of qualifications, is available below.

A letter of application outlining the applicant’s research and teaching interests, accompanied by a detailed curriculum vitae and the names of three references should be directed to:

Dr. Cheryl Holmes
Associate Dean, UGME
c/o Shiva Majidi
Email: ugme.assist@ubc.ca
Subject Line: UGME Director of Assessment

The deadline for applications will be May 9, 2025. The anticipated start date for this position is June 1, 2025, or upon a date to be mutually agreed.

The expected pay (or pay range) for this position is $75,000 per annum at 0.5 FTE.

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UBC — One of the World's Leading Universities. As one of the world's leading universities, the University of British Columbia creates an exceptional learning environment that fosters global citizenship, advances a civil and sustainable society, and supports outstanding research to serve the people of British Columbia, Canada and the world.

Our Vision: To Transform Health for Everyone.

Ranked among the world’s top medical schools with the fifth-largest MD enrollment in North America, the UBC Faculty of Medicine is a leader in both the science and the practice of medicine. Across British Columbia, more than 12,000 faculty and staff are training the next generation of doctors and health care professionals, making remarkable discoveries, and helping to create the pathways to better health for our communities at home and around the world.

The Faculty — comprised of approximately 2,200 administrative support, technical/research and management and professional staff, as well approximately 650 full-time academic and over 10,000 clinical faculty members — is composed of 19 academic basic science and/or clinical departments, three schools, and 24 research centres and institutes. Together with its University and Health Authority partners, the Faculty delivers innovative programs and conducts research in the areas of health and life sciences. Faculty, staff and trainees are located at university campuses, clinical academic campuses in hospital settings and other regionally based centres across the province.

UBC hires on the basis of merit and is committed to employment equity. All qualifies persons are encouraged to apply. Equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the B.C. Human Rights Code, including sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, racialization, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nation, Metis, Inuit, or Indigenous person. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority.