Odd Jobs: Clinic Manager
October 13th, 2009 | Published in Nonprofit Career Month
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This is the second blog in the series titled “Odd Jobs”. The focus of “Odd Jobs” is to shed light on nonprofit careers that aren’t thought of as the traditional nonprofit job.
In the first blog, I talked about the Community Engagement Specialist. Today, I would like to explore the job of the Clinic Manager.
There is a diverse array of jobs available in the health field; some positions are for for-profit entities, while others are for nonprofit entities. Clinics are typically nonprofit, and provide medial assistance to individuals that cannot afford to receive traditional medical help. Clinics are sometimes even sponsored by a for-profit hospital in the same community to serve the underserved population.
Clinic managers, whose main job is to keep the clinic running, typically have degrees in health administration, but more often then not, while they maybe providing patient care and direction to physicians, they are also navigating the nonprofit environment. Clinic managers are charged with keeping their clinics open and may be participating in traditional nonprofit duties, such as fundraising, grantwriting, and program development.
The position of a Clinic Manager really mirrors a lot of nonprofit jobs in which the organization provides a more traditional for-profit service at a subsidized rate to the community. Other organizations like this may be community blood centers, nonprofit run vet offices or humane societies, therapy centers, art galleries, and others providing fee for service.
Here is a general job description for a Clinic Manager from the University of Texas Health and Science Center at San Antonio.
Check out the next blog in this series to get information on the nonprofit career of a Farmer.
