Job Order: 4756
Staff Representative: Tim Jadwin
Position: Program Director
Location: Illinois
Company Summary:
An ACCME-accredited, full-service, medical education company.
Description:
Role(s):
The Program Director is responsible for overseeing all aspects of his/her program team. This position includes both internal and external responsibilities. Internal responsibilities include the direct management and mentoring of all project team staff, contributing to brainstorming and start-up of new CME/CE programs, troubleshooting, facilitating inter-departmental communication, providing monthly reports and new business forecasts to senior management, participating in management team meetings and sub-committees, and contributing to identifying unmet educational efforts.
External responsibilities include establishing and maintaining strong relationships with grantors and key faculty, liaison with relevant medical associations and institutions, and presenting innovative ideas and articulating additional educational opportunities with potential grantors.
Responsibilities:
- Establish and maintain strong relationships with key faculty, grantors, and relevant associations and/or institutions.
- Ensure learner expectations are met on all levels of project activity by maintaining ongoing communication (written and verbal) with key stakeholders and project team members and troubleshooting problems/issues as necessary.
- Establish and maintain a thorough knowledge of CME/CE accreditation guidelines, applicable grantor guidelines, disease states, and general medical education.
- Oversee budgeting, financial monitoring, and reconciliation of individual projects.
- Identify, develop, design and secure new educational grants by writing educational grant proposals, developing presentations, and regular meetings with key stakeholders.
- Achieve or surpass revenue and profitability for each project.
- Understand and adhere to all CME/CE guidelines (AMA, OIG, FDA, ACCME, ACPE, and IACET) and ensure they are communicated, understood and followed by teams.
- Hire, train, establish individualized career development plans, provide ongoing feedback, and conduct performance evaluations with direct reports.
- Update senior management on project team activity, new business opportunities, financial analyses and projections.
- Assign and manage project team workload.
- Work with department managers to identify and manage internal and external resources.
- Facilitate conflict resolution within and between departments or between account team members.
- Participate in Management Team meetings and task forces.
- Adhere to all policies and procedures.
- A bachelor’s degree is required. An advanced degree in science or business is preferred.
- Seven plus years relevant job experience, including management responsibilities, interdisciplinary team involvement, educational activity development within a scientific setting is required.
- Management experience in one or more of the following settings: pharmaceutical manufacturer, biotech, managed care, hospital, medical communications company, or CME/CE provider is preferred.
- The ability to quickly grasp and retain scientific and technical concepts is required.
- Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Internet, strong presentation skills and business development skills are also required.
