Job Order: 5684
Staff Representative: Tim Jadwin
Position: CME Grant Writer
Location: New Hamshire
Company Summary:
Our client is a leading independent provider of continuing medical education (CME) for physicians and healthcare providers.
Description:
Position Overview:
Researches, writes, edits, and reviews CME grant proposals to ensure scientific accuracy, relevance for target audiences, and strategic alignment of content to the objectives of the activity. Has an understanding and ability to effectively work within the CME accredited educational environments, including the expectations of funding organizations. Supports the strategic positioning of programs and also would have expertise in interacting and negotiating with clinical faculty during the development of program content.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Enthusiastic, supportive member of the CME team, dedicated to making grant proposals clinically appropriate and innovatively delivered
- Provide insight across a broad range of disease areas as designated by growing business and as such embrace knowledge expansion into new science and disease areas
- Ensure accuracy, clinical relevance, and strategic appropriateness of materials being developed
- Research and write needs assessments and disease state and market backgrounders tailored to educational grants
- Demonstrate the appropriate application of adult learning methods in the materials being developed
- Provide research and content development expertise for medical education projects specific to program style and media
- Interact and negotiated effectively with faculty and clients
- Review/edit content to ensure scientific accuracy, relevance to target audience, and that content meets the objectives of the activity
- Contribute to the spirit of enhancing our access to scientific resources and innovative educational media
- Effectively communicate and coordinate with in the project team structure to meet or exceed the agreed upon deadlines
- Develop ideas for CME programs and research/suggest appropriate venues for executing these programs
- Develop proposals, budgets, estimates of job cost, and profitability
- Work closely with Business Development Team to develop proposals, budgets, and presentations of company capabilities to potential program donors.
- College or advanced degree in a scientific discipline; plus three to five years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience in grant preparation, medical research, medical education, pharmaceutical writing, or medical writing
- Insight into market positioning of new medicines
- Strong computer skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook & database programs), and knowledge of AMA style
- Familiarity with promotional and ACCME regulations for medical education
