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Job Order: 5727
Staff Representative: Tim Jadwin

Position: Medical Education Consultant
Location: Indiana

Company Summary:
Our client is an ACCME-accredited provider that develops extensive needs and performance gap assessments, executes needs-based curricula, and impacts practitioner knowledge and patient outcomes.

Description:
Position Summary
The Medical Education Consultant (MEC) has two primary areas of focus:

• Grant Funding - Identifying, pursuing, and developing relationships with commercial supporters that will lead to opportunities to secure grant funding for continuing medical education and continuing professional development activities
• Contractual Agreements - Identifying, pursuing, and developing relationships with organizations and/or institutions that will lead to productive contractual relationships with the identified organization

The MEC will pursue these relationships and activities in manners and methods that are consistent with the practices and policies of our client.

Essential Functions

• Researching the supporter/organization
• Development of an understanding of the supporter’s/organization’s areas of interest
• Initiating contact with the appropriate communication channels within the supporter/organization
• Management of all communication with the supporter/organization
• Determining opportunities to seek grant support from the supporters
• Determining opportunities to enter into contracts with organizations
• Providing recommendations for proposals
• Working with the Educational Development, Design, and Delivery (EDDD) team to create strategic educational initiatives worthy of grant support
• Working with the following teams to develop value added services worthy of contractual relationships
  • Educational Development, Design and Delivery
  • Continuing Professional Development
  • Activity Management
• Coordinating, along with Proposal Coordinator, the transition of accepted proposals to the Activity Management team

Requirements of the Position

• Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s preferred
• Minimum 5 years experience in the CME industry, 10 years preferred. CME experience can come from
  • Medical Education and Communication Companies (MECCs)
  • Medical Associations and/or Specialty Societies
  • Hospital CME Departments
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills preparing communications involving a wide variety of contributors and readers
• Excellent organizational and time management skills demonstrating initiative and productive use of unstructured time
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to work well with all levels of internal management and staff, as well as outside partners, supporters, and vendors
• Ability to multi-task, coordinate multiple projects
• Extensive knowledge of the varying elements required to develop and budget for a CME activity
• Demonstration of professional demeanor, communications, and actions desirable of the position
• Up-to-date knowledge of the CME industry, issues and current trends
• Knowledge of all policies and processes
• Thorough understanding of
  • All compliance policies and procedures, including the Certified Educational Independence Policy (CEIP)
  • The quality assurance process
  • All cross-functional teams, including internal team members and roles
• Working knowledge of electronic filing and database management system