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
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
- 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


