Job Order: 5827
Staff Representative: Tim Jadwin
Position: Director, Education And Compliance
Location: Illinois
Company Summary:
An ACCME-accredited, full-service, medical education company.
Description:
The primary function of the Director, Education and Compliance is to manage the operations of Certification Services, to ensure that the mission is met through the design, development, and implementation of quality CME activities that improve the public health, through the management of Certification Services, and the maintenance and enhancement of our accreditation and certification obligations. The Director will lead the organization in integrating an outcomes-based learning model and planning process for all activities. The Director is responsible to ensure training, monitoring, and compliance with all CME/CE guidelines, both governmental and organizational and informing the EVP/Managing Director of any actual or potential non-compliance of these guidelines. The Director will assist the EVP/Managing Director, in continuous improvements including tools to promote quality assurance. The Director will serve as the primary educational resource to the organization in communicating applicable CME/CE regulatory requirements including ACCME, ACPE, ANCC, and IACET. Additionally, they will support the CME/CE programming teams in developing new tactics to deliver and assess certified medical education.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the organization in understanding and adhering to all CME/CE guidelines (AMA, OIG, FDA, ACCME, ACPE, ANCC, and IACET) and ensure they are communicated, understood and followed by teams.
- Ensure that all templates, checklists, policies, procedures, and training adhere to all CME/CE guidelines referenced above.
- Advise and support senior management in its compliance with all policies and procedures.
- Oversee the management and maintain accreditation and certification status of our ACCME, ACPE, ANCC (to be secured) and IACET status
- Oversee the process of issuing CME/CE certificates including evaluation and test processing.
- Report to the EVP/Managing Director any violations of adherence to policies and procedures.
- Oversee the management of registration, evaluation, needs assessment and outcomes assessment processes.
- Ensure that a vigorous outcomes-based learning model and planning process is implemented and adhered to by the program teams
- Collaborate with senior management in facilitating the development of quality CME/CE activities.
- Oversee the management of systems for monitoring all sponsored and jointly sponsored CME/CE activities.
- Serve as the primary resource for medical education regulatory issues, both certified and non-certified programming within DIME
- Manage the Medical Education Advisory Board.
- Understand and oversee the maintenance of database functions.
- Serve as the primary representative and participate in key organizations, including AMA, ACCME, ACME, ACPE, ANCC, CHC, NAAMECC, and IACET.
- Adhere to all policies and procedures.
- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in education or science preferred.
- Knowledge and expertise of AMA, ACCME, ANCC, ACPE, and IACET accreditation policies and procedures, including demonstrated experience in leading an organization through successful re-accreditation and/or certification.
- Knowledge and expertise of OIG, FDA, and PhRMA guidelines and the healthcare industry.
- Five years of CME/CE certification experience with a CME/CE provider including operations with outcomes assessment experience a plus.
- An understanding and ability to communicate to others the basics principles of adult learning.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Proficient in MS Word, Power Point and Excel
