Scientific Director (Infectious Disease)

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop content for medical education activities for live, online, and print-based programs; create new content and/or edit content submitted by freelancers or faculty members; identify and work collaboratively with expert faculty members and writers; assign projects to freelance contributors and supporting staff; prepare/finalize content for publication or presentation

• Attend and/or participate remotely in key medical conferences; contribute to the editing and/or writing of conference coverage programs, including text- and PowerPoint-based activities.
• Utilizing the Playbook to manage a workload consisting of multiple projects with one or more content components; ensure quality standards, and on-time completion of all deliverables.
• Execute activities in alignment with CEA Playbook quality, hours and SOPs to ensure all activities pass quality audit and meet live revision standards.

Faculty Relationships

• Maintain and/or grow strategic relationships with key faculty.
• Working with KOL relationships identify educational gaps and funding resources to advance HCP education.
• Identify and recruit KOL that will collaborate and share the education with peers.
• Identify and build relationships with up-and-coming KOL faculty.

• Achieve identified efficiency ratio %
• Achieve identified on-time delivery %
• Achieve identified faculty KOL recruitment %

Skills & Abilities:

• Ability to manage multiple projects that may be complex (e.g., online interactive treatment decision support tools) and in developing CME-specific content components (e.g., developing and analyzing questions for outcomes assessments)
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills (oral and written)
• Ability to function independently with effective time management, organization, and project management skills; attention to detail; ability to manage diverse tasks to deliver projects on time, within budget, and at a high level of quality
• Ability to work collaboratively in teams both within the company and externally (e.g., faculty, freelancers, and educational partners)
• Effective decision making, initiative and judgment; strong analytical and problem-solving skills; and a resourceful, “can-do” attitude

Education/Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of recent experience writing, developing, and editing CME/CE activities
• BA/BS degree (Biological Sciences, English, or Communications preferred). Advanced degree (MD, PhD, PharmD, NP/APN, MBA) preferred
• Working knowledge of recent advances in clinical medicine and therapeutics. Direct clinical experience preferred.
• Experience identifying and working with faculty members/key opinion leaders on educational materials intended for professional medical audiences
• Experience developing CME/CE-certified programs and familiarity with ACCME, ACPE, and ANCC as well as other regulatory agencies’ guidelines and policies in relation to commercially supported educational activities
• Working knowledge of AMA style requirements
• Proficiency in MS Office applications (Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook) and familiarity with online medical reference resources
• Clinical or research experience will be considered in lieu of CME/CE experience
• Experience managing content development in a range of CME formats (ideally including PowerPoint presentations, case-based activities, video presentations, and interactive digital media)
• Experience working with expert faculty members/key opinion leaders to determine educational needs and develop educational content
• Experience writing grant proposals for CME/IME programs

Travel Requirements:

• Up to 30% of the time
• Domestic and international travel