Scientific Director

Clinical Education Alliance (CEA) is a global leader in providing innovative and impactful healthcare education, insights and communications, empowering healthcare professionals with the tools and resources they need to stay current and improve patient outcomes. CEA sets the standard for professional development with its commitment to scientific rigor, innovative formats, sophisticated marketing to drive healthcare professional awareness, and engagement techniques grounded in adult learning principles. With its expansive reach across the healthcare team, CEA drives healthcare excellence across the care continuum.

The Scientific Director is responsible for developing and managing content for continuing education (CME/CE) and independent medical education (IME) programs that include live, online, and print-based formats.

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.

CEA Core Values

Innovation – Creating, Leading Edge, Unique

• Promotes and supports the implementation of new ideas or strategies. Utilizes a flexible communication approach with the team; holds others accountable to execute new ideas/strategies and supports SOP practice.
• Requires minimal support required for new strategies/concepts supports leadership with team onboarding of strategy/idea.

Passion – Driven, Focused

• Encourages best practices within the organization to support our mission: improve patient lives

Integrity – Credibility, Fairness, Quality, Accuracy, Trustworthiness

• Consistently adapts style or approach to different situations; accepts feedback to make positive change; recognizes the need for leadership advice and uses inputs and expertise accordingly.
• Proactively communicates change, intentions, and resulting business impact with high transparency, broadly at all levels (internal and/or external) and stakeholders.
• Prioritizes effectively and maintains composure during challenging times
• Ensures accountability for achieving day-to-day activities while continually assessing gaps and empowering the team to adjust to meet the project/business needs
• Supports the team to deliver on time and within budget

Team – Alliance of thoughtful people driven by our core values

• Consistently sets an example and encourages others to maintain calm and composure during challenging times with a focus on results; identifies problems and provides solution-based alternatives for the organization.
• Models a positive attitude and displays agility during times of change and ambiguity, remain positive in their efforts to support the business.
• Leads the identification of obstacles and works to remove them to achieve project and department goals
• Effectively engages in developmental discussion with team members; provides recognition as appropriate and specific and objective feedback to assist in achieving developmental goals.

Job Performance Measurements This position will be measured on:

• 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

This job description should not be construed to imply that these requirements are the exclusive standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions and perform other related duties as may be required by their supervisor.

Clinical Education Alliance and its subsidiaries provide Equal Employment Opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other non-merit factor.