Job Order: 4648
Staff Representative: Tim Jadwin
Position: Project Specialist/Dermatology
Location: Illinois
Company Summary:
An accredited, full-service medical education company with an excellent work environment and top-notch client roster. They are involved in the research, design, and implementation of educational programs for health care professionals.
Description:
Role(s):
The Project Specialist contributes to the development of many aspects of medical communications programming. Depending on the scope and nature of each project, this responsibility can range from managing segments of a program on which a Project Manager, Associate Project Manager, or Business Unit Director is taking a primary lead, to supporting segments of the program on which other team members have responsibility. The majority of activities fall into the latter category. The number of simultaneous projects is dependent on the scope and nature of each initiative, as well as on the skills of the individual.
Fulfillment of these responsibilities requires interaction with multidisciplinary project teams, interfacing with each department within the company, meeting client and management expectations as communicated by the project team leader, maintaining strong faculty relationships (when applicable), and contributing to the on-budget, on-time, on-strategy status of each program. The Project Specialist also continually provides updates to internal and external team and client contact(s). Although not a primary responsibility, the Project Specialist also helps with budget development, maintenance and reconciliation, and managing external suppliers so that these areas become increasingly familiar. The specialist also facilitates the completion of central files for each project.
In order to perform these functions, the Project specialist must have strong verbal and written communication skills. He/she must also be highly organized, comfortable working on multidisciplinary teams, adept at multitasking and prioritizing activities, have basic financial management skills, and be able/eager to motivate others.
Responsibilities:
- Maintain timely and professional written and verbal communications with clients and faculty as they pertain to specific areas of program involvement.
- Develop new budgets.
- Develop an increasing knowledge of client organizations, products, disease states, and medical education.
- Contribute to development of new project budgets and new business development activities within the account team, as identified by the Business Unit Director.
- Learn and contribute to the budgeting, monitoring, financial monitoring, and reconciliation of individual projects within the account teams.
- Participate in start-up meetings for each project, contribute to establishment and maintenance of time and events schedules, and provide weekly updates on each initiative to Project manager/Associate Project Manager.
- Contribute to progress of multidisciplinary project teams to ensure within-budget, on-time, on-strategy performance.
- Contribute to development of all project activities, including faculty recruitment and ongoing communication, audience generation, database management, editorial support, logistics management, registration/participant communication, production of materials, honoraria/reimbursement process, supplier performance, central file establishment.
- Maintain client company policies and CME (ACCME and DCME for program implementation and enduring material development) guidelines as they pertain to all activities.
- Adhere to all of our client’s policies and procedures.
A bachelor’s degree or related job experience is required. A bachelor’s degree in Health/Science field or related job experience is preferred.
Experience:
Previous experience in a healthcare environment is preferred.
