Job Order: 5272
Staff Representative: Tim Jadwin
Position: Associate Scientific Director
Location: Illinois
Company Summary:
An ACCME-accredited, full-service, medical education company.
Description:
Role(s):
The Associate Scientific Director is responsible for managing the writing and editing aspects of educational materials developed and produced. This primarily includes original content development, faculty and client support and communications, and collaborating with other content developers. The incumbent is responsible for the quality, scientific accuracy and integrity, and timeliness of assigned projects. To accomplish these tasks, the Associate Scientific Director will interact in person and remotely with publishers, audiovisual, slide, and transcription vendors, and other account team members and company divisions.
Responsibilities:
- Develop meeting agendas, program announcements, faculty lists, faculty and client correspondence, and other project-related materials and communications.
- Manage the development and completion of program syllabi, including writing, editing, faculty contact and approvals, and production.
- Interact in person and remotely with faculty and clients on issues related to scientific content.
- Develop and work with faculty on the development of monographs, slides, slide kits, manuscripts, videotapes, and other enduring materials.
- Prepare a range of meeting summaries (e.g. executive summaries, topline summaries, highlights). Review/assess meeting transcripts as needed.
- Assist program chairperson and faculty with pre-program content development (e.g. abstracts, slides, etc.) with regard to issues of presentation content, length, content overlap with other presenters, and meeting program objectives.
- Manage on-site slide review with chairpersons and presenters as applicable.
- Oversee activities of audiovisual staff at programs to assure an optimal meeting environment and smooth flow of presentations.
- Ensure audiovisual services align with content needs and manage on site accordingly. This includes serving as the liaison with the faculty presenters and audiovisual team members.
- Adhere to project parameters including deadlines, budget, and content limitations.
- Initiate discussion with Project Manager regarding any potential barriers to successful project completion that may arise (deadline, hours, budget, etc.) and suggest solutions that address client and company needs.
- Assure that written materials and slides meet project objectives and contain appropriate scientific messages, marketing messages and learning objectives when available.
- Establish and maintain productive relationships with clients and faculty.
- Participate in new program concept development and proposal design and writing.
- Track the work of researchers, copyeditors and freelance writers/editors throughout the development process to ensure on-time delivery.
- Assure that written materials follow company’s editorial style.
- Travel to and manage on-site editorial needs for live meetings.
- Adhere to all policies and procedures.
- A bachelor’s degree in a related field is required. A master’s degree or PhD (in life sciences) or PharmD is preferred.
- Five plus years of clinical, writing, publishing, and/or pharmaceutical experience
- Demonstrated ability to analyze and interpret scientific data
- Demonstrated organizational, analytical, and interpersonal communication skills
- Ability to manage projects with limited direction and work within tight deadlines are required.
- Experience in medical education, marketing/strategic planning, and the journal publication process is preferred.
