Associate Director, Education Content Development

Description/Job Summary

The Associate Director, Education Content Development is accountable for the analysis of educational needs and development of high-caliber content for proposals that close identified educational gaps of pharmacists and other health care professionals. The person in this role will also design education for which measured outcomes can be achieved for projects within the ASHP Advantage brand of education.

This position will be based onsite in our Bethesda, MD office, and the employee in this role will be working in a hybrid environment, consistent with Association-wide ASHP policies applicable to HQ-based employees. The base salary for this position is $140,000-$160,000. ASHP offers a comprehensive benefits plan. You may view more details regarding our benefits on our careers page

What You'll Be Doing:

1. Continuously monitors the health care environment using published studies, surveys and questionnaires, and expert recommendations. Identifies educational needs/gaps for pharmacists and other target audience health care professionals.
2. Creates educational content including background, rationale, needs assessment, and draft program details such as activity descriptions, learning objectives, agendas, and lists of prospective faculty for potentially commercially-supported educational projects based on research.
3. Maintains a database of information to use in the ongoing development of project proposals.
4. Assists in designing educational interventions to close identified practice gaps. Communicates specifics for confirmed projects to the Special Projects Team for implementation.
5. Develops high-caliber medical and scientific content with the highest standards of editorial excellence adhering to the standards of adult learning principles and interprofessional education.
6. Assists in evaluating potential new services and opportunities and assists in developing a perpetual plan for submission of grant and proposal requests by the Program Development Team.
7. Assists in the development of evaluation plans for proposed projects including details of educational outcome levels to be measured, described outcomes, methods to be used and specifics for proposed activities. Works with assigned project staff to collect, measure and summarize educational outcomes.
8. Assists in establishing and maintaining relationships with key pharmacy leaders from a variety of practice areas in order to collect expert opinion and insights into educational program needs and grant development opportunities.
9. Maintains a network of (contract) medical writers and works with them to develop content and provides guidance and/or revisions to ensure clinical relevance and accuracy on an as-needed basis for proposals to be submitted for potential commercial support.
10. Conducts educational needs assessment surveys and evaluates results to identify knowledge and practice gaps of health care practitioners that can be mitigated through education.
11. Perform other duties as assigned.
    
    

What You Bring to ASHP:

• Pharmacy degree required; advanced degree is a plus.
• Five years' work experience in a professional association, medical education, drug information, or healthcare communications or related experience required.
• Prefer experience in developing CME/CE activities supported by pharmaceutical companies and government contracts or grants.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with emphasis on experience with scientific writing.
• Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, high level of motivation and a "can-do" attitude.
• Ability to gather data from verifiable sources for grant development.
• Possess creative and visionary skills to identify and execute innovative educational program designs and formats.
• Current knowledge of the healthcare industry, pharmaceutical pipelines, health care industry/policies, and CE industry.
• Willing to travel to ASHP and other selected meetings
• Scientific writing skills (preferred).
• Comfort cold calling content experts in all medical disciplines (preferred).