Director, Scientific Strategy

Reston, VA, United States

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 Director, Scientific Strategy will be responsible for developing the overall scientific strategy for the specialty area, relying on needs assessments and gap analyses to inform areas of greatest educational need, to improve healthcare professional knowledge, competence, confidence, and performance.

Responsibilities:

Lead grant development and funding for programs.

Achievement of annual grant support goals and objectives.

Achieve or surpass industry-standard win rate for all grants submitted.

Knowledge of ongoing research and development and pipeline for potential supporters of education.

Independently or collaboratively outline and/or develop high-quality needs assessments that are scientifically and clinically accurate, to identify clinical gaps in healthcare that justify and support comprehensive education grant proposals.

Integration of knowledge of ongoing research and development, supporter funding interests, current patient management, and best patient management practice to develop a refined funding opportunity through grant conception and development.

Align ideal educational format, including online and live programs, to the educational need and gap, to achieve optimal outcomes assessment.

Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with and manage healthcare professional advisors in partnership with the scientific services department.

Fostering a culture of teamwork, innovation, and commitment to our mission.

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.

Position Qualifications and Requirements: Travel to the corporate headquarters in Reston, Virginia, commercial supporters, medical conferences both in the US and internationally within the designated specialties as well as CME/CE and other medical education conferences and meetings is required in order to accomplish the goals of this position.

Location: Home-based office is acceptable; however, a location convenient to a major airport is ideal.

Experience Desired: Minimum of three years of clinical practice, directly involved in patient care or commiserate pharmaceutical industry experience. In addition, 3-5 years of developing grants and/or experience writing, developing, and editing education activities.

Skills and Knowledge: Strong knowledge of the Internet and computers, including a sophisticated knowledge of existing Internet-based educational program models

Ability to function independently with effective time management, organization, and project management skills; attention to detail; ability to manage diverse tasks to deliver work on time, within budget, and at a high level of quality.

Working knowledge of the ACCME, ACPE, ANCC, and other regulatory agencies’ guidelines and policies in relation to commercially supported educational activities.

Excellent presentation, communication (oral and written) and interpersonal skills.

Exemplary skill in working effectively on interdisciplinary teams and in decentralized work and communication environments.

Effective decision making, initiative and judgment; strong analytical and problem-solving skills; and a resourceful, “can-do” attitude.

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.

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