Associate Director, Scientific Affairs

**Description**:

- Position at Everyday Health - Professional_

**Everyday Health Group (EHG)** is a recognized leader in patient and provider education and services attracting an engaged audience of over 74 million health consumers and over 890,000 U.S. practicing physicians and clinicians. Our mission is to drive better clinical and health outcomes through decision-making informed by highly relevant information, data, and analytics. We empower healthcare providers, consumers and payers with trusted content and services delivered through Everyday Health Group’s world-class brands.

**The Opportunity**

PRIME Education, a property of Everyday Health Group, is looking for an Associate Director, who, with a high level of independence, will use their combined skills as a scientific medical writer, educational design innovator, and grant development specialist to conduct a turnkey process that includes educational grant development followed by content development for awarded grants. In this remote position, you will engage in investigative and analytical skills and cultivate relationships with expert faculty to identify and establish ongoing opportunities for grant development to achieve the company’s goals. The Associate Director is responsible to complete quality scientific and medical writing as assigned and maintains oversight of project deliverables. You will conduct literature reviews of clinical trials, peer-reviewed articles, clinical guidelines and other medical/scientific data sources to develop needs assessments and grant proposals, accurate content, and identify compelling educational designs, including program titles, learning objectives, agendas, and formats. You will also contribute to identification of publishing opportunities, develop abstracts for scientific posters and podium presentations at leading medical meetings, and journal articles for peer-reviewed publications to showcase the results of the company’s educational and research initiatives. The Associate Director, Scientific Affairs is a self-starter with extensive experience in independently designing and developing continuing education activities and research-informed initiatives for the interprofessional healthcare team and relies on their extensive experience and judgment to accomplish goals. The Associate Director will act as an adult learning expert to assist PRIME® in fulfilling its responsibilities in grant development, program design, development, and evaluation. In this role, the Associate Director collaborates with other colleagues, departments and stakeholders as part of PRIME®’s commitment to flawless execution of its educational products and services. The Associate Director reports directly to the Therapeutic Group Director, Scientific Affairs and is responsible to liaise professionally with the department members in a team environment.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Contribute to grant planning and development, encompassing educational designs, formats, and execution plans, to meet department goals, generate robust outcomes, and address unmet educational and research needs to assist in strategic planning for future activities
- Establish and maintain relationships among key leaders in health care, among various practice settings, in order to collect expert opinion and insights into educational program needs and grant development opportunities
- Contribute to the outcomes measurement of high-impact educational programs, including measurement planning, survey instrument development, program analyses, and communication of outcomes findings with external stakeholders
- Develop and contribute to scientific articles, abstracts, and outcomes-based presentations and publications to exemplify the services and products of the company
- Communicate effectively to ensure workflow is smooth and carry out opportunities, needs, ideas, and timelines to meet the company’s and department’s goals for continued growth and success
- Proactively identify and resolve issues pertaining to instructional design components in the development of content, with recommendations provided to the Therapeutic Group Director, Scientific Affairs in a timely manner
- Review content developed by other medical writers and freelancers, and provide guidance and/or revisions to ensure clinical relevance and accuracy
- Participate in decisions pertaining to PRIME® ’s model of learning and implementation procedures to execute the model of learning
- Participate in regularly scheduled meetings of the Scientific Affairs Department, including grant and content planning meetings
- Perform other duties as assigned

**Job Qualifications**
- Minimal Master’s degree (PhD or PharmD degree preferred) in a scientific, medical, or related field commensurate with the scope of work identified in this job description and current knowledge of the healthcare industry
- Prefer minimum of 4 years of experience in designing and developing continuing medical education (CME/CE) activities