What are the responsibilities and job description for the Scientific Director (Multispecialty) position at Clinical Care Options LLC?
Job Title: Scientific Director
Reports to: Director, Scientific Services
Location: Homebased, USA
Job Status: Full-time, Exempt
Job Summary
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 Scientific Director is responsible for developing and managing content for continuing education (CME/CE) and
independent medical education (IME) programs that include live, online, and print-based formats.
Job Responsibilities:
- Develop content for medical education activities for live, online, and print-based programs; create new content
faculty members and writers; assign projects to freelance contributors and supporting staff; prepare/finalize
content for publication or presentation
- Attend and/or participate remotely in key medical conferences; contribute to the editing and/or writing of
- Utilizing the Playbook to manage a workload consisting of multiple projects with one or more content
- Execute activities in alignment with CEA Playbook quality, hours and SOPs to ensure all activities pass quality
Faculty Relationships
- Maintain and/or grow strategic relationships with key faculty.
- Working with KOL relationships identify educational gaps and funding resources to advance HCP education.
- Identify and recruit KOL that will collaborate and share the education with peers.
- Identify and build relationships with up-and-coming KOL faculty.
CEA Core Values
Innovation – Creating, Leading Edge, Unique
- Promotes and supports the implementation of new ideas or strategies. Utilizes a flexible communication
- Requires minimal support required for new strategies/concepts supports leadership with team onboarding of
Passion – Driven, Focused
- Encourages best practices within the organization to support our mission: improve patient lives
- Consistently adapts style or approach to different situations; accepts feedback to make positive change;
- Proactively communicates change, intentions, and resulting business impact with high transparency, broadly at
- Prioritizes effectively and maintains composure during challenging times
- Ensures accountability for achieving day-to-day activities while continually assessing gaps and empowering the
- Supports the team to deliver on time and within budget
- Consistently sets an example and encourages others to maintain calm and composure during challenging times
- Models a positive attitude and displays agility during times of change and ambiguity, remain positive in their
- 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
Job Performance Measurements
- Achieve identified efficiency ratio %
- Achieve identified on-time delivery %
- Achieve identified faculty KOL recruitment %
Skills & Abilities:
- Ability to manage multiple projects that may be complex (e.g., online interactive treatment decision support
outcomes assessments)
- Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills (oral and written)
- Ability to function independently with effective time management, organization, and project management skills;
of quality
- Ability to work collaboratively in teams both within the company and externally (e.g., faculty, freelancers, and
- Effective decision making, initiative and judgment; strong analytical and problem-solving skills; and a
Education/Qualifications:
- 3-5 years of recent experience writing, developing, and editing CME/CE activities
- BA/BS degree (Biological Sciences, English, or Communications preferred). Advanced degree (MD, PhD, PharmD,
- Working knowledge of recent advances in clinical medicine and therapeutics. Direct clinical experience preferred.
- Experience identifying and working with faculty members/key opinion leaders on educational materials intended
- Experience developing CME/CE-certified programs and familiarity with ACCME, ACPE, and ANCC as well as other
- Working knowledge of AMA style requirements
- Proficiency in MS Office applications (Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook) and familiarity with online medical
- Clinical or research experience will be considered in lieu of CME/CE experience
- Experience managing content development in a range of CME formats (ideally including PowerPoint
- Experience working with expert faculty members/key opinion leaders to determine educational needs and
- Experience writing grant proposals for CME/IME programs
Travel Requirements:
- Up to 30% of the time
- Domestic and international travel
This job description should not be construed to imply that these requirements are the exclusive standards of the position.
Incumbents will follow any other instructions and perform other related duties as may be required by their supervisor.
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.