Professional Education Program Manager

Distro

16d • $78,000 - $84,000 • Remote

About The Position

The Professional Education Program Manager manages PHA’s professional education programs through both live and online educational opportunities, including PHA’s largest biannual signature events, PHA’s Pulmonary Hypertension Professional Network (PHPN) Symposium and PHA’s International PH Conference & Scientific Sessions. The Professional Education Program Manager will assist the Director, Professional Education to ensure that PHA creates and delivers educational opportunities to PH-treating physicians, non-physician clinicians, nurses and allied health professionals and primary care physicians who are new to PH to increase their knowledge and competence in treating this rare, progressive, incurable disease. This position reports to the Director, Professional Education and collaborates closely with PHA leadership, as well as Meetings & Conference Planning, and the Communications, and Development departments to ensure high-impact delivery of program and educational resource components to PHA’s currently engaged medical community, and to increase PHA’s reach to new professional audiences.

Requirements

• A minimum of 3 years of program management experience, preferably in an organization that serves a healthcare-related population.
• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in a scientific or public health or related field. Advanced degree or PMP certification is preferred.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
• Excellent relationship building and networking skills.
• Ability to work with a wide variety of constituents including PH patients, caregivers, medical professionals, medical writers, accredited providers, vendors, donors and sponsors.
• Solution-oriented, with ability to troubleshoot and problem solve
• Highly organized and process-oriented, with ability to troubleshoot and problem solve, work as a collaborative team member and independently on multiple priorities, under tight timeframes.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (including Word, Excel and PowerPoint).

Nice To Haves

• Experience creating and facilitating the delivery of education to adult audiences preferred. Knowledge of online learning management and delivery systems, and adult learning theory highly preferred.
• Experience with medical accreditation is highly desirable.
• Experience working in a nonprofit environment, preferably with an underserved or disease state audience a plus.

Responsibilities

• Manage expert volunteer committees to develop and launch new professional educational programming including live and self-paced virtual educational offerings.
• Curate PHA’s continuing medical education courses targeting specific healthcare professionals for specialized educational content offerings such as a PH nursing certificate, clinical fellowship syllabus, PH 101 course list, etc.
• Obtain medical education accreditation associated with online courses and webinars by ensuring all content adheres to policies and regulations of medical education accredited provider(s), completing all necessary documentation and approvals and communicating with the accredited provider(s).
• Manage speaker proposal application and abstract collection and review processes, including promotion of the opportunities to the medical professional community and partner organizations for continuing education programming for healthcare professionals.
• Manage volunteer committee meetings comprised of medical professionals which include invitations to participate, planning and facilitating virtual meetings, including material preparation and distribution, agendas and minutes.
• Solicit and manage speakers for individual presentations, panels and hosting in-person and virtual events to support professional education.
• Manage PHA’s online learning management system (LMS) including posting and categorizing all content components and educational offerings for healthcare professionals, including translating courses into other languages using AI vendor and securing authorization from speakers.
• Create and distribute program and activity evaluations to measure program effectiveness and generate online activity reports and program outcomes for internal and external stakeholders, including accredited providers, and vendors.
• Work closely with the Marketing team in the Development department to promote events and new educational resources through PHA’s communications channels and support registration for PHA’s professional conferences and live and virtual continuing education opportunities.
• Support PHA’s professional education activities by collecting, maintaining and submitting accreditation documentation such as author/presenter biographies and curriculum vitae (CV) and conflict of interest (COI) disclosures, speaker invitations, and written permission to utilize images and videos.
• Work with various vendors and consultants for joint accreditation, program management and videography.
• Work with membership to ensure services considered benefits are placed securely behind the firewall and accessible only to members.
• Represents PHA at various PH events and medical meetings while connecting with medical professionals and promoting PHA’s programs, resources and educational opportunities.
• Support Director, Professional Education with developing and managing sponsorship funding opportunities for continuing education programming.

Benefits

• Minimum 3 weeks paid annual leave (15 days); all federal holidays (11+ days); and 4 personal days plus office closure for Holiday break (5 days at end of year).
• Two weeks of paid sick leave.
• Choice of free or subsidized medical, dental and vision plans for employees and dependents.
• Employer-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance and life insurance.
• Employer 403b retirement plan contribution at 4% after first year of employment with immediate vesting.
• Annual stipend for professional development.
• Flex working hours and fully remote work environment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager