Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The American Heart Association is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing cardiovascular and brain health and promoting longer, healthier lives. The Senior Program Lead will lead healthcare provider education initiatives focused on Cardiovascular-Kidney Metabolic Health, supervise program staff, and manage projects from initiation through completion while ensuring timely, cost-effective, and high-quality delivery.
Responsibilities
- Leads the health care provider educational initiative within an Association-wide cross-functional initiative, which will include developing and implementing educational activities and focusing on alignment with the initiative goals and objectives
- Leads, supervises, and provides training to a group of Program Manager staff to drive educational initiatives deliverables on time, at the specified cost, quality and performance
- Performs project management duties in collaboration with colleagues and staff, including initiating and defining project scope, planning, coordinating, executing, documenting, monitoring, controlling (progress), and closing assigned projects as needed
- As part of the project management, provides updates and reports to Lifelong Learning / OSO staff, consultants, volunteers, and Sr. Leadership on the status of projects
- Works collaboratively with internal and external staff, management, volunteers, and consultants for assigned projects
Skills
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
- 5 years of experience in Continuing Medical Education
- Experience leading Continuing Medical Education projects
- Experience in a supervisory capacity
- Project management or equivalent experience, with the ability to plan and monitor projects from inception through completion
- Experience working across departments to manage day-to-day workflow to ensure timely delivery of projects within scope and budget
- Experience managing stakeholder expectations and communication flow as relates to project deliverables, scope, and the internal project team
- Ability to prioritize work assignments, meet multiple deadlines, and manage numerous projects simultaneously
- Strong communication skills, interpersonal and relationship-building skills
- Functional multi-program computer skills; strong project management tool skills, strong interpersonal skills, including relationship building
- 10% approximate time of overnight travel
Benefits
- Annual salary planning and incentive programs; eligibility for an incentive program is based on the type of position.
- Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
- A robust retirement program that includes an employer match and automatic contribution.
- Employee assistance program, employee wellness program, telemedicine, and medical consultation.
- Membership in Employee Resource Groups (ERG).
- Professional mentoring program with mentor/mentee opportunities.
- Access to Heart U, the Association’s national online university, with more than 100,000 resources.
- Paid Time Off (PTO) at a minimum of 16 days per year for new employees; the number of days will increase based on seniority level.
- 12 paid holidays off each year, including several days off at the end of the year.
- Tuition assistance for education and career development related to current duties and responsibilities or potential future positions in the organization.
- This position can be home-based.
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