The American Heart Association is seeking a Sr. Program Lead for Professional Education in Cardiovascular-Kidney Metabolic Health. This role is responsible for leading teams to execute educational initiatives and ensuring project deliverables are met on time, within budget, and to the desired quality standards.
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
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
- 5 years of meaningful work experience
- Experience within Continuing Medical Education
- 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 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