Position Summary:

The Associate Director of Education and Program Development plans and implements PQA’s educational and training programs, which promote PQA’s measures and quality initiatives for medication use and medication services. This position is responsible for developing strategy and managing the programmatic content for the Annual Meeting, Leadership Summit, Quality Forum Webinar series, continuing education programs, and other educational workshops, forums and events. The associate director is a highly organized individual, who is comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, continually up-to-date on medication quality and related pharmacy and healthcare topics, and able to develop timely, relevant events for PQA members and other quality focused health care professionals. A critical member of the meetings and stakeholder engagement teams, this position partners with internal colleagues and external partners on event design, operations, sponsorship, promotion and marketing. The associate director is an entrepreneurial leader, who encourages program innovation across PQA, identifies new event opportunities aligned with PQA’s mission and strategic plan, shares best practices, and delivers financially sustainable programs.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the development of educational programming content for the Annual Meeting and Leadership Summit in coordination with the CEO, COO, Senior Director of Communications, and Director of Meetings
• Lead program development from overarching themes to panel development, speaker recruitment, speaker and moderator management, and on-site production.
• Solicit and select (working through a PQA Planning Committee, as needed) Annual Meeting topics for plenaries, breakouts and other sessions.
• Manage, coordinate and execute the Quality Forum Webinar series. 

• Identify thought leaders and subject matter experts to address a broad array of timely quality-related initiatives and information around performance measurement, value-based care models and regulatory/legislative changes that are shaping the future of healthcare.
• Establish and implement an annual webinar schedule, recruiting and supporting presenters and supporting webinar promotion in coordination with the Senior Director of Communications.
• Oversee PQA continuing education, training and certificate programs.
• Specific to the certificate programs, maintain, update, and coordinate content for the Medication Use Quality program, including additional electives.
• Deliver the practice-based component as part of the Medication Use Quality Certificate
• Support the promotion of all PQA educational offerings to member and external audiences.
• Evaluate the value and success of PQA’s educational programs and periodically assess PQA members’ educational needs and broader market needs.
• Other duties as assigned.