Vice President, Education and Training

Parenteral Drug Association (PDA) is seeking an accomplished executive to assume the role of Vice President of Education and Training for PDA’s Training and Research Institute (TRI). This strategic leader will be responsible for developing and executing a comprehensive learning and development vision that strengthens organizational capability, supports leadership growth, and drives performance across a diverse workforce. The ideal candidate will bring proven expertise in enterprise-wide training strategy, a track record of building innovative and scalable programs, and the ability to partner with senior leadership to align talent development with long-term business objectives.

Responsibilities include:

• Planning, administering, and operation of PDA’s educational programs.

• Developing the TRI budget and operating TRI in a manner so as to achieve the PDA mission.

• Maintaining existing training courses and identifying, analyzing, assessing manufacturing, quality and regulatory affairs opportunities for new training courses

• Ensuring new training courses are identified, developed and rolled out in a timely fashion.

• Identifying and implementing appropriate research projects, to utilize TRI's capabilities and to maintain and improve the TRI facility in Bethesda.

In all cases, the individual works with volunteers, PDA Senior and Junior staff, PDA members and training course attendees (prospective attendees) to ensure the activities are conducted are consistent with the values of PDA and our educational and research program.

Duties & Responsibilities

Education

• Provides leadership and direction to TRI staff to ensure they have a solid understanding of PDA policies, procedures and strategies. Ensures TRI programs are aligned with those policies, procedures and strategies. Develops staff, and to the extent possible, prepares appropriate staff succession plans.

• Oversight of the PDA grant team working on the NIH grant for compounders.

• Monitors competitive education offerings and ensures that TRI develops, markets and presents high quality courses that are considered best in class which provide educational content that is current and unique to PDA, emphasizing content that is new and/or updated based on trends and changes in industry technologies and trends.

• Develops PDA continuing education courses, selects instructors and oversees the administration of PDA’s education programs.

• Ensures that TRI course offerings are developed, marketed and delivered in a way that maintains PDAs leadership in this space.

• Evaluates education courses for standards, including quality performance, adjusts course focus, content and/or instructors as necessary.

• Directs the operations of the TRI facility to ensure the facility and equipment are maintained properly and remain an industry-leading value asset for PDA

• Optimizes TRI facility utilization to achieve acceptable ROI, while maintaining quality of education course offerings.

• Proactively seeks opportunities to utilize the TRI facility for research opportunities which will yield results which benefit PDA and the pharmaceutical/biopharmaceutical industry by supporting the scientific quality of PDA Technical Reports, publication of results in appropriate scientific Journals, etc.

• Proactively looks for opportunities to conduct TRI courses at individual company sites. Works with the PDA Global Strategic Advisor responsible for onsite training.

• Seeks and follows up on opportunities to conduct training for government inspectorates; develops programs to deliver inspectorate‑desired training.

• Prepares education budget for approval by PDA President and Board, manages TRI operations to meet budget objectives.

• Searches for donations of funding, commodities, equipment, and services to support PDA’s education programs. Ensures appropriate records of donations are prepared and maintained for PDA revenue and tax reporting.

• Works with Marketing to support marketing of education offerings; including providing content and placement recommendations and preparation of articles for inclusion in PDA house organs.

• Writes education focused articles and news column for PDA Letter

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