Vice President, Learning & Development

The Association of Clinical Research Professionals is seeking a Vice President, Learning & Development to lead the strategy and implementation for ACRP Learning & Development built upon key principles of learning design and theory, including building a comprehensive curriculum that meets the needs of the association’s members and the clinical research marketplace, and creating training and education programs that enhance ACRP’s membership and reputation.

• Ensure ACRP’s reputation as a market leader in training and education for clinical research professionals and the clinical research industry.
• Effectively oversee all ACRP learning program development, including in-person, online programs, and annual education conference learning content; develop curricula for all levels of the profession.
• Create high quality ACRP learning programs that are impressive, informative, and receive high evaluation scores, and that increase engagement for ACRP learning endeavors across all platforms.
• Lead the content development for ACRP’s education conference, including managing the proposal process, volunteer expert review, selection and securing of speakers, and on-site educational content management.
• Develop a strategy and structure for assessing and marketing knowledge gain through ACRP training courses.
• Develop, deliver, and evaluate new learning programs, utilizing data-driven strategies and learning analytics. Effectively use course evaluation data to recommend strategies to enhance learning experiences.
• Usher in new opportunities for online learning and new, innovative formats for ACRP learning, delivering training and education to audiences in innovative formats.
• Identify and expertly manage volunteer content leaders to deliver programs and products, with the goals of building community, sharing clinical research professionals’ expertise, and positioning ACRP as a market leader in learning.
• Understand trends that shape member content and respond accordingly through new products and programs; keep abreast of new learning platforms and integrate them into ACRP’s learning structure as appropriate.
• Interact professionally with members and customers through collaboration with ACRP Customer Success and Customer Care.

• Participate as a member of the executive staff team, contributing to development of long- term strategy and annual organizational goals. Work collaboratively and cooperatively with other senior staff in membership, marketing, communications, and development as necessary to achieve organizational goals.
• Meet L&D department financial goals, established through setting annual departmental Objective & Key Results (OKR) and a departmental budget. Monitor performance against OKRs and budget and ensure course corrections as needed.
• Collaborate with other senior team members to assess member needs, program viability, and development of successful business models to support educational goals.
• Direct and establish priorities for staff team. Instill excellent member relations skills in all members of the Learning department. Manage a team of FTEs and contractors. Support staff development. Conduct annual employee performance evaluations in line with ACRP’s PEP policies.

• At least 15 years of senior level experience.
• Solid understanding of adult learning program theory, design, development, and delivery.
• Proven experience designing, managing and overseeing the educational content development, speaker selection and management, and on-site supervision for the educational components of large educational conference programs and events.
• Proven approaches in creating exceptional learning experiences.
• Experience taking initiative and demonstrating drive and interest in learning, growing and pushing the boundaries to develop quality learning programs and in disseminating both traditional and online programs for a diverse membership.
• Ability to identify and coach top-notch and diverse speakers for major conferences.
• Experience in establishing vendor and service provider relationships.
• Experience developing and managing complex budgets.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, as well as marketing and communication skills.
• Innovative and pragmatic thinker.
• Focused – an ability to manage multiple programs at one time.
• Highly detailed, organized, efficient and deadline driven.
• Excellent member relations skills and ability to manage volunteer groups.
• Strong relationship-building and people skills.

ACRP is an all remote office.