ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH & SAFETY

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About the Organization:

Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI Program)

CITI Program was established in 2000 and is a leading global online education provider. Its web-based training materials serve millions of learners and thousands of subscribing institutions. CITI Program is dedicated to serving the training needs of colleges and universities, healthcare institutions, technology and research organizations, and governmental agencies, as they foster integrity and professional advancement of their learners.

CITI Program is the preeminent leader in online research, ethics, compliance, and safety training. It has trained researchers globally for over 20 years at thousands of academic, research, and healthcare organizations. CITI Program is a dynamic and collegial working environment with opportunities to bring forth new educational materials that support learners and institutions in the U.S. and around the world.

CITI Program joined the Biomedical Research Alliance of New York (BRANY) in 2016. BRANY was founded in 1998 and is jointly owned by four leading academic medical centers - NYU School of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Icahn School of Medicine, and Northwell Health. BRANY is also a premier resource for research support services for hospitals, academic medical centers, and investigators, among its other ventures.

General Summary/Objective:

This highly visible position represents CITI Program to the community, national experts, and professional and academic societies. This individual works with administrators, faculty, scholars, and staff at all levels and in varying professional areas to help ensure CITI Program’s impact and success. The individual also ensures proper relationships are established and maintained with these individuals.

This position is specifically responsible for the continued development and management of CITI Program's Environmental Health and Safety suite of content as assigned to the position. In this capacity, the person in this role works closely with the Vice President of Content and Education, the Director and Associate Director, and other unit heads to help lead the development, maintenance, impact, and growth of the educational products in the assigned content area. This position will be responsible for identifying content areas and planning and executing new content development in environmental health and safety.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Identifies key trends and topics affecting the EHS space so that CITI Program remains current across new and existing content.
• Directs the development of proposals for new content, including modules, courses, and micro-courses that are part of the assigned content area.
• Project management of approved content including courses and webinars. This position is directly responsible for identifying subject matter experts, working with them to guide their development of content, and reviewing/editing their work at multiple stages.
• Manages and collaborates on educational product development, maintenance, growth, and impact, ensuring seamless interaction between team, internal departments, consultants, and collaborators.
• Supports team members, staff, consultants, authors, and collaborators to maintain successful, impactful educational products.
• Supports Vice President and other team members in resolving issues, facilitating information exchange, and performing other tasks as needed.
• Manages data collection, organization, and analysis to help guide educational initiatives, provide insight into other areas, and provide information necessary for department metrics.
• Leads development of agreements associated with content development for the assigned content area and works with applicable departments and staff to execute those agreements.
• Assists in managing the content department’s working materials associated with style, module templates, and other resources.
• Independently directs the peer review process for content under the assigned content area and works in collaboration with the applicable individuals; serves as the primary reviewer for editing of the designated content area in association with the Director, Associate Director, and internal/external editors. In this capacity, the Assistant Director would work with the Associate Director overseeing editing to create a CITI Program compliant final product.
• Provides updated, timely reports to the Vice President regarding the status of content in development.
• Assists in the review of learner and administrator feedback.
• Serves as the lead in developing, executing, and producing webinars or podcasts associated with the assigned content area.
• Provides support to the Vice President in preparing budgets, provides advice regarding budget projections, and monitors expenses associated with content development in the assigned content area.
• As applicable, provide ongoing reports and status updates to the Vice President, Associate Directors, other Content staff, and CITI Program staff.
• Assist in organizing meetings of content working groups and content authors/consultants. Oversees the identification of content consultants for the assigned content area, the work of these consultants, and any Working Groups that might develop to support the designated content area's development and management.
• Supports the sales department in effectively marketing CITI Program deliverables, specifically those in the assigned content area. This support may entail attending and presenting at applicable professional events, which includes travel to approximately 2-3 U.S.-based conferences per year.
• Primary responsibility for providing the Sales and Marketing department with information associated with assigned content area's courses to develop appropriate marketing materials, including catalogs and other website materials.
• Collaborates with internal departments and stakeholders to promote and position new and existing products, improve functionality and delivery, create valuable metrics to gauge impact and success, and understand/characterize customer needs.
• Works with E-learning production staff to produce all content in the assigned content area.

Non-Essential Functions will be noted by asterisk (*).