The American Heart Association (AHA) has an excellent opportunity for an Associate Program Manager, Scientific Meetings in our National Center office located in Dallas, Texas
This role is responsible for planning, scheduling and executing assigned program initiatives for one or more of AHA's scientific conferences or meetings and various pre-conference symposia. Additional responsibilities include facilitating the submission, review, and overall session building process with abstract reviewers, presenters and moderators as well as leading volunteer engagement, interaction and online abstract workflow in support of the Program Committee and key volunteers as well as facilitating publication of abstracts in the appropriate AHA Journal.
Areas of Responsibility:
- Designate Program Committee members and collaborate to build assigned meeting plan including calendar, deadlines, content development, speaker and abstract submission & review. Develops and executes invitations for session submissions and presentation review.
- Lead all aspects of program planning committee, driving committee to desired program outcomes. Provides follow-up, scheduling and communications to approved speakers.
- Handle committee assignments for peer review of abstracts, speakers and moderators. Implements the submission process, recruitment of graders, grading, acceptance/rejection notifications, and exports of data for publication.
- Develops correspondence to participants in preparation for the meeting and communication process for presentations, slides, data etc., to all necessary parties involved, including Communications/News Media.
- Develop marketing with conference team and marketing department. Provides all necessary data to marketing departments for the creation of program marketing pieces. Produces marketing program pieces.
- Establish relationships, build sessions, and maintains database. Organizes data, testing, submission and review sites, preparing notifications/communications, etc. for all functions of this position using OASIS. Prepares and distributes reports as needed.
Educational Background:
Bachelor's Degree in Education, Science or related area
Skills/Experience:
- Minimum of two (2) years of experience:
- Developing meeting content or educational programming.
- Working with and engaging volunteers and volunteer committees.
- Reviewing and facilitating speaker submissions and peer review process.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office applications.
- Strong writing and presentation skills.
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Jul 6 2019
Active Until:
Aug 6 2019
Hiring Organization:
American Heart Association | American Stroke Association
industry:
Nonprofit