WHY CHOOSE ECRI?

ECRI is an inspiring place to work. We share a common mission to help healthcare organizations make smart, compassionate, and ethical decisions for patients. Consider these additional benefits of joining the ECRI team:

• Industry leadership: We have a long history and proven reputation in patient safety and medical technology research.
• On-the-job-learning: You will have the opportunity to work with specialists across medical science, patient care, healthcare management, and technology.
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits: We offer medical, dental, vision, life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment, and disability coverage.
• Retirement Savings: Our employees can participate in an employer-matching 403(b) Retirement Savings Plan.
• Additional benefits: ECRI offers additional benefits to our employees, including paid time off and holiday pay, paid leave for parents, tuition assistance, employee assistance program, access to LinkedIn Learning, and other voluntary benefit programs (e.g. accident insurance, identify theft insurance, flexible spending accounts).
• Volunteer Program: ECRI Cares, our employee volunteer program, provides a framework for us to work together and make a difference in the lives of others. All employees are provided 16 hours annually of paid time to volunteer at preapproved ECRI Cares charities during normal business hours.

ABOUT ECRI

At ECRI, our passion for safe, effective, and efficient care is ingrained into the fabric of who we are and why we are here. For more than 50 years, the people of ECRI have been unyielding in their work to protect patients from unsafe and ineffective medical technologies and practices. Now, with the acquisition of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), we have created one of the largest healthcare quality and safety entities in the world.

As a non-profit, independent organization, we utilize an unbiased, evidence-based approach to develop guidance, and maintain our principles of integrity and transparent work. Our ethical standards have led us to adopt the industry's strictest conflict-of-interest policies, and they are why tens of thousands of healthcare leaders worldwide rely on ECRI to guide their clinical, operational, and strategic decisions across all sites of care.

The Most Trusted Voice in Healthcare

ECRI is proud to serve the healthcare industry, from providers and insurers to government agencies, and medical associations. Our areas of focus include:

• Patient Safety: empowering leaders to eliminate patient harm through the dissemination of best practices, guidance, benchmarking, and recommendations.
• Evidence-Based Medicine: providing clinical evidence to inform and support decisions on the effectiveness of medical technologies, procedures, genetic tests, and clinical practice guidelines.
• Technology Decision Support: arming hospital systems with unbiased insights, so they can optimize their supply chain.

ECRI is the only organization worldwide to conduct independent medical device evaluations, with labs located in North America and Asia Pacific. ECRI is designated an Evidence-based Practice Center by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and a federally certified Patient Safety Organization by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

At ECRI, our passion for the truth drives us to go further and dig deeper in our pursuit to advance effective, evidence-based healthcare globally.

The success of our organization relies on the kind of creative thinking that can only result from a diverse team of individuals. ECRI is proud to be an employer of choice with an inclusive environment for all employees. As part of this goal and in compliance with various laws and regulations, ECRI provides reasonable accommodation to applicants and employees.

It's what makes ECRI unique, and why we are the most trusted voice in healthcare.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Associate Director, Clinical Evidence and Guidelines (The Associate Director) will serve as an ECRI subject matter expert in the areas of clinical evidence, guidelines, and methodology. The Associate Director's responsibilities include identifying short and long-term business development opportunities in the realm of clinical evidence, serving as the lead educator regarding clinical evidence, guidelines, and methodology approaches, processes, and topics to clinical evidence employees as the broader ECRI organization, as deemed appropriate, drive and support ECRI curated clinical evidence projects and reports, and proactively stay abreast of current clinical evidence guidelines, methodologies, and resources. The Associate Director will serve in a leadership matrix capacity and support key stakeholder and leadership with various initiatives, including serving as a voice of the customer (VOC) liaison between the healthcare sector and ECRI leadership, support ECRI's mission, vision, and strategy through analyzing predictive trends in healthcare, and supporting business development opportunities across ECRI in the clinical evidence, guidelines, and methodology arena.

Due to the requirements of several of the federal, state, local, and government agency contracts that this role will be considered key personnel on, the Associate Director must have a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree, Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD), or Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP).

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Reasonable Accommodation Statement:
To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactory. Reasonable accommodations may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Functions Statement(s):

• Serve as a subject matter expert on existing and new ECRI contracts and product offerings in the areas of clinical evidence, guidelines, and methodology, including serving as key personnel on several federal, state, local, and government agency contracts, including working with key stakeholder to ensure that the design and deliverables of contracts and/or product offerings meet all specified standards and requirements.

• Work with the Director, Clinical Evidence, the Medical Office Leadership Team, and other key stakeholders across ECRI to identify short and long-term business development opportunities in the realm of clinical evidence.

• Serve as the lead educator regarding clinical evidence, guidelines, and methodology approaches, processes, and topics, including, but not limited to, creating resources and tools around systematic reviews and key clinical evidence topics, creating and implementing trainings for clinical evidence staff and internal/external clients, as needed, and identifying and providing appropriate and relevant external research/content to clinical evidence staff for developmental purposes.

• Drive and support drive ECRI curated clinical evidence projects and reports, including but not limited to, creating, reviewing, and supporting the systematic review process.

• Manage and/or support clinical evidence special projects, including identifying key deliverables, creating and executing on project plans within the designated timeframe, staying within the allocated budget, and reporting on progress to key stakeholders.

• Proactively stay abreast of current clinical evidence guidelines, methodologies, and resources and share findings with clinical evidence team.

• Serve as a voice of the customer (VOC) liaison between the healthcare sector workers (e.g., providers and clinicians) and ECRI's Medical Office leadership team, senior leadership team, and key stakeholders to ensure that ECRI's product offerings and strategy align with the current healthcare market needs.

• Support ECRI's mission, vision, and strategy through analyzing predictive trends in healthcare and share findings with leadership.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Other duties, as assigned.

Accountability Metric(s):

• On time delivery of project deliverables.

• Project budgets, goals, and desired margins achieved.

• Identifies ways to improve operational efficiency and assists with implementation.

QUALIFICATIONS

Experience:

• 10 years' relevant experience in the healthcare arena, with a particular focus on clinical evidence, guidelines, and methodology, is required.

• Practical clinical experience is required.

• Experience with delivering clinical evidence solutions, reports, and/or literature, such as systematics reviews and published research papers, is required.

• Leadership experience in a matrixed organization is required.

• Experience with identifying key trends and needs in the healthcare sector is required.

• Excellent research, analysis, and writing skills are required.

• Excellent project management skills.

• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple and widely varied work streams/tasks.

• Ability to develop, present, and effectively communicate ideas and strategies to a variety of audiences.

• Ability to work quickly and efficiently to meet tight project deadlines.

• Effective time management and problem-solving skills.

• Detail-oriented and able to use good judgement when making decisions.

• Ability to work independently and across multidisciplinary teams.

Education:

• Doctor of Medicine (MD), Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD), or Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree is required.

• Additional masters or Doctor or Philosophy (PhD) degrees in epidemiology, health services research, and/or health policy are a plus.

Computer Skills:

• Proficiency with:

  • Microsoft Office 365 suite of products (e.g., Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)

  • Stata software

  • Comprehensive Meta-Analysis (CMA) software

  • Virtual conferencing and telecommunications software (e.g., Microsoft Teams and Zoom)

Certifications & Licenses:

• American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) certification a plus.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

This position operates in a remote environment and requires the individual to remain in a stationary position, whether sitting or standing, before a desk or other fixed workspace, most of their workday. In addition, this position requires the individual to occasionally move about their workspace to access and inspect work-related materials, such as file cabinets with physical files and standard office equipment. This position requires the ability to operate standard office equipment, including, but not limited to, a laptop, keyboard, mouse, webcam, and phone, as well as effectively communicate information and ideas to a wide variety of audiences in written and oral form.

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