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Organization:
Continuing Med Educ
Job Summary:
The Senior Program Manager, OCPD provides advanced programmatic, operational, financial, and compliance oversight for Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s (VUMC) accredited continuing medical education (CME) program.
This position serves as a senior subject matter expert responsible for the full lifecycle of assigned CME activities, with particular emphasis on commercial support, exhibits, financial management and reconciliation, Stark Law considerations, disclosure management, accreditation compliance, and activity closeout.
The position requires a high degree of independent judgment and decision-making and has significant responsibility for protecting VUMC’s accreditation standing, financial integrity, and institutional reputation.
Preferred Knowledge, Skills & Competencies
The successful candidate will demonstrate:
• Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent experience)
• Working knowledge of ACCME accreditation requirements and the Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education.
• Experience managing commercial support, exhibits, grants, sponsorships, or similar external funding arrangements.
• Strong financial management skills, including budgeting, reconciliation, invoice management, and financial reporting.
• Ability to interpret and operationalize complex accreditation, regulatory, legal, and institutional requirements.
• Experience managing complex programs or projects involving multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and risk-assessment capabilities.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent activities, deadlines, and deliverables in a high-volume environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong consultation, negotiation, relationship-management, and customer-service skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with physicians, faculty, senior leaders, finance, compliance, administrative staff, external organizations, and commercial entities.
Preferred Experience
• Experience working within an ACCME-accredited CME/CPD program, academic medical center, healthcare organization, medical specialty society, professional association, or comparable environment.
• Experience overseeing CME activities through the full activity lifecycle.
• Experience with commercial support and exhibit compliance.
• Experience with financial reconciliation and budget management.
• Experience developing or implementing policies, procedures, workflows, and process improvements.
• Experience working with CME management systems or comparable education-management technology.
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DEPARTMENT SUMMARY :
VUMC is an accredited provider of American Medical Association PRA 1™ credits for continuing medical education through the Accreditation Counsel on Continuing Medical Education (ACCME-link to accme.org). The Division of CME in the Office for Continuous Professional Development (OCPD) certifies approximately 600 activities each year for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. The CME program at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is decentralized. In most cases, CME activity directors (ADs) and their faculty colleagues plan CME activities that address issues at the department, division, center, or institute level. In other cases, planning…