Clinical Content Developer

Clinical Content Developer

Department: Medical Education

Headcount: 2 (1 on the Core Programs team and 1 on the Electives team)

Supervisor: Manager, Core Programs/Manager, Electives

Status: Exempt, Full-Time

Location: Remote

Supervisory Responsibilities: None

Travel: up to 2x/year

Pay Range: $70,000-$84,000/year

EEO: Professionals

Position Summary: As a recognized functional medicine expert, the Clinical Content Developer (CCD) helps shape IFM’s educational strategy and program development. This role collaborates across departments to supply high-level clinical resources for new and existing initiatives, requiring a specialized depth of expertise in functional medicine to support IFM’s core mission. One CCD role to sit within the Medical Education – Core Programs team, and another CCD to sit within the Medical Education – Electives team.

 

Primary Responsibilities of both roles:

• Collaborates with staff members across departments and, with contractors, consultants, and reviewers to ensure that educational content is of high professional quality and incorporates elements of adult learning and instructional design into presentations, with an emphasis on outcome measures regarding the learning objectives.
• As a member of the Evidence Team, curates and evaluates evidentiary content and sources while ensuring quality and alignment with IFM Standards, Copyright policy, Citations Database and other parameters as directed by the supervisor.
• Monitors, manages, and develops educational assets, functional nutrition, and functional medicine projects from initiation through completion, including planning, resourcing, tracking, reporting, troubleshooting, etc. as directed by supervisor.
• Responsible for producing educational assets that meet the quality, reliability, schedule as set by the supervisor.

How these CCD roles may differ:

Core Programs

• Responsible for communicating concepts, directives, and requests to directors, peers, colleagues, and external parties as assigned by the Manager, Core Programs.
• Participates in IFM online forums, webinars, and other interactive activities with partners, educators, and participants as needed.

Electives

• Supports the Manager, Electives to ensure that all associated parties (Ex: team members, program speakers, contract workers, educators and reviewers) are meeting production timelines, providing support internally and externally as needed.

 

What We’re Looking for in Both CCD Roles:

• Advanced degree in a health-related field from an accredited institution required.
• Experience with adult learning, instructional design principles, and e-learning programs preferred.
• FMCP/M or other training in functional medicine or functional nutrition preferred.
• Experience and comfortability with public speaking preferred.
• Active healthcare license preferred
• Demonstrated clinical skills.
• Proficient literature curation skills, with an ability to conduct an end-to-end literature review that includes the refinement of a clinical question, identification of search terms and a database-appropriate search strategy, organization and evaluation of search results and a research summary draft for stakeholders.
• Demonstrates information literacy, including understanding the basics of study design and foundational statistical methodology in medical literature. Examples include but are not limited to: interpretation of confidence intervals, p-values, dichotomous and continuous summary measures (i.e. risk ratios, weighted mean differences) and ability to comment on clinical significance.
• Accountability & Execution: Be clear on what you are accountable for and what you expect of others.  Deliver on your commitments to partners and co-workers and you do what you say you will do. Assign clear accountabilities and holds people to them.  Sets clear expectations, milestones, and measurements.
• Attention to Detail: Ability to be detail oriented and devote focus and a critical lens to produce high-quality work.
• Collaboration: Demonstrates competent collaboration and relationship management skills and is able to work effectively with colleagues and external stakeholders.
• Communication: Ability to communicate information in concise, actionable language and have the recipient understand the message whether orally or in writing.
• Decision Making: Ability to make decisions guided by resource availability and functional objectives. Demonstrate data driven decision making combined with intuitive understanding and an ability to translate key insights to stakeholders and partners.
• Lead: Ability to influence without direct authority.
• Organizational Excellence, Planning & Organization: Demonstrated experience leading, taking initiative, ownership, and accountability for projects; able to react quickly with a strong sense of urgency. Understands and applies effective organizational techniques to stay focused, demonstrate efficiency in work and allocate/request appropriate resources when needed.
• Teamwork: Ability to collaborate with teams on communication processes, goals, schedules, and outcomes. Demonstrated ability to build and maintain positive relationships and actively contributes as a member of working teams to achieve results. Embodies the employee values to build, motivate and maintain healthy and functional teams.
• Competent with MS Office Suite (Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint); willingness and ability to adapt to new technologies and software, including but not limited to Drobox, Asana, and Airtable, Articulate 360, BioRender.

 

What’s In It for You?

• National healthcare plan coverage offered!
• National dental and vision plans!
• Paid employee life and disability insurance!
• Paid employee assistance program!
• Two weeks’ vacation and two weeks’ sick leave accrued annually for new employees!
• Monthly work-from-home stipend!
• 401(k) with generous contribution!
• 14 paid holidays annually!
• Meeting-free Tuesday afternoons!
• Department budgeted job skills training!
• Complimentary registration to IFM’s educational programs!

 

Get to Know Us!

The team at IFM is changing the way medicine is practiced and transforming the health (and lives) of

millions of people around the world. Every single day, our teammates impact the quality of patient care through their unique roles that support the mission of our organization!

 

Interview Process

1. You see this job posting, it piques your interest, and you complete the IFM Application for Employment.
2. Upon review of your resume, a member of the HR Department will reach out to schedule a phone screen with qualified applicants. If you are not selected, it is because we received more qualified applicants for the open role, and you will be notified of our decision.

Thank you for considering our open role!

 

Equal Employment Opportunity

The Institute for Functional Medicine, IFM, is a federal government contractor and an Equal Opportunity Employer. IFM invites all applicants to apply regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, and/or veteran status. As such, IFM invites you to voluntarily self-identify as a qualified individual, if applicable using the Voluntary EEO Form.

At IFM we consider all applicants with a wide range of experiences and backgrounds that are relevant and applicable to the role. Our highly collaborative culture is grounded in a commitment to ensure respectful and positive working relationships where every team member has a sense of belonging.

If you need accommodations during the interview process, please inform the Human Resources representative as soon as possible. IFM will make every effort to provide reasonable accommodation(s) during the interview and hiring process.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin. Completion of this information is voluntary and as such, adverse action will not be taken should you decide not to self-identify. The information you submit will be kept confidential.

 

Applicants Rights under Federal Employment Laws

FMLA: https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/WHD/legacy/files/fmlaen.pdf

EEO: https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf

EPPA: https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/WHD/legacy/files/eppac.pdf

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