Head Faculty Development

The AO is a medically-guided, not-for-profit organisation, a global network of surgeons, and the world's leading education, innovation, and research organisation specialising in the surgical treatment of trauma and musculoskeletal disorders. We have a global network of over 385,000 health care professionals. Each year we offer over 830 educational events around the world, supported by nearly 9,000 faculty members and attended by over 58,000 participants. We have around 18,500 surgeon members working in the fields of trauma, spine, craniomaxillofacial, veterinary, and reconstructive surgery.

The AO Education Institute supports the AO and its Clinical Divisions to further develop and to transform medical education for our communities.

The AO faculty development team develops faculty training programs for all Clinical Divisions/Units of the AO. These competency-based programs offer a broad range of learning opportunities to support AO faculty members, chairpersons, and leaders in achieving their educational goals. Based on adult learning principles, we promote excellence in teaching, facilitation of surgeon learning, and curriculum development, and provide constructive feedback to the participating faculty members. The skills and strategies developed in these programs positively impact course design and contribute to our mission to deliver high quality education—ultimately translating into clinical practice for the benefit of patients.
- Employment Type: Permanent- Part-time percentage: 100%- This position is located in: Davos Platz, CH- Experience level: Experienced professional-
**Specific Requirement I**:

- Experience in continuing medical education program and curriculum development
- Knowledge of continuing professional development principles and instructional design
- Experience in developing, organizing, and deploying education events
- Experience in business development and market analysis preferred
- Experience in educating trainers, coaches or teachers (preferred)
- Experience in the set-up and leading scientific research projects with focus on high quality
- Flexible to work with internal and external stakeholders and understand their specific needs and objectives preferably in relationship management with universities, societies, and associations
- Able to deal with complex challenges related to CME accreditation and quality assurance

**Specific Requirement II**:
**Main job tasks and KPIs I**:

- Oversee research projects across the Education Institute’s activities
- Oversee fellowship program strategy, including selection process and coordination of medical education research fellows
- Manage relations and engage with leading medical education societies and associations as well as the European accreditation body
- Communicate successes of the department to enhance the Education Institute’s and AO Foundation’s reputation
- Oversee identification, recruitment, development and performance assessment of AO faculty
- Oversee development, planning, and evaluation of best-in-class faculty development programs based on best-in-class findings in collaboration with EI’s Educational Research
- Oversee management of international surgeon educators and professional educationalists pools to enable them to deliver high quality education
- Oversee assessment framework creation process to provide 360 evaluation of teaching faculty
- Create a culture of teaching excellence in the AO and manage the faculty database and communication
- Oversee management of the pool of professional educators and volunteer surgeon educators (Recruitment, Development, building an active Community of Practice)

**Main job tasks and KPIs II**:
We offer
- An interesting and varied job in an exciting and innovative organization
- The opportunity to be part of a highly committed international team
- Modern infrastructure
- Employment conditions which match the requirements and offer a high degree of flexibility regarding working hours and location
- Date of publication: Mar 20, 2023