Executive Director - Academy of Medical Educators (AoME)
Posted on: Apr 28, 2022
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The Academy of Medical Educators (AoME) is seeking an adaptable and versatile individual to lead its office team and work strategically with its board of trustees to enhance its standing, increase its membership, and ensure its long-term financial stability and growth.
AoME, established in 2006, is a charitable organisation which exists to advance medical education for the benefit of the public. It is the professional organisation for all those involved in the training and education of doctors, physician associates, dentists, and veterinary surgeons.
The Executive Director is responsible for enhancing the reputation of AoME, increasing membership numbers, and managing and growing the organisation’s finances, maintaining and improving application and assessment processes, and coordinating all marketing and educational activities. The Executive Director will network effectively across the sector, maintaining and developing effective partnerships and promoting the benefits of recognition as a member. They will develop and lead AoME’s strategy and objectives to meet the needs of the membership and will be accountable for the governance, performance, leadership, development and sustainability of AoME under the direction of the Board of Trustees.
The successful candidate will have substantial leadership experience and we would welcome applications from candidates who have worked in a Higher Education, charity, not for profit or membership organisation environment. They will be able to work confidently and flexibly with a wide range of stakeholders at all levels of seniority.
This post is full-time (35 hours per week), open ended and is available immediately.
Salary: £43,434 - £50,296 per annum (Grade 7)
Date advert posted: Tuesday, 26 April 2022
Closing date: Friday, 13 May 2022
Cardiff University is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity and to creating an inclusive working environment. We believe this can be achieved through attracting, developing, and retaining a diverse range of staff from many different backgrounds. We therefore welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of sex, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, trans identity, relationship status, religion or belief, caring responsibilities, or age. In supporting our employees to achieve a balance between their work and their personal lives, we will also consider proposals for flexible working or job share arrangements.
Overall Purpose of the Job
The Executive Director is responsible for enhancing the reputation of AoME, increasing membership numbers, and managing and growing the organisation’s finances, maintaining and improving application and assessment processes, and coordinating all marketing and educational activities. The Executive Director will network effectively across the sector, maintaining and developing effective partnerships and promoting the benefits of recognition as a member. They will develop and lead AoME’s strategy and objectives to meet the needs of the membership and will be accountable for the governance, performance, leadership, development and sustainability of AoME under the direction of the Board of Trustees.
Duties and Responsibilities
1. To advise AoME’s Board on its long-term strategies, plans, budgets and financial plans, ensuring that these reflect the needs of a membership organisation, are appropriately resourced and regularly monitored.
2. To promote, represent and negotiate the interests of AoME in line with strategic goals, which include:
* Building and maintaining constructive relationships with key UK stakeholders, HEI’s, Trusts and regulatory bodies in medical education, to identify new opportunities for added value, promotion of AoME’s values and Standards, increasing membership and generating revenue.
* Ensuring that AoME enhances its reputation as the standard setting body in medical education with its members and external partners, regulators, and the wider medical education community, and is seen as a key partner for the development of standards and expertise in medical education.
* Ensuring that members’ views are represented within AoME structures and externally to government and regulatory bodies e.g., through significant consultation exercises.
* Increasing representation in relevant media sources.
1. To represent AoME on appropriate external bodies, as agreed with the President.
2. To instruct and guide other employees across higher education and in clinical roles across the UK and beyond on the function, benefits, and processes of AoME.
3. To shape the membership offer and drive membership development through overseeing the implementation of marketing and external relations plans.
4. To lead and provide direction to the AoME staff team to ensure achievement of organisational aims and strategic objectives.
5. To ensure AoME’s governance and policy frameworks are fit for purpose, complying with statutory requirements, and reflecting best practice, which ensure that members are at the heart of all activities and enable AoME’s long term sustainability.
6. To develop and champion a high performing, inclusive culture that values and celebrates diversity and is focused on development and positive wellbeing.
7. To ensure that the AoME can positively demonstrate that resources are being used effectively to deliver its charitable and strategic objectives in line with Charity Commission requirements and that delivery is monitored effectively.
8. To be the primary link between the trustees/directors and the staff team, advising the Board on their obligations as trustees and ensuring these obligations are met.
9. Develop and deliver training within AoME as required.
10. Take responsibility for resolving issues independently within AoME, using judgement and creativity to suggest the most appropriate course of action and ensuring complex and conceptual issues and solutions are understood by the audience.
IMPORTANT: Evidencing Criteria
It is the School of Medicine’s policy to use the person specification as a key tool for short-listing. Candidates should evidence that they meet ALL of the essential criteria as well as, where relevant, the desirable. As part of the application process you will be asked to provide this evidence via a supporting statement.
Please ensure when submitting this document / attaching it to your application profile you name it with the vacancy reference number, in this instance for this post, 13852BR. If candidates do not provide written evidence of meeting all of the essential criteria then their application will not be progressed. The School of Medicine welcomes the submission of CVs to accompany evidence of the job-based criteria.
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