Director, International Advisory Committee on Clinical Trials in MS

Main Responsibilities:

Scope of Role: Committee Management (60%)

• Develop and maintain the committee's multi-year scientific agenda, workplan, milestones, and priority topics.

• Plan and facilitate committee meetings, coordinate agendas, document decisions, track actions, and support committee chairs and workgroup leads.

• Design comprehensive project plans aligned with IACCTMS scientific and clinical strategies and priorities to implement and communicate projects as well as track progress and performance.

• Lead and manage the coordination, alignment, changes in project scopes and budgets to fulfill partnership and collaborative work with ECTRIMS.

• Manage the IACCTMS Sponsor group (the board of the IACCTMS) including organizing quarterly meetings, drafting annual reviews, and ensuring timely financial planning and reporting

Scope of Role: Scientific Management and Leadership (30%)

• Manage collaboration with international and domestic organizations, academic experts, regulators, funders, and scientific partners as appropriate.

• Working with IACCTMS leadership, engage the international academic, clinical and commercial research community to develop innovative solutions and consensus around for MS challenges and opportunities

• Drive and facilitate writing of scientific and consensus papers for publishing in key scientific journals.

• Develop meeting summaries, presentations, statements, and external communications related to scientific content from IACCTMS meetings and activities.

• Assist with scientific meeting planning, content development and support for IACCTMS in person and virtual meetings.

• Manage the coordination and collaboration with all mission teams as related to their bodies of work.

• Collaborate with Director, Global Initiatives to align priorities and initiatives.

Scope of Role: Team Responsibilities (10%)

• Attend/actively engage in training, professional development, conferences, and staff meetings.  

• Collaborate across mission and contribute to the integrated mission operations plan.

• Develop a strong working knowledge of all Society and relevant 3rd party (e.g., Komodo) information systems including Salesforce or other Society CRMs.

• Maintain knowledge of MS, current treatments, disease, and symptom management. 

• Stay up to date on advances in MS through publications and research. 

• Implement and follow National MS Society risk management policies and procedures. 

• Participate in professional development activities to improve knowledge and understanding of healthcare systems and provider needs.  

• Contribute to team meetings, provide support, and feedback to colleagues.  

•  Other duties as assigned. 

What We're Looking for:

• Advanced understanding of clinical research, clinical trial design, outcomes research, or translational science.

• Experience managing scientific committees, expert workgroups, publications, or multi-stakeholder research initiatives.

• Strong ability to synthesize emerging science and identify strategic implications for the Society.

• Excellent scientific writing, meeting facilitation, and consensus-building skills.

• Strong project management skills and ability to manage multiple complex workstreams.

• Ability to build credibility with senior scientific and clinical experts.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree in clinical science, neuroscience, public health, epidemiology, biostatistics, health services research, or related field.

• Experience in MS, neurology, immunology, clinical trial networks, regulatory science, biomarkers, outcomes, or real-world data.