Associate Director, Professional Education Programs

Role Description

The Alzheimer’s Association seeks an experienced program management professional to lead the coordination and execution of professional education programs for health and care audiences related to State Rural Health Transformation Grants. This role is responsible for advancing strategic education priorities by aligning internal stakeholders, subject matter experts, and external partners to successfully deliver high quality training programs.

The Associate Director serves as a central point of coordination across cross-functional teams and external vendors, ensuring programs are delivered on time, in alignment with organizational and grant-funded priorities. This role manages a portfolio of initiatives and may lead select programs end-to-end, while also providing coordination and operational support to internal program leads.

The ideal candidate is a strong project manager, collaborator, and communicator with experience managing complex initiatives and coordinating across multiple teams and external vendors. This position is grant funded.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Lead and support cross-functional coordination across internal teams (e.g., clinical, education, CE, evaluation, LMS) and external partners to advance development and delivery of training programs.
• Serve as the primary liaison between internal teams and external vendors/instructional partners, ensuring alignment on scope, timelines, deliverables, and quality standards.
• Manage program timelines and execution for assigned initiatives, while providing coordination support to internal leads as needed, ensuring alignment, continuity, and timely delivery across teams and external partners.
• Partner with subject matter experts and internal stakeholders to identify learning needs and support program priorities, translating them into clear program requirements for development partners.
• Facilitate communication and alignment across stakeholders, ensuring clarity of roles, expectations, and progress throughout the project lifecycle.
• Coordinate with the LMS Administrator to support course launch readiness, including content integration, testing, tracking, and issue resolution.
• Partner with the Continuing Education (CE) team to ensure programs meet accreditation requirements and compliance standards.
• Work with evaluation and analytics teams to monitor program performance, gather feedback, and support continuous improvement.
• Identify risks and proactively implement solutions to maintain project timelines, quality standards, and alignment with organizational priorities.

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing complex, cross-functional projects involving multiple stakeholders and timelines.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate internal teams and external vendors to deliver programs or products.
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills, including working with subject matter experts and external partners.
• Ability to balance ownership of initiatives with a support and coordination role across teams.
• Strong organizational, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including meeting facilitation and stakeholder alignment.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.
• Experience with project management and collaboration tools (e.g., Monday.com, Microsoft Office, Google Workspace).

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred (e.g., Education, Business, Public Health, Organizational Development, or related field).
• Minimum of 3–5 years of experience in program management, project management, or cross-functional coordination.
• Experience working with external vendors or partners to deliver programs or products preferred.
• Experience in healthcare, public health, or professional education environments highly desirable.
• Demonstrated experience leading or supporting multi-stakeholder initiatives or programs.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, flex accounts, short and long-term disability, life insurance, long term care insurance, tuition reimbursement, generous Paid Time Off, 12 annual holidays, and Paid Family Leave.
• Annual Cultural & Heritage Day and Volunteer Day of their choosing.
• Gold standard 401(k) retirement plan.
• Full time employees (37.5 hours/week) will enjoy all of the above plus an annual School Visitation Day and an Elder Care Facility Day of their choosing.