Required:

• Knowledge of and familiarity with the literature on substance use disorders. 
• Demonstrated ability to organize large-scale meetings with multiple speakers and large audiences. 
• Skill in negotiating contracts with hotels and other agencies to achieve optimal results. (A/B) 
• Knowledge of promotional and advertising activities that attract audiences to continuing education conferences. 
• Ability to work with multiple tasks and conflicting priorities to achieve objectives on time with accurate results. 
• Demonstrated ability to write complex research papers, grant reports, and white papers that use correct syntax and grammar, and clearly represent research or grant findings. 
• Skill in supervising staff to determine and clearly express performance expectations. 
• Ability to evaluate staff performance on a regular/on-going basis. Skill in preparing annual performance appraisals that accurately reflect staff progress toward stated goals. 
• Skill in delegating tasks to subordinate staff, including appropriate instruction and subsequent follow-through to ensure that tasks are completed within stated time frame and anticipated results. 
• Excellent communication skills to work with community agencies, speakers, conference/meeting participants, and health care professionals to achieve stated goals and objectives. 
• Excellent presentation skills sufficient to represent the University at professional meetings and workgroups. 
• Meeting organization skills to ensure that all details including registration, materials, technology, hotel or site interface result in a high level of satisfaction from participants and speakers. 
• Knowledge of University travel, reimbursement, and procurement requirements sufficient to carry out logistical requirements of the conferences. 
• Knowledge of Continuing Education requirements for professional organizations and/or licensing boards sufficient to ensure that all specifications including reporting criteria are met and satisfied. 
• Ability to prepare, monitor and report program budgets. 
• Knowledge of University Sales and Service and Foundation accounting sufficient to ensure that receipts and expenditures are deposited and reported accurately. Knowledge of project coding within the University system and skill in insuring that expenditures are credited to the proper conference/event. 
• Skill in identifying donor opportunities to support conference and event functions. 
• Ability to prepare cogent and professional presentations. Skill in using PowerPoint for slide presentations. 
• Meeting management skills to conduct focused and objective driven meetings. 
• Knowledge of web development sufficient to instruct webmaster to produce clear and user-friendly web announcements and registration materials for conferences and events. 
• Ability to effectively teach courses in substance use disorders research practices including but not limited to “Good Clinical Practice/Research Ethics.” 
• Skill in reading technical and scientific documents including analysis of variance, simple correlations, and various statistical tests. 
• Skill in analyzing information, problems, situations, and practices to formulate logical and objective conclusions. 
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively both verbally and in writing with subordinates and supervisors. 
• Technology skills sufficient to use Word, Excel, Outlook, Email programs and PowerPoint to work on a day-to-day basis with these tools and to produce documents and reports, and to effectively communicate with staff and managers. 

Preferred:

• Master degree in a health related field.
• Knowledge of online registration programs (CashNET) sufficient to supervise staff and to oversee the production of reports and troubleshoot problems with online payments.