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This is an exciting and rewarding opportunity for someone looking for continued growth to develop in our Project Coordinator role.

Since our founding in 1940, SSO has championed leading-edge education, research, and quality impacting the full spectrum of surgical oncology and cancer care. The mission of the Society of Surgical Oncology is to improve multidisciplinary patient care by advancing the science, education, and practice of cancer surgery worldwide.

We are looking for a energetic and creative individual, looking to assist our Educational Department, with our online educational programs.

This individual will be providing program support and assisting in the overall planning, scheduling, and implantation of the Society’s online education.

We offer the ability to:

• Collaborative working environment that values hard work and creative thinking.
• Support for professional development.
• Competitive salary with great benefits including health insurance, dental benefits, vision insurance.
• 401K with a % match – full time
• Generous PTO - the SSO offices are closed the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day.
• Flex hours, casual dress code, and ability to telecommute three days per week.
• Free in-building workout facility.
• Conveniently located near I-294, I-90 and I-190, and easily accessible from the Rosemont CTA Blue Line station. Complimentary shuttle from the station to the building during rush-hour.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Podcasts: You have the opportunity to collaborate and support the Education Manager and Marketing team on the 10 to 15 Podcasts produced a year. SSO Marketing team records and posts the podcast to various external platforms and to SSO’s Learning Management System (LMS- ExpertEd), with editing done outside of SSO.

• Communicates with volunteers to disseminate podcast instructions and script templates.
• Facilitates completion of script template, ensuring that volunteers have provided necessary promotional information
• Apprises Education Manager and Marketing Manager of status.
• Tracks progress in Education Department calendar in Excel.
• Completes Marketing Brief and sends to Marketing Department once activity has been edited and promotional information is available.

Webinars: SSO produces 30-40 online events a year. These consist primarily of webinars as well as virtual tumor boards (a form of webinar.) This position would work with volunteers to schedule planning calls, practice runs (also called ‘dry runs’) and the actual event. The position would be expected to co-staff these events that primarily take place in the early evening hours (5:00 to 6:00 pm), twice a month.

• Uses Doodle to determine best day/time for all calls and events.
• Sets up webinars in SSO’s learning management system, ExpertEd.
• With direction from Education Manager, completes Marketing Brief and sends to Marketing Department as soon as event has a title, date, and time.

Program Coordinator | Program Assistant | Project Assistant | Education Coordinator

About Society of Surgical Oncology

Since our founding in 1940, SSO has championed leading-edge education, research, and quality impacting the full spectrum of surgical oncology and cancer care. Our members in 70 countries embrace the values that have enabled cancer surgeons to continually expand their knowledge, refine their decision-making skills and drive better outcomes for patients. The mission of the Society of Surgical Oncology is to improve multidisciplinary patient care by advancing the science, education and practice of cancer surgery worldwide. Today, SSO is a dynamic global community of cancer surgeons shaping advancements in the profession to deliver the highest quality surgical care for cancer patients.

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