FDI CE Director for Americas (voluntary position)

Location: Any country in Central or Latin America

Position type: Voluntary position

Required: The candidate must be native Spanish speaking and fluent in English.

Preferred: The candidate should be endorsed by a regular FDI member association in his/her country.

Start date: January 2025

Reports to: FDI Executive Director and Education Committee Chair

About the position

The FDI Continuing Education (CE) Programme is an important component in delivering FDI’s vision ‘leading the world to optimal oral health’. The mission statement of the CE Programme is to facilitate knowledge transfer, sharing and exchange by providing equitable access to the highest quality resources, as to reduce educational inequalities among FDI national dental associations (NDAs).

The appointment of an FDI Programme Regional Director is made by the FDI Council on the proposal of the Chair of the Education Committee and Executive Director for a 2 years (renewable) mandate. There will be no limit to the number of terms they could serve.

The CE Regional Director reports to FDI, through FDI’s Executive Director and Education Committee, and is responsible for ensuring a smooth-running of the CE Programme in its region, for the quality of the content and for raising the overall profile of the Continuing Education Programme of FDI.

The CE Regional Director works autonomously as an active representative of FDI’s missions and vision. In his/her assignment he/she doesn’t carry any duties related to his/her national dental association’s activities.

The position is independent from any NDA and the appointed CE Director does not represent any NDA.

CE Regional Directors are evaluated annually by the Education Committee Chair and the FDI Executive Director, based on the criteria described below.

Responsibilities and evaluation criteria:

• To develop an annual regional CE Programme (individual sessions, workshops, or complete programmes) within the FDI CE Programme framework and ensure that it contributes to the outcomes of FDI educational strategy
• To liaise with the FDI Education Committee, Executive Director and supporting staff
• To co-ordinate and collaborate with NDAs to deliver the programme in the region whilst coordinating and co-operating with regional organizations and other stakeholders as necessary
• To identify and secure external sponsorship, in particular from regional and local companies, to support the programme
• To recruit and approve speakers for the programme
• To ensure optimal speaker and NDA liaison, including travel arrangements and session material collection.
• To provide regular activity reports to the Education Committee and Executive Director.

Application and selection procedure

The Selection committee will be composed of the FDI Executive Director and the Chair of the Education Committee.

Applications or recommendations of individuals should be received by the Executive Director (by post or email) by the deadline indicated below.

An endorsement letter from the national dental association would be an added value to ensure there is no conflict of interest with the appointed candidate.

Applications should be submitted in English and include:

1. A short biography / CV with the relevant information regarding experience (2-pages maximum)

2. A short letter of motivation (1-page maximum)

3. In addition, please fill in and return the questionnaire accessible here

Optional: An endorsement letter of a Regular FDI member Association in the candidate’s country

Short-listed candidates will be invited for a phone interview by the Selection Committee.

Successful applicants will be recommended to Council, and, upon approval, appointed immediately by the Executive Director.

For further information, interested candidates may contact FDI Head Office by email at lreymond@fdiworlddental.org

Closing date for applications: 10 November 2024