Description

**We welcome applicants from all countries**

The goals of the Medical Affairs Professional Society Compliance Focus Area Working Group are to create a community that advances our role as fully integrated strategic business partners to promote the growth of Compliance and Medical Affairs Professionals within the life sciences sector worldwide; to develop our Compliance community within MAPS to become the premier global destination of choice for Compliance and related Medical Affairs Professionals, noting the synergies and close working relationships across the teams; and to catalyze our individual personal leadership development and professional career advancement.

Activities: We will organize Compliance-related workshops for MAPS meetings in the North America, APAC (Asia Pacific – China/Japan), and EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Asia) regions. We develop original content for webinars, podcasts, eLearning courses and white papers. In addition, the working group will periodically contribute cogent and timely content on the Compliance sector for the MAPS publication, Elevate magazine. Most importantly, we will provide a supportive resource for all Compliance and related Medical Affairs Professionals.

MAPS FAWG Charter 

Requirements

Focus Area Working Group Member Requirements:  

FAWGs will consist of a minimum of 8, and ideally up to 16, industry* members, including the Lead/s.  

*Industry is defined as those currently employed by a life sciences company (pharma, biotech, medical & diagnostic devices), MA professionals with prior employment at a life sciences company but currently in between jobs, or independent MA consultants** with previous employment a life sciences company. An individual may serve on only one FAWG at a time and each industry company may only have two (2) members on each FAWG.  

** If an Independent Consultant, have significant leadership role and career in biopharma prior to going independent; ex-pharm exec; minimum 5 years senior role or VP in industry; and, must not be part of a consulting firm.   

 It may also include representatives of MAPS Executive Partner Circle Member (EPCM) [https://medicalaffairs.org/partner-circle/] companies, ideally at a ratio of 4:1 (industry members to EPCM). These individuals are employees in MAPS EPCM companies who have extensive knowledge/experience in the focus area. Each EPCM company may only have 1 FAWG representative total and that individual may only participate in one FAWG. 

FAWG Member Requirements 

Industry applicants: 

• Should have at least 8 years of direct Medical Affairs practice in life sciences companies, and ideally will have served in more than one role within their organizations.  

• Should most recently be serving or have served at the Associate Director level or higher in their company.   

• Must have demonstrated expertise and at least 3 years of experience in the focus area of interest.   

• Must be a current MAPS member in good standing. 

• If an Independent Consultant, must have significant leadership role and career in biopharma prior to going independent; ex-pharm exec; minimum 5 years senior role or VP in industry; and, must not be part of a consulting firm.   
• Should agree to serve a one-year term from appointment, with the option of renewal, at the discretion of the FAWG Lead/s.

Executive Partner Circle Member (EPCM) applicants: 

• Should have at least 4 years of direct Medical Affairs practice in life sciences companies, and ideally will have served in more than one role within their organizations. 
• Must have demonstrated expertise and at least 3 years of experience in the focus area of interest.  

• Must be a current employee of a MAPS Executive Partner Circle Member. 

• Should agree to serve a one-year term from appointment, with the option of renewal, at the discretion of the FAWG Lead/s and through the company’s continued participation in the EPCM program. 

FAWG Participation Expectations 

All FAWG members should: 

• Actively participate on the FAWG and be willing to propose and help develop specific content and deliverables aligned with the strategic plan. NOTE: It is expected that each FAWG member will actively develop and present at least one initiative to support the strategic plan annually.  

• Play a leadership role in implementation of the FAWG strategic plan. This might include working with other volunteers and solution providers to develop and present content.  

• Actively develop and present at least one initiative to support the strategic plan annually. 

• Attend 80% of the FAWG team calls.  

• Actively participate on relevant MAPS Connect community portal sites. 

• Proactively engage potential future MAPS members and volunteers to ensure a sustainable FA volunteer base. 

• Be active ambassadors for MAPS by posting/sharing regularly on social media (e.g. LinkedIn, Twitter), raising awareness about the society to their colleagues and encouraging participation in MAPS and Focus Area initiatives.   

Estimated time commitment: 

For general FAWG members it is estimated that 3-4 hours per month, on average, would be needed to actively participate in FAWG calls and content production. This will vary depending on the month and the number of content deliverables for which the individual has volunteered to participate. 

Focus Area Working Group (FAWG) Accountabilities 

• Focus Area needs assessment and gap identification, to be conducted annually. 

• Development of a three-year strategic plan. 

• Development of an annual content creation and implementation plan, that will be supportive of the strategic plan.   

• Identification of subject matter experts, presenting faculty, and providers to support content creation and implementation.  

• Alignment of annual plan initiatives to include: 

• annual conference workshops or plenary sessions  

• eCademy webinars 
• eLearning module s 
• Elevate articles 
• Podcasts 
• Standards & Guidance 
• White Papers 
• Posting of updates, questions and discussion topics MAPS Connect community portal discussions with the membership