Employment Opportunities at NABP
NABP is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that aims to ensure the public’s health and safety through working with its member state boards of pharmacy. The Association is an equal opportunity employer. Our current employment opportunities are listed below.
Staff Attorney
The Staff Attorney is responsible for assisting the legal affairs team in drafting, negotiating, and managing Association contracts; reviewing and revising policies and procedures; counseling internal clients; performing legal research; writing memoranda, opinions, amicus briefs, and reports; and completing other department responsibilities as assigned. This position provides regular reports regarding all aspects of the program responsibilities and interacts professionally and cooperatively with all departments of the Association and outside counsel.
Job Description
Legal Strategy
- Focuses on balancing risk and business needs.
- Builds frameworks to support Association and department goals.
- Offers creative and practical solutions for problem solving.
Legal Advice
- Counsels team members with a focus on balancing business needs and risks.
- Acts as a liaison with outside counsel as directed.
Legal Documentation
- Prepares and negotiates contracts and agreements in coordination with the team.
- Drafts opinions, reports, memoranda, correspondence, policies, and procedures as assigned.
Legal Research
- Performs legal research on laws, regulations, and legislation impacting the Association and drafts memoranda summarizing findings and recommendations as requested.
General Responsibilities
- Fosters and actively maintains positive working relationships with state boards of pharmacy, outside counsel, Association staff, and the public.
- Adheres to and assists in preparing department’s budget.
- Develops, provides, and maintains educational presentations and training as requested.
- Assists with other responsibilities as assigned.
Job Requirements
- Graduate of an ABA-approved law school with an active, current Illinois attorney registration in good standing.
- House Counsel registration to Illinois or a pending application for either Illinois registration.
- 3 or more years of current attorney experience with a law firm, corporation, or government attorney experience, which includes proficiency in reviewing, drafting, and negotiating a variety of business contracts, such as licensing, software, service agreements, or litigation experience as a private or government attorney.
- Association legal work and/or health care background experience preferred.
- Excellent written, research, analytical, and organizational skills are required with attention to detail.
- Ability to work both independently and within a team environment while successfully handling multiple responsibilities.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office required, including Word and Excel.
- Capable of performing legal and internet research is required.
To apply for this position, please email the following information to hr@nabp.pharmacy.
- Your resume
- Salary expectations
No phone calls, please.
Digital Health Coordinator
- Must be authorized to work in the US without a sponsorship.
- Must be able to work out of Mount Prospect, Illinois (this is not a full-time remote position).
- No calls from recruiting agencies.
The Digital Health Coordinator is primarily responsible for evaluating and advancing applications for entities seeking verification. To do this they will develop a proficient understanding of the .Pharmacy Verified Websites Program, illegal internet drug trade, and applicable laws relevant to the merchants being reviewed.
Job Description
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
- Plans and prioritizes tasks effectively; determines and takes appropriate action when faced with challenges.
- Collaborates with team to analyze opinions and ideas before making a decision.
Customer Service and Merchant Investigations
- Appropriately balances the needs of the program against the needs of an applicant.
- Understands the program and is able to accurately and clearly answer challenging and unique questions from applicants.
- Evaluates all incoming documents for the program, prepares emails and/or reports, and evaluates responses from applicants.
Team Leadership
- Adapts to changes in the programs, processes, or department in order to assist the team for the greater good and offers suggestions for process improvements where applicable.
- Actively participates in department or project meetings by listening, trying to understand others’ opinions and ideas, asking questions to help facilitate discussion, and speaking up to offer an opinion or potential solution without being asked.
- Voluntarily offers to assist colleagues if they are behind, are out of the office, or have deadlines to meet.
General Responsibilities
- Attends to the day-to-day operations and responsibilities while looking ahead to effectively plan for future work or deadlines.
- Works diligently to complete work within the expectations provided by leadership, without sacrificing quality.
- Assists in writing and revising department policies and procedures, responsible for quality assurance of drafts, and can identify when a policy or procedure needs to be updated.
Job Requirements
- Associate degree or equivalent work experience required. Bachelor’s degree preferred.
- 3 or more years of office and project management experience, high level of detail orientation, time management, and organizational skills required.
- Association and supervisory experience preferred.
- Capable of handling multiple programs or projects across multiple customers with ease.
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills required.
- Demonstrable Internet research skills required.
- Exhibits outgoing personality and embodies strong customer service skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office required with comfort level in using databases and other computer applications.
- Experience in pharmacy operation, pharmaceutical industry, wholesale distribution, regulatory compliance, durable medical equipment, or Internet research related to these fields is preferred.
To apply for this position, please email the following information to hr@nabp.pharmacy.
- Your resume
- Salary expectations
No phone calls, please.
K2 Software Engineer
- Must be authorized to work in the US without a sponsorship.
- Must be able to work out of Mount Prospect, Illinois (this is not a full-time remote position).
- No calls from recruiting agencies.
The K2 Software Engineer builds software using NABP approved technology using the coding practices and engineering processes standard to NABP. This position requires abilities to learn new frameworks, build resilient software, write unit tests, deliver quality work, understand functional requirements, and build solutions to best suit the problem at hand.
Job Description
Project Planning and Requirements
- Interacts with database administrators, developers, business analysts, system administrators, and end users to interpret business requirements.
- Performs requirements analysis and documents functional design specifications utilizing current systems, methodologies, and tools.
Development
- Develops software using .NET, K2 components, Workflows, Reports, SQL Server, and Web Services.
- Tests software using Unit testing frameworks.
- Investigates failures to understand root causes and develops fixes to solve them.
Product Improvements and Troubleshooting
- Investigates reports of outage and improper or untimely operations, determines root cause, and develops and executes plans to address.
- Develops software code changes to address documented deficiencies in the operations of the products.
- Evaluates and makes recommendations on new and existing end-user tools and products.
Program Documentation
- Assures the creation and maintenance of program documentation.
General Responsibilities
- Fosters and maintains good working relationships and cooperates actively with staff and third parties regarding assigned development and support tasks.
- Works cooperatively with NABP staff personnel to analyze, recommend, and implement actions regarding operational incidents, program malfunctions, or requests for development when an incident occurs with the applications or application creation process. Implements programming changes to address such incidents when necessary.
- Stays abreast of technical changes in the areas of development competence through formal and informal professional development and recommends change where necessary to ensure NABP technologies and application programs are effective, secure, and up-to-date.
- Provides regular reports to the information systems senior manager.
Job Requirements
- Master of Science or Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or a related discipline required.
- 4-6 years of experience in Software Development using Microsoft technologies.
- Extensive experience using .Net framework, ASP.Net, C#, JavaScript, JQuery, CSS, and AJAX.
- Experience developing applications with .Net frameworks, latest 4.5 is preferable.
- Experience in latest technologies such as MVC, WCF, WPF Entity Framework, and LINQ is desired.
- Web development mark-up and scripting languages such as HTML, XML, XSLT, and JavaScript.
- Experience developing database queries, stored procedures, and views in MS SQL Server.
- Working knowledge of systems integration design patterns and best practices.
- The desire to continue to expand technical, business, and consulting skills.
- Interest in gaining experience with each phase of a project lifecycle.
- Ability to work both independently and within a team environment.
- Ability to lead a team and exercise project leadership desired.
To apply for this position, please email the following information to hr@nabp.pharmacy.
- Your resume
- Salary expectations
No phone calls, please.