Senior Scientist II, Healthcare Quality and Safety Education

Who is USP?

The U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) is an independent scientific organization that collaborates with the world’s leading health and science experts to develop rigorous quality standards for medicines, dietary supplements, and food ingredients. At USP, we believe that scientific excellence is driven by a commitment to fairness, integrity, and global collaboration. This belief is embedded in our core value of Passion for Quality and is demonstrated through the contributions of more than 1,300 professionals across twenty global locations, working to strengthen the supply of safe, high-quality medicines worldwide.

At USP, we value inclusive scientific collaboration and recognize that attracting diverse expertise strengthens our ability to develop trusted public health standards. We foster an organizational culture that supports equitable access to mentorship, professional development, and leadership opportunities. Our partnerships, standards, and research reflect our belief that ensuring broad participation in scientific leadership results in stronger, more impactful outcomes for global health.

USP is proud to be an equal employment opportunity employer (EEOE) and is committed to ensuring fair, merit-based selection processes that enable the best scientific minds—regardless of background—to contribute to advancing public health solutions worldwide. We provide reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities and uphold policies that create an inclusive and collaborative work environment.

This is a professional individual contributor position that will be part of the Healthcare, Quality & Safety (HQS) Center of Excellence
. This role will be responsible for contributing to the development of current and future educational material that supports the HQS education portfolio. This includes partnership and collaboration with documentary scientists in the Healthcare Quality and Safety team and USP education team to establish education material on key topics such as pharmacogenomics, compounding (largest portfolio), health literacy, medication safety and other emerging areas.

This individual will ensure material is available to drive and sustain outreach to key stakeholders at conferences, through direct engagement, webpages, and through other media to promote adoption of HQS standards and solutions.

As part of our mission to advance scientific rigor and public health standards, you will play a vital role in increasing global access to high-quality medicines through public standards and related programs. USP prioritizes scientific integrity, regulatory excellence, and evidence-based decision-making to ensure health systems worldwide can rely on strong, tested, and globally relevant quality standards.

Additionally, USP’s People and Culture division, in partnership with the Equity Office, invests in leadership and workforce development to equip all employees with the skills to create high-performing, inclusive teams. This includes training in equitable management practices and tools to promote engaged, collaborative, and results-driven work environments.

The Senior Scientist II, Healthcare Quality and Safety Education, under the direction of the Engagement and Program Solutions lead will have the following key responsibilities and duties associated with their role:

• Lead the development, planning, and coordination of educational content (including course materials and curriculum design) to enable understanding and adoption of HQS standards across the four expert committees (Personalized Medicine; Healthcare Information & Technology; Healthcare Safety, Quality, and Nomenclature; and Compounding).
• Identify and advance opportunities to develop and deliver education materials and related resources that help external stakeholders understand and adopt current and emerging HQS standards and solutions.
• Participate in the design and development of education material that strengthens medication safety across the medication management lifecycle.
• Revise and refine educational content to…