Following the recent departures of former pharmacy and membership experience director Robbie Turner and director of education and professional development Gail Fleming, the RPS is “bringing the two functions together” and will be recruiting just one chief education and membership officer, it revealed today (April 7).
“Experience demonstrates that we must be even more joined up in the work that we do to optimise delivery of our strategic aims,” the RPS wrote.
The RPS kick-started recruitment for the new role today, adding that having a “single executive leadership position will allow us to better align our resources and ensure a more unified approach that benefits the profession”.
The successful candidate will be responsible for the RPS’s educational and professional development offer and for attracting membership interest from a “wider and more diverse audience”.
Other new roles
The RPS will also introduce four interim associate director roles – two for education and the other two for membership and professional support activities respectively, it added.
Meanwhile, the education team will expand to include two new roles to support the RPS’s work in assessment and credentialing.
“We will also be making a further role in education contract and programme management permanent,” the RPS added.
“This organisational design underpins our stated commitment to the role RPS has in education and in supporting our members and registrants, at whatever their career stage,” it continued.
The RPS announced last month that it was “working on a proposal” that could see a restructure at executive level, with “two roles... at potential risk of redundancy” – although it would not say which roles were at risk at the time.
The proposal followed the launch of the RPS Strategy last year, which set out to “further strengthen the viability and sustainability of the organisation”, the RPS said last month.