Associate Director – NCCT CTMC Informatics
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Winston Salem, NC, United States
Job ID: 138957
Job Family: Director/AVP (Dept Head)
Status: Full Time
Shift: Day
Job Type: Regular
Department Name: 55811085045501-Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI)
Overview
JOB SUMMARY
The National Center for Clinical Trials (NCCT) is designed to serve as an innovative platform to revolutionize and catalyze the conduct of clinical trials−greatly accelerating the translation of scientific findings into improvements in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease for our communities and patients. The NCCT will offer core services for patient recruitment and enrollment, trial administration and follow-up, and to gather real world data and evidence.
The Clinical Trial Methods Center (CTMC) has been established within the Wake Forest University School of Medicine to provide the necessary tools and expertise that the NCCT will access and apply to deliver many of its core services.
This position will be part of a team that provides informatics expertise including data discovery, extraction, analysis, and management; and will report to the Director of Research Informatics in the CTMC and will manage the work of over a dozen informatics staff contributing to the tasks, goals, and priorities set by the NCCT Leadership Team.
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE
Bachelor's Degree in an applicable field with 10 years of experience leading a Program and team of several data analysts, programmers, and project managers; or, an equivalent combination of education and experience.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Manages work of Informatics staff directed towards NCCT deliverables; developing and executing on projects with academic and industry partners; Monitors, measures, and evaluates effort usage and needs
- Works with NCCT Leadership to prioritize tasks and goals and monitor progress. Employs analytical and project management skills to identify and clarify requirements for data needs.
- Serves as strong advocate and leader to improve analytical capability of teammates, mentoring direct reports and promoting the development of advanced programming and analytic skills.
- Serves as a liaison with regional and enterprise informatics, analytics, and reporting leaders and teams. Works with IT groups to follow procedures for ensuring infrastructure needs are met and resolving optimization issues
- Educates and presents to leadership, researchers, and industry partners on capabilities, progress, and technical topics related to the informatics work
- Directs the creation and implementation of educational content on NCCT data infrastructure, available tools and platforms, access processes and more to strengthen the acumen of scientists, leaders, and staff relating to the acquisition and interpretation of data
- Maintains current knowledge of government regulations, policies, and trends that affect the health care industry, and independently conducts online research to access documents, pertinent regulations, or to access publicly available datasets.
- Performs human resources responsibilities for staff which include interviewing and selection of new teammates, recommendation for promotions, career development, performance evaluations, resolution of concerns, corrective actions, and overall engagement.
- Develops and recommends operating and capital budgets and controls expenditures within approved budget objectives.
- Performs other related duties incidental to the work described herein.
SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS
- Demonstrated leadership skills and abilities, with a record of accomplishment in working effectively with analytics teams, researchers and leaders
- Expert knowledge of health care data and standards, as well as strong programming background with multiple data science languages and platforms
- Significant experience in leading informatics teams and managing large research data warehouses and ETL, and application development
- Demonstrated group and project management skills, including significant experience creating and implementing data and analytics infrastructure and support services to facilitate clinical research
- Fluency in HIPAA data privacy regulations and standards, and the roles of Honest Brokers
- Experience with the grant funding life cycle and data needs at various stages
- Proficient with health care data analytics, including physician, hospital and pharmacy data, lab results and electronic medical records
- Excellent oral and written presentation skills and ability to make effective oral presentations and prepare reports for a variety of audiences, including regional and enterprise executive leaders, research scientists and clinician investigators
- Capable of independent thinking in terms of considering potential areas for analysis or performance improvement and initiate projects around those areas without direction
- Ability to effectively manage complex, dynamically changing priorities around the needs of customers and bring a marketing mentality in providing exceptional customer service to NCCT clients, internal and external
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