Health Program Specialist (SME)NewBethesda, Maryland

Health Program Specialist (SME)

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is actively looking for Health Program Specialist to support our work for the User Services and Collection Division (USCD) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), an institute of the National Institutes of Health. This opportunity is full time and onsite at the NIH-NCBI in Bethesda, MD and/or remote work.

As one of the largest National Library of Medicine (NLM) divisions, the User Services and Collection Division (USCD) acquires and preserves biomedical information, makes biomedical information locatable, and links personnel to biomedical data. The NLM works to collect, preserve, and disseminate biomedical health information. USCD operations are to collect unique and trusted biomedical information, curate findable biomedical information through date normalization, metadata and data standards, and connect people to biomedical data resources to make informed health decisions.

We attract the best people in the business with our competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision coverage, 401k plan with employer contribution, paid holidays, vacation, and tuition and conference reimbursement. If you enjoy being a part of a high performing, professional service and technology focused organization, please apply today!

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Directing, managing, and overseeing activities related to the content of SNOMED CT as carried out by the NLM.
• Overseeing editing and data modeling of SNOMED CT and other clinical and healthcare vocabularies.
• Coordinating with developers of source content to ensure reasonable representation of these data within NLM terminology products and systems.
• Addressing queries from clinicians and researchers on the use of NLM's terminology systems.
• Providing technical advice to clinicians and potential users on the effective use of available data and database features related to their specific applications and environments.
• Representing NLM at professional meetings and in discussions with producers and users of component clinical vocabularies.

Required Skills:

• Formal education (minimum: Bachelor's degree) or graduate/higher level degree with major study in an academic field related to the medical field, health sciences or allied sciences appropriate to the work of the position.
• Minimum 3 years of project management experience.
• Requires at least 5 years of experience developing the software and/or managing the software development.
• Demonstrate in resume at least one (1) year of qualifying experience in either the private or public sector, performing the following types of tasks: Developing and implementing the representation of terminology in SNOMED CT based on the SNOMED editing conventions and standards; serving as an expert in health data standards pertaining to medical terminologies (such as SNOMED CT and LOINC); Developing content and standards for a clinical information retrieval database; and educating users on Unified Medical Language System (UMLS)

Desired Skills:

• Experience editing terminology and overseeing concept modeling for SNOMED CT (formerly Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms).

Benefits and Salary

We attract the best people in the business with our competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision coverage, 401k plan with employer contribution, paid holidays, vacation, and tuition reimbursement.

We offer a competitive salary commensurate with experience and location. The targeted range for this position is $140,000 - $190,000.

If you enjoy being a part of a high performing, professional service and technology focused organization, please apply today!

Black Canyon Consulting (NIHNCBI)