Total 3 Information Technology job vacancies in Barrow in Furness, LA14 4LF

NOTE: This is a remote position. The salary range listed on this announcement reflects the minimum and maximum salary range for all locations. Upon selection, the salary will be adjusted to reflect the salary for your specific location.

NOTE: This is a TERM appointment (not-to-exceed 3 years). Term appointments are non-status, nonpermanent appointments of limited duration (more than 1 year but not more than 4). Term employees are eligible to earn leave and generally have the same benefits as permanent employees including health and life insurance, within-grade increases and Federal Employees Retirement System and Thrift Savings Plan coverage. Term appointments may be extended without further competition (up to the 4 year maximum). The appointment to a Term position does not confer eligibility for promotion or reassignment to other positions or the ability to be non-competitively converted to permanent employment.

Major duties and responsibilities include:

• Works with researchers to determine their needs
• Performs analyses of research studies and clinical trial protocols to determine data requirements
• Designs application and data storage systems
• Evaluates clinical trial data reporting requirements and implements required changed, ensuring data integrity and information security assurance
• Conducts hardware and software analysis
• Analyzes clinical trials electronic data capture requirements for screening, randomization, kit assignment, serious adverse events, data collection, and reporting
• Performs mapping analyses needed to determine data assurance and security requirements for data migration
• Designs and develops databases for studies
• Serves as the primary organizational representative for several concurrent projects
• Provides consultation and advice regarding core infrastructure to support, maintain, and improve informatics developments
• Proposes and develops strategic biomedical informatics programs to support better utilization and analysis of VA health, research, and genomic data
• Performs other related duties as assigned

Major duties of the Supervisory Health System Specialist (Corporate Compliance Officer) include:

• Responsible for the initiation and completion of administrative investigations and fact-findings as approved by the Health Care System Director.
• Directing, developing, implementing, and overseeing a multi-disciplinary, health-care-system-wide Compliance Section within the scope of the VHA mandated Privacy Program, Records Information Management Program, Conflict of Interest, and Compliance & Business Integrity (CBI) Program (which includes auditing, monitoring and creation of corrective action plan activities in the areas of coding, documentation, purchased care, exclusionary lists, conflict of interest, accuracy of patient registration, etc.), Controlled Substance Program, VHA policy related to Administrative Investigative Boards, VHA policy related to Access, and VISN equivalent of each of these programs.
• Establish goals and work plans for the Compliance Section and ensures the implementation of the goals and objectives of the section.
• Determine issues, areas, and/or subject matter that create risk for the organization and makes recommendations to executive leadership as to how to avoid or minimize the identified risks.
• Creates written policies and procedures that promote commitment to corporate compliance and address specific areas of risk associated with the Health Care System business, practices, operations, privacy, Records Information Management, investigations, and audits of scheduling and consult practices.
• Creates and maintains local policies governing each of the disciplines within Compliances.
• Creates a formal, written training and education plan for all disciplines with the Compliance Section.
• Monitor the implementation of process improvement projects that are the result of findings made by the Compliance Section.

This position is 100% remote and the US location is negotiable after selection. Work sites outside of the U.S. are prohibited. Your salary will be based upon the locality pay of your work site after selection.

To view the salary range including locality pay for your particular location, please visit this link to the 2024 OPM Salary Tables.

Applications received as a result of job fairs, recruitment events, and emergency hiring mechanisms in support of this hiring initiative will also be accepted during open and closing date of this announcement.

IT Specialists (INFOSEC) are a mission critical occupation for HRSA. These positions are responsible for the analysis of system and/or security requirements, the development and implementation of mission critical applications for the agency's Information Technology operations.

As an IT Specialist - Info Sec - Information Systems Security Officer (ISSO), you will serve as a technical authority/subject matter expert for HRSA on matters involving the vulnerabilities and threats to HHS' information technology systems.

Your major duties and responsibilities will include:

• Developing/updating system security plans, risk assessments, disaster recovery, and contingency plans, incident response and additional system development life-cycle security documentation.
• Overseeing the security posture for one or more system(s) throughout the entire lifecycle; providing continuous monitoring through scheduled audits, controls testing, and audit reviews, and escalates issues as needed.
• Facilitating remediation/mitigation of weaknesses tracked on the Plan of Action and Milestones to reduce risk and address weaknesses to the system.
• Providing Continuous Monitoring support/guidance by reviewing security documentation, logs, scans and ensuring system backups are performed.
• Conducting security impact assessments when system changes or additions occur to the system, evaluate compliance with IT security requirements, compare them with expected results, and make recommendations.