Certified Tumor Registrar – Part-Time Consultant, Domain Advisor

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany.

📋 Description

• Act as a subject matter expert on cancer registry data standards, abstraction workflows, and reporting requirements.

• Provide organized walkthroughs of the registry lifecycle, covering casefinding, abstraction, coding, and quality assurance through to submission and feedback.

• Offer guidance on the interpretation of data dictionaries, staging schemas, and coding logic utilized across U.S. registries.

• Clarify the daily workflows of registrars, highlighting their interactions with electronic health records (EHRs), pathology feeds, and state/federal reporting systems.

• Examine data models, variable mappings, and possible automation use cases to ensure consistency with registry standards.

• Engage in periodic remote review meetings with technical and product teams.

• Provide occasional insights on UI/UX mockups, training materials, and prototypes related to registry data capture.

• Share in-depth experience regarding the roles of cancer registrars, the registry lifecycle, technical tools, data standards, and teaching or advisory engagements.

⛳️ Requirements

• Certified Tumor Registrar (CTR) credential in good standing (mandatory).

• 5–10+ years of practical experience in cancer registry operations.

• Experience should ideally encompass both facility-based and central registry environments.

• Profound knowledge of cancer case abstraction, staging, and coding conventions.

• Understanding of data validation and quality assurance workflows.

• Familiarity with NAACCR-style data items.

• Acquaintance with common registry abstraction and validation tools.

• Experience with reporting workflows to state or national programs.

• Comprehension of AJCC, TNM, ICD-O, SSDI, and related coding frameworks.

• Exceptional communication abilities.

• Capacity to convey intricate registry processes to interdisciplinary teams.

• Availability for approximately 8–10 hours per week.

• Flexible scheduling for remote collaboration.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible scheduling.

• Long-term collaboration.

• Ongoing, renewable engagement based on project milestones.

• Remote work.

• Part-time consulting opportunity.

• Collaboration with a fully virtual global team.

• Opportunity to provide advisory input to technical and product teams on oncology data systems.