Standards Development Organization Liaison – Knowledge Management

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

📋 Description

• Serve as the representative for VHA in standards development organizations and affiliated entities, such as HL7, SNOMED International, Regenstrief/LOINC, NCPDP, X12, DICOM, IHE, and ISO/TC 215.

• Monitor ballot cycles, comment periods, workgroup schedules, and the development of implementation guides.

• Prepare and submit comments from the VA, reconcile ballots, and request changes as necessary.

• Facilitate VA involvement and foster collaborative relationships with staff from standards organizations and federal partners.

• Evaluate standards, implementation guides, and terminology releases to assess their operational impact on VHA systems and workflows.

• Interpret standards requirements for informatics analysts, clinical subject matter experts (SMEs), architects, and program leadership.

• Provide guidance on adoption timelines, conformance expectations, implementation challenges, and associated costs.

• Assist in the development of requirements and interoperability design decisions.

• Address conflicts between standards and current VA policies.

• Oversee the program's knowledge management strategy related to standards and interoperability content.

• Create and sustain repository structures, taxonomies, naming conventions, and version control systems.

• Curate implementation guides, value sets, terminology mappings, decision documents, position papers, meeting summaries, and lessons learned.

• Set up content review cycles and produce standard operating procedures (SOPs), job aids, reference materials, and onboarding content.

• Support communities of practice and facilitate recurring knowledge-sharing sessions.

• Manage project schedules, dependencies, and deliverables effectively.

• Generate status reports, briefing documents, and executive summaries for VA leadership.

• Lead working sessions, document decisions and action items, and ensure follow-through to completion.

• Collaborate with OIP work streams and related VA programs.

• Assist government leads with documentation, meeting arrangements, and follow-up on external commitments.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree is required.

• A minimum of ten years of experience in project management related to standards development.

• Proven participation in one or more health data standards development organizations, including involvement in ballots, comments, or workgroups.

• Familiarity with health data standards and terminologies, such as HL7 V2, CDA, FHIR, SNOMED CT, LOINC, RxNorm, and ICD.

• Experience in creating and managing structured knowledge repositories, documentation libraries, or content governance processes.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Capability to obtain and maintain the necessary VA background investigation.

🏝️ Benefits

• An equal opportunity employer.

• Veterans, members of the Reserve and National Guard, and transitioning active-duty service members are strongly encouraged to apply.

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