Health Program Specialist (SME)

• 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).