Associate Privacy Officer

Overview

Associate Privacy Officer - Sign on bonus up to $10,000

The Associate Privacy Officer is responsible for the development, implementation and ongoing monitoring of a comprehensive NCH privacy program with the overall goal of ensuring the privacy of individuals is appropriately maintained, and that regulatory and/or industry best practices are adhered to.  This position is also responsible for managing privacy incidents, developing appropriate privacy policy, privacy audit coordination, collaboration with legal, compliance, and other departments, and providing comprehensive privacy consulting to individuals and teams within Nationwide Children’s Hospital. 

Why Nationwide Children's Hospital?

The moment you walk through our doors, you can feel it. When you meet one of our patient families, you believe it. And when you talk with anyone who works here, you want to be part of it, too. Welcome to Nationwide Children’s Hospital, where Passion Meets Purpose.

Here, Everyone Matters. We’re 13,000 strong. And it takes every single one of us to improve the lives of the kids we care for, and the kids from around the world we’ll never even meet. Kids who are living healthier, fuller lives because of the knowledge we share. We know it takes a Collaborative Culture to deliver on our promise to provide the very best, innovative care and to foster new discoveries, made possible by the most groundbreaking research. Anywhere.

Ask anyone with a Nationwide Children’s badge what they do for a living. They’ll tell you it’s More Than a Job. It’s a calling. It’s a chance to use and grow your talent to make an impact that truly matters. Because here, we exist simply to help children everywhere.

Nationwide Children’s Hospital. A Place to Be Proud

The NCH Information Services Team

The Information Services team has been recognized as “Most Wired” for many years in a row and has received awards for innovation and service.  The biggest reward comes from working together to improve outcomes for our patients.  Sometimes it’s the small things like programming a calming aquarium display during a vaccine clinic and sometimes it’s big things like drastically improving guest wireless so families can stay connected and work remotely when their child is in the hospital.  When you join the Information Services team, you don’t just join 400 IT professionals dedicated to improving the lives of kids and families in our community and around the world. You join a team of 14,000 healthcare professionals dedicated to working together as One Team, every day. 

We have big ideas and exciting plans to improve the digital experience for our patients, families and employees.  We are driven to constantly improve, be at our best, always be curious and support our caregivers, from parents to nurses and physicians, as they work the most important jobs: taking care of our children. Join our team and help us equip the caregivers of today with the technology of tomorrow.

Responsibilities

• Effectively and responsibly manages assigned staff, projects, and budgets.
• Coordinates resources for project and operational support for assigned initiatives.
• Develops, implements, and evaluates goals and objectives, including performance goals, priorities, performance against objectives and development plans with team members.
• Provides project management related support and implementation of new privacy processes and standards.
• Prepares and monitors the capital and expense budgets for assigned areas of responsibility.
• Learns and adheres to NCH and departmental standards, policies and procedures.
• Manages the development, update and distribution of privacy and HIPAA privacy policies, standards, and guidelines.
• Oversees the planning, design, development and implementation of privacy evaluations to determine the design and operating effectiveness of privacy controls.
• Monitors privacy finding processes to ensure privacy risks are being adequately addressed.
• Oversees the investigation of privacy incidents and breaches and assists with disciplinary and legal matters associated with such incidents as necessary.
• Monitors compliance with the organization's privacy policies and procedures among employees, contractors, alliances, and other third parties, and refers problems to appropriate department managers or administrators
• Initiates, facilitates, and promotes activities to foster privacy and security awareness within the organization.
• Monitors changes in legislation and accreditation standards that affect the privacy program (HIPAA, FERPA, GLBA, State Regulations, etc.).

Qualifications

Education Requirement:  

• BS in Health Information Management, Business, Compliance, Legal or equivalent experience required
• Continues to stay actively involved in outside education advancement

Experience Requirement:

• 5 years of experience managing, and maturing privacy, compliance, or other relevant program (healthcare preferred)
• Minimum Physical Requirements
• Must be able to see, hear, speak, read, and perform manual tasks with or without accommodation and care for oneself, with little or no difficulty.  Performance of principal duties and responsibilities may require the ability to travel.                 

The above list of duties is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by individuals assigned to this classification.  It is not to be construed as an exhaustive list of duties performed by the individual so classified, nor is it intended to limit or modify the right of any supervisor to assign, direct, and control the work of employees under his/her supervision.   EOE M/F/Disability/Vet