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Location: Remote, must be based in the United States.  Must be willing to infrequently travel (less than once per quarter) to California Rural Indian Health Board Inc. offices or to participate in conferences.

Salary Range: $135,000 - $166,050, per year, plus benefits. Individual salary offers will be based on experience and qualifications unique to each candidate.

Position Type: Grant funded, limited-term opportunity

Position End Date: June 30, 2025

Hours of Work:  Individual must work 40 hours per week.  Must be available to meet during core office hours 8am to 5pm PST Monday through Friday to coordinate with CRIHB staff.

The Data Modernization Senior Advisor will serve as a subject matter expert, guiding public health agencies through the development and delivery of technical projects that improve the use of public health data to inform decision making. This role is aligned to the Workforce Acceleration Initiative (WAI). WAI is a federally funded CDC Foundation program with the goal of helping the nation’s public health agencies by providing them with the technology and data experts they need to accelerate their information system improvements.

 

The Data Modernization Senior Advisor will be hired by the CDC Foundation and assigned to the California Rural Indian Health Board Inc. (CRIHB). The Data Modernization Senior Advisor will develop and implement the organization’s strategy for increasingly effective use of data and information through improvements in information systems, policy, workforce, and work processes. This position will strategically direct the organization’s data modernization effort identifying and addressing needs, gaps, and opportunities in the organization’s data ecosystem. The data ecosystem includes both the technical data infrastructure and the workforce that relies on and works with the data infrastructure and the data itself, including systems and data of external partners. This position will combine deep expertise in public health operations with expertise in the development, maintenance, operation, enhancement, and configuration of information systems, and with knowledge of advanced information technology, tools, and processes.

 

The ideal candidate will have deep knowledge about organizations in the public health informatics landscape, technical infrastructure, and proven experience in informatics-oriented work with public health organizations and in working with agency leaders to develop and implement systems improvement strategies. Strong communication and partnership skills are required to succeed in this role.

 

The Data Modernization Senior Advisor will be hired by the CDC Foundation and assigned to CRIHB. This position is eligible for a fully remote work arrangement for U.S. based candidates. 

Responsibilities

• Align with agency leadership and key personnel to clarify agency information needs and opportunities for highly impactful systems improvement, and to plan and implement those improvements within the limits of agency resources.
• Develop and lead implementation of the organization’s strategy for increasingly effective use of data and information through improvements in information systems, policy, workforce, and work processes through collaboration with key staff throughout the organization.
• Provide expert technical advisement and guidance on information systems identifying, procuring, and enhancing information systems, systems architecture, and other data infrastructure.
• Lead, advocate for, and/or cultivate the organization’s data modernization, data governance, data interoperability integration, and data security efforts.
• Develop infrastructure, policies, and tools to assure timely, appropriate data sharing and data access. Provide input to enterprise-wide data accessibility standards and requirements to be applied to all information systems and procurements. Serve as liaison to other organizations to establish data exchange agreements and facilitate data linkage.
• Develop and implement strategies for achieving cutting-edge, advanced data analytics and visualization capabilities.
• Assure appropriate access to data by organization staff and partners to assure that operations and decision-making are informed by timely, relevant information.
• Lead the development of and update data inventories of the organization’s data and information system resources.
• Assess data needs within divisions and programs to identify gaps and areas for integration and establish consequent priorities and plans.
• Ensure establishment and maintenance of a data governance process, including the implementation of strategies for effective standards, policies, practices, and procedures throughout the organization.
• Ensure interoperability across the organization’s information systems and with information systems of external partners.
• Develops and implements data modernization initiatives that balance security, cost, accessibility and equity.
• Develops and implements strategies to involve Tribal public health departments and Tribal health programs in data modernization efforts of organization.
• Perform other duties as required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in public health, computer information systems, health informatics, epidemiology or other related field from an accredited college or university. Master’s degree preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience with direct experience in epidemiology, informatics, data science, or information systems development related to public health. Including a minimum of 5 years of experience leading or collaborating with partners in the development of technical data strategies and infrastructure.
• Understanding of information systems development and use, data and system life cycles, requirements development and good practices for developing information systems and processes.
• Understanding of data use within public health, including the advantages and challenges associated with common data sources, systems and work processes.  Ability to lead the development and implementation of integrated data systems.
• Familiarity with successful and failed efforts to improve data exchange and use within public health.
• Strong project management skills, ability to meet deadlines, and ability to adapt to changing priorities.
• Ability to engage with, listen to and learn from a broad range of stakeholders, encouraging their meaningful participation. Experience developing and implementing data sharing / data use agreements.
• Ability to communicate in a clear, positive manner with internal staff, leadership, and external partners, as well as clearly communicate to non-technical audiences. Ability to train staff and partners with various levels of technical skills on the utilization of data systems.  Ability to present technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences.  Ability to brief key stakeholders on project progress using plain language.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Superior organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to listen well and effectively represent the organization and its mission.
• Ability to identify and recommend data modernization solutions that balance security, cost, and accessibility. 
• Creativity, problem solving, demonstrated ability to effectively collaborate with others.
• Experience working with diverse cultures.  Able to effectively engage with native American tribes.  Prior experience working with native American tribes and awareness of tribal health issues is preferred. 
• Familiarity with public health data systems and public health data.

This role is involved in a dynamic public health program. As such, roles and responsibilities are subject to change as situations evolve. Roles and responsibilities listed above may be expanded upon or updated to match priorities and needs, once written approval is received by the CDC Foundation in order to best support the public health programming.

The California Rural Indian Health Board (CRIHB) was formed to provide a central focal point in the Indian health field in California for planning, advocacy, funding, training, technical assistance, coordination, fund raising, education, development and for the purpose of promoting unity and formulating common policy on Indian health care issues. CRIHB is a network of Tribal Health Programs, which are controlled and sanctioned by Indian people, and their Tribal Governments. We are committed to the needs and interests that elevate and promote the health status and social conditions of the Indian People of California. CRIHB does this by providing advocacy, shared resources, training and technical assistance that enhances the delivery of quality comprehensive health related services. Visit www.crihb.org for more information.

 

The California Tribal Epidemiology Center (CTEC) was established in 2005 to assist in collecting and interpreting health information for American Indians and Alaska Natives (AIAN) in California. CTEC is 1 of 12 Indian Health Service (IHS) Division of Epidemiology and Disease Prevention-funded Tribal Epidemiology Centers that provide epidemiologic support to each IHS region and often partner with local IHS area offices to provide these services. CTEC receives core funding from IHS along with supplemental grants. Our mission is to work directly with Tribes and Indian Health Programs (Tribal Health Programs and Urban Indian Health Organizations) to monitor the health status of AIAN in California and develop effective public health services that respect the cultural values and traditions of our communities. CTEC aims to align its activities with the strategic plan of its parent organization, the California Rural Indian Health Board, Inc. (CRIHB).