Health Informatics Specialist (Bioinformatics)

National Institutes of Health; Maryland; On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

National Institutes of Health in the United States seeks a Health Informatics Specialist (Bioinformatics) to join the Office of the Clinical Director. You will provide direction and scientific expertise to initiatives that create tools and resources for scientists to access, store, analyze, and exchange complex data.

In this role you will guide informatics standards, advise researchers on policy interpretation, and evaluate emerging technologies to support clinical and translational research

Responsibilities

• Identify bioinformatics requirements by evaluating clinical research, scientific, and operational needs and translating those requirements into informatics solutions.
• Serve as principal technical advisor on clinical and translational informatics.
• Develop organizational guidelines, policies, and standards governing informatics activities.
• Advise researchers and program officials on the interpretation and application of informatics policies, standards, and technical requirements.
• Research and evaluate new and emerging technological advances in clinical and translational informatics products and affiliated technologies for their applicability to the organization's biomedical and clinical research programs.
• Provide guidance on the effective use of informatics applications, database structures, data management practices, and analytical methods used to support clinical and translational research.

Job description

Job Posting : Health Informatics Specialist (Bioinformatics)

As a Health Informatics Specialist (Bioinformatics), you will be a member of a research team in the Office of The Clinical Director (OCD), providing authoritative direction and scientific expertise to a wide range of highly complex, highly visible initiatives and projects focused on the discovery and development of cutting-edge tools and resources for scientists to easily access, store, analyze, and exchange complex high-quality data.

Duties

• Identify bioinformatics requirements by evaluating clinical research, scientific, and operational needs and translating those requirements into informatics solutions.
• Serve as principal technical advisor within the organization on issues involving clinical and translational informatics.
• Develop organizational guidelines, policies, and standards governing clinical and translational informatics activities.
• Advise researchers and program officials on the interpretation and application of clinical and translational informatics policies, standards, and technical requirements.
• Research and evaluates new and emerging technological advances in clinical and translational informatics products and affiliated technologies for their applicability to the organization's biomedical and clinical research programs.
• Provide guidance on the effective use of informatics applications, database structures, data management practices, and analytical methods used to support clinical and translational research.

Who Can Apply

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Current federal employees of this agency.

• Institute or Center

  NIDDK (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

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