Principal Compliance Analyst - HYBRID

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Organization:

COI & POM

Job Summary:

JOB SUMMARY
Provides expert leadership in specialized legal, regulatory, compliance or technological skills and training to analyze and evaluate compliance systems, requirements, data and processes, identify compliance risk, assist in the development and implementation of mechanisms to monitor and reduce risk, and provide timely and effective education and remediation.

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Evaluates and leads others in the evaluation of external requirements and internal policies, documentation, processes and data to identify patterns, errors and risk factors, assess potential areas of noncompliance and pinpoint institutional vulnerability to audit by health oversight agencies and contractors
• Assists in managing VUMC's Compliance Risk Assessment program. Evaluates and recommends methods to monitor VUMC's compliance risk via data analysis and assists with design, development, and implementation of supporting tools (e.g., metrics, dashboards, reports).  
• Recommends and assists in the scoping, planning, and design of subject matter review and clinician focused (structured) review projects.  Leads and performs subject matter reviews and analyses related to areas of specialization and assists in the drafting, editing and finalization of OCCI reports resulting from completed reviews. Participates in the planning and attends subject matter review entrance and exit conferences as appropriate.
• Continuously expands compliance related legal, regulatory, and technical expertise related to area(s) of specialization. Keeps abreast of issues and changes within area(s) of expertise that affect services offered by VUMC. 
• Researches and analyzes issues in response to requests for assistance from the OCCI team and from other VUMC stakeholders. Provides education and guidance to VUMC clinical and administrative stakeholders.  Independently assesses a requested project and provides a complete report/plan by working with stakeholders within desired timeframe.
• The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.

TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES

• Regulatory Compliance (Advanced): Demonstrates knowledge of the appropriate rules and regulations and apply them in difficult, stressful, and complex situations. Able to interpret and explain rules and regulations that are ambiguous or unclear. Directs others in interpreting rules and regulations on the job and trains others in them.
• Improvement Methodology (Advanced): Lead teams in quality and performance improvement methodology, including facilitating opportunity analysis, key driver diagrams, performance measure requirements, and PDSA improvement cycles (EA, FMEA, CTQ)
• Data Procurement (Advanced): Seeking, collecting, transforming, and ensuring quality of data.
• Metadata Analysis (Advanced): Demonstrates the uppermost levels of expertise in data analysis and interpretation.  Works with teams and organization stakeholders to identify new, innovative methods and tools for incorporation into data analysis practices.  Is able to design a complex logical data or object model. Is knowledgeable of enterprise-wide data and object models and can identify areas of reuse. Possesses expert knowledge in the use of CASE tools. Can recommend extensions to a data dictionary or repository to support data analysis. Can specify how data should be transformed for new uses such as data warehousing.
• Strategic Planning (Advanced): The ability to define a strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources.

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