The American Academy of Ophthalmology is the world's largest association of eye physicians and surgeons — Eye M.D.s — with more than 27,000 members worldwide. The vision of the Academy is to be the most valued and credible professional eye organization. Toward that end, we are seeking talented, committed and innovative team players to assist in advancing the lifelong learning and professional interests of ophthalmologists.
We currently have the following openings:
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IT Business Manager
The IT Business Manager is a liaison between Information Technology and other divisions and software vendors and works closely with divisions and IT staff to support and maintain the Academy’s core business systems.
The IT Business Manager will have the opportunity to create and establish processes, develop employees, become a business partner to internal groups, research and recommend products to improve administration and performance, learn new technologies and skills, and use database skills to design, develop and maintain our data warehouse. This position reports to the Director of Technology and manages a Reporting Analyst and Business Systems Analyst.
Candidates must be team players with excellent management, communication and customer service skills and have strong, hands-on technical skills with database administration, MS SQL Server, advanced reporting tools, and the design and delivery of a data warehouse. The ideal candidate will also be skilled in data architecture, inventory management systems and implementing disaster recovery.
Responsibilities
Analyze/Develop/Implement
Core Systems
- The organization of data in core RDBMS (tables, rows, columns and stored procedures), how it gets there (workflow), and what validation processes are used to accept it.
- The interaction between the different core systems and newly created operational systems.
- Core systems physical infrastructure and optimize for high-availability and performance.
Data Warehouse
- Current business rules and process for the logical design.
- The structural database design, model, and architecture.
- The ETL logic from source systems.
- End user reporting solutions to provide opportunities for new revenues, savings and information leading to business decisions.
Management
- Projects and staff associated with core systems.
- The IT support to meet defined SLA’s on core systems issues.
- Train and mentor staff.
Data Integrity
- Organize existing reports, prune out redundant ones and audit the reliability of the others.
- Design plans to enforce data control at the source, standard reports to meet immediate needs by Academy divisions, and audit reports and work with external auditors.
Core Systems Administration
- Become the principal owner of the relationship with CRM and financial system vendors and consultants so to increase the relationship’s value.
- Provide constant support to the divisions that use the Academy’s core system applications.
- Provide data as well as tools related to the transformation or reporting of data.
Skills and Requirements - Must have 3–5+ years of business, systems and data analysis.
- Must have 3–5+ years of experience with the administration of relational databases. 2+ years with MS SQL Server 2005 or above.
- Must have 2+ years of experience directly managing small teams of direct reports.
- Hands-on technical experience with a mid-market to enterprise level CRM system and financial management system with specific emphasis on data structure, workflow, set-up and implementation.
- Strong experience with advanced data reporting tools (i.e. Cognos, Business Objects, etc.).
- Must have strong project management skills and experience as a team member on a major data warehouse build project. Experience with data architecture is strongly preferred.
- Consistent track record of meeting project deadlines.
- Understanding of enterprise application infrastructure, hardware, server operating systems, application networks, and the support and maintenance of these mission critical environments.
- Strong customer service and communication skills including documentation, facilitation, interpersonal, written and verbal skills.
- Experience with data architecture is strongly preferred.
- Experience with implementing disaster recovery and business continuity planning is preferred.
- Knowledge of .NET is preferred.
- Knowledge of financial accounting processes and logical workflow is preferred.
- Experience with a membership organization is a plus.
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Clinical Information Services Specialist The Clinical Information Services Specialist is a primary resource for Academy members, staff, and the public on information about ophthalmology and eye care and thereby contributes to the strategic objectives of enabling the Academy to be the premier provider of eye care information. This includes using sophisticated search strategies to systematically review the medical literature to provide references for the development of evidence-based clinical documents; answering clinical inquiries from members, staff, and the public; and maintaining the Academy Library, which serves as a resource for all staff and members.
This position will have the opportunity to develop a catalog of electronic resources; learn about ophthalmology and information retrieval methods; provide clinical, demographic, biographical, and statistical information to the CEO/EVP, VPs and other staff as requested; and contribute the most up-to-date and comprehensive evidence-based information from the peer-reviewed scientific literature for the basis of Preferred Practice Pattern® guidelines, Ophthalmic Technology Assessments or other evidence-based documents.
The ideal candidate will be a self starter with a Masters degree in Library Science, excellent customer service and communication skills, and experience as a medical librarian using complex Boolean searches in order to produce either comprehensive or concise results depending on the need.
Responsibilities - Search medical and grey literature for articles to use in development of evidence-based documents.
- Obtain copyright permissions from authors and publishers and maintain copyright permissions database for images used in the Practicing Ophthalmologists’ Curriculum and Compass.
- Answer inquiries for clinical and other information as requested by CEO/EVP, VPs, other Staff and members.
- Manage Academy Library, including acquiring assets, routing periodicals, routing electronic table of contents, assembling a reading packet for VPs on a biweekly basis, filing periodicals, and managing a budget.
- Function as the Department’s coordinator for the preparation and packing for the Annual Meeting.
Skills and Requirements - Must have a Masters degree in Library science and strong experience as a librarian in a technical field. Strongly prefer experience as a medical librarian.
- Knowledge of library classifications, catalog systems, and needs assessment tools.
- Knowledge of the structure and search techniques of the National Library of Medicine's PubMed database is essential.
- Knowledge of external health organizations, such as the FDA, CDC, NEI, NLM, AHRQ, etc. is preferred.
- Technological competence designing search strategies and using complex Boolean searches with internet search engines, Google Scholar, Cochrane Library, Medline, EMBASE, and other databases.
- Strong oral and written communication skills are necessary in order to express ideas clearly and communicate effectively with members over the phone and by fax/letters.
- Ability to document search strategies in an accurate and comprehensive manner and write about technical topics in a clear, concise manner.
- Ability to hone in on specific search topics and distill the search findings to make searches as precise and concise as possible.
- Ability to troubleshoot situations and analyze why the yield for searches is sub-optimal.
- Experience using automated reference software tools such as EndNote and digital asset management software such as Media Beacon is not required but a plus.
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