Description

• Functions as the Education & Training Coordinator: Designs and delivers in-house and statewide training on cancer reporting, abstracting, coding (ICD-O, staging, treatment), and casefinding according to national standard setters’ requirements, while providing opportunities for Alaskan ODS to earn NCRA-approved continuing education credits.
• May serve as the Quality Assurance Coordinator: Ensures statewide accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of cancer data through audits, edit analysis, and compliance monitoring aligned with NAACCR and NPCR standards.
• Leads the development, implementation and documentation of ACR quality assurance program, including updating operation reports, leading re-abstracting audits, providing feedback to reporters, edits, and corrective action for reporting facilities.
• Serves as a resource to cancer reporters by providing ongoing technical assistance and mentorship to health care facilities, produces a quarterly newsletter, and when needed, helps cancer registrars resolve data discrepancies with reporting facilities.
• Participates in ACR operations, such as death clearance, quality control and call-for-data submission activities.  Attends staff meetings and participates in Department-wide meetings and trainings when required

Requirements

Must be an Oncology Data Specialist (ODS) with an active certification, and experience working as an ODS.

We are interested in candidates who possess the following position specific competencies:

• Education & Training: Knowledge of teaching, training, research, making presentations, lecturing, testing, and other instructional methods.
• Quality Assurance: Knowledge of the principles, methods, and tools of quality assurance and quality control used to ensure a product fulfills functional requirements and standards.
• Technical Credibility: Understands and appropriately applies principles, procedures, requirements, regulations, and policies related to specialized expertise. 

Experience working in a central cancer registry is desired (not required)