Privacy Compliance Specialist

Weill Cornell Medicine is hiring a Privacy Compliance Specialist in its Office of Compliance. The role tracks and investigates privacy incidents, supports privacy training and policy work, and prepares incident documentation and metrics for leadership.

Responsibilities

• Monitors incident monitoring system for WCM incidents. Identifies false positives and documents trends. Conducts preliminary investigation for alleged incidents; gathers facts, documents investigation steps and writes summaries for incident determination
• May track privacy training activities and prepare reports of training and training delinquencies utilizing various electronic databases
• May provide on-going support for new employee and supervisor privacy training and track to ensure that all privacy-related training and meetings are documented
• Responsible for the development and implementation of privacy workshops, lectures, and meeting materials
• Assists with non-HIPAA incident investigations, policy development and training (GDPR, ACA, FERPA, and NYS)
• Logs and tracks privacy incidents, calls and emails in WCM's incident management system; updates incidents in real-time and closes incidents timely. Escalates bottlenecks and high-risk incidents in accordance to established workflows
• Manages IT/Security related privacy incidents, including but not limited to, lost devices, phi access, Service Now entered privacy incidents, and DLP incidents
• Under direction of privacy leadership team, prepares and sends out privacy related correspondence
• Reviews privacy policies for accuracy and makes recommendations for updates. Keeps privacy policies updated on website. Manages privacy policy communication program
• Reviews and assists with management of accounting of disclosures
• Prepares privacy related weekly and monthly metrics for leadership
• Reviews and manages Care Everywhere access logs
• Performs other related duties as assigned

Company

• Academic medical institution providing patient care, research, and physician education
• New York, New York, USA
• https://careers.weill.cornell.edu/
• Founded in 1898
• 5001-10000 employees

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• Approximately 2 years of prior related work experience
• Detail oriented with strong organizational and time management skill with the ability to prioritize and manage the completion of multiple tasks/projects
• Strong computer skills (Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) and Adobe Acrobat
• Strong writing skills
• Glassdoor
• 3.8
• Academic medical institution providing patient care, research, and physician education.
• New York, New York, USA
• https://careers.weill.cornell.edu
• H1B Sponsorship
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• Management and Executive
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• Late Stage
• Total Funding
• $74.8M
• Key Investors
• National Cancer Institute

Required skills

• Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft PowerPoint

Experience

• 2+ years