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The CKAs will support the CKA Lead in his/her activities. CKAs will be expected to provide around 1-2 hours per week to the role at a minimum.
CKA Lead
This section outlines, in effect, a job description for the CKA Lead.
Job title:
Clinical Knowledge Administrator Lead for openEHR International.
Line Management:
Someone in CIC.
Reports to:
Chairs of Clinical Program Board.
The CKA lead will report to the chairs of the CPB for day-to-day work. Management of the role from a contractual, human resources perspective will be through the openEHR International board.
Job Summary:
This is a senior role acting as the lead for clinical content management on the international Clinical Knowledge Manager. The CKM is the repository of openEHR content models for use by the global community and contains the core knowledge base of openEHR models for international use.
The CKA Lead is responsible for ensuring the CKM content is maintained to a high quality and level of coherence, that published artefacts remain current and suitable for use in openEHR deployments, and that processes for new content, change and version management operate effectively. The CKA lead will further act as the coordinator for regional and organisational CKMs or equivalent content repositories to encourage and direct an approach of convergence and reuse where appropriate. The CKA lead will keep up to date with developments in the Education and Specification Boards and highlight these to the CPB when they have relevance to the CPB scope.
Specific responsibilities and tasks:
Governance
Of CKM organisational structures
ensuring these remain current and relevant, are adequately documented, and are appropriate for international use.
Content models
responsible for deciding/recommending the publication and other lifecycle stages of content models, supported by the CKAs
providing senior advice on modelling approaches and design decisions to the community and CPB
leading in resolving new and emerging challenges to content modelling
ensuring the quality and processes for the language translation of models
ensuring/directing the editorial guidelines for models and the conformance of published content to this.
Managing change requests
Of CKM users
This would entail ensuring CKM onboarding processes for new users are permissive and easy to follow, with signposting to educational materials on how to use CKM.
Providing guidelines and processes for the management of new content and reviews.
Assisting editorial groups in their formation and processes
Of CKAs and Editors
Overseeing development by CKAs of processes and work within their areas of primary responsibility
Managing the impact of updates and changes to tooling (consider how change requests to tooling providers will be managed)
Co-ordination
The CKA lead will further act as the coordinator for regional and organisational CKMs or equivalent content repositories to encourage and direct an approach of convergence and reuse where appropriate.
CKA Lead will ensure there is a process in place for the governance of affiliated CKMs to reduce the risk of duplication and maintain commonality where appropriate.
Quality Management
CKA Lead will work with CPB to ensure editorial guidelines for content models are maintained and applied.
Process Management
Being responsible for the design of processes for content management and ensuring these are applied by CKAs and Editors to models on international CKM through their lifecycle.
Organisational Structure
Draft
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Hours
The role will initially require a minimum of 20 hours per week on an employed or contracted basis, with hours distributed as required across a working week. The required hours will be reviewed at regular intervals - maybe say at 3 and 6 months initially to revise and account for hours required to meet the agreed priorities.The new role of Clinical Knowledge Administrator Lead is proposed, operating under an approximate organisational structure as below.
Organisational Structure
Draft
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Clinical Knowledge Administrators
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