Effective November 2020, the Division of Compliance Management (DCM) has reorganized within the Office of Management Assessment (OMA), forming four branches to continue to provide expert advice and guidance to diverse stakeholders across the NIH enterprise.
(1) Serves as the NIH subject matter experts and HHS points-of-contact for the following NIH-wide program areas: Information Management, NIH Litigation Holds, and Forms Management;
(2) Offers training, advisory services, program management, standard operating procedures, and maintenance of DCM Program policies;
(3) Provides oversight for the life-cycle management of NIH records, including NIH-wide education and communication of legislation, regulation and policy guiding federal record management, conducting record program reviews, developing retention schedules for concurrence by the National Archives and Records Administration, and annual reporting of essential records;
(4) Coordinates the litigation hold notifications distributed to impacted NIH staff that provides instructions on maintaining responsive information;
(5) Leads the management of NIH forms by aiding the development, review, revision and approval of new or existing forms, and maintaining the forms repository.
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(1) Serves as the NIH subject matter experts and HHS point-of-contact for the following NIH-wide program areas: Delegations of Authority (DoAs), Organizational Changes, and Policy Manual Chapters;
(2) Manages the formal DoA process and maintains the DoA IT System, including those to the NIH from HHS, and the Director and other senior officials across NIH;
(3) Provides assistance and guidance to NIH Issuing Offices relating to the research, development, review and issuance of all new, revised and rescinded DoAs;
(4) Coordinates structural organizational changes, ensures that: a) HHS policy and legislative requirements related to reorganization, b) the NIH Standard Administrative Codes (SAC), and c) the official organizational charts and functional statement requirements are met;
(5) Provides management oversight and advisory services on the creation, development, publication and management of policies maintained within the NIH Policy Manual system; and
(6) Implements requirements for policy lifecycle by coordinating with issuing offices, Office of the General Council, and approving officials.
(7) Conducts the annual FAIR Act Inventory and program management.
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(1) Advises NIH staff of appropriate safeguards for the creation, collection, use, processing, storage, maintenance, dissemination, disclosure, and disposal of personally identifiable information and sensitive information by programs and information systems, issues cohesive policy and procedural documentation, develops privacy awareness training and collaborates with multiple stakeholders to secure data and mitigate privacy incidents; and
(2) Advises NIH staff on privacy policy, compliance, and risk management matters subject to the Privacy Act of 1974, E-Government Act of 2002, Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) of 2014, OMB Circular A-130, OMB Circular A-108, OMB-17-12 and other applicable statutes, regulations, and policies.
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(1) Coordinates Proposals led by the NIH Office of Legislative Policy and Analysis, informing NIH of new regulatory/policy requirements, coordinating NIH clearance of proposed new or modified outside regulations, overseeing regulatory reform requirements, and NIH rulemaking, and;
(2) Undertakes the preparation and submission of all NIH notices for publication in the Federal Register, the daily Federal Government journal, and;
(3) Provides training, advisory services, harmonization, standard operating procedures, and policy maintenance for the above.
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