Associate General Counsel, Programs and Privacy

Description NCQA is hiring an Associate General Counsel, Programs and Privacy About the Opportunity NCQA is at an important point in its evolution as the nation’s leading independent authority on healthcare quality. As NCQA modernizes its accreditation, measurement, data, research, digital quality, and enterprise operations, the legal function must be more than a traditional support function. It must be a strategic partner that helps the organization move with confidence, protect trust, manage risk, and translate complex legal, regulatory, privacy, and governance requirements into practical business solutions.

The Associate General Counsel, Programs and Privacy will play a central role in that work. This leader will provide senior-level legal counsel across NCQA’s programs, products, contracts, research activities, data practices, privacy obligations, corporate operations, and stakeholder-facing processes. The role requires sound legal judgment, business orientation, privacy and healthcare regulatory depth, and the ability to advise senior leaders in a fast-moving, mission-driven environment. This is not simply a legal advisory role. It is a strategic risk, business enablement, transformation, privacy, and enterprise counsel role at the center of NCQA’s next chapter.

Position Summary

The Associate General Counsel, Programs and Privacy serves as a senior attorney in the Office of General Counsel and as NCQA's designated Privacy Official. The position provides strategic, practical, and risk-informed legal counsel on privacy, healthcare regulatory, evaluation program, research, data governance, compliance, and operational matters. Working in partnership with the General Counsel, Enterprise Risk Management and Compliance Officer and other legal team members, this role helps NCQA achieve its mission while protecting the organization's legal, regulatory, operational, and reputational interests.

The position translates complex legal and regulatory requirements into practical business guidance and serves as a trusted strategic advisor to leaders across the organization. This role is a peer to other Associate General Counsel positions and serves as the primary legal lead for privacy and data protection, healthcare and AI regulation, research, evaluation programs and litigation matters.

Position Purpose Serve as NCQA's lead attorney for: Privacy, HIPAA and cybersecurity compliance Healthcare regulatory matters, including AI Data governance and data-use issues Accreditation, certification and recognition legal support Regulatory and operational risk analysis Human subject research protections Litigation The position helps ensure that NCQA's programs, products, research activities, data practices, and stakeholder-facing decisions remain legally sound, mission-aligned, and operationally effective. Strong strategic thinking, business enablement and transformation support skills are paramount. Reporting Relationships The Associate General Counsel, Programs &…

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