Hep C Community Navigation Project Director

Bureau of Hepatitis, HIV, and STI

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Job ID: 592114

Location: 42-09 28th Street

Full/Part-time: Full-Time

Salary Range: $92,301.00 – $97,138.00

Job Description:

Established in 1805, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (the NYC Health Department) is the oldest and largest health department in the country. Our mission is to protect and improve the health of all New Yorkers, in service of a vision of a city in which all New Yorkers can realize their full health potential, regardless of who they are, how old they are, where they are from, or where they live.

As a world-renowned public health agency with a history of building transformative public health programming and infrastructure, innovating in science and scholarship to advance public health knowledge, and responding to urgent public health crises — from New York City’s yellow fever outbreak in 1822, to the COVID-19 pandemic — we are a hub for public health innovation, expertise, and programs, and services. We serve as the population health strategist, and policy, and planning authority for the City of New York, while also having a vast impact on national and international public policy, including programs and services focused on food and nutrition, anti-tobacco support, chronic disease prevention, HIV/AIDS treatment, family and child health, environmental health, mental health, and racial and social justice work, among others.

Our Agency’s five strategic priorities, building off a recently-completed strategic planning process emerging from the COVID-19 emergency, are:

  1. To re-envision how the Health Department prepares for and responds to health emergencies, with a focus on building a “response-ready” organization, with faster decision-making, transparent public communications, and stronger surveillance and bridges to healthcare systems
  2. Address and prevent chronic and diet-related disease, including addressing rising rates of childhood obesity and the impact of diabetes, and transforming our food systems to improve nutrition and enhance access to healthy foods
  3. Address the second pandemic of mental illness including: reducing overdose deaths, strengthening our youth mental health systems, and supporting people with serious mental illness
  4. Reduce black maternal mortality and make New York a model city for women’s health
  5. Mobilize against and combat the health impacts of climate change

Our 7,000-plus team members bring extraordinary diversity to the work of public health. True to our value of equity as a foundational element of all of our work, and a critical foundation to achieving population health impact in New York City, the NYC Health Department has been a leader in recognizing and dismantling racism’s impacts on the health of New Yorkers and beyond. In 2021, the NYC Board of Health declared racism as a public health crisis. With commitment to advance anti-racist public health practices that dismantle systems that perpetuate inequitable power, opportunity and access, the NYC Health Department continues to work in and with communities and community organizations to increase their access to health services and decrease avoidable health outcomes.

Program Description:

The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC DOHMH)’s Bureau of Hepatitis, HIV, and Sexually Transmitted Infections (BHHS) oversees the City’s response to viral hepatitis, HIV, and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Across a range of programs and through extensive collaboration with other parts of NYC DOHMH and external stakeholders, BHHS leads testing initiatives; prevention, care, and treatment programming; epidemiology and surveillance; research and evaluation; training and technical assistance; community engagement; social marketing; policy advocacy; and racial equity and social justice initiatives.  The Viral Hepatitis Program (VHP) conducts surveillance, and develops and implements programs and projects to prevent, manage and treat hepatitis (Hep) B and C in New York City. The Viral Hepatitis Executive Director will oversee all aspects of Hep B/C surveillance, response, community partnerships, and policy initiatives. The Hep C Community Navigation programs work to ensure people vulnerable to Hep C infection can access prevention services, testing, medical care, and curative treatment.

Duties will include but not be limited to:

  • Collaborate with Director of Capacity Building to identify quality improvement strategies and solutions.
  • Oversee the Hep C Community Navigation Program portfolio of 25 contracts with health centers, hospitals, community organizations and syringe service programs.
  • Develop scope of service contracts for funded organizations.
  • Monitor the budgetary and fiscal aspects of Hep C Community Navigation activities, tracking deliverables and approving vouchers.
  • Monitor the implementation of overdose prevention interventions in Hep C navigation programs.
  • Ensure program materials and training tools are up-to-date.
  • Identify resources for Hep screening and linkage to care (e.g., testing programs, free and low-cost care, copay assistance programs, additional funding).
  • Support funded organizations to use surveillance, electronic health record and/or program data, to identify people at risk for Hep C and improve screening, diagnosis, linkage to care and treatment.
  • Ensure that participants are linked to HIV prevention and care as appropriate.
  • Manage up to three staff to coordinate program activities and navigator training as well as develop and track quality improvement plans.
  • Work with the team to evaluate the program.
  • Produce reports for funders and ad hoc requests.
  • Manage the Hep B and C testing and treatment directory and ensure service information is up to date in the NYC Health Map.
  • Serve as a liaison to the Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Use Prevention, Care and Treatment to coordinate program management, technical assistance, and quality improvement.

Minimum Qualification Requirements:

  • For Assignment Level I (only physical, biological and environmental sciences and public health) A master’s degree from an accredited college or university with a specialization in an appropriate field of physical, biological or environmental science or in public health.
  • To be appointed to Assignment Level II and above, candidates must have:
    • A doctorate degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an appropriate field of physical, biological, environmental or social science and one year of full-time experience in a responsible supervisory, administrative or research capacity in the appropriate field of specialization; or
    • A master’s degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an appropriate field of physical, biological, environmental or social science and three years of responsible full-time research experience in the appropriate field of specialization; or
    • Education and/or experience which is equivalent to “1” or “2” above. However, all candidates must have at least a master’s degree in an appropriate field of specialization and at least two years of experience described in “2” above. Two years as a City Research Scientist Level I can be substituted for the experience required in “1” and “2” above.

**Probationary Period – Appointments to this position are subject to a minimum probationary period of one year.

Preferred Skills:

  • Master’s degree from an accredited college or university with a specialization in public health, epidemiology, or a related field.
  • Firm grasp of public health program management.
  • Excellent analytical skills and reasoning.
  • Working knowledge of Salesforce, SAS, and Microsoft Office Applications in preferred.
  • Strong written and oral communication skills.
  • Ability to work both independently and within a team.
  • Knowledge of viral hepatitis, HIV and harm reduction is preferred.
  • Experience supervising staff.

Additional Information:

**IMPORTANT NOTES TO ALL CANDIDATES:

Please note: If you are called for an interview you will be required to bring to your interview copies of original documentation, such as:

  • A document that establishes identity for employment eligibility, such as: A Valid U.S. Passport, Permanent Resident Card/Green Card, or Driver’s license.
  • Proof of Education according to the education requirements of the civil service title.
  • Current Resume
  • Proof of Address/NYC Residency dated within the last 60 days, such as: Recent Utility Bill (i.e. Telephone, Cable, Mobile Phone)

Additional documentation may be required to evaluate your qualification as outlined in this posting’s “Minimum Qualification Requirements” section. Examples of additional documentation may be, but not limited to: college transcript, experience verification or professional trade licenses.

If after your interview you are the selected candidate you will be contacted to schedule an on-boarding appointment. By the time of this appointment you will be asked to produce the originals of the above documents along with your original Social Security card.

**LOAN FORGIVENESS

As a prospective employee of the City of New York, you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs. For more information, please visit the U.S. Department of Education’s website at StudentAid.gov/PSLF.

“FINAL APPOINTMENTS ARE SUBJECT TO OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT & BUDGET APPROVAL”

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Last Updated on July 27, 2023 by HepFree NYC

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