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 AND JOB DESCRIPTION:

The Bureau of Vital Statistics (BVS) registers, amends, processes, and analyzes all vital events in New York City while also issuing certified copies of certificates to the public. Vital events include births, death, and spontaneous and induced terminations of pregnancy. Data Privacy Officer manages data sharing governance and customer service for the Bureau, which creates and executes data governance agreements for over 40 external data users each year and over 15 internal Health Department programs. In addition, it maintains numerous long-term agreements with other City, State, and Federal agencies. Provision of data is a key function of BVS and ensuring that data is shared properly and in a timely fashion is critical to its role in supporting public health. Numerous public health surveillance systems and programs, including the Citywide Immunization Registry, the Early Intervention Program, and the National Violent Death Reporting System rely on BVS data for their work.

DUTIES WILL INCLUDE BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:

- Manage intake and execution of all data use agreements in the Bureau of Vital Statistics (BVS).
- Ensure proper data sharing governance of all vital event data shared by the Bureau of Vital Statistics.
- Ensure timely, accurate and concise communications with all customers on BVS policy, operations and progress of requests.
- Manage all documentation associated with requests, e.g. Data Use Agreements, IRB approvals, etc.) and correspondence to ensure timely and accurate processing of data requests.
- Manage workflow of each data request by liaising with Bureau leadership and other agency partners on data request progress, delays/barriers to processing data requests, updates/inquiries, concerns, questions, disclosure permissions, etc.
- Negotiate and confirm feasibility, data availability and any logistics of data provision with Statistical, Analysis and Reporting unit to assist with defining and preparing data deliverable prior to assigning to Unit. Document progress and communications in eform request.
- Review data requests in the context of DOHMH priorities and research agendas and document results.
- Create reports that communicate the vision and implementation data collaborations in the Bureau of Vital Statistics.
- Develop business requirements for technology solutions that support efficient, easy-to-use management of Bureau data requests.
- Plan meetings, develop agendas, project plans, and manage opportunities to create collaborations with BVS analysts and other agency partners.
- Deliver excellent and professional customer service with general public, DOHMH staff and external agencies.


NOTE: This position may be eligible for remote work up to two days per week, pursuant to the Remote Work Pilot Program agreed to between the City and DC37.

1. 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:
1. 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
2. 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
3. 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.

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

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.