ONLY PERMANENT DOHMH EMPLOYEES IN THE TITLE OF ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF ANALYST AND THOSE THAT ARE REACHABLE ON THE CIVIL SERVICE LIST - EXAM # 9536 ARE ELIGIBLE TO APPLY **

The Division of Mental Hygiene’s overarching mission is to advance wellbeing and health equity through public mental health. The division is comprised of six Bureaus and carries out its mission by planning, funding, developing, certifying, and overseeing programs and services designed to meet behavioral health needs and improve the wellbeing of New Yorkers. It monitors the quality of programs under contract to ensure their effectiveness, conducts health promotion, crisis intervention, and training activities, and provides public education to promote the availability of services.
The Bureau of Mental Hygiene Community Engagement, Policy and Practice (CEPP) within the Mental Hygiene Division of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Leads and coordinates cross-cutting divisional policy, practice change, and research to improve and integrate mental health across sectors and settings. CEPP is organized into five offices: five offices including Policy and Planning; Consumer Affairs; Data Aggregation, Translation, and Analytics; Community Engagement and Behavioral Health Office of Emergency Preparedness and Response.
CEPP is hiring for the Director for the Behavioral Health Office of Emergency Preparedness and Response (BH-OEPR) who will be responsible for coordinating all behavioral health emergency management operations and initiatives for DOHMH through the Division of Mental Hygiene.
Under the direction of the Assistant Commissioner for CEPP, the Director of BH-OEPR will support the Office, Bureau, Division, and Agency’s missions as noted in the below job description.

The Behavioral Health Office of Emergency Preparedness Director is a critical position for the department. The Director oversees and coordinates all behavioral health emergency management operations and initiatives for DOHMH through the Division of Mental Hygiene, and serves as the division's representative for disaster planning and decision-making with DOHMH partners, city, state, federal, and the local emergency management community, and oversees the management of the office to include providing supervision to staff and managing administrative functions, such as budgeting, staff HR concerns and labor relations, in partnership with Mental Hygiene Administration.

Using expert judgment, the Director will implement strategies and processes that assess the behavioral health impacts of significant natural or human caused events such as mass casualty, chemical, biological, radiological exposures, flood, fire, bombing, domestic terrorism, or other explosion, civil unrest, major winter storms, or serious utility outage; conduct analysis and develop guidelines, plans and recommendations designed to mitigate the lasting impacts of these events to NYC; develop guidelines and programs to assist behavioral health constituencies with preparation of emergency and continuity of operations planning and provides regular training and briefings to facilitate the planning process; develop, implement, and manage plans as a component of the larger DOHMH emergency response and planning efforts.

Specifically, under the direction of the Assistant Commissioner the BH-OEPR Director will:
- In partnership with the DOHMH Office of Emergency Preparedness and Response, collaborate with city (HRA, DHS, OEM), state (OASAS, OMH, DOH) and federal (FEMA, SAMHSA, CDC) emergency response partners to develop comprehensive emergency plans and protocols to mitigate and respond to the psychological impact of all-hazards.
- Contribute to coordination of the mental health response to all disasters and public health emergencies in New York City.
- Provide direction support and oversight of all office functions. Manage and report on current grant funded deliverables and develop requests for future projects to maintain and/or enhance funding streams.
- Manage and support 5+ staff, including setting goals, strategic planning and staff development.
- Manage and supervise the various emergency response projects overseen by the office (many of which are complex initiatives). Examples include:
- Creating public health emergency plans for NYC DOHMH (both all hazards documents as well as incident specific plans and protocols.
- Collaborating with other partners on the creation of interagency plans, (based on the agency's core competencies in citywide public health emergencies).
- Maintaining and advancing NYC DOHMH Incident Command System (ICS) doctrine.
- Ensure agency plans and protocols:
- Meet the needs of Incident Command System (ICS) leadership.
- Advance the agency's mission for racial equity.
- utilize an evidence-based process.
- Incorporate on-going jurisdictional risk assessments and include the integration of all appropriate partners (including community stakeholders).
- Oversee the development of operational response tools that support the agency's ICS response, including incident specific tools under tight timelines.
- Serve as a key member of the agency's Incident Command System (ICS) structure during public health emergency response events, which may include 24 hour availability and staffing the agency's emergency operations center during emergencies.
- Participate in various meetings at the local, state and federal level, including advocating for NYC DOHMH priorities and providing the NYC perspective as part of national discussions.
- Coordinate with staff across OEPR and DOHMH as needed to assure Sector development is continually informed by the needs of DOHMH.
- Identify and/or create capacity to respond to support the sector's ability to respond to emergencies (e.g Trainings, needs assessment, Sector Response Plan template and others as needed).
- Collaborate with NYC Emergency Management community outreach and Human Service Coordinators to leverage tools and services to support DOHMH planning for persons with disabilities and access and functional needs.
- Design and organize events to build social capital through community engagement events and leveraging DOHMH existing community partners.
- Other Duties and Emergency Response Activities: Provide needed response during emergency activation periods Serves as On-Call Administrator for agency on rotation basis Serve as a key member of the DOHMH Incident Command Structure as a Liaison officer. Work on special projects as determined by Assistant Commissioner or Executive Deputy Commissioner.

The BH-OEPR Director will possess technical and substantive knowledge of community disaster preparedness, response, and recovery; a demonstrated ability to remain calm under pressure; excellent critical thinking, organizational, strategic planning, and problem-solving skills. Strong communication skills. The flexibility to make quick decisions as disasters change and develop.

1. A master's degree from an accredited college in economics, finance, accounting, business or public administration, human resources management, management science, operations research, organizational behavior, industrial psychology, statistics, personnel administration, labor relations, psychology, sociology, human resources development, political science, urban studies or a closely related field, and two years of satisfactory full-time professional experience in one or a combination of the following: working with the budget of a large public or private concern in budget administration, accounting, economic or financial administration, or fiscal or economic research; in management or methods analysis, operations research, organizational research or program evaluation; in personnel or public administration, recruitment, position classification, personnel relations, employee benefits, staff development, employment program planning/administration, labor market research, economic planning, social services program planning/evaluation, or fiscal management; or in a related area. 18 months of this experience must have been in an executive, managerial, administrative or supervisory capacity. Supervision must have included supervising staff performing professional work in the areas described above; or

2. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and four years of professional experience in the areas described in "1" above, including the 18 months of executive, managerial, administrative or supervisory experience, as described in "1" above.

- Outstanding judgement and an ability to navigate politically charged and sensitive issues with high emotional intelligence. - Excellent written and oral communication abilities and strong presentation skills. - Ability to synthesize and explain complex processes to inform policy decisions for leadership. - Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills and project management. - Ability to multi-task and coordinate multiple simultaneous priorities under pressure with very tight deadlines. - Excellent ability to manage the process of project identification, creation and closeout while fulfilling overarching goals, juggling competing priorities, and staying within resource constraints. - Experience managing, supervising and developing staff, including an ability to mentor staff and teach project management principles. - The ability to work well within a diverse team, foster relationships with colleagues (inside and outside NYC DOHMH). - Experience in public health preparedness, emergency management, and/or a related sector is desirable. - Professional working knowledge of and experience with public health emergency preparedness protocol development and implementation preferred. - Proven experience conducting public health emergency preparedness planning and implementation within an Incident Command System (ICS) framework (ICS 100, ICS 200, ICS 300, ICS 400, ICS 700 and ICS 800) preferred. - Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and web-based technologies. - Prior professional working experience New York City agencies. - Bachelor's degree in emergency management, public safety, or a related field. - A minimum of 3 years of experience in emergency management. - Certification from the International Association of Emergency Managers may be advantageous.

New York City residency is generally required within 90 days of appointment. However, City Employees in certain titles who have worked for the City for 2 continuous years may also be eligible to reside in Nassau, Suffolk, Putnam, Westchester, Rockland, or Orange County. To determine if the residency requirement applies to you, please discuss with the agency representative at the time of interview.

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.