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 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). Its mission is to improve the lives of New Yorkers by ending transmission, illness, stigma, and inequities related to viral hepatitis, HIV, and STIs. BHHS’s work includes testing initiatives; prevention, care, and treatment programming; epidemiology and surveillance; training and technical assistance; community engagement; social marketing; policy advocacy; and racial equity and social justice initiatives. The Clinical Operations and Technical Assistance (COTA) program works to measure, report on, and improve the quality of prevention and care services delivered to people with HIV (PWH) as well as those vulnerable to contracting HIV. The COTA program engages in a variety of activities including clinical and non-clinical provider trainings, assessment of clinics via site visits and survey assessments, provision of targeted technical assistance (TA), production of resources and presentations on findings and implications, and engagement with internal and external partners. As part of the national plan to End the HIV epidemic (EHE), COTA’s HIV Clinical TA team develops and delivers clinical technical assistance (TA) to NYC-based HIV clinics to strengthen the capacity of the HIV workforce and improve clinical outcomes among PWH in NYC.HIV clinical TA services will involve conducting virtual and in-person visits with clinicians and social service providers across NYC to provide tailored TA on topics such as immediate initiation of antiretroviral therapy (iART), long-acting ART, and any other HIV biomedical interventions.

The TA materials will consist of resources that promote provider learning, clinical implementation and scale up, and client-centered shared decision-making tools. In addition, the HIV Clinical TA team will incorporate Racial Equity and Social Justice principles to ensure our services meet the needs of priority populations (i.e., men who have sex with men of color, women of color, transgender women, youth [ages 13-24], and older PWH). COTA seeks one HIV Clinical Technical Assistance (TA) Specialist to establish strong relationships with clinical and non-clinical NYC based HIV providers and key stakeholders to deliver data-informed technical assistance.

DUTIES WILL INCLUDE BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:

Support the development and overall design of the teams' current long-acting ART TA strategy, utilizing a data-informed, and racial equity and social justice approach to increase awareness and uptake of long-acting ART among HIV clinical providers and PWH.

Develop, pilot and produce technical resource materials for HIV clinics and PWH.

Deliver on-going TA and capacity building assistance to visited agencies, which may entail developing curricula, conducting trainings, developing and/or delivering webinars, facilitating learning communities, making linkages between members of different organizations (peer-to-peer), and conducting routine site visits.

Collaborate with COTA's Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation (PME) team to develop evaluation plans for HIV Clinical TA projects and activities.

Work with Salesforce leads to facilitate the reporting of HIV Clinical TA activities and perform data quality checks on all data entered into Salesforce.

Develop and apply systematic reviews of recently published literature and clinical guidelines to inform the development of TA resources and presentations.

Partner with BHHS Programs to understand current BHHS activities to inform the development of TA activities.

Contribute to annual and semi-annual reports to funders.

Identify and develop opportunities for making contributions to the public health literature by submitting abstracts to national conferences and papers to peer review journals.

Represent and present on current and future HIV bio-medical therapeutics as requested at both internal and external meetings.

Perform ad-hoc duties as may be assigned by supervisor.

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.

Excellent communication skills, including written, oral, and interpersonal. Ability to assess HIV clinical providers' needs, communicate clinical information, and deliver engaging presentations. Outstanding organizational, time and project management skills. Knowledgeable about HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment. A minimum of 3 years of experience in public health project management and implementation. A minimum of 1 year of experience working with clinical and non-clinical providers in a clinical, research, or other health care setting, or equivalent clinical training. Ability to collaborate with subject matter experts and managers in training and TA resource development, delivery and modification. Experience with abstract and manuscript development. Solid working knowledge of MS Office software. Keen attention to detail and ability to handle multiple and diverse assignments efficiently and effectively. Ability to work effectively with a diverse staff of trainer, planners, capacity-building experts, clinicians, program managers, and service providers within the NYC DOHMH and at external agencies, including HRSA. Exceptional relationship-building and influencing skills a plus.

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 https://studentaid.gov/pslf/

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.