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 Division of Mental Hygiene’s mission is to partner with consumers, families, advocates, and providers to ensure access to high quality services and to improve the lives of New Yorkers with mental health and substance use disorders and those with developmental disabilities. Within the Division of Mental Hygiene. The Bureau of Mental Health’s (BMH) mission is to improve mental health and wellness for people in New York City, and to eliminate racial and other long-standing societal disparities by providing services, resources, and opportunities to New Yorkers that are grounded in accurate, data driven information that foster community participation, thus reducing the stigma around mental health.

The Bureau of Mental Health procures and monitors approximately 500 contracted programs that provide supportive housing, crisis intervention, mental health treatment, care coordination and psychiatric rehabilitation services. Additionally, the Bureau directly operates the City’s court-mandated Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) program and the NYC Supportive Transition and Recovery Team (NYCSTART) for young adults experiencing a first episode psychosis. Lastly, the Bureau evaluates its contracted and directly operated programs to understand their impact and promote quality improvement, conducts population level surveys and behavioral health care system surveillance to identify gaps care and inform decision making, advocacy and policy.

We aim to become an anti-racist government bureau and a more collaborative community partner to our contracted provider agencies by supporting neighborhood resilience, community decision making authority, and community ownership. We’ve started by acknowledging that systemic and structural racism exists in public health and mental health more specifically. Our goal is to address and redress the impact of historical and current discriminatory policies, implicit bias and unjust practices embedded in the mental health system and in our work, decisions, interactions, and priorities.

The Office of Research and Evaluation (ORE) supports Bureau Offices and leadership by conducting surveillance, needs assessment research, program evaluation and reporting, and general research and data support. ORE plays a central role in the development and management of data collection systems and analysis of population-level and program-specific data. In addition, it informs the general public through publications and presentations.


The Research Analyst will:

- Contribute to the planning, development, and implementation of program evaluation activities, research, and surveillance.

- Work collaboratively with program stakeholders to develop key outcomes and indicators to measure implementation and success of program activities.

- Design and conduct analyses of existing program and administrative data (e.g., Medicaid, Department of Corrections) to evaluate program outcomes and processes; employ methods for predictive data analysis using cross-sectional and longitudinal data.

- Clean, recode, and manipulate data and assist in data management efforts through data quality review and thorough documentation of data management decisions.

- Respond rapidly and accurately to internal and external requests for data.

- Effectively present and interpret data findings verbally, in writing and in graphical format to program management, non-technical audiences, and program leadership, advise leadership on limitations and provide actionable recommendations.

- Assist in the writing of technical and research publications and reports on the evaluation of Mental Health programs.

- Conduct literature reviews to inform research questions, analysis design and outcome measures.

- Manage multiple projects and collaborate with other research and program staff.

- Conduct special projects and perform other duties as assigned.

- Incorporate an equity lens throughout all aspects of work.

**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”

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 successful candidate will have 3-5 years full time experience processing, cleaning, manipulating, and analyzing large program or administrative datasets using software such as SAS, R, and SQL. - Competency in the use of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint is needed. - A background and experience with research, program evaluation methodologies, survey development and implementation, and data analysis is preferred. - The candidate will have excellent written and oral communication skills. - The individual will be self-motivated, self-disciplined, and able to work independently. - The candidate will have a strong sense of teamwork and the ability to get along with a wide range of people. - Ability to solve problems and research issues is imperative. - The individual will possess project management skills.

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.