Job Description

As of August 2, 2021, all new hires must be vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus, unless they have been granted a reasonable accommodation for religion or disability. If you are offered city employment, this requirement must be met by your date of hire, unless a reasonable accommodation for exemption is received and approved by the hiring agency.

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 NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (Health Department) is seeking an Executive Director for Programs and Operations (EDPO) to assist the Executive Deputy Commissioner (EDC) with strategic management, oversight of the Division of Mental Hygiene (MHy). The EDPO will work with the EDC and leadership to leverage and design systems to collect and use program data, budgetary data, population data, and human resources data to drive strategic decision-making and implementation of new initiatives.

• Lead and supervise team responsible for: managing and overseeing EDC Office scheduling, management, meeting planning, programmatic reporting, and special requests and ad hoc projects; manage the and support and coordination of to evaluate and improve initiatives and performance; Support cross divisional research, survey, program evaluation, and public health surveillance initiatives.

• Manage and support Divisional special initiatives by helping set appropriate goals, research- and data-informed programmatic interventions, implementation and operations approaches, data collection and evaluation strategies, and timelines, and by assuring deadlines and goals are met.

• Provide support and data- and research-informed guidance to the EDC on strategic initiatives, operations, organizational change, and setting, evaluating achieving programmatic priorities

• Collaborate with, lead, and counsel Divisional leadership on planning, implementation, troubleshooting, data collection, evaluation, and timely reporting on programs and new initiatives

• Support planning, implementation and evaluation of Divisional policies, programs, and procedures related to scientific research, programs, epidemiological surveillance, policy, and other initiatives

• Work with the EDC and Divisional leadership initiatives to review and recommend new policies and procedures and government regulations based on literature reviews, data collection and interpretation.

• Help implement within the EDC Office and across the Division the development, implementation, and evaluation of data and research-informed strategies to embed and advance racial justice and health equity in work and the workplace

• Serve as point of contact and liaison to the EDC and Divisional leadership for external partners; triage communications from within the Division, Agency, City, and community organizations; and represent the EDC and Division in internal and external meetings

• Oversee the development and dissemination of intra- and inter-divisional communications from the EDC

• Aid in developing presentations, speeches, and briefing materials for EDC use with elected officials and key stakeholders

• Support EDC in implementation of standardized practices and processes across the Division, including around research, evaluation, and monitoring, program design and implementation, policy analysis and recommendations, and HR, budget, and management/operations.

• Assist with hiring and personnel matters

Qualifications

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.

Additional Information

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.