Director, Injury and Violence Prevention Program, Bureau of Environmental Disease and Injury Pr[...]

Energy Vault; New York (NY); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading public health department seeks a Health Services Manager to enhance injury and violence prevention initiatives in NYC. The role involves analytic oversight, staff management, and collaboration with stakeholders for health improvement. Candidates should have a strong background in public health, leadership, and data analysis.

Benefits

Loan forgiveness options

Comprehensive health insurance

Pension and savings plans

Work-from-home flexibility

Qualifications

• Experience in injury epidemiology and public health required.
• Strong skills in team leadership and project management.
• Proficiency in statistics and data analysis tools like SAS, STATA, and R.

Responsibilities

• Oversee analytic priorities for injury prevention projects.
• Expand the traffic safety portfolio through programmatic efforts.
• Manage staffing and budgets for grants and programs.

Skills

Injury epidemiology

Project management

Data manipulation

Statistics

Interpersonal skills

Education

PhD in epidemiology or related field

Tools

SAS

STATA

R

Job description

Job Description

OPEN TO PERMANENT HEALTH SERVICES MANAGERS.

The Injury and Violence Prevention Program (IVPP) monitors injury and violence in New York City, identifies at-risk populations, disseminates data, and provides technical assistance on prevention policies and programs related to traffic injuries, interpersonal violence, suicide, falls among older adults, and child injuries.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

1. Expanding the traffic safety portfolio through programmatic and analytic efforts.
2. Planning and managing tasks aligned with SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and timely) goals.
3. Overseeing analytic priorities, plans, and products for injury prevention projects.
4. Supervising staff, guiding analytic work, providing feedback, and fostering professional development.
5. Ensuring data acquisition, protection, management, analysis, and communication standards are met.
6. Supporting surveillance projects, managing large datasets, data cleaning, and analysis.
7. Developing data products for dissemination and presenting findings to stakeholders.
8. Managing staffing and spending plans for grants and programs.
9. Identifying research opportunities to inform policy and program priorities.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience in injury epidemiology and public health.
• Project management and team leadership skills.
• Proficiency in statistics and data manipulation tools (SAS, STATA, R).
• Strong report and presentation skills with Microsoft Office.
• Ability to interpret epidemiologic data and scientific literature.
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Experience managing staff and research projects.
• Knowledge of injury and violence as public health issues.
• PhD in epidemiology or related field preferred.

Benefits:

• Loan forgiveness options.
• Comprehensive health insurance, pension, and savings plans.
• Work-from-home flexibility, depending on position.
• Job security and the opportunity to impact NYC's public health.

Join the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the oldest and largest health department in the U.S., dedicated to protecting and improving NYC residents' health.

The department is committed to diversity and equal opportunity. For accommodation requests, contact Sye-Eun Ahn at [emailprotected] or 347-396-6549.

Foreign-educated applicants must have their education evaluated for U.S. equivalence.