Senior Program Officer, Health Equity & Research Leadership

New York Academy of Medicine; New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO

Health insurance

Retirement matching

Job summary

New York Academy of Medicine is seeking a Senior Program Officer to lead and support a broad range of research, evaluation, and related activities. The role covers large, mixed-methods studies and collaboration across topics aligned with public health, aging, maternal health, and climate health.

The Senior Program Officer will help develop and submit proposals, build capacity tools, and expand offerings through technical assistance, trainings, and digital products.

Qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in public health, health sciences, policy or public administration, social work, data science, or related field.
• Experience planning, collecting, and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data, including focus groups and interviews.
• Experience in project management and coordinating across multiple stakeholders, including funders, partners, and government agencies.
• Exceptional writing, communication, and analytical skills, with the ability to translate findings for various audiences.
• A demonstrated commitment to population health and health equity, with an understanding of upstream drivers of health.
• Experience supporting grant proposal submission and management activities.

Responsibilities

• Identifies funding opportunities and develops funding proposals to government and private funders.
• Develops, designs, and manages projects and activities related to research, evaluation, technical assistance, and product development, including supervision, training and coordination of project teams, as necessary.
• Conducts mixed methods research, which includes overseeing data collection (e.g., community surveys, focus groups, qualitative interviews) and leading qualitative and quantitative data analysis and reporting.
• Develops reports, manuscripts, presentations and other materials describing study methodology and findings, for dissemination to diverse audiences. Presents findings to study participants, partners and other stakeholders.
• Provides training and technical assistance to diverse community partners.
• Supports development of digital and AI-enabled products to enhance technical assistance efforts.
• Represents NYAM on workgroups, at conferences, and at other events.
• Fosters collaborative relationships with partners, funders, and others as needed and assigned.
• Supervise project staff, as requested.

Skills

Research design

Mixed-methods analysis

Grant writing

Communication skills

Stakeholder coordination

Education

Master's degree or PhD in public health or related field

Tools

Qualtrics

QuestionPro

R

Stata

SPSS

NVivo

Dedoose

EndNote

Job description

New York Academy of Medicine is seeking a Senior Program Officer to lead and support a broad range of research, evaluation, and related activities. The role covers large, mixed-methods studies and collaboration across topics aligned with public health, aging, maternal health, and climate health.

The Senior Program Officer will help develop and submit proposals, build capacity tools, and expand offerings through technical assistance, trainings, and digital products.