Senior Program Coordinator

Job Title: Senior Program Coordinator
Department: Capacity Building Team
Division: Center for Health Equity and Community Wellness (CHECWELL)
Bureau: Brooklyn Neighborhood Health
Location: 485 Throop Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11221
Reports to Title: Director of Program
Direct Reports Title(s): Interns
Schedule & Hours: Monday - Friday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Workplace Flexibility Modality: Hybrid work schedule,35 hours per week
Work Environment: Office Environment
Grant End Date: June 30th, 2026
Created Date:11/3/2025
Revised Date: 11/17/2025
Salary: $85,000 - $90,000
FLSA Classification: Exempt

Who We Are:
The Fund for Public Health in New York City (FPHNYC) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that is dedicated to the advancement of the health and well-being of all New Yorkers. To this end, in partnership with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), FPHNYC incubates innovative public health initiatives implemented by DOHMH to advance community health throughout the city. It facilitates partnerships, often new and unconventional, between government and the private sector to develop, test, and launch new initiatives. These collaborations speed the execution of demonstration projects, effect expansion of successful pilot programs, and support rapid implementation to meet the public health needs of individuals, families, and communities across New York City.
Our Culture:
We embrace a culture of learning, collaboration, innovation, and well-being, where open communication drives our impact.
About The Role:
DOHMH is seeking a Senior Program Coordinator to support the Neighborhood Diabetes Health Equity Initiative. This position will be part of the Brooklyn Health Equity and Capacity Building team. Our work is aimed at closing the premature mortality gap caused by uncontrolled diabetes in the neighborhoods of our catchment area (Bedford-Stuyvesant, Bushwick, East New York, and Brownsville). We aim to achieve this by increasing the number of evidence-based diabetes self-management classes offered and ensuring that all community residents are aware of where they might access a diabetes class.

The Senior Program Coordinator will support the establishment of a place-based approach to by working closely with the Program Manager and Director to identify develop systems to efficiently coordinate and track community engagement work. The role will be a combination of direct interfacing with community members—including promotion of classes and conducting street surveys-- as well as using technological tools to support program management and evaluation. There will be opportunities for the Senior Program Coordinator to be trained to facilitate classes as well.

About the Program:

This role sits in the Bureau of Brooklyn Neighborhood Health in the Center for Health Equity & Community Wellness (CHECW), which seeks to eliminate racial and other inequities resulting in premature mortality. With an unwavering grounding in history and structural analysis, CHECW works to increase visibility of the harm perpetuated by centuries of racist, socially unjust policy while pushing towards redress for the most impacted NYC communities. CHECW addresses inequity across community and healthcare systems in partnership with community, faith-based, and healthcare organizations. CHECW’s work focuses on social determinants of health, including environmental and commercial determinants, and addresses both upstream and downstream factors to improve the health and well-being of New Yorkers. CHECW is a division of the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Responsibilities:
Community Engagement:
• In collaboration with the Program Manager, design an outreach plan using a place-based approach. This include executing Shop Talk, a program in which bodegas, barbershops, hair salons and laundromats are systematically canvassed to provide public health information.
• Work with local clinics to direct patients with diabetes to self-management classes offered by the health department and our partners.
• Direct community engagement including supporting class facilitation, surveying community residents and leaders as needed, assisting with planning and executing health awareness and promotion activities in diverse settings (some evening and weekend work required).
Program Management:
• Support the development, and implementation of a community engagement strategy focused on leveraging community-based organizations/stakeholders to address factors contributing to chronic disease, i.e. diabetes, hypertension, mental health, social service needs, COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, and delayed cancer screening.
• Collaborate with Bureau of Equitable Health Systems, Bureau of Health Equity and Capacity Building and Bureaus of Neighborhood Health (Harlem, Brooklyn and Bronx) leadership to a