Senior Project Officer, Bureau of Hepatitis, HIV, and STI

Job Description

The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC DOHMH)’s Bureau of Hepatitis, HIV, and Sexually Transmitted Infections (BHHS) oversees the City’s response to viral hepatitis, HIV, and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Across a range of programs and through extensive collaboration with other parts of NYC DOHMH and external stakeholders, BHHS leads testing initiatives; prevention, care, and treatment programming; epidemiology and surveillance; research and evaluation; training and technical assistance; community engagement; social marketing; policy advocacy; and racial equity and social justice initiatives. BHHS has an opening fora Senior Project Officer who will play an important role in the NYC Health Department’s HIV testing and prevention initiative, New York Knows. New York Knows seeks to make HIV testing, with referral to care and prevention services, an integral part of the lives of all New Yorkers, while also promoting testing and screening for Hepatitis C and other sexually transmitted infections (STI).

The project officer will engage and collaborate with organizations, health care facilities, community-based organizations, faith-based organizations and businesses to reach the goals of the initiative. The project officer will also provide technical assistance to partner agencies related to HIV testing and prevention. In addition, the project officer will also manage the Free Test Kits Program and participate in activities related to management of PHPC HIV testing records within Salesforce and additional projects for the HIV Planning Group (HPG),as needed. New York Knows re-launched its successful collaborative initiative in 2019 following the success of its first five years. Since 2008, the Health Department has engaged community partners through the Bronx, Brooklyn, and New York Knows program to promote HIV testing, prevention, and linkage to care. In 2020, NYK began to incorporate Hepatitis C and STIs into its efforts, which aligns with the recent merger and creation of the Bureau of Hepatitis, HIV, and STIs (BHHS).

DUTIES WILL INCLUDE BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:
Lead a borough coalition to convene community partners to discuss HIV and other prevention services.
Lead ad hoc coalitions as identified by community to develop HIV prevention strategies for priority populations.
Establish and maintain working relationships with New York Knows community partners.
Coordinate, in collaboration with other project officers, the planning and execution of workshops and meetings for community partners.
Coordinate community testing events with other project officers and community partners.
Coordinate with the Prevention Research and Evaluation Unit to support the monitoring and evaluation of the initiative, including data collection and analysis, as well as event and programmatic evaluation.
Provide technical assistance and coordinate trainings to community partners on HIV testing, linking people living with HIV to care, and linking those who test negative for HIV to prevention services, as well as on Hepatitis C and STI screening and testing.
Collaborate with community partners to collect initiative data, including aggregate testing data, data from outreach events, and evaluation data from meetings and workshops.
Support and guide community partners in implementing prevention and testing programs and events.
Lead, plan, and manage the Free Test Kits Program, including monitoring and evaluating the impact of the initiative.
Oversee monitoring of Free Test Kit Program partner data, ensuring complete and timely reporting.
Support Free Test Kit Program partners in applying quality management approaches to assess and improve program services; and Work with Research and Evaluation Unit to assess the performance of Free Test Kit Program partners and provide performance feedback to them.
Serve as the HIV Prevention Partnerships lead in internal and external projects related to data management of HIV testing records, specifically in regard to Open Data and PHPC.
Participate in projects related to The HIV Planning Group, as needed.

PREFERRED SKILLS:
The candidate should have strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to work with a variety of people including healthcare providers, faith leaders, and community members.
Professional working knowledge relating to HIV/AIDS and the history of the epidemic, epidemiological profile,
transmission, prevention treatment, and associated socio political issues, with specific expertise around women.
Candidates should have experience working with contracted agencies and providing capacity building assistance.
Candidate should be highly organized, with the ability to work on multiple projects concurrently.
Candidate should exhibit proficiency in Word, Excel, and Access. Experience with Salesforce is also highly encouraged.
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