Sr. Director, Digital Data Experience Transformation

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.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Established in 1805, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) 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.

The Center for Population Health Data Science (CPHDS)- launched in November of 2023- aims to catalyze critical data modernization work and enable the agency to make progress toward linking public health, healthcare, and social service for timely and effective public action. We are working towards making these data more accessible, timely, equitable, meaningfully usable, and protected – and actively used to protect and promote the health and wellbeing of New Yorkers.
We aim to strengthen agency wide data capabilities by empowering our workforce, enhancing intra- and inter-agency data sharing, and using modern technology to yield trusted and integrated data and insights. A real-time and comprehensive view of city needs is needed to enhance public health actions and improve health outcomes for the most vulnerable New Yorkers.
This position will be based at the Health Department’s office in Long Island City, NY, with the possibility of hybrid work.

POSITION OVERVIEW
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and visionary leader to oversee the agency's user-centered effort to modernize how data is published and accessed. The person in this role will lead an agency-wide collaborative effort to empower analysts and researchers across divisions to publish program data and insights and align these efforts with the agency’s overarching communications priorities. The Senior Director, Digital Data Experience Transformation will ensure that tools, platforms, and processes enable seamless data publishing while elevating the accessibility and impact of public health insights. The ideal candidate will combine expertise in public health, data visualization, digital communication, design and technology, and project management to create a robust and cohesive online data publishing framework for DOHMH.

RESPONSIBILITIES
Technology and Digital Transformation
• Lead the development and implementation of a scalable, user-centered, self-service platform for publishing public health data and insights.
• Collaborate with IT, data engineering, epidemiologists, and analytics teams to integrate tools with the agency’s enterprise data systems while ensuring security and compliance.
• Drive the adoption of modern data visualization, storytelling, and publication technologies to make insights accessible and actionable for internal and external audiences.
• Oversee the design and development of intuitive user interfaces and workflows for publishing and accessing data.

Enablement and Capacity Building
• Establish and lead an Enablement Unit to provide hands-on support and training for analysts and researchers in publishing data and insights.
• Develop guidelines, toolkits, and workflows that streamline data publishing and ensure alignment with agency communications priorities.
• Foster a culture of collab