Manager, Hepatitis

Company Description

NASTAD is a leading non-partisan, non-profit association that represents public health officials who administer HIV and hepatitis programs in the U.S. Our mission is to advance the health and dignity of people living with and impacted by HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, and intersecting epidemics by strengthening governmental public health systems and leveraging community partnerships. Our vision is a world committed to ending HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, and intersecting epidemics.

Our work advances NASTAD’s four strategic priorities: 1) Strengthen public health systems for HIV and hepatitis prevention, surveillance, and care; 2) Advance health and racial equity, and stigma elimination, focusing on disparately impacted communities; 3) Implement integrated approaches to address HIV, hepatitis, STIs, harm reduction, and the social determinants of health; 4) Strengthen organizational excellence within NASTAD and its member jurisdictions.

NASTAD employs a diverse team of passionate staff with deep expertise in HIV and hepatitis public health. We center racial justice, anti-racism, and anti-white supremacist principles as we approach and conduct our work.

Job Description

The Manager, Hepatitis supports and builds the capacity of public health practitioners to implement viral hepatitis prevention and surveillance activities within their jurisdictions. This role provides subject matter expertise and technical support on implementing surveillance and prevention activities in health departments and other public health settings through a health equity lens and with a focus on centering people with lived experience, especially Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) and LGBQTIA+ communities. This role will support NASTAD’s Hepatitis portfolio, ensuring that the program provides robust technical assistance support in alignment with NASTAD’s mission and vision and supporting the implementation of activities outlined by the CDC and other scopes of work.  

Essential Duties

• Manage the scope of work outlined in federally funded cooperative agreements and other grants ensuring outputs and outcomes are met within the specific period.
• In collaboration with the Hepatitis team, respond to technical assistance (TA) requests from governmental hepatitis program staff and their partners to improve viral hepatitis (and related syndemics) surveillance and prevention activities with a health equity lens.
• Develop technical resources and guidance to help health departments expand viral hepatitis surveillance and prevention activities. Collaborate with NASTAD teams and external partners on coalition building, centering people with lived experience, etc.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with key external partners and participate in inter-agency meetings to advance grant and cooperative agreement activities and deliverables. 
• Execute project monitoring, reporting, evaluation, and learning activities, independently and in collaboration with team members.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

• Demonstrated technical expertise with hepatitis health department programs including surveillance, prevention, perinatal, and immunization activities.
• Knowledge of drug user health, harm reduction, or syringe service programs is preferred.
• Strong analytical, organizational, written, verbal, and communications skills.

Experience/Education 

• Bachelor’s degree or any equivalent combination of training, education, and experience that demonstrates the candidate’s ability to perform the position’s duties.
• 6 years of progressively responsible and related work experience is preferred. 
• Experience working with epidemiologic or health systems data (including surveillance systems, clinical data registries, electronic health records, insurance claims data, laboratory data, and/or encounter data) is strongly preferred.
• Experience developing public health capacity-building activities or curriculum, and/or providing technical assistance implementing HIV, hepatitis, immunization, perinatal, and/or harm reduction activities is strongly preferred. 
• Experience working with federal funders (CDC, HRSA, SAMHSA) is strongly preferred.
• Individuals living with or affected by viral hepatitis and/or liver disease are encouraged to apply.

Competencies 

• Leadership – Integrates in their work and at the team level a strategic vision and critical analysis that optimizes success for projects, staff, and organizational priorities as applicable.
• Communications – Strategically communicates internally and externally in a transparent, concise, respectful, and trauma-informed manner; simplifi