Project Data Evaluation Manager - NYC Office of School Health

The Office of School Health (OSH) is a joint Program of the NYC Public Schools (NYCPS) and the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) responsible for promoting the health of the 1 million school children enrolled in approximately 1,800 public and non-public schools in the New York City. OSH has health records on all these students and collects vital health and wellness information in the Automated Student Health Record System.

The Office of School Health has a Bureau of 2,000 employees. The OSH consists of several programs: Nursing, Vision, Medical, Mental Health, Adolescent Health, Oral Health, Operations and The Management Information System (MIS) program.

The MIS (Management Information Systems) program is responsible for all program’s IT applications used by the Bureau. Applications are developed and maintained by our internal development team and data is stored using Microsoft SQL server. Current production applications are under constant improvement and new applications are developed based on business needs. Data quality, data integrity and evolution of process controls require improvement, oversight, and adherence. The nursing program tracker logs vendor nurse coverages in schools when there are vacancies and call outs.

Position Summary: Under the direction of the MIS Director and Application Development Deputy Director, the Project Data Evaluation Manager will focus on laying groundwork for data exchange systems using FHIR and providing scripting solutions and conducting research on student clinical data. The Project Data Evaluation Manager will work with team members using ASP.Net C# to manage health information and systems. Performs related work

Reports to: Director, OSH MIS

Direct Reports: DCAS Fellow, interns and consultants.

Key Relationships: School Health Nursing program, Medical program and DIIT.

Responsibilities

• Develop FHIR data exchange system and resource format for the current OSH EMR database.
• Engage with external hospital and clinical systems on data research concerning NYCPS students and engaging in data share solutions.
• Conduct quantitative research using scripting tools.
• Document specifications on related research projects.
• Participate as needed with data architecture and design of clinical data into an RDBMS.
• Collaborate with program evaluator on solution projects to review solution efficacy.
• Conduct research analysis on clinical data for improvement of systems.
• Collaborate with OSH Research and Analytics unit on research projects.
• Innovate, create, and improve the research and data capabilities of the unit.
• Ability to create specifications based on use cases to meet the needs of the health programs.
• Interface with development team members for programming instruction, best practices, data structure evaluation and code review
• Collaborate with DBA and generate reports highlighting research outcomes using PowerBI or SSRS.
• Generate research and analytical reports as needed.
• Manage clinical data research initiatives.
• Manage junior SQL DBA on data administration.
• Manage stored procedures on data exchanges and automation processes.
• Manage FHIR data exchange development projects.

Qualification Requirements:

Minimum

1. A doctorate degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an appropriate field of physical, biological, environmental or social science and one year of full-time experience in a responsible supervisory, administrative or research capacity in the appropriate field of specialization; or
2. A master's degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an appropriate field of physical, biological, environmental or social science and three years of responsible full-time research experience in the appropriate field of specialization; or
3. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to "1" or "2" above. However, all candidates must have at least a master's degree in an appropriate field of specialization and at least two years of experience described in "2" above. Two years as a City Research Scientist Level I can be substituted for the experience required in "1" and "2" above. 

Preferred

• A minimum of 3 years’ experience ASP.Net and C#.
• Experience in Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources.
• Experience with Database management systems.
• Experience with SQL stored procedures.
• Quantitative and qualitative analytic skills.
• Experience with GIS solutions.

Salary: $109,330 - $124,935 

Interested Candidates should make sure they apply officially through the DOE's hiring website.

Salary : $109,330 - $124,935