The New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) has been advancing the health of people in cities since 1847. An independent organization, NYAM addresses the health challenges facing the world’s urban populations through interdisciplinary approaches to policy leadership, education, community engagement and innovative research. Drawing on the expertise of diverse partners worldwide and more than 2,000 elected Fellows from across the professions, our current priorities are to create environments in cities that support healthy aging; to strengthen systems that prevent disease and promote the public’s health; and to implement interventions that eliminate health disparities.

The Harlem Community & Academic Partnership (HCAP)/Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies (CUES) has an opening for a motivated self-starter with a background and strong interest in community health and public health research and experience managing and creating websites. This person will work as part of a larger team on managing efforts of the HCAP, and approximately 50% of time will be spent managing the Harlem Resource Guide (HRG) website and other HCAP duties.

The Pharm-Link research study is an intervention study among NYC pharmacies who are registered through the Expanded Syringe Access Program (ESAP) to sell syringes to injection drug users (IDUs) without a prescription. Pharm-Link studies train pharmacy staff to provide additional support services to non-prescription syringe customers including social, medical, and HIV testing referrals. Pharm-Link studies will also interview non-prescription IDU syringe customers within the pharmacy and for selected pharmacies HIV testing will be performed. This person will spend approximately 50% of time establishing partnerships with HIV testing sites, creating a web guide for the HRG for pharmacy staff, working with community organizations to raise awareness of the HRG and the progress of ESAP and Pharm-link, data entry, interviewing and grant writing. This position will report to HCAP including its Chair and Principal Investigator and the Pharm-Link project director.

Key Duties and Responsibilities specific to Pharm-Link

• Establish partnerships with HIV testing sites to receive HIV referrals from pharmacies with non-prescription syringe customers
• Develop and train staff, community members and pharmacy staff on a tutorial created for the Harlem Resource Guide
• Perform interviews using the Questionnaire Development System (QDS)
• Perform data entry, data cleaning and basic statistical analyses
• Assist with grant and report writing and submission
• Establish partnerships with HIV testing sites to receive HIV referrals from pharmacies with non-prescription syringe customers
• Develop and train staff, community members and pharmacy staff on a tutorial created for the Harlem Resource Guide
• Perform interviews using the Questionnaire Development System (QDS)
• Perform data entry, data cleaning and basic statistical analyses
• Assist with grant and report writing and submission

Position Requirements

• Have at least 3-5 years experience in community health; community organizing; working with community-based organizations in establishing collaborations and or partnerships; and/or public health research
• Masters of Public Health degree is preferred but not required
• Bilingual in Spanish is preferred but not required.
• Able to conduct focus groups, in-depth interviews, and questionnaire/ survey development
• A demonstrated commitment to social justice and community-based efforts to improve the well-being of urban residents and ability to work with urban populations
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Outstanding interpersonal skills, flexibility and good judgment
• An openness to evolving responsibilities
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks and projects and work independently with given guidelines

Computer Skills

• Web design, execution, deployment, maintenance
• Proficiency in HTML, CSS, Cross-browser standards and familiarity with web accessibility standards
• Knowledge of PowerPoint and Excel
• Familiarity with graphic design software (e.g. Photoshop and Illustrator) and preparation of images for web sites, JavaScript and PHP preferred but not required

To Apply
Qualified candidates should send their resume or CV, cover letter, and examples of websites you’ve worked on by email to: hr@nyam.org. Please include "Project Manager" in your email subject heading.

The New York Academy of Medicine is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer