Research, Epidemiology and Program Evaluation Specialist

Position Title: Research, Epidemiology and Program Evaluation Specialist (Office of Program Evaluation and Research)

Compensation: $31.25-$33.65/hour at 37.5 hours per week

Position End Date: 9/30/2031

Location: New York State Department of Health (hybrid – Albany, NY area)

About the CDC Foundation

The CDC Foundation helps the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) save and improve lives by unleashing the power of collaboration between CDC, philanthropies, corporations, organizations, and individuals to protect the health, safety and security of America and the world. The CDC Foundation is the sole entity authorized by Congress to mobilize philanthropic partners and private-sector resources to support CDC’s critical health protection mission. Since 1995, the CDC Foundation has launched approximately 1,000 programs and raised over $740 million. The CDC Foundation managed over 300 CDC-led programs in the United States and in more than 130 countries last year.

Overview:

The CDC Foundation is seeking a Research, Epidemiology and Program Evaluation Specialist to support the New York State Department of Health. Under the direction of the New York State Department of Health, contracted staff will perform epidemiologic, other data-related investigatory services and program evaluation assistance related to the Governor’s Ending the Epidemic Initiative, the AIDS Institute Research Agenda and AIDS Institute Priority Areas.

Required Qualifications:

• A bachelor’s degree with a minimum of nine (9) semester hours of mathematics or statistics; and a minimum of two (2) years of research, evaluation, or epidemiologic experience OR a Master’s degree in public health or a related field and a minimum of one (1) year of research, evaluation or epidemiologic experience.

• Experience working with relational databases, SQL Programming, SAS, SPSS, R or other statistical software.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in the development, implementation, collection, processing and analysis of AIDS Institute maintained databases, including HIV surveillance data and AIDS Institute Reporting System (AIRS) data.
• Serve as a “data-related liaison” between the AIDS Institute’s surveillance staff, AI program staff including contract managers, and external collaborators (e.g., Department of Corrections and Community Supervision staff, OASAS staff, and other key collaborators), to ensure appropriate coordination and management of data associated with Ending the Epidemic (ETE) programming.
• Facilitate the use of AIDS Institute maintained databases for programmatic purposes consistent with the ETE Initiative (e.g., conduct searches within the New York State HIV surveillance data for patients thought to have fallen out of HIV-related medical care and use this information to generate field assignments to link out-of-care persons back to HIV related medical care).
• Participate in data-driven continuous quality improvement activities designed to improve the quality of HIV ETE-related programming, including (but not limited to), targeted and routine HIV testing, linkage to prevention and care, treatment adherence and viral load suppression.
• Assist with the development of SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Time-bound) objectives, key variable measurements, and evaluation planning for new ETE programming.
• Provide data driven decision making technical assistance related to priority ETE initiatives.
• Provide support and technical assistance in the development and modification of the tools, the ETE Dashboard and other mechanisms for measuring ETE progress.

Special Notes:

This role is involved in a dynamic public health program. As such, roles and responsibilities are subject to change as situations evolve. Roles and responsibilities listed above may be expanded upon or updated to match priorities and needs, once written approval is received by both the CDC Foundation and New York State Department of Health in order to best support the New York State Department of Health in their public health programming.

This position is currently a hybrid position. CDC Foundation retains the right to make adjustments to this as required.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, mental or physical disabilities, veteran status, and all other characteristics protected by law. We comply with all applicable laws including E.O. 11246 and the Vietnam Era Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 governing employment practices and do not discriminate on the basis of any unlawful criteria in accordance with 41 C.F.R. §§ 60-300.5(a)(12) and 60-741.5(a)(7). As a federal government contractor, we take affirmative action on behalf of protected veterans.

The CDC Foundation is a smoke-free environment.

Relocation expenses are not included.