Director of Strategic Communications and Partnerships, Bureau of Communicable Diseases

Responsibilities

• Strategic Communications:
• Develop and implement communication strategies to disseminate critical public health information effectively.
• Create data visualizations and reports to effectively communicate communicable disease information to a wide variety of audiences from the public to providers.
• Community Outreach and Partnerships:
• Supervise the Community Outreach and Health Education team.
• Coordinate community outreach activities to promote awareness and prevention of communicable diseases and work closely with subject matter experts to develop a strategy for health education
• Build and maintain partnerships with other government agencies, community organizations, laboratories and other stakeholders of communicable disease control in NYC.
• Emergency preparedness and response:
• Formulate and review policies related to communicable diseases, emergency response and outbreak resilience to ensure alignment with public health goals.
• Collaborate with colleagues engaged in emergency planning at the Division of Disease Control and with the Division of Emergency Preparedness on communicable disease emergency planning.

Requirements

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience in community outreach and engagement, emergency planning and response, programmatic policy development, and program evaluation.
• Proficiency in data visualization tools and techniques.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate, lead and manage teams effectively

Benefits

• Loan Forgiveness: As a prospective employee of the City of New York, you may be eligible for federal/state loan forgiveness and repayment assistance programs that lessen your payments or even fully forgive your full balance. For more information, please visit the U.S. Department of Education’s website (https://studentaid.gov/pslf/)
• Benefits: City employees are entitled to unmatched benefits such as:
• o a premium-free health insurance plan that saves employees over $10K annually, per a 2024 assessment.
• o additional health, fitness, and financial benefits may be available based on the position’s associated union/benefit fund.
• o a public sector defined benefit pension plan with steady monthly payments in retirement.
• o a tax-deferred savings program and
• o a robust Worksite Wellness Program that offers resources and opportunities to keep you healthy while serving New Yorkers.
• Work From Home Policy: Depending on your position, you may be able to work up to two days during the week from home.
• Job Security - you could enjoy more job security compared to private sector employment and be able to contribute to making NYC a healthy place to live and work.