Job Title:  Project and Data Evaluation Manager 

Civil Service Title: City Research Scientist level III   $109,330 - $124,935  

PROGRAM OVERVIEW  
The Office of School Health (OSH) is a joint Program of the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene responsible for promoting the health of the 1.2 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 is 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 clinical and operation systems involving supporting of school aged students and primary health related data, and operations involved in supporting school medical rooms and clinical initiatives.  Systems need to be evaluated to ensure data models developed and maintained by our internal development team reflect the program needs.  The PDEM will work closely with the Research and Analytics program research of health-related initiatives using clinical data, and with various school health programs to assist with evaluating the systems meet the needs of the program.  The programs involved are vision screening, oral health, medical and nursing.   The PDEM will be involved with data initiatives to receive health data from Health organizations and collaborate with DOE on special education initiatives.  The PDEM will participate in pre-planning, research, and analysis to develop the data model and structures and will conduct post implementation analysis to ensure the health information received is accurate and properly defined in our system.  The PDEM will conduct evaluate health data to ensure the systems are functioning as intended and will research and identify process issues, provide oversite, and suggest changes for improvement. 

The project and data evaluation manager will participate in new initiatives and to conduct research and analysis to evaluate implementation and system effectiveness. The PDEM will document specifications and evaluation results, generate research and analysis reports and participate with refining and documenting specifications and program requirements. 

POSITION OVERVIEW 

Under the direction of the MIS Director, the Project and Data Evaluation Manager (PDEM) will evaluate models of clinical systems, evaluate data and work with the Development team to create new systems and evaluate current systems.  The PDEM will conduct research and analysis to improve data models and engage in post-production evaluation.  The PDEM under guidance of the MIS Director will work with various school health programs to evaluate the efficiency, efficacy of systems to ensure processes are being followed and systems meet the needs of the programs. The PEDM will work school based and adolescent clinical data and databases and evaluate processes and recommend improvement changes.  The PDEM will conduct research and analysis on data and systems to ensure they meet the needs of the dept. 

The PDEM position requires strong data analytical skills and use of analytical tools. Preferred candidates have a strong background in scientific based data analysis, understanding of data models, ability to manipulate data with SQL, SAS, Python or other data scientist tools and understanding of databases.  Experience with large data sets and project implementation is required. 

Responsibilities will include but not be limited to:  

• Review, update, and implement evaluation plans for health systems and supporting auxiliary systems. 

• Ability to explain and communicate to program staff and advocate consistent and correct application of health systems. 

• Review data models and program needs are aligned to health systems. 

• Develop and oversee evaluation, assist development unit on implementing effective data collection, monitoring, and reporting systems.   

• Test systems to evaluate accuracy and effectivity. 

• Coordinate data collection to downstream program staff and communicate data management issues upstream. 

• Generate specifications, process and system diagrams. 

• Analyze and interpret data and statistics, using advanced statistical procedures, depending on analytical needs. 

• Quickly synthesize and summarize information on systems to monitor performance and effectivity.  

• Demonstrate program efficacy and accountability and identify best program practices.  

• Conduct research and analysis to evaluate processes and recommend improvement. 

• Conduct analysis to identify system deficiencies. 

• Work with various programs to improve student health data quality and suggest new enforcement and monitoring process as needed.  

• Serve as a key member to improve clinical systems in production in need of process improvement and staff training to improve performance and data quality. 

• Coordinate the reporting of all necessary measures for any additional evaluation projects. 

• Work with DBA to develop a reporting platform using PowerBI or SSRS 

• Manage / Supervise CRS level II on data analysis and data audit on nursing coverage. 

• Manage deployment of clinical systems (documentation, communication, user acceptance and product improvement) 

• Manage data evaluation of clinical systems for quality assurance and effectiveness. 

QUALIFICATIONS 

• Doctorate with a specialization in an appropriate field of physical, biological, environmental or social science and at least 2 years of full time related research/evaluation experience in a supervisory, administrative or research capacity; OR 

• Master’s degree with a specialization in an appropriate field of physical, biological, environmental or social science and a minimum of 3 years of full time related research experience 

PREFERRED SKILLS 

• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in program evaluation development and management; at least 2 of which should be in the health field.  

• Advanced quantitative and qualitative analytic skills 

• Strong writing, data analysis and statistical skills with ability to manipulate and analyze large complex data fields using either statistical software such as SAS, SQL or Python.  

• Experience with web-based clinical systems 

• Experience with SQL Server Database Management System. 

Interested applicants must submit an application on NYC Public School's official posting