Senior Manager, Data Systems Integration

Company Description

About NASTAD

NASTAD is a leading non-partisan, non-profit association that represents public health officials who administer HIV and hepatitis programs in the U.S. Our mission is to advance the health and dignity of people living with and impacted by HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, and intersecting epidemics by strengthening governmental public health systems and leveraging community partnerships. Our vision is a world committed to ending HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, and intersecting epidemics.

Our work advances NASTAD’s four strategic priorities: 1) Strengthen public health systems for HIV and hepatitis prevention, surveillance, and care; 2) Advance health and racial equity, and stigma elimination, focusing on disparately impacted communities; 3) Implement integrated approaches to address HIV, hepatitis, STIs, harm reduction, and the social determinants of health; 4) Strengthen organizational excellence within NASTAD and its member jurisdictions.

NASTAD employs a diverse team of passionate staff with deep expertise in HIV and hepatitis public health. We center racial justice, anti-racism, and anti-white supremacist principles as we approach and conduct our work.

Job Description

The Senior Manager, Data Systems Integration will have the exciting opportunity to support and build the capacity of public health practitioners in modernizing and improving the interoperability of public health and healthcare data systems. This person will provide subject matter expertise and leadership on population health informatics and data linkage processes, with a focus on HIV surveillance data and health care data systems, including Medicaid claims databases. The Senior Manager will support NASTAD’s population health informatics portfolio, ensuring that the program provides robust technical assistance support in the area of data systems integration and serves as a resource to health departments and Medicaid programs seeking to integrate disparate data sources.

Qualifications

Essential Duties

• Lead NASTAD’s response to complex technical assistance (TA) requests from governmental HIV programs and their state Medicaid partners related to improving data linkage activities.
• Mentor and guide NASTAD team members and contractors in implementing population health informatics activities and designing resources that can be disseminated to NASTAD members and partners
• Ensure the overall objectives of population health informatics-related projects at NASTAD are met.
• May provide supervision to one or two NASTAD staff members.
• Design team building, leadership, and professional development resources and activities to ensure NASTAD’s health informatics work remains innovative.
• Maintain strong working relationships with key external partners and participate in inter-agency meetings to advance TA activities and deliverables.
• Contribute to NASTAD’s knowledge of systems management, business processes, data workflows, and other internal processes aimed at strengthening organizational expertise in HIV surveillance and data systems integration best practices.
• Contribute to project monitoring, reporting, evaluation, and learning activities.

Minimum Qualifications

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

• Expertise in health informatics
• Expertise in Medicaid claims data systems or public health surveillance data systems is preferred (i.e., eHARS, PRISM, MAVEN, etc.).
• Ability to translate Health Informatics knowledge into day-to-day technical assistance (TA) activities.
• Ability to develop and manage work plans.
• Interest in developing systems-level interventions, coalition-building, addressing social determinants of health, and working with diverse groups that have been historically underserved.
• Attention to detail and editing skills.
• Commitment to fostering an environment of diversity, inclusion, and belonging.

Experience/Education

• Bachelor’s degree or any equivalent combination of training, education, and experience that demonstrates the candidate’s ability to perform the position’s duties.
• Minimum of 8 years of related progressively responsible work experience.
• Experience working in governmental public health, particularly within surveillance or Medicaid data quality units.
• Experience coaching or training health department staff or Medicaid programs in data system improvement activities is strongly preferred.
• Experience working effectively across functional teams
• Experience working with federal funders (CDC, HRSA, SAMHSA) preferred

Competencies

• Leadership – Integrates in their work and at the team level a strategic vision and critical analysis that optimizes success for projects, staff, and organizational priorities as applicable.
• Communications – Strategically communicates internally and externally in a transparent, concise, respectful, and trauma-informed manner; simplifies complicated concepts and communicates them regardless of the situation or audience.
• Teamwork –Proactively contributes toward the completion of team tasks and team building. Champions an anti-racist, collaborative, and supportive organizational team culture.
• Reliability and Adaptability –Takes ownership of own objectives and performance. Independently completes tasks in a timely and consistent manner. Adapts to, and integrates in own tasks, changes in work environment, priorities, and organizational needs.
• Problem-solving and analytical thinking – Takes a solutions-focused approach to problem-solving: identifies a problem, finds the root cause, and structures logical solutions. Able to solve problems by analyzing situations and applying critical thinking to resolve them.

Additional Information

Environment and Scheduling

• Salary Range: $93,000 - 98,000, commensurate with experience

• Full-time, 40 hours/week

• Willing to travel as needed, up to 30%

• Remote work is possible.

• Interested in working with a national HIV/AIDS and viral hepatitis public health organization.

• Interest in working within a diverse environment.

• Commitment to Anti-Racism values.

We encourage people of diverse ages, sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, disabilities, religions, races, ethnicities, socioeconomic statuses, work, and life experiences to apply. We recognize that to accelerate the end of the HIV and hepatitis epidemics, our workforce must be representative of groups that have been disproportionately impacted.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.