Program Research Specialist 1 (Public Health)
The Program Research Specialist 1 (Public Health) will be assigned to the Bureau of Early Intervention's (BEI) Data and Program Evaluation Unit in the Division of Family Health. This position will support fiscal and programmatic analyses of data for the New York State (NYS) Early Intervention Program, which has been in place for 25 years and currently serves more than 69,000 children and delivers over 8 million services at an annual cost of approximately $650 million.
Key Responsibilities:
- The Early Intervention Program is required to implement federal and state requirements, which include monitoring child and family outcomes as well as service utilization. The incumbent will be responsible for analyzing program outcomes for children and their families, trends and patterns of service utilization, and service costs over time.
- The Early Intervention Program routinely presents information (both written and oral) about data findings and provides technical assistance to internal and external stakeholders. The incumbent will be expected to write summary memoranda for internal and external stakeholders, prepare brief documents interpreting statistical and tabular analyses, and present technical information to non-technical audiences.
- The Early Intervention Program has extensive data analysis programs and infrastructure built using SAS software, which requires merging, matching, and linking very large and complex datasets (i.e., millions of records) both within the program and across external data sources. These data sources require ongoing testing for accuracy, integrity, and consistency. The incumbent will need to understand current analytic work in SAS, collaborate with other SAS programmers within the unit, and supervise SAS programmers.
- Federal and state requirements for the Early Intervention Program change continuously, affecting data systems. The Department contracts with a vendor to manage the program's online data reporting system. The Department is responsible for ensuring that system changes comply with program requirements, meet Department needs, and remain user-friendly. The incumbent will be required to support the user acceptance testing (UAT) process for the new Early Intervention database.
Full-time, permanent position. Transfer candidates may be asked for the last four digits of their social security number to verify eligibility. When reviewing qualifications, omissions and vagueness cannot be interpreted in the candidate's favor. Candidates are responsible for providing accurate and clear descriptions of their experience demonstrating how they meet the minimum qualifications. This position is part of the NYS HELPS program. No examination is required.
We offer a work-life balance and a generous benefits package, worth 65% of salary, including: Holiday & Paid Time Off, Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF), Pension from New York State Employees' Retirement System, Shift & Geographic pay differentials, Affordable Health Care options, Family dental and vision benefits at no additional cost, NYS Deferred Compensation plan, Access to NY 529 and NY ABLE College Savings Programs, and U.S. Savings Bonds, and many more...
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