Associate Director (Informatics - ITS) - Hybrid Schedule-Administration

The mission of the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) is to protect, preserve, and promote the health and well-being of all Boston residents, particularly the most vulnerable. The BPHC envisions a thriving Boston where all residents live healthy, fulfilling lives free of racism, poverty, violence, and other systems of oppression. The BPHC sets an expectation that all staff and leadership commit, individually and as part of the BPHC team, to hold ourselves accountable to establishing a culture of antiracism and advance racial equity and justice through each of our bureaus, programs, and offices.

Program

The Center for Science, Technology, and Innovation (SciTech) at BPHC utilizes up-to-date and comprehensive data along with state-of-the-art methodology, digital assets and tools to deliver timely, accurate and community-responsive public health information and resources to local, state and federal stakeholders for evidence-based decision-making and implementation of interventions while continually evaluating the quality and impact of processes and products for improved public health and racial equity outcomes.

Role

This position will report to Director of Informatics and provide critical support to ongoing informatics project (such as Boston COVID-19 Dashboard and Boston Health Equity Measure Set - BHEMS) and other critical public health data-driven works at the BPHC. This role will be interdisciplinary and requires working with other bureaus, departments, community health centers and community groups

Duties

• Working to help BPHC become an antiracist organization by meeting or exceeding the standards set by the BPHC Anti-Racism Policy.

• Project and data management of technical interoperability projects, business and systems analysis, including unified modeling language and design thinking, system design and planning (human & technical), manage competing priorities, reprioritizing as necessary; and other duties as assigned.

• Assisting with public health informatics projects, including the development and maintenance of dashboards and public health apps.

• Building data pipelines and analytic platforms for real-time forecasting and visualization of public health data sets

• Preparing research manuscripts on racial equity and social determinants of health for dissemination (data brief, working papers, peer-reviewed journals, etc.)

• Collaborating with teams involved in the research and development of public health data and surveillance systems.

• Providing Informatics assistance to bureaus, programs, and public health service center departments.

• Developing, managing, and evaluating complex information systems.

This is a grant-funded position, and subject to funding availability.