Manager, Health Systems Integration (Data Integration)

Company Description

 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 and leveraging community partnerships. 

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 serves as the Systems Coordination Provider (SCP) for the 47 Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) Parts A and B jurisdictions funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA-20-078), as part of the Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America (EHE) initiative. As part of this work, NASTAD develops tools and resources to support health departments in EHE Phase I jurisdictions to improve coordination across health systems and collaboration with key stakeholder groups.

NASTAD Background

Our Mission & Vision

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 and leveraging community partnerships. Our vision is a world committed to ending HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, and intersecting epidemics. We want to center on racial justice, anti-racism, and anti-white supremacist principles as we think about, approach, and conduct our work.

Job Description

Job Description

NASTAD anticipates hiring a full-time Manager, Health Systems Integration (Data Integration), who provides support on population health informatics and data linkage processes, focusing on HIV surveillance data and health care data systems, including Medicaid claims databases. The Manager will support NASTAD’s population health informatics portfolio, supporting robust technical assistance support in the area of data systems integration and serves as a resource to health departments seeking to integrate disparate data sources.

Essential Duties

• Support NASTAD’s response to complex technical assistance (TA) requests from governmental HIV programs and their state Medicaid partners related to improving data linkage activities.
• Support the implementation of population health informatics TA activities.
• Contribute to the development of data management and data systems integration resources created by contracted subject matter experts and staff members.
• Ensure the overall objectives of population health informatics-related projects at NASTAD are met.
• 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 internal expertise in HIV surveillance and data systems integration best practices.
• Contribute to project monitoring, reporting, evaluation, and learning activities. 
• Perform other duties as assigned. 

Minimum Qualifications

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

• Demonstrated expertise, conceptual understanding of health informatics, and sufficient professional experience in data management and data synchronization processes, with the ability to work on complex assignments with minimal supervision.
• Demonstrated expertise on Medicaid claims data systems or public health surveillance data systems is preferred (i.e., enhanced HIV/AIDS Reporting System (eHARS), PRISM, MAVEN, etc.)
• Ability to lead meaningful partnerships across public health and health care systems.
• Ability to lead troubleshooting activities with health department staff to find innovative solutions to their challenges and explore innovative systems-level interventions. 
• Demonstrated originality and creativity in applying health informatics knowledge and concepts to day-to-day TA activities.
• Understanding of health equity and a commitment to incorporating social justice concepts in public health programming. 
• Interest in developing systems-level interventions, coalition-building, addressing social determinants of health, and working with diverse groups that have been historically underserved. 

Qualifications

Experience/Education 

• Bachelor’s degree or higher or any equivalent combination of training, education, and experience that demonstrates the candidate’s ability to perform the position’s duties.
• Minimum of 6 years of progressively responsible work experience related to public health, research, or U.S. health care systems. 
• Experience working in governmental public health, particularly within disease surveillance or Medicaid quality data units.
• Experience coaching or providing TA for health department staff or Medicaid programs is strongly preferred. 
• Experience working effectively across functional teams.
• Experience developing and managing work plans.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate successfully with individuals and teams at all levels, whether internal or external.
• Proven attention to detail and editing skills.
• Demonstrated successful ability to manage multiple competing priorities.
• Demonstrated commitment to fostering an environment of diversity, inclusion, and belonging.
• Experience working with federal funders (CDC, HRSA, SAMHSA) preferred.

Competencies 

• Leadership - Integrates in their work a strategic vision and critical analysis that optimizes success for projects, and organizational priorities as applicable.
• Communications - Strategically communicate internally and externally in a clear, concise, respectful, and trauma-informed manner; simplifies complicated concepts and communicates them clearly 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 with own tasks, changes in the 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 – $71,400 – $74,970
• Full-time, 40 hours/week role.
• Willing to travel as needed.
• Remote work is possible.
• Interest 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.