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About the Role:
As an Emergency Preparedness Planning Analyst in the Planning and Design Practice, you will collaborate with team members to conceptualize, deliver, and support our clients through today's ever-changing public health landscape. NYSTEC is considered a trusted advisor, providing subject matter expertise and connecting the dots for our clients.
You should have a diversity of strengths relating to public health or Emergency Preparedness Planning and be able to document discussions of leaders across a large organization, identify themes to understand their priorities and needs, and facilitate team sessions to collaboratively develop solutions to address client needs (e.g., develop emergency response plans, including ensuring equitable outcomes). You should also be able to conduct external landscape analyses to identify themes among the findings and propose recommendations to address client Emergency Preparedness needs in New York State. You will also need to anticipate and communicate issues/risks, estimate task duration, and present findings. You will need to exhibit strong writing, organizational, communication, and analytical skills to meet project goals.
This role will include planning your tasks, proactively communicating when you are stuck, documenting client feedback and decisions, and creating presentations and documentation to elicit the client's input and to address the client's needs. You will need to problem solve and take the first step on complex assignments, identify risks and issues, and present information clearly and concisely to inform team and client decisions.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct current-state analyses to understand and document the client's current Emergency Preparedness plans/strategies and unmet needs.
- Perform external analyses in the public health Emergency Preparedness space, to ensure that the solutions proposed to the client are informed by practices of comparable, high-performing entities within NYS or in other states.
- Develop recommendations for clients that are informed by the findings of the current-state and external analyses.
- Document and support preparations for focus groups/interviews to collect input and feedback.
- Facilitate team brainstorming and working sessions to inform project strategy and to develop solutions to address client needs.
- Understand what needs to be done and work as a team player to accomplish that - jumping in where needed.
- Write clear, concise, and effective reports to help clients understand best practices and recommendations.
- Strong writing, documentation, communication, and analytical skills to meet project goals.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office suite.
- Demonstrated organization and planning skills.
- Ability to develop relationships with stakeholders and to understand their needs through excellent listening and effective written and verbal communication.
- Experience as a policy, preparedness, or business analyst in a public health, social services, or healthcare field.
- Experience/expertise in public health Emergency Preparedness is strongly preferred.
- Experience working on public health, social services, or healthcare-related projects.
- Project management professional (PMP) or related certification.
- A bachelor's degree and five years of related experience. An equivalent combination of advanced education, training, and experience will be considered.
- Public health/healthcare degree preferred.
- Health equity experience/expertise strongly preferred.
The pay range for this position will be $79,793.00- $109,716.20 per year.
It is NYSTEC's policy to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all individuals, regardless of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, sex, or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information, military service and veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws and ordinances. NYSTEC is strongly committed to this policy and believes in the concept and spirit of the law.
Federal law requires employers to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please contact HR-Confidential@nystec.com if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for or to perform this job. Examples of reasonable accommodation include making a change to the application process or work procedures, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment.
Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.
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