Director, Hiring Unit

Established in 1805, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (the NYC Health Department) is the oldest and largest health department in the country. Our mission is to protect and improve the health of all New Yorkers, in service of a vision of a city in which all New Yorkers can realize their full health potential, regardless of who they are, how old they are, where they are from, or where they live.

As a world-renowned public health agency with a history of building transformative public health programming and infrastructure, innovating in science and scholarship to advance public health knowledge, and responding to urgent public health crises from New York City’s yellow fever outbreak in 1822, to the COVID-19 pandemic we are a hub for public health innovation, expertise, and programs, and services. We serve as the population health strategist, and policy, and planning authority for the City of New York, while also having a vast impact on national and international public policy, including programs and services focused on food and nutrition, anti-tobacco support, chronic disease prevention, HIV/AIDS treatment, family and child health, environmental health, mental health, and racial and social justice work, among others.

Our Agency’s five strategic priorities, building off a recently-completed strategic planning process emerging from the COVID-19 emergency, are: 1) To re-envision how the Health Department prepares for and responds to health emergencies, with a focus on building a “response-ready” organization, with faster decision-making, transparent public communications, and stronger surveillance and bridges to healthcare systems 2) Address and prevent chronic and diet-related disease, including addressing rising rates of childhood obesity and the impact of diabetes, and transforming our food systems to improve nutrition and enhance access to healthy foods 3) Address the second pandemic of mental illness including: reducing overdose deaths, strengthening our youth mental health systems, and supporting people with serious mental illness 4) Reduce black maternal mortality and make New York a model city for women’s health 5) Mobilize against and combat the health impacts of climate change.

Our 7,000-plus team members bring extraordinary diversity to the work of public health. True to our value of equity as a foundational element of all of our work, and a critical foundation to achieving population health impact in New York City, the NYC Health Department has been a leader in recognizing and dismantling racism’s impacts on the health of New Yorkers and beyond. In 2021, the NYC Board of Health declared racism as a public health crisis. With commitment to advance anti-racist public health practices that dismantle systems that perpetuate inequitable power, opportunity and access, the NYC Health Department continues to work in and with communities and community organizations to increase their access to health services and decrease avoidable health outcomes.

PROGRAM AND JOB DESCRIPTION:
The Bureau of Human Resources and Labor Relations provides effective human resource management by developing and implementing policies, programs, and services in support of the values, vision, and mission of the agency. We attract, hire, and develop quality staff to provide an array of public health and mental health services and develop and manage Human Resource Information Systems to better streamline our transactional and reporting capabilities. We are committed to fostering an environment that promotes diversity, equity, civility, and respect.

The Hiring Unit is directly responsible for facilitating both discretionary and Civil Service hiring process for new and current employees in accordance with the Department of Administrative Services hiring policies and procedures. The role of the Director will be to work closely with employees and Designated Human Resources Liaisons within the Agency to provide support and guidance on best practices to onboard new employees and promote current staff.

Duties will include but not be limited to:

• Assist with the oversight and management of all aspects of both the hiring and on-boarding of new
• employees to the agency and the internal employee promotion processes.
• Advise and provide guidance to the agency’s HR liaisons and hiring managers on Civil Service rules
• and regulations and best practices.
• Provide final review and approval of Personnel Action Requests in both our internal human resources
• information system and citywide NYCAPS database.
• Assist with monitoring Civil Service hiring pools and appointments.
• Liaise with HR counterparts at other City agencies to coordinate inter-city Civil Service appointments and transfers.
• Monitor the status of all transactions to ensure that service levels are met.
• Work closely with the Office of the Chief Operating Officer and the NYC Office of Management and
• Budget to obtain oversight approval for hiring.
• Monitor monthly efficiencies productivity reports.
• Generate and maintain reports for Civil Service appointments and discretionary hires.
• Attend monthly and ad-hoc meetings, as needed.

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