Surveillance Supervisor, Grant Services Specialist III (NCS) - Baltimore City Health Department

Baltimore City•Baltimore, MD

1d•$67,687 - $117,791•Onsite

About The Position

The HIV/STI Surveillance Supervisor will hold a leadership role in the Baltimore City Health Department (BCHD) Bureau of Clinical Services and HIV/STI Prevention. The Clinical Services and HIV/STI Prevention Bureau at BCHD works towards decreasing HIV and sexually transmitted infection (STI) incidence in Baltimore City. Programs included in the Bureau include HIV/STI testing, partner services, linkage to care, epidemiology and surveillance, community engagement, PrEP, and clinical services. The bureau works closely with partners at Maryland Department of Health, community members, community based organizations, clinical partners, and national organizations on HIV and STI prevention.The HIV/STI Surveillance Supervisor will oversee the process of surveillance for reportable sexually transmitted infections (chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis) and HIV. This includes receiving reports of STIs and HIV from laboratories and clinicians, ensuring all laboratory reports are appropriately reported to Maryland Department of Health, ensuring all laboratory reports are correctly entered and processed in the state surveillance system, and triaging new cases for Disease Intervention Specialists (also known as partner services). The Reactor Desk Supervisor will be responsible for ensuring appropriate management of Baltimore City’s instance of the state-wide STI surveillance system. They will supervise several program coordinators, data entry staff, a perinatal coordinator, and a quality assurance manager. The Reactor Desk Supervisor is responsible for ensuring all aspects of surveillance are operating smoothly and efficiently, including conducting quality assurance of program activities. They will work very closely with Maryland Department of Health, Epidemiology staff, and Partner Services supervisors.

Requirements

Have a bachelor’s degree in business administration, Public Administration, Management, or related field from an accredited college or university.
Have four years of experience in professional-level administrative, operations, or technical work.
Previous work lead experience may be required.
Have an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Knowledge of administrative practices and procedures.
Knowledge (where required) of public health services and practices.
Knowledge (where required) of specified oral and written non-English language grammar, spelling and punctuation and associated cultural idioms, customs and norms.
Knowledge of research techniques and methodology.
Skill in grant writing and grant administration.
Skill in formulating public policies.
Skill in coordinating responses from multiple public and private agencies, institutions and community resource organizations.
Skill (where required) in speaking, reading and writing a specified non-English language and interacting within associated cultural idioms, customs and norms.
Ability to plan, implement and administer a high-level, high profile special initiative program or project.
Ability to establish and maintain effective liaisons with people of varied backgrounds, including clients, families, neighbors, government representatives and officials and public and private community institutions, service providers and personnel.
Ability to deal with emergency or crisis situations with calm, tact and dispatch.
Ability to promote program activities.
Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
Supervisory experience.

Responsibilities

Coordination, management, and review of all aspects of STI and HIV case finding and reporting
Ensuring appropriate and efficient case triage to partner services
Coordination with Maryland Department of Health on management of STI/HIV surveillance
Development of reports on status of cases, epidemiology, and quality assurance
Assistance with partner services investigations as needed
Oversight of investigations of perinatal HIV and congenital syphilis, and direct programmatic activities for prevention of perinatal transmission
Other duties as assigned