Associate Laboratory Microbiologist III

ONLY PERMANENT EMPLOYEES IN THE TITLE AND THOSE THAT ARE REACHABLE ON THE CIVIL SERVICE LIST OF ASSOCIATE LABORATORY MICROBIOLOGIST EXAM NO. 4016 ARE ELIGIBLE TO APPLY.

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 worldrenowned 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 Citys yellow fever outbreak in 1822 to the COVID19 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 antitobacco support chronic disease prevention HIV/AIDS treatment family and child health environmental health mental health and racial and social justice work among others.

Our Agencys five strategic priorities building off a recentlycompleted strategic planning process emerging from the COVID19 emergency are:
1 To reenvision how the Health Department prepares for and responds to health emergencies with a focus on building a responseready organization with faster decisionmaking transparent public communications and stronger surveillance and bridges to healthcare systems 2 Address and prevent chronic and dietrelated 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 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 womens health
5 Mobilize against and combat the health impacts of climate change

Our 7000plus 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 racisms 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 antiracist 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 New York City (NYC) Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) is a public health leader serving over 8.4 million New York City residents from diverse ethnic cultural and economic backgrounds. The NYC Public Health Laboratory (PHL) is one of the largest local public health laboratories in the United States offering a dynamic and innovative work environment where employees contribute to the health and safety of NYC residents by providing clinical and environmental laboratory testing services. With more than 100 years of leadership in public health a team of over 200 scientific and support staff are committed to its mission to safeguard the health of all NYC residents by providing quality laboratory testing services that support the priorities of the NYC DOHMH and its community partners to prevent and respond to clinical and environmental public health concerns. The DOHMH PHL seeks a qualified candidate to serve as an Associate Laboratory Microbiologist III. This position will play an integral role in laboratory testing and responding to public health threats including but not limited to COVID19 vaccine preventable diseases HIV Legionella as well as respiratory foodborne and waterborne disease outbreaks. This is an excellent opportunity to join our multidisciplinary team and collaborate with local state federal and academic partners.

DUTIES WILL INCLUDE BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:

Direct and coordinate the daily laboratory and administrative operations train staff provide supervisory responsibilities during routine testing and outbreak events.
Plan schedule organize and direct laboratory activities to provide optimal delivery of testing services according to PHL standards of quality productivity and performance.
Analyze testing data and verifies and releases test results and reports.
Assist Unit Chief and/or Directors in development and implementation of technical and nontechnical procedures as well as updates and maintains active policies and procedures.
Initiate and direct the study of new materials or methods designed to improve diagnostic procedures.
Manage and oversee the purchase of inventory storage and supplies usage for routine testing and outbreak events.
Participate in the crosstraining program within PHL to assist with routine and surge events.
Collaboratively work with PHL leadership and Quality Management on continuous quality improvement initiatives.
Ensure all regulatory and safety standards are followed and serve as a resource for regulatory and accreditation compliance.
Oversee in collaboration with the Associate Director annual laboratory budgets.
Serve as a technical laboratory lead to troubleshoot method and instrumentation problems.
Perform other duties as required.

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Qualifications :

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in medical technology or in one of the chemical physical or biological sciences and one year of laboratory experience at the technologist level in the appropriate laboratory specialty or specialties; or
2. Ninety college credits from an accredited college or university including or supplemented by either (a) or (b) below and one year of laboratory experience at the technologist level in the appropriate laboratory specialty or specialties.
(a) For those whose training was completed prior to September 15 1963: a total of at least 24 credits in chemistry and biology courses combined including at least nine credits in chemistry of which six credits must be in inorganic chemistry; and including at least 12 credits in biology courses
pertinent to the medical sciences.
(b) For those whose training was completed after September 15 1963: 16 credits in chemistry courses acceptable towards a major in chemistry including at least six credits in inorganic chemistry; and 16 credits in biology courses acceptable towards a major in biology; and three credits in mathematics.

Additional Information :

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic including but not limited to an individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime