Director of Health Justice Network (HJN), Bureau of Health Promotion for Justice-Impacted Popul
Listed on 2026-08-21
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Healthcare
Public Health, Healthcare Management, Healthcare Administration
Location: New York
About the Organization
The Bureau of Health Promotion for Justice-Impacted Populations (HPJIP) in the Division of Mental Hygiene aims to reduce the negative social and health consequences of criminal legal system involvement through innovative policy and practice change. By centering community, addressing inequities, lived experience, and elevating trauma-and-resilience-informed-approaches, we promote evidence-based best practices to address the needs of those disproportionately impacted by the criminal legal system.
The Health Justice Network (HJN) is an equity-centered public health initiative under the Bureau of Health Promotion for Justice-Impacted Populations that aims to maximize health outcomes and support successful community reintegration. Operating as a program with two tracks, HJN pairs individuals returning home from jail or prison with trained Community Health Workers (CHWs) who share personal lived experience with the legal system.
Through its community-based Reentry Track and its court-linked Court-Based Mental Health Navigators Track, the initiative delivers person-centered, trauma-and-resilience-informed care by addressing essential healthcare navigation, stabilization needs, and social support.
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Division of Mental Hygiene seeks a full-time Director of Health Justice Network (HJN), for the Bureau of Health Promotion of Justice Impacted Populations (HPJIP) with the primary responsibility of overseeing the operations of Health Justice Network (HJN).
HJN is operational 7 days a week, Monday – Friday, 9:00am - 5:00pm. The Director of HJN’s schedule would be Monday – Friday, 9:00am – 5:00pm. Please note there must be flexibility in schedule to meet program needs.
Duties- Provide direct operational and clinical oversight of HJN, setting strategic goals according to Bureau objectives.
- Manage staff coverage, productivity, client service skills, and workload expectations for all embedded CHWs and program staff.
- Guide local planning, development, and execution of both HJN tracks across New York City.
- Develop, implement, and audit evidence-based clinical policies, procedures, and protocols.
- Provide clinical education and training for staff.
- Implement quality initiatives to enhance outcomes, clinical service delivery, and staff accountability.
- Maintain excellent communication and collaboration with HJN partners and leadership to support program operations.
- Work closely with the Senior Director of Programs to ensure program strategies are well-documented and executed effectively.
- Develop an effective intra-disciplinary communications process within the program and across the Bureau for collaborative projects.
- Continue and build new relationships with City agencies, community providers, and relevant collaterals.
- Manage and ensure timely responses to requests from the Executive Deputy Commissioner’s Office, City Hall, and external stakeholders.
- Build robust pipelines with specialty courts, diversion programs, defense counsels, and specialized teams like SPOA, FACT, INSET, and SOS.
- Partner with the HPJIP Epidemiology Unit (EPI) to track outcomes and maintain accurate, timely reports on productivity and quality for case reviews.
- Work with the EPI team to design, implement, and refine data collection instruments, protocols, and processes.
- Enforce utilization of tracking mechanisms (including the OMH platform); work with the EPI team on dashboards to monitor public and criminal legal system data.
- Contribute data interpretations to support data-informed decision-making for the HJN team and its partners.
- Collaborate with clinical and administrative stakeholders to establish project details, standardized definitions, metrics, and implementation plans.
- Proactively develop evaluation strategies to monitor performance and determine the need for programmatic improvements.
- Coordinate data collection and indicators for Quality Performance Reviews, Mayor’s Management Reports, Office of Community Mental Health requests, and funders.
- Deliver comprehensive presentations and accurate reports directly to senior leadership.
- Conduct regular field work to meet with…
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