COVID-19 Response Driver

With an annual budget of $2.3 billion and more than 6,000 employees throughout the five boroughs, the New York City Department of Health, and Mental Hygiene (NYC DOHMH) is one of the largest public health agencies in the world, serving 8 million New Yorkers from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds. We're tackling a broad range of public health issues with innovative policies and programs and getting exceptional results, but our work is never finished. The breadth of our innovative programs provides the widest range of choices for every member of our team.  

Since January 2020, DOHMH has been fighting the COVID-19 pandemic- activities include but are not limited to: surveillance & epidemiological investigations; lab testing; engaging and providing guidance to healthcare partners; ensuring the safety & health of responders; providing timely and accurate information to the public; promoting the emotional health of New Yorkers and coordinating citywide COVID-19 vaccine administration. With grant funds from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), DOHMH is undertaking a new initiative to establish, expand, train, and sustain the public health workforce to support jurisdictional COVID-19 prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery initiatives over 2 years.

The selected candidate will be an employee of Public Health Solutions, a nonprofit organization which is the fiscal and administrative manager of the grant, but work will be supervised by DOHMH.  This is a grant-funded position ending June 30, 2023.

NYC DOHMH's Office of Emergency Preparedness and Response (OEPR) was created to promote DOHMH's and NYC's ability to prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from health emergencies. OEPR coordinates agency- and healthcare system-wide emergency planning, exercises and training, evaluation, information sharing, operations and logistics and coordination with healthcare partners, community stakeholders, City, State & Federal partners. OEPR's work focuses on promoting and protecting public health through emergency preparedness and response; and recognizes that social inequities negatively impact our efforts to maintain and improve the health of NYC during and after a disaster. With these inequities in mind, OEPR is also working to improve its application of a social justice and racial equity lens to its emergency preparedness and response work. OEPR's efforts to combat the harmful effects of systemic injustices on communities focuses on working towards the most equitable post-disaster public health outcomes possible.

The Office of Citywide Procurement (OCP) is the centralized procurement line of service within DCAS that obtains goods, construction, and other services on an agency level and on behalf of other agencies citywide. OCP is responsible for contract management, quality assurance, and supply chain management. Our goal is to efficiently provide high quality, cost-effective goods and services and high levels of customer service while maintaining the public trust and ensuring that all products and services support the City's environmental and social goals. Last year, OCP processed orders for goods and services worth over $1.5 billion for over 100 City agencies, departments, boards, and authorities.

DCAS Logistics/Central Storehouse (CSH) inventories safety, janitorial, paper, oil & lubricants as well as COVID-19 emergency response commodities for distribution to City agencies. The Storehouse offers consolidated logistical services and delivers goods to more than 1,600 agency locations. CSH plays a critical role in the agency's emergency response as well as provides logistical services that are effective, economical, efficient, and environmentally friendly and continually strives to identify methods to better service and support City agencies. To-date, the DCAS CSH has delivered over $450 million worth of COVID-19 items through over 13,000 individual deliveries to congregate care settings, City offices and non-profits serving COVID-positive individuals. The prospective candidate will be responsible for performing common laboring work requiring physical strength such as picking supplies and packing, unpacking, weighing, and measuring materials, supplies, and equipment.

Under supervision, the candidate will operate motor vehicles such as passenger cars, trucks, wreckers, forklifts, tractor-trailer trucks and sign-erecting trucks; in a small garage, may dispatch personnel, motor vehicles and equipment; performs related work.