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Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute

Full Time

Bronx, NY

05/15/2008

06/16/2008

info@phinational.org

PHI’s “Quality Care through Quality Jobs” mission of is two-fold: To help  provide high-quality long-term care to clients who are elderly, ill or living with disabilities, and thus  create decent jobs for low-income individuals. PHI pursues this mission by combining direct-care workforce and caregiving practices with policy activities at the federal and state levels. PHI provides technical services across the country, and employs field staff in four regions: New England, New York, Pennsylvania and Michigan. PHI’s clients include the key stakeholders in long-term care: consumer groups, labor organizations, provider/employer agencies, and state and federal governments. PHI staffs the National Clearinghouse on the Direct Care Workforce, the nation’s primary source of information on the direct-care workforce. PHI is affiliated with Cooperative Home Care Associates, Independence Care System, and the SKILL Center -- all part of a New York City-based home care system.

PHI is seeking a full-time Evaluation Analyst to be based in the Bronx, New York, who will manage and implement evaluation projects at the direction of PHI’s Director of Evaluation. This position is essential to PHI strengthening itself as a “learning organization.” ABOUT PHI PHI’s “Quality Care through Quality Jobs” mission of is two-fold: To help  provide high-quality long-term care to clients who are elderly, ill or living with disabilities, and thus  create decent jobs for low-income individuals. PHI pursues this mission by combining direct-care workforce and caregiving practices with policy activities at the federal and state levels. PHI provides technical services across the country, and employs field staff in four regions: New England, New York, Pennsylvania and Michigan. PHI’s clients include the key stakeholders in long-term care: consumer groups, labor organizations, provider/employer agencies, and state and federal governments. PHI staffs the National Clearinghouse on the Direct Care Workforce, the nation’s primary source of information on the direct-care workforce. PHI is affiliated with Cooperative Home Care Associates, Independence Care System, and the SKILL Center -- all part of a New York City-based home care system. POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES The Evaluation Analyst works as a team member to implement evaluation projects on PHI’s training, organizational development, and policy initiatives across the full range of long-term care settings. Responsibilities include: • Develop logic models and evaluation plans for PHI proposals and projects; help build the evaluation capacity of long term care organizations (nursing homes, home health agencies); • Manage data collection process at intervention and comparison sites, in collaboration with participating sites and PHI staff and consultants; • Collect baseline and follow-up quantitative and qualitative data, including surveys, interviews, focus group discussions, and turnover data, from long-term care providers, consumers, and policy-makers; • Tabulate, analyze, interpret and report quantitative and qualitative data to improve the work and learning of PHI and to fulfill donor requirements; • Work with participating long term care organizations to ensure timely and accurate reporting of data; • Work with PHI staff and consultants to ensure that evaluation tasks, objectives and timeframes are met; • Write evaluation briefs and reports; • Develop institutional review board guidelines and processes, in consultation with other evaluation team members. • Help ensure that PHI’s approach to evaluation is consistent with evaluation and ethical norms, by working with PHI’s evaluation staff, project advisory committees, evaluation consultants, and institutional review board; • Assist in the development and implementation of additional knowledge management systems for PHI, including processes for identifying and acting on lessons learned; • Assist in the supervision of research assistants, administrative assistants or interviewers when needed.

Work Experience: • Intermediate knowledge of behavioral science research methods and metrics; • 3+ years experience in analytic and data management tasks; • Experience in use of analytic software, preferably SPSS; • Excellent written and oral communications; • Excellent organizational skills; • Excellent interpersonal/relational skills; • Skill in communicating with people from diverse backgrounds; • Experience in use of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; • Ability to work well both independently and in teams; and • Ability to travel, including overnight. Education: • Required: Masters Degree in Public Health, Sociology, Psychology, Gerontology, or other relevant area. Preferences: • Knowledge of long-term care policy; • Knowledge of low-income workforce policy; • Experience working with long-term care consumers, providers or organized labor; • Direct experience with caregiving; • Bi-lingual (Spanish; English); • Experience with qualitative data analysis software (Atlas-ti)

CONTACT PHI, Human Resources 349 East 149th Street, Tenth Floor Bronx, New York 10451 E-mail: info@phinational.org (Please note job title in subject line of email and cover letter.) The application period for this position will close as of: June 16, 2008 Position is full-time, with excellent salary and benefits www.phinational.org ~ PHI encourages diversity in our workforces ~