Job Overview:

• Work Schedule: 15 hours per week; Monday through Friday
• Type: Temporary 5 month contract from December 2022 – April 2023
• Pay: $22 per hour; non-exempt

Program Overview:

The Dale Jones Burch Neighborhood Center (DJBNC) is a free walk-in program that provides Single Stop Case Management and crisis counseling services, benefit/entitlements screenings and referrals, health insurance enrollment services and parenting classes/workshops. Services are offered in English, Spanish and Chinese.

Job Summary:

As a Bilingual Chinese-speaking Community Health Worker, you will collaborate with Henry Street’s point person for COVID-19 activities and support our research project collaboration(s) with NYU including RADX and NYCEAL, initiatives which focus on increasing uptake of COVID-19 home tests for certain age groups in Lower East Side NYCHA developments. You will be assisting and participating in the contribution of these tests and follow-up on utilization for young people ages 18-29 and social isolated and/or homebound adults (ages 60+). This is a 5-month contract starting December of 2022.

Qualifications:

• Bilingual in English/Chinese required
• CHW Certification and/or experience
• Experience providing outreach and engagement in housing developments
• Comfortable working as part of an interdisciplinary team
• Strong interpersonal skills demonstrative of empathy and support
• Ability to work collaboratively with Neighborhood Center Program Director, Project Supervisor and CHW, HR, case managers, social workers, CHWs and other Neighborhood Center/Henry Street program staff and NYU staff
• Basic computer skills (Microsoft Office, etc).

Responsibilities:

• Recruit and screen people for the study
• Refer interested people to NYU study team members
• Answer questions about why participation in research is important, and encourage people that their participation in research is valuable
• Direct people to COVID-19 information and resource

Essential Physical Job Functions:

• Able to conduct field-based outreach via walking
• Able to carry a portable tablet plus work cell phone
• Able to navigate directions when commuting from office to local NYCHA developments

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)