**Job Description** **PURPOSE:** The Department of Emergency Medicine Research Division at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Libertas Center for Human Rights at Elmhurst Hospital seek a motivated, resourceful and flexible individual to join our team. **Job Summary:** The Libertas Center for Human Rights at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, NY is seeking a Program Assistant to support the delivery of culturally sensitive, trauma-informed, bio-psycho-social spiritual services to a significant caseload of patients at a novel treatment center for survivors of torture and other serious human rights violations. The Libertas Center is a grant-funded program under the Department of Emergency Medicine at Elmhurst Hospital, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and a teaching hospital for the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The Libertas Center provides survivors of torture and human rights violations in the New York City area with comprehensive medical, mental health, social and legal services to help them restore hope and humanity in their lives. The Program Assistant reports to the Operations Director and works in close collaboration with the Executive and Clinical Directors. This position plays a key role in data collection and analysis in addition to supporting the overall program administration. The successful candidate will demonstrate strong data management and analysis skills, excellent interpersonal skills, flexibility with shifting priorities, and have the ability to anticipate, proactively identify, and solve challenges. A strong interest or experience in human rights and global health is expected. **Qualifications** **Qualifications** + Bachelor of Arts or Science + Experience with data management and analysis, and comfort with a variety of databases. + Proficiency in Microsoft Excel including designing Pivot Tables and utilizing formulas for data analysis. + Proficiency in MS Office and Google Suite + Knowledge of and experience with website, communications and design platforms such as Mailchimp, Squarespace, Canva and WordPress. + Familiarity and experience with REDCap preferred. **Skills** + Highly detail-oriented, organized and reliably able to conduct tasks without the need for significant oversight. + Strong problem-solving skills and ability to address challenges of a wide variety with creativity, initiative, and resourcefulness. + Maturity, ability to calmly and respectfully navigate challenging situations, and successfully meet responsibilities with professionalism. + Proven ability to work as a team player and be responsive to guidance and feedback while maintaining a positive work environment. + Ability to thrive in a fast-paced collaborative team, where time management and effective communication are essential. + Demonstrated cultural humility and responsiveness with immigrant communities and/or other vulnerable populations, and a willingness to examine topics of power and structural oppression. + Demonstrated interest in learning about strengths-based case management and trauma-informed health care. + Familiarity with human rights and/or global health fields. **Schedule** Full-time; In-person with the option of one remote day per week (subject to change). Non-Bargaining Unit, 870 - Emergency Medicine - ISM, Icahn School of Medicine **Responsibilities** The responsibilities of the Program Assistant include, but are not limited to the following: **_Data & Quality Assurance Responsibilities_** + Review and abstract data from electronic medical records + Enter, clean and manage data + Prepare data reports + Assist with maintaining electronic patient charts + Develop and maintain program database including entering client data + Assist in the preparation of data reports to funding agencies **_Development & Communications Responsibilities_** + Enhance organizational fundraising and communications strategies + Cultivate new funding opportunities including from individual, foundation and corporate funders, as well as federal, state and local government opportunities + Plan and execute annual reports and fundraising events + Assist in the preparation of narrative reports to funding agencies + Assist with tracking and managing relationships with partner organizations **_Administrative Responsibilities_** + Assist the Libertas team in ensuring that the medical, mental health, social and legal needs of survivors of torture are being met in a comprehensive and efficient manner + Provide administrative support to program and clinical staff + Create a welcoming, nonjudgemental environment for Libertas Center clients + Prepare and process check requests, purchase orders, travel requests and travel reimbursement + Assist with tracking and maintaining program budgets + Coordinate new and ongoing IRB studies, ensuring timely IRB renewal submissions; participate in collaborative research and data projects. + Perform other special projects or other duties as requested **About Us** **Strength Through Diversity** The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by: + Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential. + Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination. + Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers. At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization. We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients. We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally. Explore more about this opportunity and how you can help us write a new chapter in our history! **“About the Mount Sinai Health System:** Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally. The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.” **EOE Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans** **Compensation Statement** Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides a salary range to comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $26.5936 - $34.1524 Hourly. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.