State EMS Regulation and Policy Unit Manager (Associate Health Planner) (NY HELPS) - 52066

Description Duties

• Develops and advances EMS, trauma, and disaster health regulations in accordance with Public Health Law, the State Administrative Procedure Act, Department rulemaking procedures, and other applicable legal and administrative requirements.
• Identifies regulatory needs through review of statutory changes, existing requirements, Division operations, compliance findings, stakeholder concerns, emerging practices, and State and national standards.
• Researches statutory authority, legal interpretations, administrative precedents, policy literature, and regulatory approaches used by other jurisdictions to define available options and constraints.
• Drafts regulatory concepts and drafts proposed regulatory language in consultation with Department legal counsel, Division subject-matter experts, and affected programs.
• Prepares statements of purpose, regulatory impact statements, flexibility analyses, notices, assessments of public comment, and other rulemaking documents required by the State Administrative Procedure Act and Department procedures.
• Captures internal, legal, fiscal, regulatory affairs, and executive review of proposed regulations and maintains schedules and trackers for required approvals, notices, public-comment periods, and filing deadlines.
• Organizes stakeholder consultations and technical discussions to evaluate the legal, clinical, operational, fiscal, workforce, geographic, and public-health effects of proposed requirements.
• Analyzes public comments, conflicting recommendations, implementation barriers, and unintended consequences and prepares responsiveness summaries, issue papers, and decision memoranda recommending revisions or final action.
• Captures final revisions and filing materials and tracks regulatory proposals through publication, public comment, adoption, and implementation.

Health Policy Analysis and Strategic Planning

• Conducts health planning and policy analyses to identify statewide EMS system needs, evaluate performance, and develop evidence-based recommendations for Division and Department leadership.
• Reviews emerging trends, national standards, professional guidance, academic literature, governmental reports, legislative proposals, and practices used by other states.
• Analyzes demographic, geographic, operational, workforce, utilization, quality, financial, and system-performance information to identify service gaps, emerging risks, resource needs, and opportunities for improvement.
• Compares EMS, trauma, and disaster health system performance against statutory objectives, Department priorities, State and national benchmarks, professional standards, and established program outcomes.
• Evaluates the legal, operational, fiscal, workforce, demographic, geographic, equity, and public-health effects of proposed statutes, regulations, policies, programs, and system changes.
• Develops and compares policy alternatives based on statutory authority, available evidence, anticipated outcomes, implementation feasibility, resource requirements, stakeholder effects, and risk.
• Prepares issue papers, needs assessments, planning reports, statistical and narrative analyses, executive briefings, presentations, and decision memoranda and recommends policy, regulatory, statutory, programmatic, or administrative action.
• Develops performance measures and follow-up analyses to evaluate outcomes and contributes to Division strategic planning by identifying emerging issues, long-term needs, and regulatory priorities.

Policy Development, Implementation, and Lifecycle Management

• Develops and maintains Division policies, guidance documents, interpretive statements, and implementation resources that translate statutory and regulatory requirements into clear and consistent operational expectations.
• Drafts and revises policies, administrative directives, technical advisories, implementation memoranda, frequently asked questions, compliance tools, and related materials.
• Determines the appropriate policy instrument based on statutory authority, legal effect, intended audience, compliance expectations, enforcement implications, and Department approval requirements.
• Leads cross-unit workgroups and coordinates review with legal counsel, Division leadership, subject-matter experts, communications staff, information-technology staff, and other affected offices.
• Analyzes and reconciles conflicting interpretations, recommendations, and operational concerns and reviews proposed materials for legal consistency, factual accuracy, clarity, feasibility, enforceability, and alignment with Division objectives.
• Determines implementation requirements addressing affected organizations, required actions, compliance dates, communications, training, system changes, technical assistance, and monitoring activities.
• Prepares transmittals, implementation memoranda, executive briefings, stakeholder communications, and educational materials and coordinates issuance and implementation with responsible programs.
• Evaluates implementation questions, barriers, inconsistent interpretations, and stakeholder concerns and recommends clarification, technical assistance, corrective action, or policy revision.
• Maintains a centralized inventory and revision history for regulations, policies, guidance, and interpretive materials and conducts periodic reviews to revise, consolidate, replace, or rescind outdated documents.
• Preserves approved versions, supporting analyses, legal comments, public-comment records, implementation materials, and final issuance documentation.

Legislative Analysis and Stakeholder Coordination

• Analyzes proposed legislation and coordinates consultation with governmental, professional, and regulated stakeholders to inform Division policy positions and recommendations.
• Makes introductions legislation, executive proposals, statutory amendments, and legislative concepts affecting EMS, trauma systems, disaster health services, regulated entities, practitioners, or Division operations.
• Reviews proposed legislation in relation to existing statutes, regulations, policies, programs, organizational authority, funding, staffing, data systems, compliance activities, and affected stakeholders.
• Evaluates legal, fiscal, operational, workforce, administrative, and public-health impacts in consultation with Division programs, Department legal counsel, fiscal staff, legislative affairs staff, and other affected offices.
• Prepares legislative analyses, bill comments, impact summaries, executive briefing materials, recommended amendments, and proposed Division positions.
• Develops legislative concepts and statutory amendments to address policy gaps, modernize legal authority, support Division initiatives, or improve EMS system performance.
• Organizes and leads informational meetings, stakeholder consultations, and policy discussions with State agencies, regional organizations, EMS councils, regulated entities, professional associations, health care providers, educational institutions, researchers, and other interested parties.
• Evaluates stakeholder concerns and recommendations and documents unresolved issues requiring further analysis or leadership decision.
• Presents policy analyses, regulatory proposals, legislative impacts, and Division recommendations and represents the Division on committees, interagency groups, professional workgroups, and other forums.

Unit Leadership, Supervision, and Quality Assurance

• Directs the day-to-day operations of the Regulatory and Policy Unit and establishes work practices that support timely, accurate, consistent, and analytically sound products.
• Develops unit work plans and establishes priorities, schedules, assignments, review requirements, and expected work products based on legal deadlines, program needs, staff capacity, and assignment complexity.
• Sets up work assignments according to staff knowledge, experience, workload, and developmental needs and adjusts assignments to address emerging priorities, absences, or delays.
• Provides technical direction concerning health planning, policy analysis, regulatory drafting, legislative analysis, research methods, stakeholder consultation, and Department review procedures.
• Reviews regulations, policies, reports, analyses, correspondence, presentations, and briefing materials for factual accuracy, analytical sufficiency, legal and programmatic consistency, clarity, completeness, and conformity with Department standards.
• Directs additional research, consultation, analysis, revision, or quality-control review when work products require further attention.