Data Entry Specialist

Compensation Range: $22/hr - $25/hr commensurate with experience 

Benefits:
We have three comprehensive healthcare plans to choose from based on your priorities and budget. Housing Works covers most of the plan; you pay a portion, based on your salary. Staff begins accruing PTO immediately for a total of up to 30 days earned in the first year. We offer employees an educational benefit. This money is available for tuition loan reimbursement, tuition costs, and text books.

Responsibilities:

• Enter program data into platforms including eSHARE, e-ICare, eCW, and/or proprietary systems
• Work with staff across programs, sites, and departments (e.g., case management, quality initiatives) to obtain data
• Maintain data integrity by doing regular data review and clean-up
• Run canned reports from various databases
• Comply with all requirements surrounding client confidentiality
• Contribute to occasional events related to advocacy and/or health care initiatives
• Complete other projects as requested

Requirements:

• High school diploma, associate’s degree, and/or bachelor’s degree in a relevant field
• 2 years minimum experience of related work
• Experience working in a team-based environment
• Strong ability to receive written or verbal instructions and apply them to work tasks
• Demonstrated record of completing assignments on time
• Basic knowledge of data collection and how to look at quantitative reports
• Ability to think critically about data related to gender, sexuality, race, housing status, etc.
• Curiosity about how and why things work the way they do and how to improve them
• Willing and able to arrive to work on time, five days a week

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Housing Works was founded in 1990; With a long-term commitment to AIDS advocacy. Housing Works established New York State’s first harm reduction-based, OASAS-licensed outpatient drug treatment program. Other services include Health Home care management, behavioral health, and syringe exchange programs. A pioneer in the social entrepreneurship movement, Housing Works operates 10 high-end thrift shops in Manhattan and Brooklyn and a much-loved Bookstore Cafe in Soho. For more information, visit www.housingworks.org

Housing Works fights for funding and legislation to ensure that all people living with HIV/AIDS have access to quality housing, healthcare, HIV prevention, and treatment, among other lifesaving services.

Housing Works provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements. Housing Works complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. Housing Works also does not request prior salary information during the hiring process. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

This position is included in a bargaining unit of Housing Works’ New York City employees represented by a labor union known as the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union (“RWDSU”). Accordingly, the RWDSU has the exclusive right to bargain over the terms and conditions of employment related to this position and this position may become covered by the terms of a collective bargaining agreement (a “CBA”) between Housing Works and the RWDSU