Overview
THE ORGANIZATION
The Center for Court Innovation is committed to reducing crime and incarceration, addressing violence, supporting survivors, and building communities while strengthening public trust in justice. The Center seeks justice for marginalized groups, bringing an equity lens – particularly a racial and gender equity lens – to its work. For 25 years, the Center has worked to foster justice and equity to create safe, healthy, and thriving communities and, ultimately, to transform the justice system.
The Center is an 800-employee, $100 million nonprofit that accomplishes its vision through three pillars of work: creating and scaling operating programs to test new ideas and solve problems, performing original research to determine what works (and what doesn’t), and providing expert assistance and policy guidance to justice reformers around the world.
Operating Programs
The Center’s operating programs, including the award-winning Red Hook Community Justice Center and Midtown Community Court, test new ideas, solve difficult problems, and attempt to achieve systemic change within the justice system. Our projects include community-based violence prevention programs, alternatives to incarceration, reentry initiatives, and court-based initiatives that reduce the use of unnecessary incarceration and promote positive individual and family change. Through this programming, we have produced tangible results like safer streets, reduced incarceration, and improved neighborhood perceptions of justice.
Research
Researchers at the Center conduct independent evaluations, documenting how government systems work, how neighborhoods function, and how reform efforts change things. We believe in the “action research” model; accordingly, our researchers provide regular feedback on the results of the Center’s own operating programs. The Center has published studies on topics including youth in the sex trade, reentry, gun violence, and drug treatment as an alternative to incarceration. Our researchers have been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals.
Policy & Expert Assistance
The Center provides hands-on, planning and implementation assistance to a wide range of jurisdictions in areas of reform such as problem-solving courts (e.g., community courts, treatment courts, domestic violence courts), tribal justice, reducing incarceration and the use of fines/fees and reducing crime and violence. Our current expert assistance takes many forms, including help with analyzing data, strategic planning and consultation, policy guidance, and hosting site visits to its operating programs in the New York City area.
THE OPPORTUNITY
The Center’s RISE Project seeks to respond to the intersection of gun violence and intimate partner violence. RISE builds community capacity to prevent and respond to intimate partner violence, engages individuals who are causing harm to take accountability and change their behavior, and supports positive community norms around relationships. RISE’s approach is community-centered, survivor-informed, and holistic, rooted in principles of safety, accountability, and transformative change.
RISE Project seeks an Associate Director to oversee new programs engaging people who cause harm in their intimate relationships. Reporting to the Project Director, the Associate Director will lead RISE’s transformative initiatives department, including individual, group, and community programs designed to engage individuals causing harm in their intimate relationships.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Oversee the development and implementation of community-based interventions engaging people causing harm to take accountability, change their behavior, and work towards healing;
- Supervise an interdisciplinary team of staff;
- Develop and manage relationships with city-wide stakeholders;
- Develop and manage a survivor leadership board;
- Manage all aspects of grant implementation including managing relationships with the Mayor’s Office, funders, and partner providers;
- Provide individual interventions to a caseload of individuals who have caused harm;
- Facilitate group interventions virtually and in-person as possible;
- Develop and manage a comprehensive outreach and engagement strategy, including street outreach;
- Work collaboratively with the RISE team to co-implement program initiatives and projects;
- Develop community and city-wide partnerships to support program engagement;
- Engage the community around issues of IPV, their intersection with community gun violence, and strategies for promoting healthy relationships through training, information sharing, and collaboration;
- Develop and implement community strategies around community accountability, bystander intervention, and restorative practices
- Assist with grant writing and fundraising
- Communicate with community-based service providers to facilitate, follow-up, and assist participants with voluntary service referrals;
- Oversee data collection and reporting;
- Implement strategies for identifying, cultivating, and seeking grant opportunities;
- Maintain program outcomes to be accessed for grant reports and proposals;
- Attend staff meetings and on-going trainings as well as participate in community events;
- Additional relevant tasks, as needed.
Qualifications: LMSW plus 5 years of experience working in violence prevention, providing individual counseling services, and group facilitation are required. Candidates will have experience with and a commitment to applying an anti-racist, anti-oppressive, pro-Black, and social justice-centered practice. Additional qualifications include:
- Experience and familiarity with community organizing, restorative justice, healing centered practice, and community-based counseling, preferred;
- Strong communication skills with the ability to work in a multi-disciplinary setting and maintain strong relationships with community stakeholders;
- Prior supervisory experience required.
Position Type: Full-time, able to work nights or weekends.
Compensation: Salary range starts at $78,000 and is commensurate with experience. The Center for Court Innovation offers an excellent benefits package including comprehensive healthcare with a national network, free basic dental coverage, vision insurance, short-term and long-term disability, life insurance, and flexible spending accounts including commuter FSA. We prioritize mental health care for our staff and offer services like TalkSpace and Ginger through our healthcare plans. The Center offers 4 weeks of vacation and 3 weeks of sick leave each year with carryover options. Our generous 403(b) plan focusses on making retirement accessible to all staff; all employees can contribute anywhere from 1-5% and receive a two-to-one employer contribution. Any contribution an employee makes to their retirement fund up to 5% will be doubly matched. The Center also proactively assists all employees in completing their certification for public service loan forgiveness.
The Center for Court Innovation is an equal opportunity employer. The Center does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other category protected by law. We strongly encourage and seek applications from women, people of color, members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities as well as individuals with prior contact with the criminal justice system.
As of September 9, 2021, all new hires are required to be vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus, unless they have been granted a reasonable accommodation for medical, disability or religious reasons by the Center’s Human Resources Department.
In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete an employment eligibility verification document form upon hire. Only applicants under consideration will be contacted. No phone calls please.
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