Job Location : Staten Island,NY, USA
The Center for Justice Innovation is a community justice organization that centers safety and racial justice. Since our founding in 1996, the Center has partnered with community members, courts, and the people most impacted to create stronger, healthier, more just communities. Our decades of experience in courts and communities, coupled with our field-leading research and practitioner expertise, help us drive justice nationwide in innovative, powerful, and durable ways. For more information on how and where we work, please visit www.innovatingjustice.org.
The Center is a 900-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.
The Center's operating programs, including the award-winning Red Hook Community Justice Center and Midtown Community Justice Center, 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.
The Center's research teams are staffed with social scientists, data analysts, and lawyers who are academically-trained or have lived experience and who conduct research in the U.S. and globally on diverse criminal-legal system and justice issues. Their work includes evaluating programs and policies; conducting exploratory, community-based studies; and providing research translation and strategic planning for system actors. The Center has published studies on topics including court and jail reform, intimate partner violence, restorative justice, gun violence, reentry, sixth amendment rights, and progressive prosecution. The research teams strive to make their work meaningful and actionable to the communities they work with, policymakers, and practitioners.
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.
A dedicated support team within the Center ensures the smooth functioning of operations across various domains, including finance, legal, technology, human resources, fundraising, real estate, and communications. Comprising 15% of the organization's staff, these teams provide essential infrastructure support and innovative solutions aligned with the Center's mission and values.
SIJC seeks a Community Engagement Coordinator for the borough's Supervised Release Program (SRP). Reporting to the SRP Clinical Director, the Community Engagement Coordinator will oversee the development and implementation of housing, employment, and educational services and the expansion of community engagement services provided in-house for program participants. Specifically, the Coordinator will develop supports to maximize participants' access to medical and mental health services, substance abuse treatment and other interventions, employment and educational services, youth programming, housing resources, and other community-based supports. The Coordinator will work closely with site leadership and the Center's SRP Court Reform team to ensure that services and service linkages are developed and implemented aligned with the SRP program model and the Center's organizational values.
The Community Engagement Coordinator will oversee and support a team of Community Engagement, Housing, and Education and Employment Specialists by providing consistent and clinically-informed task supervision, with the support of the Clinical Director. The Community Engagement Coordinator will ensure the team regularly engages in program-specific training and consistently and effectively communicates across all other SRP teams to build on program successes and proactively addresses challenges.
This position leverages significant supervisory, direct practice, and program development and management experience to support the team of Community Engagement, Housing, and Education and Employment Specialists in the execution of their responsibilities. Additionally, the Coordinator will have expert knowledge of local service providers to best utilize community-based services and ensure participants are provided with substantive support aligned with their needs and goals.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Qualifications:
Position Type: Full-time in-person work required, weekend and evening hours required, as needed.
Position Location: Staten Island, NY.
Compensation: The compensation range for this position is $65,500 - $82,000 and is commensurate with experience. The Center for Justice 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. We offer a 403(b) retirement plan with a two-to-one employer contribution up to 5%.
The Center for Justice Innovation is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. We do not discriminate based on 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 welcome applications from women, people of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and individuals