PREA COMPLIANCE MANAGER
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Prea Compliance Manager

The New York City Department of Correction (DOC) is an integral part of the City's evolving criminal justice system, participating in reform initiatives and strategies aimed to move the City towards a smaller jail system without compromising public safety. The DOC is responsible for maintaining a safe and secure environment for our employees, visitors, volunteers and people in our custody. Importantly, safe jails enable DOC to provide people in custody with the tools and opportunities they need to successfully re-enter their communities. The DOC operates facilities and court commands across the five boroughs with more than 9,500 diverse professionals and knowledgeable experts. DOC seeks to recruit PREA Compliance Managers who will be responsible for the following:

• Supporting the PREA Director to ensure facility compliance with the Prison Rape Elimination Act standards
• Assessing and monitoring facility staffing levels and required video monitoring
• Ensuring the facility develops and documents a staffing plan that considers sexual safety and appropriate monitoring and reporting
• Ensuring the facility uses intake risk screening information for proper housing assignment in order to maintain a sexually safe environment
• Ensuring sexual assaults and harassment incidents remain confidential and available on a need-to-know basis
• Ensuring victims of sexual assaults and harassment receives treatment and counseling; and investigation obligations are met
• Ensuring all area supervisors and first responders understand their on-scene obligations for a reported incident
• Ensuring access to inmate risk assessment information is limited to only essential facility personnel in order to protect sensitive information from misuse
• Ensuring that there are multiple functioning methods to report incidents of sexual abuse and harassment within the assigned facility and these methods are posted and widely publicized
• Ensuring a Sexual Abuse Incident Review meeting is held within 30 days of the conclusion of all substantiated and unsubstantiated PREA allegations
• Establishing and maintaining a positive working relationship with DOC Investigation Unit (ID) as well as the NYC Department of Investigations (DOI) to ensure ongoing and effective communications regarding sexual assault prevention, reporting response, investigation and retaliation monitoring
• Ensuring relevant and appropriate information is made available for victim advocates to provide victims with emotional support, crisis intervention, information, and referrals
• Maintaining a PREA logbook for legal documentation of all sexual allegation incident information
• Working in collaboration with facility personnel to prepare for PREA pre and full compliance audits
• Preparing and presenting pre-audit reports and working collaboratively with facility personnel on the development of corrective action plans
• Performing related duties as assigned.

Correctional Standards Review - 52615

Qualifications:

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university and two years of full-time paid experience in correction, social work, psychology, law, public administration or related field providing direct services to an inmate or detention population within a correctional or related facility; or 2. A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent approved by a State's Department of Education or a recognized accrediting organization and four years of full-time paid experience as described in 1 above; or 3. Education and/or experience equivalent to 1 or 2 above. Service as an inmate in a correctional or related facility may be substituted for a portion of the required experience up to a maximum of two years on a year for year basis. A graduate degree from an accredited college or university with a major in social work, psychology, law, criminal justice or public administration which includes a field placement performing duties as described above may be substituted for up to one year of full-time paid experience as described above. However, all candidates must have at least one year of full-time paid experience as described in 1 above.

Additional Information:

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.