Careers Job Description
General Description
The Prisoner Reentry Institute (PRI) at John Jay College of Criminal Justice is recruiting a full-time Senior Policy Associate to assist our work to improve policy and practice affecting people with criminal records, with a special focus on housing. The Senior Policy Associate will work with PRI’s Policy Director to reform housing policies that impact individuals with criminal records, including changing policies of housing providers, developing subsidized housing resources for individuals with criminal records, and working to ban unfair housing discrimination.
Other Duties
Responsibilities include:
- Developing strategic opportunities for PRI to advance its mission by providing policymakers and practitioners with cutting edge tools and expertise.
- Supporting PRI's programs with integrative policy reform analysis and efforts.
- Assist developing public policy positions on reentry and criminal justice issues, including critical analysis of research, legislation, and policy proposals.
- Understanding how policy changes will affect people who have been involved with the criminal justice system and working with PRI staff, stakeholders, coalitions, elected officials or state agency staff to influence policy.
- Helping develop policy and coalition efforts around reentry and criminal justice initiatives.
- Representing PRI in coalitions, hearings, meetings, and other events. This could include providing testimony, participating in formal or informal conferences, or representing PRI in meetings with government officials.
- Leading PRI’s youth leadership and organizing initiative that seeks to build youth engagement in public housing policies, facilitate intergenerational conversations among housing residents, and envision alternatives to traditional legal responses used against residents who become involved in the criminal justice system.
- Identifying opportunities for experimentation with new approaches that effectively protect public safety stemming homelessness and family disruption.
- Working with the Policy Director and other PRI staff to design and conduct research studies that can inform the development of more effective strategies for ensuring safety in public housing.
Qualifications
The ideal candidate will have a proven ability to manage multiple commitments combining attention to detail with maintaining a focus on the big picture. She or he will foster cooperation and learning among colleagues and key stakeholders. You should have:
- Knowledge of the criminal justice system and civil reentry issues faced by individuals with involvement with the criminal justice system.
- The ability to translate complex ideas into concise and compelling written products that reflect the research-based, cross-disciplinary values of PRI;
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including maturity, keen judgment, and the ability to work with people from a wide array of backgrounds and perspectives and across projects;
- Efficient, organized work style and an ability to prioritize quickly and confidently;
- Experience with building and maintaining strong working relationships and fostering collaboration among diverse stakeholders;
- An undergraduate degree and substantial related professional experience;
- Master’s degree preferred but not required.
RFCUNY Benefits
RFCUNY Employee Benefits and AccrualsAbout the Research Foundation
The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) is a nonprofit educational corporation founded in 1963 to provide post-award fiscal and administrative support for CUNY’s research and sponsored programs. RFCUNY’s services allow CUNY researchers, faculty, and staff to focus on their intellectual curiosity and scientific discoveries, on projects and programs that serve our local and global communities, proposing concrete solutions to society’s most pressing challenges.
RFCUNY serves as a fiscal agent and works closely with all the CUNY campus Grants Offices to perform the core functions of post-award financial management for CUNY research projects and sponsored programs. These functions include legal assessment and signing of agreements where RFCUNY is named as a fiscal agent; setting up award accounts; preparing sub-awards and assisting PIs in monitoring the work of the recipients of sub-awards; supporting project directors with hiring and managing research project and sponsored program staff; supporting the purchasing and paying for goods and services with grant and program funds; managing financial aspects of projects including accounts receivable, financial reporting, invoicing, budget monitoring, and cost compliance with uniform guidance; ensuring that sponsor financial requirements are met; monitoring compliance with applicable project and financial management rules and laws; supporting the management of independent and external audits and financial reviews; and providing data, information, management expertise, and other supports to CUNY’s research and sponsored programs.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Key Features
Prisoner Reentry Institute
Full Time
$55,000.00 - $70,000.00
Sep 13, 2016 (Or Until Filled)