Careers Job Description
General Description
The National Network for Safe Communities at John Jay College (NNSC) seeks a full-time Field Advisor to support its Field Innovations (FI) team. FI is responsible for developing emerging strategies and programs that support the NNSC’s violence reduction and trust-building work in over 50 jurisdictions. The Field Advisor reports to the Managing Director of Field Innovations, whose responsibilities include serving as the Associate Director of the National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice.
NNSC works with communities to reduce violence, minimize arrest and incarceration, and increase trust between law enforcement and the public. FI currently supports a number of new initiatives with the largest being the National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice (NI) which seeks to improve relationships and increase trust between communities and the criminal justice system; and advance the public, practitioner, and scholarly understandings of successful approaches to improving those relationships. NI is active in six cities across the country—Birmingham, AL; Ft. Worth, TX; Gary, IN; Minneapolis, MN; Pittsburgh, PA; and Stockton, CA—with interventions that are designed around three “pillars” that hold great promise for concrete, rapid progress: enhancing procedural justice, reducing the impact of implicit bias, and fostering reconciliation.
Responsibilities
- Provide day-to-day field advising to the NI’s six pilot sites through regular calls and semi-regular site visits
- Support NI pilot sites in the development and implementation of trust-building interventions that increase public safety among various communities including, but not limited to, African-American communities, new immigrants, Native Americans, victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, youth, and LGBTQIA communities
- Provide operational development and strategic advising to other FI initiatives
- Build the technical capacity of local stakeholders to implement, measure, and sustain interventions
- Design and execute collaborative learning opportunities including peer exchanges and working sessions to further the development of FI initiatives
- Develop operational assessment tools and key implementation metrics for FI strategies
- Guide program design and continuously review operational data to achieve outcomes by incorporating the best available evidence
- Liaise with high-level government, community and law enforcement leaders; partner organizations; and academics
- Ensure the timely preparation and submission of all required grant reports, including progress, quantitative, and qualitative performance, annual, and final reports
- Produce weekly site reports and maintain information in NNSC’s project management system
Other Duties
Qualifications
Qualifications
We are looking for a highly organized, entrepreneurial individual with experience in providing technical assistance, management, and monitoring large-scale projects with an established knowledge of proven strategies that reduce violence and improve public safety.
- Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s preferred
- 3-5 years of related industry experience
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, and experience working with interdisciplinary teams
- Experience managing and implementing multiple complex projects effectively and efficiently, both independently and collaboratively with a team; and with an understanding of program design and evaluation
- Strong knowledge of criminal justice issues, actors, and trends, and deep commitment to addressing injustices thereof: e.g. the causes and consequences of mass incarceration, racial disparities, the police-community trust deficit, and disproportionate state and community violence
- Knowledge about policy review, data collection, statistical evaluation of data, and strategies for conveying results to practitioners
- Experience and ability to work with law enforcement (police, military, correction/probation staff, etc.) agencies, communities, government officials, and service agencies to implement multi-disciplinary initiatives
- Organized and detailed-oriented, with demonstrated initiative, persistence, and optimism towards work that can be immensely rewarding and immensely taxing; enthusiasm and humor are advantages
- Expert level of experience with Microsoft Office programs, including Word, PowerPoint and Outlook; proficiency in Microsoft Excel also 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
Full Time
Depends on Qualifications
Nov 05, 2017 (Or Until Filled)