Case Management Coordinator, Community Site

THE ORGANIZATION

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.

Operating Programs

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.

Research

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.

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. 

Center Support

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. 

THE OPPORTUNITY

Brooklyn Justice Initiatives (BJI), the largest operating project of the Center, seeks to re-engineer the experience of criminal court in Brooklyn, New York, by providing judges and attorneys meaningful alternatives to bail, fines, and jail sentences. Operating out of Kings County Criminal Court along with community-based offices, BJI is a team of social service providers, court-based resource coordinators, mental health practitioners, compliance specialists, and others who seek to improve the quality of justice. Supervised Release offers an alternative to jail by providing pretrial supervision, case management, and voluntary social services to people charged with misdemeanor and felony offenses, and in doing so, uses an arrest as a window of opportunity to change the direction of a participant’s life, avoiding the harmful effects of incarceration. Program participants are monitored to ensure their appearance at court dates and mandatory programming, and receive referrals to services like job training, drug treatment, and mental health counseling.

BJI seeks a Case Management Coordinator, Community Site for the borough’s Supervised Release Program (SRP). Reporting to the SRP Director of Practice, Case Management Services. The Case Management Coordinator is responsible for employing quality assurance measures to ensure the program is adhering to the program model and employing best practices aligned with organizational values, including a commitment to Operational Excellence. The Case Management Coordinator, Community Site will provide direct supervision to our community-based Supervising Case Manager team, including the team based at our East New York office as well as the Supervising Case Manager(s) overseeing our field engagement work in the community. Additionally, they will ensure that staff regularly engage in program-specific training and receive consistent and appropriate task supervision. The Case Management Coordinator, Community Site will facilitate effective communication between this team and across all other SRP teams to ensure that the program builds on successes and proactively addresses challenges. 

This position leverages significant direct practice and supervisory experience to support staff in the execution of their responsibilities. Through trauma-informed supervision, case conferencing, and interdepartmental communication, the Case Management Coordinator will ensure case management and peer staff adhere to the program model through a trauma-informed lens. Critically, this position is responsible for ensuring that staff maintain accurate and up-to-date records in the Center’s SRP data management system and submit accurate and timely compliance reports for each participant supervised by the program. 

Additionally, the Case Management Coordinator is responsible for the implementation of new policies and protocols, with the goal of supporting staff to deliver the best possible services to participants enrolled in the Supervised Release Program. 

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Responsible for quality assurance, monitoring the team’s compliance with program requirements and court reporting obligations;
  • Oversee routine and accurate documentation to ensure best practices and court reporting obligations are consistently practiced; 
  • Responsible for convening Supervising Case Managers and their direct reports in response to deviations from the program model or other unfilled responsibilities;
• Responsible for consistent and effective cross-team communication and collaboration to proactively identify successes, challenges, and opportunities to strengthen programming, create opportunities for meaningful collaboration, and maximize internal and external resources and expertise;
  • Facilitate bi-weekly meeting across the case management and community peer teams; 
  • Develop and maintain effective communication and collaboration with Coordinators and the Compliance team to align direct practice with fidelity to the program model;
• Support policy and protocol implementation in collaboration with site leadership and the SRP Court Reform team; 
• Maintain effective collaboration with site leadership including the Directors of Practice, Director of Court Operations, and direct practice Coordinators to ensure comprehensive and aligned service delivery to participants and the program model; 
• Serve as the secondary supervisor for their team of case management and field engagement frontline staff, ensuring Supervising Case Managers are providing their staff with trauma-informed supervision and opportunities for professional growth and development;
• Support with the management of the vehicle as needed, including becoming an authorized driver, driving the van, supporting with transporting items to and from events and programming, managing drivers and driving duties, and maintaining the van;
• Provide operational support to their staff’s field engagement work to ensure operational excellence; 
• Provide trauma-informed individual task supervision to the Supervising Case Managers; 
• Provide bi-monthly trauma-informed group supervision to all staff; 
• Oversee and coordinate de-escalation efforts in response to incidents;
• Co-facilitate and participate in required de-escalation and crisis intervention training;
• Work closely with the SRP Court Reform Training Specialist, Training Institute, and site Training Liaison to ensure SRP staff are consistently trained as required; 
• Support the recruitment and hiring of and onboarding and training for new case management and field engagement staff; 
• Ensure regular and equitable access to program-related external professional development and training opportunities for all staff; 
• Participate in regular staff trainings to develop program expertise and related skill sets, including required refresher and management trainings; 
• Please note that this role is not eligible for clinical hours; and
• Additional relevant tasks, as necessary.

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree required;
• Minimum 2 years supervisory experience required;
• 5 years direct practice (i.e., therapeutic or case management) experience required;
• Experience in pretrial services or other court-based programs required;
• Bilingual (English-Spanish) preferred;
• Able to travel to/within all BJI SRP offices/target neighborhoods in Brooklyn; transportation may involve the use of personal vehicles, BJI SRP transportation, public transportation, or may be on foot;
• Able to walk 20 blocks or more on a regular basis and climb stairs;
• Able to lift at least 20 pounds; and
• Drivers license required.

Position Type: Full-time in-person work required, weekend and evening hours required, as needed.

Position Location: Brooklyn, NY

Compensation: The compensation range for this position is $80,000 - $89,500 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. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace, and as such, we do 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 welcome 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. Our aim is to create a supportive and respectful environment where every individual, irrespective of their background or identity, feels valued and included.

As of February 10, 2023, New York City Executive Order 25 rescinded the requirement of the COVID-19 vaccination for City workers, new hires, and contracted employees. Accordingly, the Center does not require all new hires be vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus; however, the Center recommends all staff, interns, and volunteers stay up-to-date on the vaccination.

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