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Chicago, Illinois is traditionally one of the more violent U.S. cities, with more homicides, shootings, and violent crimes than the larger cities of New York and Los Angeles. Chicago also represents, with Los Angeles, California, one of the two principal concentrations of street gangs in the U.S. As compared with gangs in other cities, gangs in Chicago are larger in size, more organizationally sophisticated, and more heavily involved in criminal activity, especially violence.

The Chicago Violence Reduction Strategy draws on an innovative but proven ?focused deterrence approach - the National Network for Safe Communities group violence reduction strategy - that has repeatedly been successful in U.S. cities, and it builds on a previous, related Chicago intervention (Chicago Project Safe Neighborhoods) that engages individuals with histories of gun violence in order to lower community homicide rates and individual recidivism rates. The group violence reduction strategy holds that violence can be dramatically reduced when community members and law enforcement partner to directly engage with these groups and clearly communicate: (1) a credible, moral message against violence; (2) a credible law enforcement message about the consequences of further violence; and (3) a genuine offer of help for those who want it.

The goal for the project is to address homicide and serious violence city-wide – meaning in those areas where it is a problem – and reduce it to the greatest extent possible. The strategy for Chicago is designed to produce large, rapid, and sustainable reductions in violent crime in Chicago and to build capacity within the City to sustain the strategy in the long term.

This individual will provide necessary and critical support by helping to initially manage and then guide the custom notification process. They will help develop and review implementation strategies and practices, coordinate the various agencies participating in the process, and collect and report all data associated with custom notifications.

The assistant project manager will work closely with the internal and external partners and consultants in order to ensure the timely delivery of all required reported data and help to further develop our custom notification model. Relative to this component of the Strategy, the assistant project manager will provide direct technical assistance to operational personnel working the VRS strategy in the Chicago Police Department and other partner agencies. In addition, the focus of the project manager will be upon providing training and support for the institutionalization and routinization of this component of the VRS within the Chicago Police Department, the community moral voice partners and the social service partners.  The assistant project manager will also assist the executive director, senior project manager and project manager with other aspects of the continued development and sustainability of the VRS. This position will also require other duties as required and assigned.