Careers Job Description
General Description
The National Network for Safe Communities at John Jay College (NNSC) seeks a full-time Advisor for its Research & Policy (R&P) team, which promotes and builds a community of practice around promising new approaches to public safety. The Advisor leads those efforts, in collaboration with NNSC’s executive staff and Field Innovations department, through extensive research, strategy and program development, advisement to NNSC partners, and the production of research materials, case studies, and other written products.
NNSC supports cities to implement and advance proven strategies that reduce violence and improve public safety, minimize arrest and incarceration, strengthen communities, and improve relationships between law enforcement and communities. Since 2009, NNSC has worked to support cities both nationally and internationally to implement and advance proven strategies that reduce violence and improve public safety, minimize arrest and incarceration, strengthen communities, and improve relationships between law enforcement and communities.
Responsibilities
- Conduct intensive fieldwork and interviews for policy-focused case studies, concept papers, and guidebooks
- Write popular and translational material on complex research and practice in the field of criminal justice
- Oversee grant deliverables under awards from federal and private foundations
- Manage the production of guidebooks and practitioner tools for city government, law enforcement, and community organizations
- Develop production timelines and ensure on-time delivery of written and other products.
- Review and stay abreast of recent scholarship and publications on criminal justice
- Disseminate information between NNSC partner sites to build a community of practice around the organization’s principles and approach to public safety
- Advance implementation of NNSC’s strategies and interventions by providing operational, development, and strategic advising for select Field Innovations’ strategies, sites, and partners
- Build technical capacity of local stakeholders to implement, measure and sustain interventions
- Develop and maintain assessment tools to guide, organize, and analyze key metrics of strategy implementation
- 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
- Work cross-team and independently to design and execute working sessions, peer-exchanges, and other events to support the development of NNSC’s strategies
- Ensure timely preparation and submission of all required grant reports, including progress, quantitative and qualitative performance, annual and final reports
- Produce regular site reports and maintain site information on internal project management systems
Other Duties
Qualifications
Qualifications
We are looking for an entrepreneurial, highly-organized person with experience overseeing publication projects; experience providing technical assistance or high-level advising; experience managing and monitoring large-scale projects; an established knowledge of proven strategies that reduce violence and improve public safety; and an established knowledge of research and policy trends in both the print and digital space.
- Bachelor’s degree and 5-7 years of experience required; master’s degree (or equivalent) preferred
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and experience working with interdisciplinary teams
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Experience in the non-profit sector or a university research setting
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
Mar 15, 2019 (Or Until Filled)