Careers Job Description
General Description
Responsible for providing a Senior level of tactical advising to a portfolio of partner cities implementing violence reduction strategies.
Specific duties include:
- Provide content expertise to partners; guide and assist in various NNSC (National Network for Safe Communities) application/theories and related problem-solving tools, support the development and delivery of initiatives.
- Build the technical capacity of local stakeholders to implement, measure, and sustain interventions.
- Raise awareness of problem solving tools, violence reduction processes and procedures, and lessons learned; to promote the adoption of best practices.
- Explore, analyze, and visualize data to inform implementation of partner crime reduction strategies.
- Develop and maintain assessment tools to guide, organize, and analyze key metrics of strategy implementation.
- Continuously review operational data in order to achieve outcomes by incorporating the best available evidence.
- Maintain up-to-date, accurate site-specific information (contact information for key partners, high-level implementation summary, call and meeting notes, etc.) in NNSC’s project management system.
- Build and maintain strong, functional relationships with high-level government, community and law enforcement leaders; partner organizations; and academics.
- Design collaborative learning opportunities, foster peer learning partnerships across sites, share knowledge and best practices to further implementation in sites.
- Ensure the timely preparation and submission of written materials associated with each site and for the programmatic team:
- Periodic memos and assessments for the site partners, as needed
- Progress; quantitative, and qualitative performance; annual; and/or final reporting, if required by grant or contract
- Proposals for prospective partners and to support ongoing work with a site;
- Report outcomes, challenges, and innovation opportunities to team, senior management, and participate in ongoing development and refinement of NNSC’s approach to violence prevention as part of the programmatic team
- Additional duties as assigned.
Travels approximately 30% of the time nationwide and occasional trips internationally for conferences and professional meetings.
Other Duties
N/A
Qualifications
Must possess a Bachelor’s degree in Public Administration, Sociology, Political Science, Criminal Justice, International Security Policy, or related.
Must also have least five years of progressive, post-Bachelor’s work experience.
Experience must include:
- Five years of experience in project management, strategic advising, program development, or related fields
- Three years of experience in the public safety policy realm in a professional or volunteer capacity implementing multi-disciplinary initiatives that involve law enforcement agencies, community leaders and community-based organizations, government officials, and service agencies.
Must also have the following knowledge, which could be gained through academic coursework, work experience, or volunteer work:
- Knowledge of data-driven policy review, data collection, statistical evaluation of data, and strategies for conveying results to practitioners.
- Knowledge of criminal justice issues, such as the causes and consequences of mass incarceration, racial disparities, the police-community trust deficit, and disproportionate state and community violence.
Remote work is permitted.
This position is located at 500 W 56th Street, Suite 031W, New York, NY 10019
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
NNSC
Full Time
$93,200.00 - $104,721.00
Feb 15, 2024 (Or Until Filled)