Program Manager, Therapeutic Programs

THE ORGANIZATION

The Center for Justice Innovation (formerly the Center for Court Innovation) is a non-profit organization that works with communities and justice systems to advance equity, increase safety, and help individuals and communities thrive. The Center's goal is to identify and resolve as early as possible the challenges that bring people into the criminal and civil legal systems. It does this in a number of ways—by developing and running programs that reduce the need for incarceration and enhance economic opportunity, conducting original research to identify what works, and sharing what we learn from our programming and research with those seeking to transform the justice system around the world.

The Center is an 800-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 Court, 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. 

THE OPPORTUNITY

The Center’s RISE Project, a program of the Center for Justice Innovation, seeks to respond to the intersection of gun violence and intimate partner violence. RISE builds community capacity to prevent and respond to intimate partner violence, engages individuals who are causing harm to take accountability and change their behavior, and supports positive community norms around relationships. RISE’s approach is community-centered, survivor-informed, and holistic, rooted in principles of safety, accountability, and transformative change. 

RISE Project seeks a Program Manager, Therapeutic Services to oversee group and individual interventions engaging people who cause harm in their intimate relationships. Reporting to the Associate Director, RISE Project Director, the Program Manager will lead RISE’s Transformative Initiatives department, including advocacy, crisis intervention, individual support, group interventions, and community programs designed to engage individuals causing harm in their intimate relationships. 

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Clinical Responsibilities: 

• Manage the provision of all individual and group-based therapeutic services; 
• Supervise an interdisciplinary team of staff social workers & coordinators; 
• Communicate with community-based service providers to facilitate, follow up, and assist participants with voluntary service referrals;
• Develop and manage a survivor leadership board;
• Lead case conferencing with interdisciplinary staff and provide guidance to staff utilizing individual intervention models to a caseload of participants experiencing harm.
• Develop systems to support case flow management;
• Facilitate group interventions virtually and in person as possible;
• Support staff and participants with navigating various systems to support clients needs (ACS, Criminal);
• Oversee the development and implementation of community-based interventions engaging people causing harm to take accountability, change their behavior, and work towards healing;
• Supervise staff navigating crisis with participants and engaging in crisis intervention modalities to address needs;
• Additional relevant tasks, as needed.

Programmatic Responsibilities:

• Develop and manage relationships with city-wide stakeholders and elected officials;
• Develop and implement community strategies around community accountability, bystander intervention, and restorative practices; 
• Assist with grant writing and fundraising;
• Oversee data collection and reporting;
• Implement strategies for identifying, cultivating, and seeking grant opportunities;
• Maintain program outcomes to be accessed for grant reports and proposals;
• Attend staff meetings and on-going trainings as well as participate in community events;
• Develop and manage a survivor leadership board;
• Manage all aspects of grant implementation including managing relationships with the Mayor’s Office, funders, and partner providers;
• Develop and manage a comprehensive outreach and engagement strategy, including street outreach; 
• Work collaboratively with the RISE team to co-implement program initiatives and projects;
• Develop community and city-wide partnerships to support program engagement;
• Engage the community around issues of IPV, their intersection with community gun violence, and strategies for promoting healthy relationships through training, information sharing, and collaboration;
• Additional relevant tasks, as needed.

Qualifications: LMSW plus 3 years of experience working in violence prevention, providing individual counseling services, and group facilitation are required. Candidates will have experience with and a commitment to applying an anti-racist, anti-oppressive, pro-Black, and social justice-centered practice. Additional qualifications include:

• Experience and familiarity with community organizing, restorative justice, healing centered practice, and community-based counseling, preferred;
• Clinical and case management experience preferred
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work in a multi-disciplinary setting and maintain strong relationships with community stakeholders;
• Prior supervisory experience required.

Position Type: Full-time, able to work nights or weekends.

Compensation: The compensation range for this position is $66,490 to $79,390 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%.