Program Manager, Transformative Initiatives

The Center for Court Innovation is a non-profit organization that works to create a more effective and humane justice system by performing original research and helping launch reforms by guiding justice innovators, nationally and internationally. The Center creates operating projects that have been documented to reduce the use of jail and prison, assist victims of crime, and strengthen communities.

The Center’s RISE Project 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, Transformative Initiatives to oversee new programs engaging people who cause harm in their intimate relationships. Reporting to the Director, the Program Manager, will oversee the development and implementation of voluntary community-based individual and group interventions with the goal of changing behavior and preventing violence. 

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Oversee the development and implementation of community-based interventions engaging people causing harm to take accountability, change their behavior, and work towards healing;
• Supervise a team of facilitators and social workers;
• Provide individual interventions to a caseload of individuals who have caused harm;
• Facilitate group interventions virtually and in-person as possible;
• 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;
• Communicate with community-based service providers to facilitate, follow-up, and assist participants with voluntary service referrals;
• Oversee data collection and reporting;
• Attend staff meetings and on-going trainings as well as participate in community events;
• Additional relevant tasks, as needed.

Qualifications: The ideal candidate will have an LMSW, other related degree or equivalent experience, plus 3 years of experience working in violence prevention, providing individual counseling services, and group facilitation. The ideal candidate will be interested in participating in relevant trainings and embracing a culture of learning and self-reflection. (The Center provides no-cost training for clinical and non-clinical staff.) 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 and transformative justice, healing centered practice, and community-based counseling preferred. 
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work in a multi-disciplinary setting and maintain strong relationships with community stakeholders.
• Prior supervisory experience preferred.

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