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Community Justice Reinvestment Program Manager

In this position you’ll play a vital role in fostering community partnerships, managing grant allocations, and driving initiatives that strengthen social cohesion, promote equity, and much more, in Maricopa County.

We are accepting applications until 11:59pm on November 25, 2024.

Organizational Background

At Just Communities Arizona (formerly AFSC-Arizona), we affirm the inherent and undeniable dignity of every person and the immeasurable worth of every community. We’re creating new models for justice and safety, outside of Arizona’s punishment system. We work alongside and for people with convictions, formerly incarcerated people, and our shared communities.

Together, we’re working toward a system that provides healing, community, and safety for everyone.

People directly impacted by the criminal punishment system are encouraged to apply.

Position summary

The Justice Reinvestment Program Manager will design, implement, and manage JCA’s role as fiscal agent for Justice Reinvestment grant funding via Proposition 207 for Maricopa County. This position will develop and employ a community-based intermediary model to engage community-based organizations that are often unable to access traditional grants and develop an accessible and transparent process for outreach, developing guidelines and selection criteria, reviewing proposals, and making grant awards.

They, along with other JCA staff and partners, will provide Community Partners (subgrantees) with capacity building assistance, including case management, financial management, and data collection systems; help Community Partners develop policies and procedures to comply with the grant requirements; and offer ongoing technical assistance.

Specific Duties Include:

  • Develop, implement, and evaluate a plans to equitably distribute Justice Reinvestment funds to qualified community organizations.
  • Perform a variety of complex financial and project management tasks including creating and overseeing project budgets and navigating project modifications in partnership with research teams.
  • Manage project procurement functions including subcontract agreements, purchase orders, and consultant agreements by working with team members to compile necessary documentation, provide feedback on scopes of work and deliverable schedules, and liaise with internal offices to execute agreements.
  • Create and implement an outreach campaign to promote these funding opportunities to community-based organizations across Maricopa County, including a series of trainings to prepare organizations to submit their proposals.
  • Oversee and coordinate the RFP process with Maricopa County.
  • Recruit, train, and manage an Evaluation Committee to review applications and determine grant awards; ensure that members of the committee represent the populations to be served using these funds.
  • Develop training modules and workshops that help participants learn essential skills and facilitate these trainings.
  • Provide ongoing support, training, and technical assistance for subgrantees.
  • Monitor and manage Community Partner (subgrantee) compliance with the terms of the Memorandums of Understanding.
  • Oversee data collection and monitor grant funds.
  • Draft quarterly program and financial reports and any other reporting required per the contract with Maricopa County.

Minimum qualifications

  • A minimum three (3) years experience in project management, grant management, non-profit administration, or any equivalent combination of education and experience.
  •  Two (2) years in a role responsible for setting strategy; establishing systems, process, and guidelines; and/or exercising analysis and judgment for original, novel, or unprecedented situations leading to programmatic success.
  • Familiarity with diverse Maricopa County communities and local organizations; strong networks and relationships.

Valued knowledge and skills

  • Demonstrated ability to design, implement, and coordinate effective projects or programs.
  • Experience in funding management, including but not limited to proposals, contracts, agreements, budget preparation, procurement and financial monitoring.
  • Adapt easily to changes in work assignments; deadlines and priorities while maintaining superior attention to detail as well as critical and creative thinking to troubleshoot and solve problems.
  • Operate successfully both independently and in a team environment, be able to take initiative; manage workflow.
  • Have authentic conversations with community partners in a caring but firm manner that addresses or corrects conflict, poor performance, or other issues.
  • Have a working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
  • Experience providing training and/or technical assistance.
  • Demonstrated oral and written communication skills, including excellent “one-on-one” interpersonal communications.
  • Bilingual English-Spanish a plus.
  • Must be able to travel locally and statewide. Active driver’s license strongly preferred.
  • Demonstrated competence and commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, anti-racism, anti-misogyny, anti-transphobia, anti-homophobia, anti-ableism, and other forms of anti-oppression, and to a transformative justice approach to accountability and healing in all aspects of the work.
  • Knowledge, through work or lived experience, of the criminal punishment system and its impact on individuals, families, and communities.

Location

JCA does not have a physical office. Most staff positions work at least 95% from
their own home office.

Compensation

$55,000-$65,000, depending on experience. Excellent benefits package with full employee medical, dental, and vision insurance, flexible spending account (health care and dependent care), and generous vacation, holiday, and sick leave.

"Blind hiring"

This position does not have an undergraduate education requirement. If you choose to include your education history, please remove your schools from your resume. You may leave your degree (e.g., “B.A. Philosophy”), but please remove any undergraduate and graduate school names.

This “blind hiring” process is aimed at opening this opportunity to more candidates, reviewing applicants on performance assessments and mitigating bias in the decision making process.

JCA employs an intersectional analysis that is explicitly anti-racist, feminist, pro-Queer, trauma-informed, and grounded in economic justice and harm reduction principles. Just Communities Arizona is an equal opportunity employer. We do not and shall not discriminate in employment, recruitment, Board membership, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status, arrest or conviction history, or for any other discriminatory reason.

To apply

We are accepting applications until 11:59pm on November 25, 2024.

  • Send a resume and cover letter to: Caroline Isaacs, Executive Director at
    caroline@justcomaz.org.
  • Feel free to contact us with any questions: 520.623.9141.
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