Bilingual Facilitator, Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)

Center for Justice Innovation

New York, NY, USA

Published: 6/14/2022

Full Time

Job Description

THE ORGANIZATION

The Center for Justice Innovation is a community justice organization that centers safety and racial justice. Since our founding in 1996, the Center has partnered with community members, courts, and the people most impacted to create stronger, healthier, more just communities. Our decades of experience in courts and communities, coupled with our field-leading research and practitioner expertise, help us drive justice nationwide in innovative, powerful, and durable ways. For more information on how and where we work, please visit www.innovatingjustice.org.  

The Center is a 900-employee, $130 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 Justice Center, 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.

Center Support

A dedicated support team within the Center ensures the smooth functioning of operations across various domains, including finance, legal, technology, human resources, fundraising, real estate, and communications. Comprising 15% of the organization's staff, these teams provide essential infrastructure support and innovative solutions aligned with the Center's mission and values.

THE OPPORTUNITY

The Center’s Gender and Family Justice (GFJ) team is rooted in researching, developing, and implementing evidence-based best practices for the handling of domestic violence, sexual assault, teen dating violence, stalking, exploitation and trafficking cases. The team is values-based and is committed to actively promoting equitable, open, and intentional spaces within our team and within greater community discussions. In order to facilitate collaborative conversations that center well-being and self-reflection, the team encourages respectful conduct towards each other, our staff, and our guests — conduct that strives to be anti-racist and inclusive of marginalized individuals. The team acknowledges that we work within systems that uphold institutional inequity and are committed to listening to and amplifying the voices and perspectives of institutionally harmed communities in our work.

The Center’s Gender and Family Justice team is seeking a Bilingual Facilitator to facilitate classes that address intimate partner and family violence. The Bilingual Facilitator will teach primarily in the Tactics and Choices class, which facilitates classes for those arrested for Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) charges and who are participating in the Supervised Release Program. Participants are either mandated or encouraged to voluntarily attend this class as part of their supervised release program. The class offers participants an overview of basic principles of power and control dynamics and uses an interactive format to introduce strategies for making healthy choices in intimate relationships. The Bilingual Facilitator will provide this class as part of a larger IPV supervised release track, with the goal of increasing compliance with court mandates and return to court. The Bilingual Facilitator will also train in other IPV and domestic violence groups and classes as the team seeks to expand programming.

The Bilingual Facilitator will primarily teach online but will is also required to teach classes in person throughout New York City's five boroughs as the program expands. The class will be offered in several separate groups: Spanish-speaking, male, female, and LGBTQ+ defendants utilizing different curricula. Classes are offered in other languages with an interpreter on an as-needed basis.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Facilitate classes for IPV participants on supervised release (in person and online);
Communicate with case managers on participant completion;
Manage data collection for reporting including attendance and participation;
Participate in peer and group supervision;
Participate in individual supervision;
Review, revise, and assist in the development of curricula;
Provide on-site support and training to supervised release case managers as needed;
Attend Gender Family Justice and other stakeholder meetings as needed;
Attend and facilitate workshops and conferences as needed;
Facilitate other IPV groups as needed and requested;
Perform other administrative and program support functions, as needed; and
Additional relevant tasks, as needed.

Qualifications: A Bachelor’s degree or 2- 3 years of group facilitation experience, preferably with court-involved population. Bilingual Spanish/English is required. Previous experience facilitating restorative justice-based programming, and/or a familiarity with principles of restorative justice, preferred. Additional qualifications include:

Experience facilitating group work in-person and online;
Experience working with underserved and underrepresented populations;
Strong oral and written communication skills;
Strong organizational skills;
Ability to function independently and work in a team;
Ability to work days, evenings and weekends;
Ability to travel to any of New York City's five boroughs;
Minimum of 1-3 years work experience providing domestic violence prevention and intervention services in a community-based or criminal legal setting is preferred;
Experience of working with adults who have caused harm in their relationships preferred; and
Training and experience in working with survivors of domestic violence in trauma-informed settings is preferred.

Position Type: Full-time (including some weekends, and evenings).

Position Location: Midtown, Manhattan, with travel to the program sites across New York City and all five boroughs.

Compensation: The compensation range for this position is $52,000 - $59,500 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%.

The Center for Justice Innovation is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other category protected by law. We strongly encourage and welcome applications from women, people of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and individuals with prior contact with the criminal justice system. Our goal is to create a supportive and respectful environment where everyone, regardless of background or identity, feels valued and included.

Candidates are expected to provide accurate and truthful information throughout the hiring process. Any misrepresentation, falsification, or omission of material facts may result in disqualification from consideration, withdrawal of an offer, or termination of employment, regardless of when discovered.

As of February 10, 2023, New York City Executive Order 25 rescinded the COVID-19 vaccination requirement for City workers, new hires, and contracted employees. While the Center does not require vaccination, we strongly recommend that all staff, interns, and volunteers stay up to date.

In compliance with federal law, all hires must verify their identity and eligibility to work in the United States and complete the required employment verification form upon hire. Please refer to the job posting for relevant contact information. If contact details are not provided, we kindly ask that you refrain from inquiries via phone or email, as only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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