Project Director, Client Specific
Sentence Mitigation: Responsible for the coordination and
provision of client specific planning and sentence mitigation services to
achieve the best possible dispositions for clients facing criminal charges,
maintaining the integrity of and overseeing development of the program. Supervise sentencing advocate staff, consultants
and interns.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Implement procedures to
achieve all goals and objectives associated with the Client Specific Planning
project and any contract goals associated with the project.
- Establish and implement
procedures to ensure sufficient referrals to meet objectives for the CSP
project. Cultivate and expand referrals for fee paying cases. Oversee CSP
intake.
- Supervise project staff and
interns. Review staff client specific mitigation plans before submission to
defense attorney and court.
- Maintain client records and
perform data collection and reporting functions to DCJS, and any other funders
of the CSP project.
- Liaison with defense
attorney, courts, and other criminal justice professionals.
- Interview clients for CSP
written reports. Collect and review additional information from a variety of
sources including family members, employers, educators and other collateral
sources. Obtain relevant documentation from collateral sources to
complete CSP report.
- Develop familiarity with social
science research regarding issues that are relevant to our clients' lives,
including, for example, the long term impact of poverty on children's lives,
the long term impact of parental substance abuse, abandonment, the impact of
incarceration on individuals, brain development, etc.
- Refer clients to services
with the identified program(s); and follows-up with the client to promote
program engagement and completion.
- Prepare written CSP in time
for supervisor and referring defense attorney to review before submission;
provide court advocacy at all sentence and related court appearances.
- Assist in program
development, including identification of possible on-going funding sources.
Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree required; J.D. or Master's degree in human
service field preferred, or comparable work experience. Extensive
knowledge in criminal sentencing, ability to identify appropriate treatment
providers and/or programs in the community and/or the correctional
setting. Superior written/oral communication, project management
(including project performance reporting) and supervisory skills.
Computer literacy (word processing, e-mail, internet research, excel, data
entry) required. Bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred. Valid NYS Driver
License, access to vehicle. Ability to
gain clearance to correctional facilities.
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