New York City, NY - New York City, NY
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About the position
The New York City Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) invests in a network of community-based organizations and programs to alleviate the effects of poverty and to provide opportunities for New Yorkers and communities to flourish. DYCD's initiatives include COMPASS, the City's comprehensive afterschool system, Beacon Community Centers, adult and youth literacy programs, youth employment programs, services for runaway and homeless youth, and community development programs. DYCD also collaborates with other City agencies on a range of mayoral initiatives to improve City services and ensure greater opportunities for minority and immigrant youth and families. This role is situated within the Bureau of Planning, Program Integration, and Evaluation (PPIE), which promotes data-driven and evidence-informed decision-making across DYCD; provides training and technical assistance to service providers to ensure high-quality services in communities through capacity building; designs programs and prepares DYCD's Requests for Proposals; conducts research and evaluations of DYCD-funded programs; designs, facilitates and implements program integration processes to support practice and/or policy change; and pursues and manages funding and grant opportunities. Reporting to the Senior Director of Planning, Program Integration, and Evaluation, the Continuum of Care Implementation Manager will oversee implementation of the Building Local Continuums of Care to Support Youth Success Grant, a federally funded initiative administered by the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to develop a continuum of care for youth at risk or already involved in the juvenile justice system. The purpose of the grant is to establish a robust continuum of care tailored to youth at risk of juvenile justice involvement or currently within the system. The project addresses challenges within DYCD and the CBO network, notably fragmented Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) competing rather than collaborating for resources due to the nature of the procurement process, lack of awareness of available resources and services among both New Yorkers and CBOs; and a significant youth incarceration rate. Through these collaborative efforts, DYCD seeks to establish a scalable framework for an effective continuum of care, initially focusing on six priority police precincts with future plans for broader expansion. Please note, this position is a grant-funded position for 18 months.
Responsibilities
- Lead project management for the Building Local Continuums of Care to Support Youth Success grant
- Build and maintain a diverse council of community members, CBOs, government partners, and other stakeholders in several priority police precincts in NYC
- Plan, support, and facilitate ongoing planning council meetings
- Liaise and collaborate with diverse stakeholders within DYCD, other City agencies, DYCD-funded programs, people with lived experience, and the broader community
- Create and implement a change process involving diverse stakeholders with a variety of interests and abilities to participate
- Develop systems to track and report on key activities, milestones, metrics, and outcomes of project
- Complete federal grant reports and updates
- Support DYCD in intentional planning, communication, and implementation of a continuum of care model and act as a liaison to all DYCD areas, including programmatic teams and administrative and central support teams
- Design and facilitate inter and intra-agency meetings to establish policies and encourage consistent implementation practice
- Coordinate community planning processes in coordination with relevant programmatic units
- Apply human-centered design approaches such as journey mapping, root cause analysis, and extensive stakeholder input sessions and surveys
- Communicate progress to funders and other stakeholders in meetings, presentations, and written documents
- Work closely with internal staff members at DYCD and consultants to move forward key initiatives and commitments from the grant proposal
- Summarize findings of analysis, research, and stakeholder engagement for stakeholders.
Requirements
- A master's degree from an accredited college or university with a specialization in an appropriate field of physical, biological or environmental science or in public health.
- A doctorate degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an appropriate field of physical, biological, environmental or social science and one year of full-time experience in a responsible supervisory, administrative or research capacity in the appropriate field of specialization; or
- A master's degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an appropriate field of physical, biological, environmental or social science and three years of responsible full-time research experience in the appropriate field of specialization; or
- Education and/or experience which is equivalent to the above. However, all candidates must have at least a master's degree in an appropriate field of specialization and at least two years of experience described in the previous point.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience managing complicated change processes
- Excellent writing, editing and analytic skills
- Excellent project management skills, including ability to develop and manage processes involving multiple stakeholders and deadlines
- Ability to engage with diverse stakeholders and work closely with a team to accomplish strategic goals
- Comfortable learning new data and administrative systems for tracking project activities.
Benefits
- Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility
- New York City residency requirement within 90 days of appointment, with certain exceptions for long-term City employees.
