The Department of Community Justice is in search of a Program Specialist Senior in the Victim and Survivor Services Unit. The mission of the Victim and Survivor Services Unit is to support people who have experienced harm by thoughtfully meeting their individualized needs, upholding victim rights, and enhancing our community’s response to victims/survivors by being a collaborative and trusted community partner that prioritizes survivor-led practices and policies. Our work is rooted and led by three core values:
As a Program Specialist Senior, you will provide strategic direction and collaboration with the Department of Community Justice staff as well as community partners to design a more coordinated and effective system response to victims/survivors. The Program Specialist Senior will create system change that will improve restitution collection, victim notification, referrals to services, victim safety, restorative responses, and communication to victims about probation and parole in both the Adult and Juvenile Services Divisions. In addition, the Program Specialist Senior will serve as a lead for both grant funded and internal work within the unit.
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Providing leadership, strategy, and advice, driving the programmatic work of the unit, including goals and objectives for programs, policies, operational procedures, and assessment of agency practices.
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Providing leadership for interagency collaborations that will improve policies and procedures to better serve crime victims and survivors.
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Developing and presenting training materials and briefings regarding practices, resources, and policies related to unit subject matter expertise.
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Researching evidence-based practices related to subject matter expertise, including topics on trauma, cultural responsivity, and responding to specific types of victims.
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Actively championing racial justice work and eliminating oppression and white supremacy values in program policies and procedures.
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Evaluating services over time through surveys, focus groups, and community needs assessments with the goal of enhancing and improving services.
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Preparing statistical and qualitative reports to inform projects this position is responsible for.
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Acting as liaison and/or designated program spokesperson to community partners, victim services, governmental agencies, and elected officials.
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Facilitating project meetings and developing meeting materials.
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Acting as a lead for the team by knowing how to do each person’s role, providing coverage as needed, helping to train new staff, and overseeing the client assistance fund.
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Equivalent to a Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in criminal justice, restorative justice, social work, program evaluation, public administration, or related field (Professional work at or near the level of this position can substitute year for year for the educational requirement), and
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3 years experience working with crime victims/survivors, and
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3 years technical program experience, development and oversight, and
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Must pass a thorough background investigation which includes, but is not limited to a review of applicant’s criminal, civil, driving, military, educational and employment history prior to employment, and
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Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities (KSAs):
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Advanced knowledge and experience of victim services, criminal justice system procedures, domestic violence/sexual assault dynamics, methods and terminology, and victims’ rights under Oregon law, and
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Working knowledge and understanding of the effects of abuse, trauma and vicarious trauma, as well as restorative justice, and
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Demonstrated skill and ability to lead multi-disciplinary, multi-agency teams that includes law enforcement to develop collaborations, engage teams, develop shared goals, build consensus, and engage in joint problem-solving that results in decisions and resolutions, and
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Demonstrated skill in developing and providing training and/or presentations