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Overview:
CASES seeks a youth and young adult focused Assistant Team Leader to support its youth enhancement initiative, Planning Alternatives & Creating Community (PACC), co-funded by the Robin Hood Foundation and the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, operating within the Pretrial Services division. The candidate for this youth focused initiative will oversee a team of Youth Engagement Specialists, tasked with providing innovative approaches to engagement while working with 16–27-year-old participants impacted by the Criminal Legal System. The team consists of bachelor’s and master's level Case Coordinators, field-based Youth Engagement Specialists and a Resource Coordinator to assist young people in achieving and maintaining compliance with court-mandated obligations while engaging in a range of youth focused services, such as incentivized work programs, continuing education and person-centered counseling to support immediate intervention and long-term success in the community. By utilizing the evidence based Rewire by ROCA framework, the program promotes social and emotional development while driving diversion from the criminal legal system. The team provides proactive, sustained engagement and mentoring to young people in the community as a catalyst to individual transformation by bridging participants to community partners and resources eager to support our participants in realizing their greatest potential. Supporting this team that serves the young-adult population requires flexibility, creativity, and persistence among other qualities. The Assistant Team Leader will be expected to be an active partner in direct services provided to participants at the office and in the community and to provide ongoing support to the Team Leader overseeing the project.
What you will be doing:
- Supervise and support Youth Engagement Specialists across the program including individual and group weekly supervision, case conferences and occasional work in the field.
- Hire and train new Youth Engagement Specialists.
- Coordinate with Team Leader to assign cases on a regular basis.
- Engage with Data Analysis team to support accurate and timely data entry by staff as well as make data-informed planning decisions to respond to emerging trends.
- Collaborate with Team Leader and Manhattan Supervised Release leadership regularly to support the success of the program.
- Co-facilitate weekly team meetings and morning huddles to delegate tasks and ensure coverage.
- Develop programming, activities and other prosocial experiences for participants to enrich their experience in the program, drive engagement and avoid non-adherence to services.
- Support and enhance safety plans and protocols in conjunction with building staff to ensure participants have a safe and supportive space.
- Manage fiscal administrative needs of the team by reconciling petty cash, renewing staff metro cards and obtaining documentation for all program funds spent.
- Participate in periodic cross-divisional program planning meetings to communicate progress on new objectives
