This position serves as a Supervisory Senior Policy Advisor and expert/authority in leading and managing criminal and tribal justice courts work including pretrial, case management and assessment, system fairness and access and courts operations, including strategies to address and manage violent crime and crime associated with those with behavioral health needs. This includes pretrial, court operations, judicial training, court diversion and treatment courts, court integrity and tribal justice. This is a large and active portfolio and BJA is seeking candidates with experience leading teams to accomplish key goals.
This position is located in the Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), Policy Office, Courts, Communities and Strategic Partnerships team. BJA's broad and complex criminal justice grant programs, which are nationwide in scope, provide funds, training and technical assistance (TTA) to state, tribal and local criminal justice communities. This work includes pretrial and criminal courts operations, as well as collaborations with partners to address crime tied to behavioral health needs and violent crime projects, including tribal justice programs.
Supervises a group of employees performing work at the GS-14 and 13 levels.
Leads a team of staff to evaluate and recommend action to decision makers on program plans, concept papers, abstracts, applications for funding, and related matters to support assessment of compliance with program requirements, relevance to issues and priorities, and contributions to the criminal justice pretrial and courts processes. Negotiates technical aspects of criminal and tribal court programs to ensure the greatest potential for success and impact of criminal and tribal courts systems and partner agencies. Oversees a team who lead the development of criminal and tribal justice pretrial and courts programs and collaborations with other partners to ensure program implementation.
Provides leadership in coordinating the goals, objectives, and interests of the federal government's role in offering criminal program policy leadership and related cooperative agreement activities to state, tribal and local agencies and other criminal justice partners. Formulates innovative and/or comprehensive criminal justice pretrial and courts related work in planning strategies and program plans to accomplish agency-wide goals and objectives. Makes recommendations related to criminal justice work related to the courts operations and related collaborations, and long-range planning in connection with prospective changes in functions.
Leads a team that performs a variety of post-award tasks to ensure that the goals and planned outcomes for grants and/or cooperative agreement are achieved, such as overseeing assessments of capacity and planning for training and technical assistance needs, working to identify and resolve management, financial, and administrative issues; providing training, technical assistance, oversight, expertise, and consultation to program officials, awardees, and recipients; supporting the establishment and review of performance measure data and working the training partners and grant managers in BJA to assessing awardee performance and address needs via TTA; and reviewing completed awards, making appropriate adjustments in strategies to enhance success.
Leads a team that researches and prepares analysis on criminal justice program issues, providing expert guidance or analysis in criminal justice courts and related policy work. Represents the organization in developing and maintaining effective relationships with national, state, tribal, and local experts, administrators, high-level officials, policy makers, and planners. Serves as a BJA representative in criminal justice legal and courts programs on agency or inter-agency task forces whose members include high-level DOJ officials and other executive branch representatives. Provides inter-agency liaison services to federal agencies providing specific support and services in the criminal and tribal justice pretrial and courts process and collaborations.
Leads a team that provides expert criminal and tribal justice advice and guidance on broad grant and/or cooperative agreement-related projects and programs with impact on major agency criminal justice pretrial and courts related programs. Develops and/or reviews criminal justice program materials, such as program and strategic plans, solicitation content and budget recommendations, justification and program assessment of outcomes addressing BJA program priorities. Prepares analytical reports, memorandum, concept papers, budget documents and other types of written responses that are disseminated to internal and external audiences to include various practitioner groups, researchers, Congressional committees, and the general public.
