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. The incumbent will serve as Supervisory Senior Policy Advisor, overseeing a team leading an active and broad portfolio of criminal court and adjudications projects with a focus on behavioral health and violent crime related collaborations and enhancing system integrity, 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 grant program requirements, relevance to issues and priorities, and contributions to the criminal justice pretrial and adjudications process and collaborations to address related behavioral health concerns. Negotiates technical aspects of criminal justice legal programs on the federal grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and inter-agency agreements to ensure the greatest potential for success and impact of vital adjudications, system integrity and collaborative public health-public safety partnerships. Oversees a team who lead the development of criminal justice legal 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 justice grant 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 adjudications and related behavioral health and violent crime 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 adjudications process and related behavioral health collaborations, and long-range planning in connection with prospective changes in functions.
Leads a team that performs a variety of post-award grants and/or cooperative agreement management tasks including conducting post-award reviews and analyses to identify and resolve management, financial, and administrative issues; providing training, technical assistance, oversight, ethics advice, expertise, and consultation to program officials, awardees, and recipients; establishing performance measures and monitoring and assessing awardee performance; and reviewing completed awards, making appropriate adjustments or disallowances. Processes close-outs of grants and/or agreements, ensuring compliance with programmatic, administrative, and fiscal requirements of relevant statutes, regulations, policies, guidelines, and with grantee stated objectives, and the applicable implementation plan.
Leads a team that researches and prepares analysis on criminal justice program issues, providing expert guidance or analysis in criminal justice legal, violent crime and behavioral health 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 justice pretrial and adjudications process and collaborations to address related behavioral health and violent crime related work.
Leads a team that provides expert criminal justice advice and guidance on broad grant and/or cooperative agreement-related projects and programs with impact on major agency criminal justice pretrial adjudications and related behavioral health and violent crime 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.
