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. The Policy Office provides national leadership in criminal justice grant programs, training, and technical assistance. The incumbent will serve as Supervisory Senior Policy Advisor, overseeing a team leading criminal court based and adjudications projects with a focus on collaborations with behavioral health collaborations and enhancing system integrity, including tribal justice programs.
Supervises a group of employees performing work at the GS-14 and 13 levels.
Evaluates and recommends action to decision makers on 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 criminal justice legal work included in the adjudications process. 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 developments in criminal justice legal and courts programs 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 leadership and related cooperative agreement activities to state, tribal and local agencies and other criminal justice partners. Formulates innovative and/or comprehensive criminal justice legal work in planning strategies and program plans to accomplish agency-wide goals and objectives. Makes recommendations related to criminal justice legal work in the adjudications process and long-range planning in connection with prospective changes in functions.
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.
Researches and prepares analysis on criminal justice program issues, providing expert guidance or analysis in criminal justice legal 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 adjudications process.
Provides expert criminal justice advice and guidance on broad grant and/or cooperative agreement-related projects and programs with impact on major agency law enforcement operations and officer safety/wellness 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.
