Verainstituteofjustice
Initiative Director, Greater Justice New York
Brooklyn, New York · Director
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 12 days ago
ResearchCommunicationMentoringPublic Speaking
About the role
- As a senior leader within the organization, the Director has significant responsibility for shaping the vision of Vera's work in New York both at the city and state level.
- Navigate complex political dynamics to advance GJNY's work.
- Represent Vera as one of the organization's experts in media outlets (op-eds, interviews), conferences, webinars, and other external events.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development, design, and implementation of advocacy strategies for GJNY policy campaigns, including management and execution of GJNY's work in research, writing and publications, projects, partnerships, and other deliverables.
- Manage and operationalize various components of the team's strategy and ensure cohesion of workstreams.
- Develop and measure metrics to discern impact of the established strategy.
- Work closely with Vera's Research, Communications, and Advocacy capacity teams to support the development and execution of the GJNY strategy.
- Partner with the development department to accomplish fundraising goals, to cultivate relationships with funders, and to support funder relationship management, proposal creation, and reporting deadlines.
- Lead and/or partner with other organizations, coalitions or other relevant groups to advance GJNY's goals.
- Manage all elements of the team's operations including budget, deadlines, staff deployment, and team management.
- Maintain regular contact with the finance department to develop, track, and manage budgets.
- Though you primarily operate within the scope of Vera's 501(c)(3) function, you frequently will collaborate with Vera Action, Vera's 501(c)(4) sister organization.
Benefits
- The Director has a commitment to race equity and inclusion (REI) in their work, a passion for driving social change, and professional and/or lived experience with the criminal justice system
Company info
- The Greater Justice New York GJNY Program Director is responsible for leading the program's work-from a macro-level vision of what Vera's role is in reforming New York's criminal justice and public safety systems to the micro-level day-to-day responsibility of supervision, management, fundraising, relationship building, and delivering on the work itself.
- You serve as Vera's lead expert on New York's criminal justice issues and opportunities for reform, both as an internal thought partner within the institute and as an external representative to other stakeholders in the field.
- GJNY's program director leads an 8-10 person team.
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