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About the Role
The Manager will oversee the Brownsville Community Justice Center's social work team, therapeutic programs, and healing-centered practices, ensuring participants receive holistic support for healing, growth, stability, and success. This leadership role involves supervision, coaching, and integrating healing-centered insights into program design.
Responsibilities
- Supervise social workers, advocates, mentors, and interns with regular performance check-ins
- Set ethical practice expectations aligned with organizational values
- Facilitate staff training and professional development
- Oversee individual support, counseling, crisis intervention, referrals, and follow-up
- Provide counseling to a small caseload of participants
- Provide direct crisis intervention support as needed
- Ensure accurate documentation in data systems per funder and organizational standards
- Maintain workflows and practice compliance guidelines
- Implement healing-centered group and community programming
- Support home visits, crisis response, and court advocacy
- Coordinate with Community Initiatives and other teams to align social services with broader programming
- Co-develop responsive support for participants across programs
- Liaise between social work and community initiatives teams
- Contribute to designing new initiatives with social-emotional needs at the center
- Provide strategic directions to strengthen social work’s role through equity-centered practice
- Lead ongoing learning and reflective practice
- Stay current with best practices in restorative justice and community mental health
- Manage collection, analysis, and reporting of outcomes and service utilization
- Ensure timely, accurate data flow to leadership and funders
- Support program evaluation and quality assurance
- Build referral relationships with external service providers (housing, education, workforce)
- Represent BCJC in citywide coalitions and networks
- Expand access to specialized services for participants and families
- Contribute to planning, staff development, and internal culture
- Support inclusive, healing-centered, supportive environments
- Assist with grant proposals and program design strategies
- Perform additional tasks as necessary
Requirements
- LMSW and 5-7 years pre or post Master’s relevant full time experience required
- At least 2 years of supervisory experience required
- Sifi certified or must obtain a Sifi certification within 12 months of hire date required
- Bilingual Spanish preferred
- Experience working at community justice sites or similar environments preferred
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States at the time of application and throughout the duration of employment
- Must verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and complete the required employment verification form upon hire
Skills
- Excellent communication skills including verbal, written
- Strong knowledge of trauma-informed care, youth development, harm reduction, and anti-oppressive practice
- Demonstrated ability to lead a team, provide supervision, and manage administrative responsibilities
- Experience working in community-based settings
- Excellent interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills
- Familiarity with data management systems and documentation standards for social services
- Leadership and team supervision
- Trauma-informed and culturally responsive practice
- Program integration and interdisciplinary collaboration
- Data tracking, reporting, and compliance
- Partnership building and external stakeholder engagement
- Strategic thinking and reflective practice
Location
- Brooklyn, New York
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5-7 years relevant experience
- 2 years supervisory experience
Education Level
- LMSW
Salary/Compensations
- $92,500 - $110,000
Benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare with a national network
- Free basic dental coverage
- Vision insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Life insurance
- Flexible spending accounts including commuter FSA
- Talkspace and Ginger services for mental health care
- 403(b) retirement plan with a two-to-one employer contribution up to 5%
About the Company
- The Center for Justice Innovation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing community safety and racial justice.
- Since 1996, we’ve worked alongside communities, courts, and those most directly affected by the justice system to build stronger, healthier, and more equitable neighborhoods.
- With a team of over 900 staff and an annual budget of $130 million, the Center carries out its mission through operating programs, conducting original research, and providing expert assistance and policy guidance.
- The Brownsville Community Justice Center (BCJC), an operating project of the Center, has worked since 2011 to address systemic inequality, enhance public safety, and create opportunities for youth and residents.
Equal Opportunity
- The Center for Justice Innovation is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.
- We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other category protected by law.
- We strongly encourage and welcome applications from women, people of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and individuals with prior contact with the criminal justice system.
- Our goal is to create a supportive and respectful environment where everyone, regardless of background or identity, feels valued and included.
- At this time, the Center is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa.
- Candidates are expected to provide accurate and truthful information throughout the hiring process. Any misrepresentation, falsification, or omission of material facts may result in disqualification from consideration, withdrawal of an offer, or termination of employment, regardless of when discovered.
- In compliance with federal law, all hires must verify their identity and eligibility to work in the United States and complete the required employment verification form upon hire.