SOMB Adult Standards Implementation Coordinator and Community Notification Liaison

Administrator IV

This position serves as the Adult Standards Implementation Coordinator for the Sex Offender Management Board (SOMB) within the Domestic Violence and Sex Offender Management Unit (ODVSOM). In addition, this position serves as the Community Notification Coordinator related to community-based technical assistance in the area of notification about the presence of sexually violent predators.

This position serves as the staff authority in regards to the training and technical assistance support for approved providers who must adhere to and implement the Adult SOMB Standards as required per 16-11.8-103 C.R.S. This position is responsible for formulating implementation plans using change management strategies and evidence-based training techniques. This includes responsibility for providing primary staff support to assist providers in meeting statutory requirements for approved provider status, implementing changes to Standards, and working with providers to improve practice as identified during the application, complaint, and Standards Compliance Review process administered by the Application Review Committee (ARC).

This position clarifies and defends policy created by the SOMB and educates stakeholders through providing statewide training and technical assistance. This includes both approved providers as well as other key criminal justice stakeholders working with the sex offender population. This position will develop implementation plans for individual providers and work to ensure the provider implements the Standards as required by the provider approval, complaint, and Standards Compliance Review processes.

This position is responsible for SOMB committee development and provides advice and guidance to those committees that make recommendations to the SOMB on policy issues regarding the implementation or periodic revisions of the Standards. This work requires that this position also provide statewide training related to the work of those committees. This requires knowledge and analysis of sex offender research, laws, policy development, statewide collaboration, standards and treatment.

This position develops and implements training curriculums and training presentations that result in the development of valid and reliable curriculum that can be used to assist criminal justice agencies statewide. This position will also be the lead for those SOMB committees and related communication, collaboration and other professional communication statewide regarding the issues those committees are addressing on behalf of the SOMB.

This position conducts agency needs assessments to examine the issues the agency is trying to solve. Once a thorough understanding of the needs is determined, this position researches evidence-based options available to address the stated and observed needs and assess current level of knowledge of program implementation within each agency with regard to evidence-based victim/offender management programming (as applicable to the agency or individual service provider).

Advise agencies on the appropriate and applicable options. This includes education on effective implementation strategies and processes of evidence-based practices (EBPs) for correctional and treatment practitioners related to offender supervision, treatment, and re-entry. Design implementation plan that includes assessing organizational readiness for change, conducting gap analysis, providing leadership support, and developing staff skill development categories that correspond to needs assessments and staff roles.

Because effective implementation requires attendance to operational details throughout the life of the project, ongoing technical assistance, that includes continuous quality control, is an essential function of this position and includes regular adjustments and updates to the implementation plan. This technical assistance focuses on the integration and implementation of evidence-based correctional and treatment interventions, tailoring the approach to each entity's unique needs.

These responsibilities require a high level of expertise in the use of targeted interventions to resolve problems and issues as they arise.

This position serves as the subject matter expert and leading staff authority on the treatment and management of adult sex offenders and community notification of Sexually Violent Predators, in concert with the Sex Offender Management Board (SOMB). The position provides policy recommendations to the SOMB and implements the SOMB's policy decisions. This position provides technical assistance to criminal justice, law enforcement, and social service agencies as well as treatment providers statewide.

This position coordinates and supervises the Community Notification Technical Assistance Team, interfaces with notifications stakeholders including law enforcement, prosecutors, victim advocates, and others, and assists in planning and coordination of community notification trainings.

This position develops,…