Coordinator, MAP Engagement

The Organization

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 three core strategies:

• Operating Programs that pilot new ideas and address local challenges;
• Conducting original research to evaluate what works—and what doesn’t;
• Providing expert assistance and policy guidance to reformers across the country and beyond.

The Bronx Community Justice Center (BxCJC; Justice Center), a program of the Center for Justice Innovation, works to create a safer, more equitable Bronx through community‑driven safety initiatives, violence prevention, youth opportunity, and economic development efforts. Underway since 2015, the Mayor's Action Plan for Neighborhood Safety (MAP) is a comprehensive strategy to enhance public safety and strengthen community well‑being in 15 public housing developments across New York City.

The initiative aims to enhance safety and overall quality of life by strengthening collaboration and capacity among public housing residents. Since 2016, citywide meetings have been convened to share information and data, facilitate community engagement to identify neighborhood priorities, enhance the quality of life and spur collaboration and accountability among city agencies and local stakeholders.

The Center for Justice Innovation serves as an implementation partner for Neighborhood Stat (NSTAT), the operational centerpiece of MAP, a community‑based, problem‑solving process grounded in the belief that public safety cannot exist without the public. It is an acknowledgment that safe and thriving neighborhoods require resident leadership, community and government support, and resources to produce sustainable change. To that end, Neighborhood Stat employs a series of local meetings that engage residents and MAP partners in sharing, analyzing, and using data to identify public safety priorities and implementation of solutions.

These meetings, the information they generate, and the actions that follow are an essential part of MAP’s strategy to enhance accountability by providing local residents and stakeholders with considerable resources and access to key decision‑makers.

The Bronx Community Justice Center, in partnership with the Mayor’s Action Plan for Neighborhood Safety (MAP), is seeking a MAP Engagement Coordinator. Reporting to the Associate Director, Community Initiatives, the Coordinator, MAP Engagement Patterson Houses will support residents, community partners and local city agency representatives through the process of identifying and solving issues that create vulnerabilities in community safety and well‑being.

The MAP Engagement Coordinator will lead the planning and implementation of Neighborhood Stat at Patterson Houses.

• Recruit and retain a team of local residents and support building their capacity in policy and placemaking, organizing and advocacy, and other relevant competencies;
• Facilitate the implementation of resident‑led community‑building projects;
• Work in partnership with the Program Administrators to coordinate city agencies to respond to community needs via all aspects of the Neighborhood Stat process;
• Promote positive cultural norms around behavioral change to maintain community‑led public safety;
• Use data to inform resident‑led strategies that promote community safety.

• Recruit and manage a diverse resident team representative of the development’s diverse subgroups, including religious affiliations, ethnic identities, cultures, languages, age groups, and histories of community organizing and civic engagement;
• Develop and retain a comprehensive engagement plan, with a clear strategy, benchmarks, and outcomes, to create partnerships and gain a solid understanding of key community priorities;
• Attend in‑person,…