Supervising Case Manager, Supervised Release Program

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:

Backed by decades of on-the-ground experience and nationally recognized expertise, we bring innovative, practical, and lasting solutions to justice systems nationwide. Learn more about our work ovatingjustice.org.

Brooklyn Justice Initiatives (BJI), the largest operating project of the Center, seeks to re-engineer the experience of criminal court in Brooklyn, New York, by providing judges and attorneys meaningful alternatives to bail, fines, and jail sentences. Operating out of Kings County Criminal Court along with community-based offices, BJI is a team of social service providers, court-based resource coordinators, mental health practitioners, compliance specialists, and others who seek to improve the quality of justice.

Supervised Release offers an alternative to jail by providing pretrial supervision, case management, and voluntary social services to people charged with misdemeanor and felony offenses, and in doing so, uses an arrest as a window of opportunity to change the direction of a participant’s life, avoiding the harmful effects of incarceration. Program participants are monitored to ensure their appearance at court dates and mandatory programming, and receive referrals to services like job training, drug treatment, and mental health counseling.

BJI is seeking a Supervising Case Manager for the borough’s Supervised Release Program (SRP). Reporting to Case Management Coordinator, the Supervising Case Manager will be responsible for providing substantive and consistent clinically-informed task supervision to Case Managers and Senior Case Managers to ensure fidelity to the program model and quality service to participants. Supervising Case Managers ensure that staff are completing program-specific training;

consistently applying policy, protocol, and best practices aligned with program-specific training; completing routine and accurate data entry and court reporting, and communicating effectively across SRP teams to ensure the program builds on successes and proactively addresses challenges. This position is responsible for completing comprehensive and routine case audits in partnership with the compliance team to ensure consistent application of policies, protocols, and best practices.

This position leverages exemplary communication, data management, and supervisory skills to support Case Managers and Senior Case Managers in the execution of their responsibilities. Though Supervising Case Managers will not carry a standard caseload, this position is responsible for supporting de-escalation efforts in service of participants presenting with acute needs.

• Responsible for quality assurance, monitoring the team’s compliance with program requirements and court reporting obligations;
  • Oversee routine and accurate documentation to ensure best practices and court reporting obligations are consistently practiced;
  • Responsible for effective collaboration with the compliance team to ensure that Case Managers and Senior Case Managers complete accurate and timely data entry and compliance reporting within designated deadlines; and
  • Responsible for convening Case Managers and Senior Case Managers in response to deviations from the program model or other unfilled responsibilities.
• Maintain accurate and timely data entry and case documentation aligned with the program model, court reporting obligations, and best practices;
• Support policy and protocol implementation in collaboration…