Program​/Project Coordinator , Term in Socorro, Estancia, or Truth or C

Program/Project Coordinator # Full-Time, Term in Socorro, Estancia, or Truth or Consequences, NM

The Seventh Judicial District Court is recruiting for one full-time, classified Program/Project Coordinator position for our Adult Drug Court Program in Sierra, Socorro, and Torrance counties. Acting under general direction, provide high-level administrative support, complete multiple special projects, and assist with the planning, organizing, directing, and management of a program or project.

• Provide administrative and clerical assistance in the development of programs or project plans.
• Create detailed schedules to track the completion status of program goals and deadlines.
• Track eligibility requirements and compliance with statutory eligibility for program participants or judges.
• Act as point of contact during the absence of the Program or Project Manager.
• Prepare requests for proposals, contracts, agendas, legislative materials, minutes, event programs, bulletins, reports, and newsletters.
• Maintain a tracking system for items such as responses to proposals, contracts, and purchase requisitions.
• Reconcile travel arrangements for multiple parties and prepare travel reimbursement requests.
• Schedule and coordinate appointments, meetings, events, and facility usage.
• Develop a system to track and monitor the budget of programs and provide budget reports.
• Coordinate and organize the financials and logistics for workshops, special events, programs, projects, divisions, as well as court officials.
• Audit financial, program, division, and project information to ensure quality assurance of records and data.
• Evaluate data accuracy and integrity against data standards and standard operating procedures and provide recommendations for remediation of any errors.
• Compile statistical data that assists in the evaluation of a judicial entity’s operations in relation to established goals.
• Propose updates to current standard operating procedures based on best practices, statute and rule amendments.
• Provide training using data standards, standard operating procedures, operating manuals and other resources.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of training materials developed and provided to judicial entities.
• Attend internal and statewide committee meetings.
• Evaluate reports to identify errors, and improve data quality and overall management of programs and projects.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

The successful applicant should demonstrate knowledge of program or project planning, coordination and implementation of a single program or multiple programs; state procurement rules and regulations; court or judiciary structure; research and problem solving techniques; state and federal grant compliance methods; court rules, policies, and procedures; basic principles of budgeting, cost analysis and fiscal management.

• Education:
  
  Associate’s Degree in Criminal Justice, Business or Public Administration, social sciences or a related field.
• Education substitution:
  Two years of experience in advanced executive level administrative, project management assistance, or directly related experience may substitute for education on a year‑for‑year basis.
• Experience:
  
  Three years in business administration, public administration, court management, criminal justice systems, or related experience directly related to coordinating programs and projects.
• Experience substitution:
  Secondary education in a related field may substitute for up to one year of experience. Thirty semester hours equals one year of experience.
• Proof of education required.

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Rx, short, and long‑term disability insurance programs, employee assistance program.
• State paid life insurance, supplemental and dependent life insurance.
• Optional flexible spending accounts for medical, day‑care, and travel expenses.
• Paid vacation and sick leave up to eight (8) weeks.
• Eleven (11) paid holidays.
• Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Deferred compensation 457(b) plan.
• Lifetime defined benefits retirement plan.
• Flexible work schedules and alternative work locations.

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