What are the responsibilities and job description for the PREA COMPLIANCE MANAGER position at City of New York?
The New York City Department of Correction (DOC) is an integral part of the Citys evolving criminal justice system participating in reform initiatives and strategies aimed to move the City towards a smaller jail system without compromising public safety. The DOC is responsible for maintaining a safe and secure environment for our employees visitors volunteers and people in our custody. Importantly safe jails enable DOC to provide people in custody with the tools and opportunities they need to successfully reenter their communities. The DOC operates facilities and court commands across the five boroughs with more than 9500 diverse professionals and knowledgeable experts.
DOC seeks to recruit PREA Compliance Managers who will be responsible for the following :
Supporting the PREA Director to ensure facility compliance with the Prison Rape Elimination Act
standards
Assessing and monitoring facility staffing levels and required video monitoring
Ensuring the facility develops and documents a staffing plan that considers sexual safety and
appropriate monitoring and reporting
Ensuring the facility uses intake risk screening information for proper housing assignment in order
to maintain a sexually safe environment
Ensuring sexual s and harassment incidents remain confidential and available on a
needtoknow basis
Ensuring victims of sexual s and harassment receives treatment and counseling; and
investigation obligations are met
Ensuring all area supervisors and first responders understand their onscene obligations for a
reported incident
Ensuring access to inmate risk assessment information is limited to only essential facility personnel
in order to protect sensitive information from misuse
Ensuring that there are multiple functioning methods to report incidents of sexual abuse and
harassment within the assigned facility and these methods are posted and widely publicized
Ensuring a Sexual Abuse Incident Review meeting is held within 30 days of the conclusion of
all substantiated and unsubstantiated PREA allegations
Establishing and maintaining a positive working relationship with DOC Investigation Unit (ID) as
well as the NYC Department of Investigations (DOI) to ensure ongoing and effective communications
regarding sexual prevention reporting response investigation and retaliation monitoring
Ensuring relevant and appropriate information is made available for victim advocates to provide
victims with emotional support crisis intervention information and referrals
Maintaining a PREA logbook for legal documentation of all sexual allegation incident information
Working in collaboration with facility personnel to prepare for PREA pre and full compliance audits
Preparing and presenting preaudit reports and working collaboratively with facility personnel on
the development of corrective action plans
Performing related duties as assigned.
CORRECTIONAL STANDARDS REVIEW 52615
Qualifications :
1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university and two years of fulltime paid experience in correction social work psychology law public administration or related field providing direct services to an inmate or detention population within a correctional or related facility; or
2. A fouryear high school diploma or its educational equivalent approved by a States Department of Education or a recognized accrediting organization and four years of fulltime paid experience as described in 1 above; or
3. Education and / or experience equivalent to 1 or 2 above. Service as an inmate in a correctional or related facility may be substituted for a portion of the required experience up to a maximum of two years on a year for year basis. A graduate degree from an accredited college or university with a major in social work psychology law criminal justice or public administration which includes a field placement performing duties as described above may be substituted for up to one year of fulltime paid experience as described above. However all candidates must have at least one year of fulltime paid experience as described in 1 above.
Additional Information :
The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic including but not limited to an individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.
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