Associate Director, Community Justice

Description

Title: Associate Director of Community Justice

Location: Belltown

Schedule: M-F 9am-5pm flexible when needed

Pay Range: $110,000-$115,000

Working at Evergreen Treatment Services makes a big difference in our community!

• ETS has been working to transform the lives of individuals and their communities through innovative and effective addiction and social services in Western Washington for over 50 years. Learn more about our mission and values.
• Change begins within. We strive to foster and sustain a diverse and inclusive community within our organization. Find out how we are working to achieve racial equity, health equity, and community justice.
• Our Clinic Services and REACH teams bring critical professional expertise and heartfelt compassion to the work they do every day to serve our most vulnerable community members. Check out the compelling stories told by our patients, clients, and staff members that provide more information and a clear picture regarding our organization’s essential work. 

REACH Mission and Values

The REACH Program of Evergreen Treatment Services works with individuals experiencing homelessness and behavioral health conditions to help them achieve stability and improved quality of life. The REACH mission is to foster community health and safety through outreach, relationship, healing interventions and systems advocacy for people who use drugs. REACH provides outreach-based-care coordination, multidisciplinary clinical services, and supports to access and maintain housing. All services are based in principles of harm reduction that offer respect and dignity to individuals moving through stages of change in their lives. 

REACH incorporates a racial equity lens that includes naming the impact and actively dismantling systems of oppression rooted in White Supremacy, while addressing the root causes perpetuating historical trauma and immense suffering in individuals’ lives. We are committed to building a robust behavioral health response that diverts people away from jail by rebuilding community and providing services to ensure those presently marginalized aren’t just surviving, but able to thrive.

REACH offers an array of services ranging from survival support provided where folks are living outside to linkages to essential resources such as housing, assistance to resolve legal issues, health care, entitlements and easily accessible treatment for substance use disorders and mental health conditions. 

The REACH team is passionate about creating a hospitable and welcoming environment for all people while providing quality services on an individually tailored basis to our clientele. REACH values diversity of lived experience, is committed to racial equity and social justice, and appreciates hard work, creativity, and a good sense of humor. People who have been impacted by the criminal legal system are encouraged to apply. 

This dynamic position plays an important role in helping ETS accomplish our mission!

Job Summary:

• The Associate Director, Community Justice role is a key position within the REACH leadership team, focused on advancing ETS’ mission. This role supports leadership development for staff and middle management while helping drive strategic initiatives across the organization. 
• The Associate Director will support the Director of Community Justice in exploring opportunities for applying restorative justice models and practices in the community to minimize the harmful impact of the criminal legal system on the population REACH serves. This includes defining Community Justice culture at REACH and developing restorative practices and systems to support REACH clinical work and enhance staff clinical skills. 
• The Associate Director role will support all areas of focus within the Community Justice domain including the REACH LEAD program of intensive case management. This involves enhancing organizational systems for large bodies of LEAD operations such as: On-call law enforcement referral systems, LEAD data systems and reporting, LEAD clinical legal systems advocacy work, Leadership Development of LEAD Program Managers and Supervisors, and sustaining relationships with external LEAD partners.
• This is a full-time, onsite position with frequent travel to satellite locations in Seattle and King County. The usual days and hours are Monday-Friday, 8:30am-5pm, with the possibility of flexible hours/days as needed for special operations. 

Responsibilities:

• Help ETS succeed in carrying out our mission through working together with other staff to transform systems of harm and inequity to create different approaches to improving community health and safety through addressing substance use and homelessness. 
• Assist with the organization-wide initiative to reimagine our interconnectedness within our community to overcome the aspects of our society and organizational culture shaped by white supremacy and settler colonialism.
• Work closely with the domain director to plan and implement program initiatives that accomplish REACH’s mission.
• Take responsibility for carrying out strategic planning activities with program managers and supervisors to develop and fine-tune program goals and operations for successful services delivery.
• Supervise program managers and supervisors, providing regular direction, coaching, and evaluation support to ensure that management staff are fully supporting direct services staff.
• At times, may supervise direct service staff if needed to fill supervisory gaps, such as for a new project or for a specialty service. 
• Facilitate/lead team meetings, staff trainings and retreats; setting agendas in advance, tracking goals/tasks/outcomes and ensuring the necessary follow through, communication and coordination takes place.   
• Oversee project management function for domain initiatives, ensuring that project tasks are delegated appropriately and accountability occurs at all staff levels to see projects through to fruition.  
• Take responsibility for initiating process improvement tools and support systems, including evaluation, so that all domain programs and projects are carried out efficiently and with a continuous process improvement focus.
• Provide leadership in collaboration with the Quality Improvement & Risk Management team to help ensure quality improvement and risk management strategies are implemented at direct service and leadership levels.
• Monitor all budgetary components of domain activities, in conjunction with domain director, to ensure careful budget oversight and fiscally responsible and successful outcomes of utilizing all funding streams.
• Partner proactively with internal and external stakeholders for the domain’s success, and actively develop and sustain productive working relationships with community partner organizations for that same end.
• Oversee and carry out extensive data analysis activities, including comprehensive data reporting, to support and shape strategies for the domain’s focus and success. 
• Serve in an active leadership capacity throughout the organization and help take responsibility for cultivating REACH leaders and overseeing the professional development and career path opportunities for REACH staff.
• Collaborate closely with HR to support leadership to resolve all personnel issues. Review all Performance Improvement Plans and support leadership with hiring and termination decisions.
• Initiate and facilitate staff training and development as needed, with an emphasis on advancing REACH’s clinical excellence in harm reduction services.
• Assist with development of policies and procedures, remaining up to date on agency changes and supporting leadership and staff to carry out all processes in accordance with P & P’s.
• Provide expert consultation and direct support to staff during and after crisis situations, leading crisis response and debrief as needed. 
• Collaborate directly with ETS’ Safety Officer and provide key leadership aimed at addressing any safety issues that arise with clients and/or staff.

Note: New and/or different duties and responsibilities may be assigned to this job at any time.

Requirements

Qualifications:

• Education and/or Relevant and Lived Experience (if applicable):
• Master’s level degree in Public Health, Social Work, or related field, or equivalent experience preferred (bachelor’s degree required). Licensure in a relevant field, such as mental health, social work, or substance use disorder counseling (SUDP), is preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years working in positions related to community outreach, public health, social work, or related areas.
• Minimum of five years in progressively increasing leadership roles with advanced supervisory experience.
• Significant direct experience serving people with behavioral health conditions living unhoused desired.
• Knowledge and Skills:
• Have a firm understanding of racial equity and social justice and a commitment to helping create an equitable environment for all ETS clients and patients as well as fellow staff.
• Operate from a strong/cutting-edge harm reduction framework, grounded in evidence-informed best practice and an ability to coach, convey and train this framework to various audiences (both internal and external). 
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with clients, patients, and staff from a wide variety of ethnic, socioeconomic, and cultural backgrounds.
• Outstanding strategic planning and problem-solving capabilities in complex organizational and programmatic settings.
• Excellent leadership and program oversight skills, including a proven track record of leading teams to achieve successful programmatic outcomes.
• Well-developed collaboration and consensus-building skills to help cultivate effective internal and external partnerships to best support the work of the domain and REACH division.
• Optimal analytical skills, including strong comfort level with generating reports to convey critical data analysis to support domain and REACH-wide strategies and objectives.
• Adept teamwork skills to partner seamlessly with the domain director to achieve domain outcomes in a sustained manner that consistently embodies REACH’s core values.
• Strong interpersonal skills and verbal/ written communication skills.     
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to prioritize workload, work independently, and complete tasks timely and efficiently.
• Dependable, able to work under pressure, receptive to change, willingness to learn, cooperative approach to problem solving.
• Flexible team player, with excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and use discretion when handling highly sensitive information.
• Ability to set boundaries, resolve conflict and de-escalate issues.
• Computer literate, with basic knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, as well as a high level of initiative in keeping current with technological change.

Additional Essential Information:

Physical Conditions and Requirements:

• The employee may be exposed to illicit drug residues and fumes or other bio-hazardous materials when carrying out job functions. There is also potential for exposure to bloodborne pathogens. ETS will provide employees with appropriate training to limit the risk of exposure to bloodborne pathogens. Policies and procedures are in place addressing each item specifically.
• The employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear; frequently required to stand, walk, and kneel; occasionally to climb balance, or stoop; rarely to crouch or crawl.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close, color, and peripheral vision and the ability to adjust focus. The noise level in the work environment is moderate.

Equipment Used:

• Computer, photocopier, fax machine, and phone. 
• Possible use of a program vehicle, for which a valid Driver’s License and acceptable driving would be required.

Inclusivity and Reasonable Accommodation:

Evergreen Treatment Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status. Note that a Washington State Patrol criminal background check will be conducted periodically as a condition of ongoing employment, and candidates with prior criminal convictions will be invited to provide additional context as needed.

ETS will reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with a disability so that they can perform the essential functions of a job unless doing so causes a direct threat to these individuals or others in the workplace and the threat cannot be eliminated by reasonable accommodation, or if the accommodation creates an undue hardship for ETS. We also seek to provide reasonable accommodation for the interview process.

Check Out ETS’ Excellent Benefits - Part of Your Total Rewards Package in this Role!

Key Benefits:

· Medical and Dental benefits, as well as voluntary Vision benefits.

· 403b Retirement Plan with employer match starting at 2% at 1 year, and Roth IRA.

· Basic Life/ADD/FSA tax saving accounts for health and dependent care.

· Employee Assistance Program (EAP), voluntary long-term disability coverage.

· Vacation (2 weeks/year, access at 6 months), Sick leave (24 days/year, access at 30 days).

· Mental health leave (12 days/year, access at 30 days).

· Holidays (12 days/year) and one Floating Holiday per year.

Exceptional Perks:

· Wellness stipend ($50/month) to use for wellness benefits such as massage, fitness classes, gym membership, meditation, therapy, park passes, etc.

· Transportation stipend or pass and mileage and parking reimbursement when traveling for work.

· License renewal reimbursement and tuition/training assistance.

· Referral bonus ($100/$250) and sign-on bonuses for some positions at certain times.

· Longevity awards ($50 - $750 over milestone anniversaries, and for REACH programs).

· Discounts for Woodland Park Zoo, Verizon Wireless, and Corporate Shopping.

· Professional development: ETS is committed to supporting all staff in fulfilling their continuing education requirements and on their career paths so that ETS is a place to thrive long-term.

Evergreen Treatment Services acknowledges that we are on the traditional land of the first people of Seattle, the Duwamish People past and present and honor with gratitude the land itself and the Duwamish Tribe.

Salary : $110,000 - $115,000