PREA Compliance Manager

City of New York; New York (NY); On-site; USD 71,000 - 82,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading city department is seeking a PREA Compliance Manager to ensure compliance with federal standards in correctional facilities. The role includes overseeing safety procedures, providing training, and establishing communication within the department regarding sexual assault prevention. Applicants should have relevant experience and possess strong organizational and communication skills.

Qualifications

• 2 years of experience in correction or related field providing direct services.
• Ability to work in a correctional institution performing auditing or compliance.

Responsibilities

• Support the PREA Director for facility compliance.
• Ensure reporting methods for incidents are publicized and available.
• Conduct inspections and document information relevant to compliance.

Skills

Knowledge of PREA policies

Problem-solving

Ability to communicate effectively

Maintain confidentiality

Organizational skills

Education

Bachelor's degree from an accredited college

Tools

MS Office

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The New York City Department of Correction (DOC) is an integral part of the City’s 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 re-enter their communities. The DOC operates facilities and court commands across the five boroughs with more than 7,500 diverse professionals and knowledgeable experts.

DOC seeks to recruit a PREA Compliance Manager 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 assaults and harassment incidents remain confidential and
  
  

available on a need-to-know basis

• Ensuring victims of sexual assaults and harassment receives treatment and
  
  

counseling: and investigation obligations are met

• Ensuring all area supervisors and first responders understand their on-scene
  
  

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 assault 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 pre-audit reports and working collaboratively with facility
  
  

personnel on the development of corrective action plans

• Conducting rounds in the assigned jail and documenting information featured in the
  
  

Facility Inspection Sheets.

• Participating in agency wide new hire and/or additional training for staff
• Performing related duties as assigned
  
  

Preferred Skills

• Professional experience working in a correctional institution performing auditing or
  
  

compliance

• Knowledge of PREA policies, procedures, reporting standards
• Knowledge of consent decrees, federal, state and local laws regarding sexual abuse
  
  

and harassment

• Knowledge of the principles and practices of correctional program development,
  
  

implementation and evaluation problem-solving and conflict resolution

• Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with correctional
  
  

staff

• Ability to organize and conduct several projects simultaneously analyze complex
  
  

situations and recommend an appropriate course of action

• Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality
• MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) proficiency.
• Bilingual is a plus
  
  

CORRECTIONAL STANDARDS REVIEW - 52615

Minimum Qualifications

• A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university and two years of full-time 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
• A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent approved by a State’s Department of Education or a recognized accrediting organization and four years of full-time paid experience as described in “1” above; or
• 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 full-time paid experience as described above. However, all candidates must have at least one year of full-time paid experience as described in "1" above.
  
  

Residency Requirement

New York City residency is generally required within 90 days of appointment. However, City Employees in certain titles who have worked for the City for 2 continuous years may also be eligible to reside in Nassau, Suffolk, Putnam, Westchester, Rockland, or Orange County. To determine if the residency requirement applies to you, please discuss with the agency representative at the time of interview.

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 individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.

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