Veterans Justice Programs Specialist

AlphaX; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

AlphaHire Workforce Intelligence Lab (WIL) is seeking a Veterans Justice Programs Specialist to design and deliver training, technical assistance, and program-improvement support for justice-involved veterans. This role emphasizes diversions, treatment courts, reentry, and coordination with behavioral health and VA resources, delivered as applied research and TTA capacity for WIL grant packages.

Responsibilities include assessing needs across courts and corrections, designing curricula, and

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience with veterans justice, veterans treatment courts, justice-involved veterans programs, or closely related reentry and diversion work.

Responsibilities

• Assess veterans justice program needs across courts, corrections, behavioral health, and veteran-serving partners.
• Design and deliver training, technical assistance, curricula, and implementation coaching for veterans treatment courts, diversion, and reentry models.
• Help partners strengthen screening, case coordination, peer support, and connections to VA and community resources.
• Develop practical tools, performance measures, and knowledge products for the field.
• Contribute specialist qualifications and past-performance narrative to grant and sponsored-research packages when permissioned.

Skills

Veterans justice

Training delivery

Facilitation

Curriculum development

Written deliverables

Job description

About AlphaHire Workforce Intelligence Lab (WIL)

The AlphaHire Workforce Intelligence Lab (WIL) is an applied research initiative studying how workforce conditions influence delivery of mission-critical investments and public programs. WIL builds methodology-transparent workforce intelligence and applied public-safety and justice research capacity — including veterans justice, diversion, and reentry TTA support packaged for grant and sponsored-research pursuits.

Learn more: https://wilinstitute.org

We engage experienced practitioners for both full-time employment and project-based contract roles, depending on the award and staffing model. Engagements are remote-first with travel as required for partner and field sites. We build ready teams for live grant and sponsored-research pursuits — not speculative staffing banks.

This opportunity is contingent upon grant or sponsored-project award and final staffing approval. Permission will be requested before including a candidate's name or resume in a proposal or funding package.

WIL is seeking a Veterans Justice Programs Specialist to design and deliver training, technical assistance, and program-improvement support for justice-involved veterans — including diversion, treatment courts, reentry, behavioral-health linkages, and veteran-serving partnerships — as applied research and TTA capacity for WIL grant packages.

What you'll do:

• Assess veterans justice program needs across courts, corrections, behavioral health, and veteran-serving partners
• Design and deliver TTA, curricula, and implementation coaching for veterans treatment courts, diversion, and reentry models
• Help partners strengthen screening, case coordination, peer support, and connections to VA and community resources
• Develop practical tools, performance measures, and knowledge products for the field
• Contribute specialist qualifications and past-performance narrative to WIL grant and sponsored-research packages when permissioned

Required:

• Demonstrated experience with veterans justice, veterans treatment courts, justice-involved veterans programs, or closely related reentry and diversion work
• Experience delivering training or technical assistance to justice, behavioral-health, or veteran-serving partners
• Strong facilitation, curriculum or toolkit development, and written-deliverable skills
• Open to full-time employment or project-based contract engagement; remote-first with travel as partner and field work requires

Nice to have:

• Direct experience with VA partnerships, Veterans Justice Outreach, or peer-support models for justice-involved veterans
• Familiarity with federal justice TTA and national center models
• Prior engagements you can cite (agency/partner, your role, year)