ASSISTANT PROJECT DIRECTOR - VICTIM SERVICES

• Support the Project Director in managing project operations, building, and maintaining a trusted advisor relationship with federal clients, shaping a team culture of excellence, providing prompt, comprehensive responses to all client needs and requests, and participating in business development efforts.

• Provide visionary, strategic, and practical leadership and direction for the delivery of forward-leaning, results-driven TTA that is culturally humble, trauma-informed, and reflects inclusive principles.

• Ensure project quality including staff performance, reports, and deliverables, supervise and coach all team members, and monitor staff utilization and conduct annual performance reviews.

• Coordinate culturally competent and trauma-informed TTA needs assessments, create customized plans based on those needs, and delivery of prompt, responsive, and high-quality, effective TTA products, and services that are responsive to those needs.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, business administration, victim services, criminal justice, or closely related field from an accredited institution.

• Minimum of 6 years of professional work experience in financial management, business administration, victim advocacy, public policy, or administration.

• US citizenship required by federal government contract.

• This position requires a Public Trust security clearance. Applicants will be subject to government security investigation to obtain clearance prior to the start date.

Additional Skills We Expect You To Have:

• Experience working with diverse communities.

• Knowledgeable of social science research, evidence-based programs and practices, and trends in the victim services field, including victim-centered, trauma-informed approaches.

• Experience coordinating training or technical assistance on a national level.

• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment, handle multiple priorities, provide high attention to detail, and respond to challenges with a high degree of adaptability with comfort in establishing new directions and managing and adapting to change.

• Advanced communication, writing, and interpersonal skills, including the ability to work successfully in teams and with people of diverse cultural backgrounds.

• Experience creating and delivering virtual and in-person, client-ready trainings (webinars, workshops) to justice-serving professionals.

• Demonstrated ability to foster partnerships with multiple internal and external partners to help plan work, develop capacity, and ensure timely and effective project delivery.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with victim services organizations.

• Knowledge of OJP programs and grant requirements.

• Experience with federal consulting project management and business processes.

• Experience leading a geographically dispersed team and providing oversight for multi-faceted TTA work

• Experience managing a multi-million-dollar project budget and providing responsible stewardship for all project resources including invoicing and routine program and fiscal reporting.

Professional Skills You Will Use In This Role:

• Demonstrated experience and ability in culturally appropriate grants financial management TTA, program design and planning, evaluation, change management, collaboration, research to practice, and leadership/staff development.

• Ability to plan, organize, and manage the provision of grants financial management TTA services to the victim services field; evaluate curriculum or training; conduct needs assessments; and develop publications.

• Exceptional project management skills with strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.

• Solid team builder and team player with proven ability to manage competing priorities.