Chief of the Group Violence Reduction Strategy (GVRS) (NCS) - MONSE

THIS IS A NON-CIVIL SERVICE POSITION
 

Salary Range:    

$117,119.00 – $193,172.00 Annually

Hiring Salary Range:

$117,119.00 - $155,145.50 Annually

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Job Summary     
The Chief of the Group Violence Reduction Strategy is responsible for the design, development, implementation, scale and maintenance of Baltimore’s focused deterrence strategy. This role is critical in reducing gun violence, while simultaneously increasing law enforcement clearance rates. The Chief will be responsible for overseeing the strengthening and coordination of wrap-around services and support for high-risk individuals, ensuring the authentic participation of directly impacted community members, in GVRS operations and governance, and ensuring that strategy partners’ focus and efforts are carefully coordinated around high-risk individuals and groups. The ideal candidate has experience working within multi-sectorial partnerships and possesses exceptional leadership and facilitation skills. In addition, the ideal candidate possesses significant project management experience with community-based organizations and agency partnerships and has excellent public presentation skills.

Essential Functions    

• Management, Oversight, and Coordination
• Serve as the primary liaison between the Mayor's Office, the Baltimore Police Department, the Attorney General’s Office, support and outreach and community partners to coordinate the City's primary violence reduction strategy.
• Supervise dedicated GVRS staff at MONSE, to include Service Partnership Managers and Community Partnership Managers.
• Support and facilitate regular management and performance review meetings specifically oriented to support the strategy.
• Oversee the build-out of in-house GVRS service capacity.
• Work closely with funders, the City of Baltimore’s Bureau of Procurement, the Bureau of Budget and Management Research and others, as appropriate, to manage grants and contracts related to service, research and training partners.
• Manage contracts and apply for grants in support of the strategy.
• Conduct regular site visits to review progress and identify barriers.
• Proactively cultivate relationships with City, community and service partners
• Ensure fidelity to information sharing and coordination protocols and procedures within and between city agencies, support and outreach and community partners.
• Coordinate and manage inter-agency working group(s) of law enforcement agencies, community leaders including clergy and service outreach, and service providers.
• Ensure consistent attendance and full participation.
• Work with staff and relevant partners to set manageable, goal-oriented agendas for meetings
• Facilitate working group meetings; co-facilitate as appropriate. Resource Deployment and Tracking
• Coordinate and leverage resources across committed partners to conduct custom notifications, mediations and related components of the GVRS communication strategy.
• Work with relevant stakeholders to develop and vet participant lists, de-conflict, and ensure participant lists remain up to date leading up to the call-in or notification.
• Coordinate and manage tasks and logistics in the week(s) preceding call-ins and related communication efforts.
• Ensure follow-through plans are in place amongst law enforcement response, community outreach, and service provision.
• With the Community Partnerships Manager, ensure that the community “moral voice” is effective directed towards the individuals and groups most involved in gun violence, in such a way that builds police-community relationships,