Court Compliance Specialist

Published: 6/14/2022

Job Description

Job Title: Court Compliance Specialist

Job Summary:                

CASES is a New York City agency at the forefront of the intersection between behavioral health and the criminal justice system. Our mission is to increase public safety through innovative services that reduce crime and incarceration, improve behavioral health, promote recovery and rehabilitation, and create opportunities for success in the community. The CASES Court services department services court mandates or endorsed programming at all points in the criminal legal process. CASES operates, alternative to detention (ATD) and alternative to incarceration (ATI) community based programs that are facilitated by the NYS Office of Court Administration (OCA) judiciary. CASES interfaces with multiple stakeholders to support these ATD and ATI program options for thousands of defendants in multiple boroughs. Specifically the arraignment team screens approximately 10,000 defendants a year for ATD and ATI programs, Supervised Releasee and newSTART. Additionally, the ATI intake assessment team screens 500 amount per year to divert people into 3 (three) CASES community based programs, Reframing Opportunity Alternatives and Resilience (ROAR), Nathaniel Community Success (NCS) and Nathaniel Assertive Community Treatment (NACT). All Court services teams are dedicated to the CASES mission and facilitating release and positive court outcomes.

Shift Hours: This position is PART TIME, Sunday-Thursday 6:30pm-1:30am OR Tuesday-Saturday 6:30pm-1:30am, subject to change.

Salary: The salary range for this role is $33.97 per hour.

Location Address: 100 Centre Street, New York, NY 10013. Our office is easily accessible by public transportation.  

Workplace Flexibility: Hybrid (for roles that have at least 1 full day remote per week).

What You Will Be Doing:

Develop and maintain excellent professional relationships with judges, prosecutors, defense counsel, and other court partners to facilitate program admissions and maintain CASES’ credibility in the Manhattan Criminal and Supreme Courts
Provide mentorship and support to less experiences colleagues
Assist with training new staff on all database and reporting procedures
Ensure timely, complete, and accurate documentation in the case record database including collecting and tracking participant demographics, intake, re-arrest cases, court dates and warrants for all court mandated programs
Facilitate effective collaboration with SRP, ROAR, ATI and NCS staff delivering services in the borough-based offices to ensure the court receives accurate information and participants satisfy conditions of supervision (The Supervised Release Program (SRP) helps people avoid unnecessary jail detention where they are able to remain in the community and avoid disruptions to employment, housing, and treatment while maintaining family and community commitments.)