Vera Institute of Justice.

  • New York City


  • Irreversible.

  • Full-time.
Who we are:

The Vera Institute of Justice, established in 1961, pictures a society that appreciates the self-respect of everyone and safeguards justice for everybody. Vera is devoted to protecting equivalent justice, ending mass imprisonment, and enhancing households and neighborhoods.

  • We study issues that hamper human self-respect and justice.
  • We pilot options that are at as soon as transformative and attainable.
  • We engage varied neighborhoods in educated dispute.
  • And we harness the power of proof to drive reliable policy and practice.

We deal with others who share our vision to deal with the most important oppressions of our day– from mass imprisonment, racial variations, and the loss of public rely on police to the unmet requirements of individuals who are susceptible, marginalized, and damaged by criminal activity and violence. Vera has workplaces in New york city City, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, and New Orleans. Vera is a level playing field company with a dedication to variety in the work environment. We employ workers that show our worths: regard, self-reliance, partnership, dedication, and race equity. If you wish to discover more about life at Vera click.

What You’ll Do:

As a group, we are taking a project technique to bail reform with the objective of accomplishing wholesale bail reform in as lots of states as we can through legal modification. We are trying to find a project supervisor to assist drive legal reform through statewide legislation in numerous states. Core to driving legal modification is establishing an interactions method so that bail reform is viewed as associated with public security.

Advocacy at Vera

Vera’s Advocacy and Collaborations department collaborates the vision, technique, and personnel advancement throughout Vera’s efforts to pass legislation, modification policy, and develop modification at scale. We work to make sure that the objectives of our advocacy projects focus our worths of racial justice and equity, and line up with individuals and neighborhoods most affected by criminal justice and migration policies. The Advocacy and Collaborations department has 3 core systems: Federal Policy, Federal Government and Motion Method, and Vera Insights. We likewise have an independent however lined up 501( c) 4 sibling company, Vera Action.

Advocacy at Vera is a core tool in the tool kit– similar to research study, or interactions, or technical help– that we release when doing so is crucial to winning on our objective. We provide on services and advocacy assists get us there. Our worth proposal to the advocacy arena– and to our partners and allies– is that we can harness our core properties of information, proof, and services. Advocacy in and of itself is not an end. We take part in it when it satisfies of advancing among our core top priorities or objectives forward in positioning with motion partners.

Project Technique

  • Deal with the bail group’s Program Supervisor, Senior Program Partner, and Program Expert to establish and execute the group’s statewide and regional bail reform projects, to consist of policy advancement, legal lobbying, and union structure. Handle lobbying agreements in each state where we work.
  • Communicate with the Advocacy and Collaborations department when establishing, carrying out, sustaining, and assessing the project method.
  • Go to month-to-month Advocacy, Legal Modification, and Project (ALCC) meetings/workshops.

Project Communications

  • Manage interactions techniques that support state project efforts and nationwide story shift in collaboration with the Program Supervisor, dealing with the Vera interactions group and regional partners to determine spokespeople, messaging, and strategies.
  • Establish and author publications and policy briefs; appear in convenings, webinars, etc. on Vera’s behalf.
  • Establish and handle demands to Vera Insights for real-time analysis, information visualizations, reality sheets, and so on

Education and Experience

  • 3 years of policy and advocacy experience in the justice reform area, constructing unions, allies and nationwide technique. Experience with grasstops and grassroots advocacy, lobbying, and projects.
  • An individual and expert devotion to problems of race, equity, and fairness, and a dedication to coming to grips with innovative and concrete methods to utilize information to move power and advance equity and addition.
  • Experience establishing and handling problem location projects and developing varied unions.
  • Capability to develop collaborations with grassroots and grasstops partners, working throughout lines of identity and power.
  • Capability to work collaboratively with a nationwide, remote group.

Preferred:

  • Communications acumen, consisting of convenience as a representative and experience establishing media method to support project efforts.
  • Experience or understanding of the bail system and bail reform efforts nationally.
  • Familiarity and convenience with information

How to use

Please send a cover letter and resume. Applications will be thought about on a rolling basis till the position is filled. Online submission in PDF format (through Vera’s profession page) is chosen. No telephone call, please. Just candidates chosen for interviews will be called.

ATTN: Human Being Resources/ Project Supervisor

Vera Institute of Justice

34 35 th St, Suite 4-2A, Brooklyn, NY 11232

Fax: (212) 941-9407

Please utilize just one technique (online, mail or fax) of submission.

No call, please. Just candidates chosen for interviews will be gotten in touch with.

Vera is an equivalent opportunity/affirmative action company. All certified candidates will be thought about for work without illegal discrimination based upon race, color, creed, nationwide origin, sex, age, special needs, marital status, sexual preference, military status, prior record of arrest or conviction, citizenship status, existing work status, or caretaker status.

Vera works to advance justice, especially racial justice, in a progressively multicultural nation and internationally linked world. We value varied experiences, consisting of with regard to instructional background and justice system contact, and depend upon a varied personnel to perform our objective.

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