Research & Compliance Associate - New York, United States - NYC Careers

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Research & Compliance Associate:


  • Agency: BOARD OF CORRECTION


  • Posted on: 05/22/2024

  • Job type: Fulltime
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  • Title Classification: No exam required
Department

Board Staff

  • Salary range: $82, $94, The New York City Board of Correction ("BOC") is a nineperson, nonjudicial oversight board, which regulates, monitors, and inspects the correctional facilities of the City. Established in 1957, BOC is one of the earliest independent oversight boards of custodial and detention settings in the United States. The Mayor, City Council and presiding justices of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court for the First and Second Judicial Departments (in joint nomination with the Mayor) appoint its members.

The City Charter mandates the Board's five functions:

  • Establish and ensure compliance with minimum standards for the care, custody, correction, treatment, supervision, and discipline of all persons held or confined under the jurisdiction of the Department of Correction ("DOC");
  • Investigate serious incidents;
  • Review grievances from people in custody and staff;
  • Evaluate the performance of DOC; and
  • Make recommendations on areas of key correctional planning.


The Board established the Minimum Standards on conditions of confinement in 1979, mental health care in 1985, and health care in 1991.

In 2007, BOC finished a comprehensive review of the Minimum Standards and adopted a series of amendments.

Since 2014, the Board has engaged in rulemaking five times, including rules related to the prevention of sexual violence, reporting on serious injuries, and the elimination of punitive segregation or solitary confinement.


  • With offices in lower Manhattan and Rikers Island, BOC works regularly with DOC and Health + Hospitals, and often with other partners, on a wide range of criminal justice issues germane to its oversight responsibilities. BOC is a key municipal partner in the movement for safer, smaller, fairer, more humane jails, which minimize negative consequences, such as violence to persons in custody and staff. The Board brings to this work a strong emphasis on public reporting.
  • With new staff leadership, funding, and Board members, along with increased public attention and significant jail reform efforts underway, BOC is in a period of growth and change.
  • The Board seeks a Research & Compliance Associate with a passion for evidencebased approaches, datadriven decisionmaking, and justice, fairness and excellence in corrections. This is an opportunity to join an emerging research & compliance unit within a nationally unique institution with extensive and broad powers of access and oversight. The Board's research & compliance team will work in collaboration with the monitoring team to measure and monitor DOC's compliance with the Minimum Standards. The team also will conduct primary and secondary research, using its unique access to the jails and DOC data.
  • The Board's research & compliance team will play a critical role in encouraging compliance with existing regulations, catalyze and inform new regulations, and support other innovations within the jails and the criminal justice system.
  • The Research & Compliance Associate will be based out of the lower Manhattan office but frequently will be assigned to perform research
- and compliance-related duties at Rikers Island and in other DOC facilities.

  • The Research & Compliance Associate will report to the Board's Director of Research.
  • Responsibilities include:
  • supporting the Board's research agenda and research and compliance team
- working collaboratively with BOC's monitoring staff, who work in the jails, on a range of research and evaluation projects
- researching national trends and best practices in corrections
- assisting in the production of public reports
- assisting with other tasks or assignments, including:

  • developing audit, data collection, inspection, and survey instruments
- conducting interviews and focus groups
- performing data management, including data entry, data cleaning, and data analysis
- creating data dashboards and other data visualization tools


TO APPLY:

  • The Board of Correction is committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse and culturally responsive workforce. We strongly encourage people of color, people with disabilities, veterans, women, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender and gender nonconforming persons to apply. All applicants will be considered without regard to actual or perceived race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, marital or parental status, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, age, prior record of arrest, or any other basis prohibited by law.
  • The New York City Administrative Code requires an employee in this title to establish city residence within 90 days of entering City service and to remain in compliance with the city residency requirement as a
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