Community Development Liaison - Part Time

County of Luna•Deming, NM

8d•Hybrid

About The Position

Contingent upon the availability of funding, under the direction of the Juvenile Justice Continuum of Service Program Manager, the Community Liaison will coordinate, support, and implement the mission and vision of the Luna County Juvenile Justice Continuum of Services (LCJJCS) Board, its programs, relationship with other agencies, and its standing in the local community. The employee takes direction and supervision from the JJCS Program Manager; however, employment will be executed, and may be modified or terminated, by Luna County and/or the JJCS Board. A community liaison is responsible for managing the communication between local institutions and community citizens. Community liaisons often coordinate with the community and youth being served to talk about their needs and concerns.

Requirements

Must have a valid Driver’s License.
Must have a high school diploma or GED certificate.
Must be able to pass a background check, CYFD clearance check and pass a pre-employment drug screen.
Knowledge of community.
Proven skills in leadership, group facilitation.
Ability to build community partnerships and maintain working relationships.
Ability to work in a school environment and develop relationships with school leadership.
Ability to demonstrate cultural sensitivity and work with a diverse group of people.
Ability to adhere to policies and procedures.
Ability to organize, prioritize, and respond to deadlines while working on multiple tasks.
Effective oral and written communication skills.
Exhibits the ability to be a creative thinker and self-starter.
Ability to maintain confidentiality.
Knowledge of strategies, skills, and tools promoting family, youth, and child engagement.
Decision making skills, as you will often need to be able to make effective, on the spot, decisions that have the best interest of the young offender in mind.
Social perceptiveness and open-mindedness as you will have to work with lots of different people from different religions, cultures and backgrounds.
Empathy as this position will work with young people who have had challenging lives and will need to offer them the deepest understanding and the ability to relate to their feelings.
Active listening in order to build relationships based on trust and respect.
Communication skills, both written and verbal, community service liaison you will need to clearly communicate ideas with JJCS Program Manager and other professionals, the offender and their family.
They will also need to keep up-to-date and detail documentation.
Mental acuity to assist in areas related to programs, interpret and implement rules relating to these programs, and make determinations relative to the effective performance of tasks.
Manual dexterity to operate a telephone and enter data into a computer.
Facility to sit at a desk, conference table or in meetings of various configurations for extended periods of time with or without reasonable accommodation.
Facility to see and read, laws and codes, rules, policies and other printed matter, and computer screens and printouts with or without reasonable accommodation.
Facility to hear and understand speech at normal room levels and to hear and understand speech on the telephone with or without reasonable accommodation.
Facility to speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in normal conversations, in training sessions and other meetings with or without reasonable accommodation.
Facility to drive an automobile.

Nice To Haves

An Associate’s Degree in social work, education, or related field is preferred.
At least three years of experience working with local community youth, organizations, resources and community development and experience with at-risk youth or high at risk need youth and families is preferred.

Responsibilities

Recruit and manage informal and formal referrals for community service and provide youth community service opportunities.
Develop and maintain new contacts and/or partnerships in the community.
Build relationships with the customers in the community and update information that is necessary.
Work with other community agencies to develop partnerships for education of for the youth.
Assist partners in developing positive home-school relationships with selected at-risk youth.
Assist in developing youth engagement strategies.
Act as a liaison to community-based services in order to remove barriers to learning and support academic achievement.
Support peer mentoring models.
Identify community resources to support at-risk youth.
Provide strategies to increase youth and community involvement.
Recruit and support JJCS community teams that include youth.
Perform tasks for day-to-day oversight of activities.
Plan and direct efforts to involve at-risk youth in community and school initiatives.
Develop and maintain strong working relationships with key providers of services and programs.
Provide youth and families opportunities to learn additional skills to enhance students’ academic success and parents’ leadership and efficacy within the school and community.
Provide reports to the JJCS Program Manager on a weekly basis on specific performance measures and related outcomes.
Provide statements regarding obstacles and progress made by the youth being served.
Supervises youth that have been referred to program for community service.