Community and Public Safety Liaison (Special Assistant)
The City of Norfolk
- Norfolk, VA
- $85,515-139,445 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Improve and coordinate equity in policing efforts within the Norfolk community.
- Facilitate communication and collaboration between law enforcement and community-based organizations to enhance public safety, drawing on a background or education in criminal justice.
- Coordinate the city's antiviolence street safety program, a two-year pilot focused on community-based public safety and anti-violence initiatives.
- Develop and implement effective and sustainable intervention and prevention strategies to disrupt gun violence, leveraging insights from a criminal justice background.
- Staff and manage a citizen review panel to provide transparency and resident input in the policing environment.
- Provide Project Management Oversight of a contract with a Community-Based Organization (CBO) to hire, train, and deploy outreach workers, violence interrupters, and mediators.
- Implement community programs through awareness building, peace walks, and other strategies to address violence, integrating expertise in criminal justice for effective community safety initiatives.
- Valid Driver's License.
- Signing Bonus: This position is eligible for a one-time $5,000 signing bonus.
- Regular full-time and permanent part-time employees may receive paid holidays, vacation and sick leave, employer paid pension plan, basic life insurance, voluntary participation in medical and dental, Section 457 deferred compensation, long-term disability, optional life insurance for self, spouse and children, medical and dependent care reimbursement plans, access to membership in credit union and employer provided parking.
- Special project/grant employees are generally eligible for the same benefits of regular full-time employees; however, retirement, life insurance and participation in health plans vary depending upon funding and authorization.
- Temporary/seasonal and part-time employees are generally only eligible for employer provided parking and access to membership in credit union.
- Retirement
- The Tuition Assistance Program is established to encourage employees toward continued self-development and education. Permanent full-time and permanent part-time classified, unclassified permanent, full-time special projects, and constitutional employees who have completed six months continuous service will be eligible to apply. The applicant's school of enrollment must be an accredited institution.
The benefits described above are broad generalizations. The specific benefits that an employee may be eligible for are governed by City regulations, as applicable to job type.Non-City
Positions listed with a job type designation of "Non-City" are not subject to the benefits descriptions above. Refer to the content of the job posting for information regarding these positions.