The Justice and Prevention Area at WestEd is seeking a Senior Justice Technical Assistance Specialist to join our growing team and to provide leadership in building technical assistance work in the areas of community safety, juvenile justice, adult criminal justice, community violence prevention and intervention, and crime prevention. A significant part of the responsibilities will be to assist WestEd’s training and technical assistance (TTA) team on a newly funded Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) project that focuses on implementing a systems thinking approach to assist law enforcement and other stakeholders within an ecosystem to use data to inform community safety needs, identify innovative solutions, improve implementation readiness, and evaluate for continuous quality improvement (CQI).  In addition to supporting this high-profile research and TTA project, this is an exciting opportunity for an innovative, out of the box thinking individual interested in shaping future work by leading and collaborating on proposals to a variety funding agencies, conducting outreach to potential clients in the justice sector at the local, state, and federal level, and identifying gaps in the field that the team can work to fill.

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