The Center for Justice Innovation is a community justice organization that centers safety and racial justice. Since our founding in 1996, the Center has partnered with community members, courts, and the people most impacted to create stronger, healthier, more just communities. Our decades of experience in courts and communities, coupled with our field-leading research and practitioner expertise, help us drive justice nationwide in innovative, powerful, and durable ways. For more information on how and where we work, please visit www.innovatingjustice.org.
The Center is a 900-employee, $100 million nonprofit that accomplishes its vision through three pillars of work: creating and scaling operating programs to test new ideas and solve problems, performing original research to determine what works (and what doesn’t), and providing expert assistance and policy guidance to justice reformers around the world.
THE OPPORTUNITY
The Center is seeking an experienced and innovative Chief Research Officer (CRO) to lead and expand multiple research teams in evaluating the Center’s work and advancing cutting-edge research initiatives aimed at promoting safety and racial justice—in partnership with communities, legal systems, and the people most impacted. The ideal candidate will have deep methodological expertise, a background in securing funding from government and philanthropic sources, experience conducting research on criminal justice and/or community safety topics, and a passion for translating research into action. Additionally, the candidate should possess a foundation that enables them to effectively lead research and analytics teams, build data and research capacity, and drive evidence-based decision-making to enhance the overall impact of the Center’s work.
As a member of the Center’s executive team, the CRO will report directly to the Managing Director of National Initiatives and Research and be responsible for setting the Center’s research agenda and working with organizational leaders to expand and integrate the use of research and data in all aspects of CJI, including the operating programs and policy and expert assistance. The Senior Directors of the Center’s Data Analytics and Applied Research (DAAR) and National Research departments will report to the CRO. These departments include teams dedicated to using data analytics to enhance the Center’s operations, advancing research-practice strategies, and conducting sophisticated quantitative research, exploratory qualitative research, program evaluations, and participatory action research. These bodies of work will address some of the most pressing criminal legal challenges by seeking knowledge and solutions beyond the traditional system.
Learn more and find application instructions at the full announcement, here.