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CUNY Institute for State and Local Governance (ISLG): About Us
The CUNY Institute for State and Local Governance has a mission to improve the financing, delivery, and measurement of critical public services through research, technical assistance, and education. We lead projects aimed at reforming the criminal justice system, measuring urban inequality, expanding the reach of social service providers, and more. Our staff have the opportunity to work with colleagues and supervisors across projects and with different types of expertise. We are seeking new team members with enthusiasm to shape the future of state and local policy.
For more information about ISLG's work and initiatives, please visit our website at https://islg.cuny.edu/
Our Goals for Diversity and Inclusion
We strive to foster an office environment and an approach to work that welcomes and respects different perspectives, backgrounds, and life experiences. We are working towards our goal of continuing to recruit and retain staff and board members who are diverse in terms of race, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, veteran status, socioeconomic status, disability, and justice system involvement.
About the Approach: Block-Level Community Safety and Wellbeing Initiative
The NYC Mayor's Office of Community Safety (OCS), the NYC Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice (MOCJ) and ISLG are working in partnership to strengthen community safety and wellbeing on the city blocks with the highest concentrations of serious outdoor crime. These efforts are grounded in research that demonstrates a disproportionate share of violent crime in New York City is concentrated in a small fraction of city blocks; blocks that are home to residents, families and community members who hold deep knowledge of their neighborhoods and a stake in making them safer.
ISLG serves as the implementation and technical assistance partner for the City’s hyper-local strategy, which will include:
establishing block-level safety partnerships between City government and residents;
enhancing the physical environment of blocks using Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) principles and community-led investments in physical improvements; and
elevating the leadership of block residents and other natural supporters.
The model draws on lessons from the Mayor's Action Plan for Neighborhood Safety (MAP), evidence from community violence intervention research, and a public health approach to gun violence that centers resident leadership, community investment and hyper-local interventions.
Position Description
ISLG is seeking five Community Engagement Fellows to serve as neighborhood-based staff for the City’s block-level community safety strategy, representing OCS and acting as the primary bridge between City government and the residents of blocks where programming will operate.
The Community Engagement Fellowship is a full-time, paid professional opportunity that combines neighborhood-based program implementation with structured knowledge- and skills-building. Fellows will be assigned to a portfolio of blocks across the City where hyper-local strategies will be implemented, serving as residents' primary point of contact with City government and as the connective tissue between community members, City agencies, and program partners. This is not a desk job; Fellows will spend a significant amount of time in communities working directly with residents.
Fellows dedicate…