Restorative Justice Project Manager

Why Work at Michigan?
In addition to a career filled with purpose and opportunity, The University of Michigan offers a comprehensive benefits package to help you stay well, protect yourself and your family and plan for a secure future.
Benefits include:
- Generous time off
- A retirement plan that provides two-for-one matching contributions with immediate vesting
- Many choices for comprehensive health insurance
- Life insurance
- Long-term disability coverage
- Flexible spending accounts for healthcare and dependent care expenses

About the Role:
The Restorative Justice Project Manager position supports our faculty and staff when harm has impacted a campus workplace community and individuals within it. You will educate the University community about restorative justice and its benefits and facilitate restorative practices for faculty and staff. A significant portion of the work will be in coordinating and communicating with university practitioners who work in the area of conflict resolution. Finally, you will conduct a needs assessment, coalesce existing resources and recommend resource allocation for a coordinated center providing support to the entire organization. This is a full-time position with a two year appointment, with the potential for extension of employment at the conclusion of the two year period.

Responsibilities:
- Facilitate restorative practice processes for faculty and staff.
- Lead restorative practice processes for campus concerns including sensitive issues and allegations of bullying, harassment, discrimination, bias, sexual and gender-based misconduct.
- Create records for restorative practices cases.
- Work with other practitioners and units who address harm and culture/climate concerns for capacity building and solution development.
- Conduct intake and preparatory meetings with community members to understand the context, community needs, and goals for a restorative response.
- Lead circles for the campus community to repair harm, build trust, and find collective pathways forward.
- Conduct a needs assessment and recommend the necessary infrastructure to support a university-wide coordinated center of expertise. This includes center strategy and associated programs/supports/services.
- Present at Executive Committee meetings.
- Coordinate and connect restorative practice professionals across campus.
- Advance knowledge about restorative practices within the campus community through information sessions and presentations.
- Participate in the University Restorative Practices Learning Community.

How to Apply:
https://careers.umich.edu/job_detail/274531/restorative-justice-project…