• Provides strategic leadership and direction to facilitate the achievement of the mission of the California Victims Resource Center (CVRC), a mission that is defined by state law and to plan for the future direction and growth of the CVRC.
• Develop and implement specific objectives and goals for all CVRC programs.
• Evaluate the efficiency of program procedures and develops and initiates changes as required to improve service delivery and meet CVRC objectives and goals.
• Prepare and direct the preparation of complex federal and/or state grant applications, reports, and budgets to ensure that all appropriate policies and guidelines are followed. Work to ensure that programs are funded with adequate resources to maintain mandated and expected levels of services.
• Manage and monitor the budget and day-to-day operations of the CVRC, including directing the CVRC's statewide services, managing and ensuring the success of the CVRC's own programs, and developing and delivering the CVRC's educational/training programs.
• Supervise a staff of attorneys, graduate legal assistants, graduate research assistants, and law students working for the CVRC as law clerks or providing services for externship credit towards a McGeorge graduation requirement, including recruiting, hiring, training, scheduling, monitoring, and evaluating performance of employees.
• Receive, manage, and oversee all technical assistance requests from service providers across the state.
• Oversee proper functioning and updating of the CVRC website, including the live chat, publications portal, and service provider portal.
• Expand CVRC's visibility by teaching, offering professional development to victims' advocates, prosecutors, and other professionals, and authoring journal publications and law school textbooks.
• Develop and deliver training and professional development opportunities for CVRC staff and students to foster continued growth with a trauma informed focus.
• Participate in and assist planning boards, commissions and task forces relative to Victim Services Program activities, including representing the California Victims Legal Resource Center as the statewide legal services representative on the California Office of Emergency Services statewide Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) and STOP Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) committees.
• Develop victims' rights training curriculum for service providers across the state, and present quarterly at statewide victim advocate training conferences.
• Ensure that CVRC services are accessible to all victims, and work to ensure that the plight of crime victims, especially from historically unserved and underserved communities, are considered both in the day-to-day delivery of services to victims and in legislative and regulatory decision-making by government bodies.
• Collaborate with other victim organizations and governmental organizations on the local, statewide and national levels, and attend conferences, trainings and meetings as the CVRC representative.
• Resolve routine and complex problems with minimal consultation; handle multiple assignments and prioritize in a constantly changing work environment.
• Recognize and improve administrative and operational processes as needed.
• Oversee marketing and communications regarding the CVRC services to ensure that crime victims are aware of the CVRC and are able to access CVRC services safely and readily.
• Performs other related duties as required.

• Attorney and member of California State Bar.
• Three (3) years of comparable experience.

• J.D. degree from an ABA accredited law school.
• Superb verbal and written communication skills
• Solid grasp of revenue budgeting and forecasting principals.
• Strong prioritization and organizational skills.
• Capacity to exercise diplomacy and deal effectively with a variety of situations in a calm, precise manner.
• Ability to correctly interpret and explain policies and procedures.
• Proficiency with standard office computer programs, including Microsoft Office suite.
• Experience and sensitivity in working with people of diverse backgrounds and cultures.
• Demonstrated experience in advancing social justice, equity, and inclusion in a university setting.
• Ability to engage and integrate culturally responsive practices and knowledge in their work.

University of the Pacific is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer dedicated to workforce diversity. In compliance with applicable law and its own policy, Pacific is committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse faculty and staff and does not discriminate in its hiring of faculty and staff, or in the provision of its employment benefits to its faculty and staff on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sex/gender, marital status, military and veteran status, sexual orientation, medical condition, pregnancy, gender identity, gender expression, or mental or physical disability.