Overview:
Perform the primary, operational-support duties below for all ATF FDs and Headquarters:

• provide backup support to all of ATF’s RVWSs and its VWAP Program Manager (PM) as it relates to victim services.
• conduct specialized trainings as needed and determined by the VWAP PM.
• assist ATF agents in securing victim safety and assist victims in finding secure locations and funding assistance.
• provide advocacy, support, and training services for ATF crime victims, to include training to ATF personnel.

Responsibilities:

• Independently establish and maintain liaison with ATF’s field offices, DOJ counterparts, counterparts in other government and outside/external organizations. Including: the OVC, the USAO, and various federal and regional victims' organizations, such as the National Organization for Victim Assistance (NOVA), the National Victim Center, and other law-enforcement, social-services, tribal, local-, state-, and federal-government agencies. Independently provide after-action reports after attending meetings and conferences within five (5) business days.
• Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) regarding ATF’s VWAP and crime-victim rights and services; and review proposed or pending legislation concerning victim/witness-assistance issues, evaluate the content, and recommend revisions for the program.
• Must provide deployment support on limited notice when necessary/requested; deployment support may require travel throughout the U.S.

Serve as a violent-crime-victim advocate for ATF’s crime victims, their families, and personnel, providing the following as needed and requested:

a. 24-hour victim response.

b. Victim notifications of their rights and services.

c. Crisis intervention and referrals.

d. Coordination with and assistance to other federal and local, law-enforcement, victim coordinators in serving victims of critical incidents; e. Accompaniment of victims to court.

f. Accompaniment of/assistance to ATF agents in providing death notifications.

g. Assistance to ATF agents in victim interviews.

h. Gathering victim impact information; and/or

i. Gathering victim information for detention and preliminary hearings.

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of five (5) years of experience as a federal-government, crime-victim-service provider and as an instructor for law-enforcement personnel on responding to and interviewing victims.
• Minimum of five (5) years of experience providing federal, law-enforcement training on victim and witness assistance and victims’ rights and services per the AGG.
• Maintain expertise in the field through continuing education, professional contacts, and networking.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the DOJ’s AGG.
• Experience responding to “real-world” crime-victim crises.
• Experience utilizing DOJ’s VNS to provide federal, crime-victim notifications. experience conducting training for law-enforcement personnel.
• Experience providing crime-victims services, as well as assisting and providing crime victims with mandated rights and services.
• Experience working with law enforcement in procuring logistical and financial resources to secure relocation as needed.
• Experience working with victims of gang crimes, gun violence, mass causality, arson, and other violent crimes.
• Experience developing and conducting workplace surveys and utilizing results to develop needed services.
• Experience working independently and as a team player.
• Training and experience required in providing crime-victim advocacy, crisis-response services.

H&W benefit package:

($4.57/hr. equivalent) - 100% employee premiums paid enrollment in Medical, Dental, Vision, ST/LT disability enrollment - OR - an additional $4.57/hr. in taxable compensation if an insurance package is not required.

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Pay: $50.00 - $55.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
• On call

Ability to Relocate:

• Washington, DC 20226: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Washington, DC 20226