Status: Full-time position
Location: Amarillo, TX
Deadline Date:
Date Available:
Job Summary: Performs highly advanced planning, research, consultative, technical and program administration or direction work for the Dispute Resolution Center. Work involves establishing program goals and objectives; developing program guidelines, procedures, policies, rules, and regulations; developing schedules, priorities, and standards for achieving program goals; evaluating program activities; developing and evualuating budget requests; and coordinating program activities. Work also involves providing consultative and technical services to schools, agencies, community organizations and the general public. Plans, assigns, and/or supervises the work of others. Works under minimal direction with extensive latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment.
Qualifications: Master's degree in communications, political science, sociology, social work, public relations, public administration, or a related field, plus at least three years of progressively responsible experience in mediation and/or dispute resolution
or bachelor's degree in communications, political science, sociology, social work, public relations, public administration, or a related field, plus at least five years of progressively responsible experience in mediation and/or dispute resolution.
Duties: Develops program guidelines, procedures and policies
Establishes program goals and abjectives; develops and/or approves schedules, priorities and standards for achieving goals
Collects, organizes, analyzes and prepares material in answer to requests for information and reports
Prepares budgets and performs other administrative duties
Develpos and implements effective techniques for evaluating programs
Promotes effective development and use of resources for programs
Provides consultative services plan, implement and monitor effective programs
Assists in identifying the need for ne programs,
Analyzes the application of programs, develops action plans to improve or initiate programs
Oversees Dispute Resolution Center client in-take and monitoring of DRC cases
Prepares monthly DRC reports for the Office of Court Administration and County Commissioners
Makes presentations regarding DRC to legal community and civic and social service groups and organizations
Coordinates training activites, including conducting basic and advanced mediation training and providing mediators with opportunites for continuing education
Researches and implements DRC program expansion to provide service as appropriate to all 26 counties in the Texas Panhandle
Maintains up-to-date knowledge of legislation which affects alternative dispute resolution
Recruits and selects volunteer mediators and provides them with training, continuing education, and mediation opportunites
Establishes and maintains contact with case referral sources
Attends various meetings, including State Bar and Texas DRC Directors Council meetings as required
Plans, organizes and conducts meetings of the Dispute Resoluciton Center Advisory Board
Coordinates Conflict Resolution Seminars and Workshops for interested agencies and organizations and recruits volunteer mediators to assist in presentations
Coordinates Peer Mediation activites, including providind training to interested schools and helping faculty select and train student mediators
Keeps media and public informed of DRC activities
To Apply:
Contact the Panhandle Regional Planning Commission; P.O. Box 9257; Amarillo, Tx 79105; (806)-372-3381 for an application form, or go online to www.theprpc.org to download the form. Submit application form and current resume to Gary Pitner Executive Director