Project Longevity seeks Hartford manager

NEW HAVEN — Project Longevity is seeking a manager to head the organization’s efforts to reduce violence in Hartford.

According to a job description posted by the organization, the project manger would be tasked with coordinating daytoday group violence intervention in the city, among other duties.

Responsibilities include: overseeing custom notifications with those at risk of being involved in violence, partnering with law enforcement and community stakeholders, and helping to ensure that the organization produces and draws upon uptodate information.

Project Longevity is seeking a candidate with a bachelor’s degree or comparable professional experience, as well as experience in project management, community outreach and facilitating meetings.

The Group Violence Intervention model “reduces violent crime when community members join together with law enforcement and social service providers to focus an antiviolence message on highly active street groups,” as described on Project Longevity’s website.

As described in a 2018 Forum column published by the Register, (t)he organizing principle of the Project Longevity strategy is simple.”

“Even in communities with high rates of violence, only a tiny fraction of the population is at any real risk of homicides and shootings. With this principle in mind, Project Longevity has assembled a partnership of law enforcement personnel, community representatives, and social service providers to directly engage the people at highest risk,” said John Jay College of Criminal Justice professor David Kennedy. “Through facetoface meetings known as ‘callins,’ the partnership communicates why the violence has to stop; the potential legal consequences for continued violence; and the forms of help available to those willing to take it.”

Stacy Spell, a veteran of the U.S. Army Military Police Corps and retired New Haven police detective, is the project manager for Project Longevity in New Haven.

Harold Dimbo, a former Bridgeport detective and city native, is the project manager for the organization in Bridgeport.

Brett Peterkin, the statewide director for Project Longevity, currently is overseeing the group’s efforts in Hartford, according to the Project Longevity website.

Those interested in the position can email their resume to helloprojectlongevity@gmail.com.