Program Manager #10117641-23300, Full-Time, Term in Las Cruces, NM

About the role

The Third Judicial District Court in Las Cruces, New Mexico is recruiting for a full-time permanent Program Manager to support the Competency Diversion Program. Acting under general direction, manage the program and coordinate and/or supervise the work of volunteers and/or contract personnel. Ability to communicate in Spanish is desirable but not required. Finalists will be subject to criminal background checks.

Responsibilities

• Communicate program designs and goals to courts, staff, and participants/clients, and stakeholders in the community.
• Integrate information systems between groups and users including judges, court administration, and other stakeholders.
• Manage a single large program with a strategic focus on ensuring alignment with the judiciary’s or judicial entity’s goals and objectives.
• Maintain inter-agency cooperation, and communication, supports and develops working relationships with associated parties, stakeholders, and community coalitions.
• Schedule, plan, organize, and facilitate team and individual meetings, team training, and program activities.
• Develop and prepare budgets, budget expenditures, and grant-funded project programs.
• Complete required grant funds evaluation reporting and requests from city, county, local, state, federal agencies, non-profits and private businesses.
• Draft requests for proposals, invitations to bid, and issues and evaluate resulted proposals in compliance with state procurement code.
• Ensure record keeping is accurate and up-to-date while maintaining HIPAA compliance and following appropriate file destruction requirements.
• Monitor and evaluate contracts and contractors' performance with respect to compliance and professional scope of work.
• Participate in core team meetings, and develop and review applicable policies and procedures.
• May analyze the legacy and current jury management system to better the division.
• Audits and approves invoices ensuring all applicable procedures are followed.
• Supervise, monitor, direct, and evaluate advisors, volunteers, mediators, board members and professional representatives of the court program.
• Perform other duties as assigned in order to meet the operational needs of the court or judicial entity.
• Speak to legislators and attend or lead legislative hearings and processes (interim and session).
• Supervise, oversee, train, and discipline subordinate employees in judicial procedures, office functions, and case management.
• Lead interview panels for vacant positions and make recruitment recommendations for new and qualified candidates.
• Supervise subordinate judicial branch program staff.
• For specialty courts: collaborate with the Administrative Office of the Courts to ensure compliance with the New Mexico Treatment Court Standards and maintain satisfactory status with the program certification process, which may include monitoring and managing the program database, and generating requested documents related to quarterly performance measure reports.
• Lead staff to follow best practices by maintaining the protocol for requesting juror summonses and processing summonses for juror eligibility, mailing juror summonses to individual jurors, downloading juror data and updating individual juror information in the Jury Management System, preparing Voir Dire peremptory sheets, tracking jury panel members and the need for jurors, and maintaining jury panel records; and prepare statistical data for the year-end reports
• Assist other courts with current training materials and analysis of systems.
• Develop policy and procedures for the court or division.
• Develop and provide training.
• Prepare, compile, and analyze complex statistical reports in relation to established goals and objectives.
• May prepare and present juror orientation on a weekly basis when jurors report to the Court.
• May serve as the liaison between the AOC and the public, other governmental agencies, and the court.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Criminal Justice, Public or Business Administration, Social Sciences or a related field.
• Experience: Three (3) years of program management or overseeing the budget or finances for projects; grant writing or contract management related to projects; or other experience directly related to the management of projects.

Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Rx, Short, and Long Term Disability Insurance Programs, employee assistance program (EAP)
• State paid life insurance, supplemental and dependent life insurance
• Optional flexible spending accounts for medical, day-care, and travel expenses
• Paid vacation and sick leave up to eight (8) weeks
• Eleven (11) paid holidays
• Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• Deferred Compensation 457(b) plan
• Lifetime Defined Benefits Retirement Plan
• Flexible work schedules and alternative work locations
• Free health care, Rx, and lab work at the facility (Stay Well Health Center) in Santa Fe, NM
• Bilingual compensation
• Training and career development opportunities
• Higher education opportunities, educational leave, and tuition reimbursement
• May qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF)
• May receive overtime holiday or shift differential pay
• May receive physical fitness leave

Application

To apply, interested applicants should submit either a New Mexico Judicial Branch Application for Employment or a Resume Supplemental Form with required resume, and proof of education no later than 5:00 p.m., Tuesday, July 7, 2026, to:

• Third Judicial District Court
  Human Resources Department
  201 Picacho Ave.
  Las Cruces, NM 88005
  lcrdhr-grp@nmcourts.gov

Proof of education is required.