Correctional Program Officer (Assistant Sector Administrator)

Full Job Description

Corrections professionals who foster a humane and secure environment and ensure public safety by preparing individuals for successful reentry into our communities.

To be considered for the position, you must meet the following qualification requirements: Education: There is no substitution of education for specialized experience for this position.

Experience: You must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the next lower grade level.

Specialized experience is directly related experience that included substantial involvement with a correctional program and provided a thorough knowledge of correctional techniques, or experience in meeting and dealing with people that demonstrated the ability to work effectively with inmates and associates in a correctional environment.

Experience must have also demonstrated the ability to perform supervisory or administrative duties successfully.

This includes: (1) Understanding the problems of custody, treatment, training, and release of inmates of penal or correctional institutions; (2) A thorough and comprehensive knowledge of an institution's internal policies, programs, regulations, and procedures; and (3) Training subordinates, coordinating and directing activities and functions, evaluating performance of operations and the effectiveness of programs, and maintaining high standards or work objectives.

This experience must have been gained in an administrative position, or in other positions that included the successful direction, or assistance in the direction of, an entire correctional program or a major phase of such a program.

Some examples of this qualifying experience are: Experience in preparing analytical reports assessing the impact and success of community-based correctional activities.

Experience in providing technical assistance to managers at all levels in interpretation and coordination of community-based correctional activities.

Experience in analyzing and interpreting raw data, flow charts, graphs and making comparisons between work districts, geographical areas and classifications of persons in order to make projections, identify needs, establish priorities and develop logical and viable divisions of labor and equitable work responsibilities for both personnel and district offices.

If applicable, credit will be given for paid and unpaid experience. To receive proper credit, you must show the actual time (such as number of hours worked per week) spent in the activities.

**Your eligibility for consideration will be based on your responses to the questions in the application.** Major Duties:

Assists in the management and oversight of the operations of Residential Reentry Management and contract confinement/detention services in the assigned sector.

Shares in the responsibility for the overall mission of residential reentry management in the sector.

This requires effective leadership and management oversight of the sector's Residential Reentry Managers in the development and administration of residential reentry centers, contract detention/confinement facilities, juvenile and adult boarding facilities, and non-residential home detention programs.

Programs and services are provided through intergovernmental agreements at the federal, state, county and city levels and through contracts with nonpublic (private) agencies.