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Supervisory Correctional Program Specialist (DSCC Operations Manager)

Bureau of Prisons/Federal Prison System

Department of Justice

Fresh

Salary

$115,711 - $150,426

per year

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March 16, 2026More DOJ jobs →

Job Description

Summary

This job involves overseeing a national center that handles the legal details of federal prisoner sentences, transfers, and custody to ensure everything is done correctly and securely.

The role requires managing teams, coordinating with law enforcement and courts, and providing expert advice on sentencing laws.

It's a great fit for experienced correctional professionals with strong leadership skills who enjoy working in a high-stakes administrative environment focused on public safety and inmate rehabilitation.

Key Requirements

  • At least one year of specialized experience in correctional programs, including knowledge of custody, treatment, training, and inmate release
  • Proven ability to perform supervisory or administrative duties, such as training subordinates, coordinating activities, and evaluating program effectiveness
  • Thorough understanding of institutional policies, regulations, and procedures in a correctional setting
  • Experience in record maintenance, inmate sentence computations, prisoner transfers, data systems management, and inmate classification
  • Knowledge of federal sentencing methodologies, including combining different sentence structures
  • Established liaisons with agencies like USMS, courts, FBI, USPS, U.S. Parole Commission, and other law enforcement entities
  • Background as a law enforcement officer in corrections with responsibilities for inmate detention, supervision, training, and transportation

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 record maintenance, inmate sentence computations, coordination of prisoner transfers, management of data systems and inmate classification and designation.

Experience in sentencing and the methodology of combining sentences with differing sentence structures.

Experience with maintaining liaisons with the United States Marshals Service, the courts, committing agencies, local law enforcement agencies, Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Postal Service, U.S.

Parole Commission, and other local state and federal law enforcement agencies.

Experience as a law enforcement officer in a correctional facility which included primary responsibility for the detention, direction, supervision, inspection, training, employment care and transportation of inmates incarcerated in these facilities.

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

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

Nationally responsible for ensuring the legality and duration of confinement for commitments to the custody of the Attorney General.

Fully accountable for all functions of the Designations and Sentence Computation Center (DSCC). Maintains liaison with the United States Marshals Service (USMS), the courts, U.S.

Postal Service (USPS), U.S. Parole Commission and many other local, state and federal law enforcement agencies.

As an expert for the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) in the area of federal sentencing, provides staff with responses to questions and interpretations of statutes and case law.

Serves as a BOP specialist on law and procedures affecting writs of habeas corpus and removal or extradition to other jurisdictions.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 2/23/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 2/24/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: GRA-2026-0004