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CORRECTIONAL PROGRAM DIRECTOR- 1
Department of Correction
Office of the Inspector General
Nashville, TN
Monthly salary: $5,508.00 - $8,783.00
Closing Date: 2/5/2024
Who we are and what we do:
The mission of the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) is to operate safe and secure prisons and provide effective community supervision in order to enhance public safety. The Department manages and operates or oversees 14 state prisons housing approximately 21,000 offenders. In addition, the Department supervises approximately 79,000 offenders on probation, parole, or community correction and operates 8 Day Reporting/Community Resource Centers (DRC/CRC) across the state. The Department is fully accredited by the American Correctional Association (ACA).
How you make a difference in this role:
The Correctional Program Director I position assists in coordinating the daily administrative services of Community Supervision, Community Correction, DRC/CRC, GEO, and Behavioral Health Specialist compliance. Duties and responsibilities include oversight of Community Supervision policy compliance and American Correctional Association (ACA) standards compliance for accreditation. The position also assists with reviewing policies governing the Compliance division, executive briefings, conducting annual compliance audits, and maintaining Correctional Accreditation. The Correctional Program Director I shall also provide guidance and assistance to compliance staff and executive and division leadership, as requested. This position reports directly to the Director of Community Supervision Compliance with the Office of Inspector General.
Key responsibilities:
- Conduct annual compliance audits of the TDOC Community Supervision, Community Correction Agencies, DRC/CRC, GEO Contract, and Behavioral Health Specialist audits.
- Review policies as assigned.
- Training and supervising compliance team members, as requested.
- Prepare compliance reports.
- Present reports to executive and division leadership.
- Create follow-up reports for any compliance issues.
- Assist with prepping Community Supervision for ACA Audits.
- Attend the ACA Conference upon request; and
- Assist with Mock ACA Audits of Community Supervision.
Minimum qualifications:
- Must have a bachelors degree with five (5) years of institutional correctional experience.
- Must demonstrate proficiency and capability to make rational decisions, solve problems, organize their time well, and work efficiently.
- Must be a self-starter, motivated, organized, and detail-oriented, with strong leadership skills, resolve, self-confidence, originality, and drive.
- Must have good communication and writing skills and the ability to appropriately correspond with various agencies and clients.
- Must have the ability to interact on a professional level with a variety of individuals, agencies, and clients.
- Must be available for meetings, briefings, and consultations as requested.
- Must be available to travel in and out of state as requested.
- Must be proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook)
Pursuant to the State of Tennessee's Workplace Discrimination and Harassment policy, the State is firmly committed to the principle of fair and equal employment opportunities for its citizens and strives to protect the rights and opportunities of all people to seek, obtain, and hold employment without being subjected to illegal discrimination and harassment in the workplace. It is the State's policy to provide an environment free of discrimination and harassment of an individual because of that person's race, color, national origin, age (40 and over), sex, pregnancy, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status or any other category protected by state and/or federal civil rights laws.
