CORRECTIONAL ADMINISTRATOR-EAST REGION - 74732

Executive Service

Background Check: This position requires a criminal background check. Therefore, you may be required to provide information about your criminal history in order to be considered for this position.

Who we are and what we do:

The Tennessee Department of Correction operates and oversees 14 adult prisons across the state, housing some 21,000 offenders. In the community, TDOC supervises 79,000 offenders on probation, parole, or community corrections. The department operates 44 probation/parole offices in 13 districts across the state. he Tennessee Department of Correction operates safe and secure facilities and provides effective community supervision in support of successful reentry.

Job Overview:

The Correctional Administrator (CA) will serve as a technical advisor to facility wardens within their assigned region. The CA must possess effective leadership and management skills in overseeing the facilities in their region while promoting the vision and goals of the Tennessee Department of Correction. The incumbent is responsible for the overall mission of correctional management and oversight in the region. This requires effective leadership oversight to evaluate facility operations, personnel, and institutional security, and to determine the measures required to meet acceptable standards and policies. They are expected to prepare comprehensive reports of observations, findings, and evaluations for their supervisor, including recommendations for procedural changes and/or corrective action where indicated. Inspects security and correctional management at facilities with a focus on staffing, key control, tool control, inmate movements, count systems, locking devices, control center, armed posts, entrances and exits, care, and use of firearms, special housing units, and all other procedures relating to or affecting institution operations while making daily rounds on the compounds. Provides oversight to ensure comprehensive sanitation protocols are implemented and maintained by the Wardens. Monitors that all identified maintenance issues, including safety hazards, infrastructure damage, and faulty equipment, are promptly reported, tracked, and resolved within appropriate timeframes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provides effective oversight to the Wardens to identify and develop innovative job opportunities and programs that reduce inmate idleness and promote successful re-entry into society.
• Informs the Deputy Assistant Commissioner/Assistant Commissioner as appropriate for any irregularities at their institutions.
• Coordinates and evaluates informational requests and reports from central office to determine if information is responsive and adequate.
• Reviews and advises institution officials as appropriate.
• Evaluates and reviews the effectiveness of controls to meet security requirements and other operations involving institution security.
• Reviews and comments on policies for development and revisions.
• Reviews use of force incidents and segregation placements.
• Occasionally serve as a consultant to other correctional entities on security matters.
• Represents the Tennessee Department of Correction when designated at meetings with individuals, groups, and organizations interested in correctional institution management.
• May be called into court to serve as an expert witness.
• Prepares and/or supervises responses to Grievances, staff and inmate complaints, and legislative inquiries.
• Supervisory work and related managerial responsibilities constitute a major duty and require work accomplishment through the combined technical and administrative direction of subordinate employees.
• Supervisory functions comprise a range of duties, including planning, organizing, reviewing work, administering personnel matters, and dealing effectively with others.
• Specific supervisory responsibilities may include assigning, directing, and reviewing the work of subordinates; evaluating work performance; identifying training needs; recommending selections, promotions, disciplinary or other actions; and planning and determining the material, equipment, and facilities needed to perform the work.

Minimum Qualifications:

A bachelor's degree with ten (10) years of increasingly responsible management and administrative experience in adult security, law enforcement, probation/parole, rehabilitative services, correctional intelligence, correctional compliance, or another related program.

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.