TJJD - Dorm Supervisor II - Senior Team Leader-State Services; GID

TJJD - Dorm Supervisor II - Senior Team Leader-State Services (GID)- 54612

Join to apply for the TJJD - Dorm Supervisor II - Senior Team Leader-State Services (GID)- 54612 role at Texas Juvenile Justice Department.

TJJD provides residential treatment to youth committed to TJJD and assigned to a state-operated high-security juvenile correctional facility. This senior-level role involves supervising a dorm and its youth development coaches, overseeing daily operations, and leading a team to promote a culture of safety, coaching, and the Texas Model of trauma-informed corrections.

• Understand and promote the vision and direction of the department and agency.
• Set goals for staff performance that comply with agency mission, vision, and core values.
• Ensure staff understand their duties or delegated tasks.
• Provide constructive feedback and coaching to staff, reviewing cameras to point out areas of success and development.
• Train, supervise, and evaluate staff and develop Senior Coach leaders.
• Review overhead and body‑worn cameras on a regular schedule to ensure safety, security, and adherence to Texas Model principles.
• Ensure adherence to agency policy and procedures; promptly address youth and staff conduct at the lowest level.
• Participate in staff selection to ensure a good fit for the dorm.
• Establish and maintain a positive dorm culture built on the Texas Model, teamwork, coaching, and caring for youth.
• Foster trust‑building among co‑workers and supervised staff and resolve issues.
• Serve as a calming agent for staff and youth when situations are escalating.
• Communicate directives with deliberate authority.
• Ensure information is disseminated to staff from leadership accurately and in a timely manner.
• Complete required trainings and ensure staff do the same.
• Maintain presence on the dorm and model TBRI principles.
• Demonstrate TBRI‑based playful engagement, healthy boundaries, and repairs with youth and staff, as appropriate.
• Provide oversight, coaching, and feedback on appropriate Texas Model engagement, activities, and interventions for all shifts.
• Plan, prioritize, and schedule dorm activities.
• Ensure daily schedule and activities are followed, including nurture groups and activities.
• Ensure weekly dorm leadership meetings occur involving case managers, senior coaches, and assigned psychologists.
• Provide technical assistance, training, and direction to coaches.
• Empower staff to learn and practice TBRI principles of failing forward and felt safety while ensuring the safety of youth.
• Ensure compliance with laws, rules, regulations, policies, procedures, and standards relating to dorm safety, youth movement, on‑job training, and related operations and programs.
• Maintain awareness of how staff behaviors may indicate unspoken needs; seek to create an environment of felt safety so staff can express needs that drive their behaviors.
• Ensure youth service team meetings occur per policy.
• Analyze and use data to make supported decisions and recommendations to improve programs and operations, staff scheduling, and dorm culture.
• Seek out creative ways to demonstrate and recognize staff value.
• Ensure effective shift change transitions that clearly communicate key issues.
• Recognize when staff need to self‑regulate and provide opportunities for staff time‑outs for emotional regulation.
• Conduct prompt follow‑up visits with staff individually after an incident to identify potential needs and assist where possible.
• Exhibit and encourage creativity in group activities used for regulation practice, life skills, and recreation, properly using agency guides and materials and sharing new ideas with leadership.

• Retirement plan
• Paid group health life insurance
• Paid holidays, vacation leave, and sick leave
• Longevity pay
• Educational assistance program
• Employee assistance program
• Optional add‑on benefits: dental, vision, optional life insurance, voluntary ADD insurance, dependent health life insurance, health dependent care flexible spending accounts
• Hazardous duty pay, career ladder advancements, and free meals while on duty (for designated positions)

To apply, complete a State of Texas Application for Employment and the additional forms available at https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). Submit the application through the CAPPS Career Section or via Work‑In‑Texas at  Attach the required supplemental forms and copies of diplomas, transcripts, licenses/certifications, and for veterans, DD Form 214. Applications missing any required information will be considered incomplete.