Correctional Program Officer; Chief, National Gang Unit

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

There is no substitution of education for specialized experience for this position.

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.

• Experience preparing intelligence advisory reports explaining new or emerging threats/security concerns.
• Experience interacting with high ranking officials internal to the organization, to include providing briefings on a gang matters to Wardens.
• Experience entering information into an intelligence database to monitor and track various information related to gang activity.
• Experience identifying employee performance deficiencies and establishing training or an improvement plan.

• Experience with investigative procedures and intelligence processing as related to prosecution, administrative processing, or internal affairs.
• Experience managing intelligence and investigative related databases systems.
• Experience in advanced training skills, establishing lessons plans, learning objectives, teaching points and capable of developing policy statements, formal manuals, technical data sheets, contingency plans and similar writing activities.
• Experience serving as a liaison between the agency and various state and local correctional agencies for the purpose of gathering and analyzing information on prison gang activities.

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.