Senior Compliance Specialist

Executive Service

Closing Date: 03/09/2026

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. The Tennessee Department of Correction operates safe and secure facilities and provides effective community supervision in support of successful reentry.

Department of Correction
Inspector General
Nashville, TN

The Senior Correctional Compliance Specialist assists with the coordination of contract audits and provides supervisory support for the Contract Monitoring division within the Office of Inspector General (OIG). Duties and responsibilities include conducting contract monitoring audits of all correctional facilities, to include privately managed facilities, preparing and reviewing compliance reports, and conducting follow-up audits to ensure findings are corrected. Additionally, the Senior Correctional Compliance Specialist assists in reviewing and developing inspection instruments used to monitor compliance.

This position reports directly to the Audit Director 1 Contract Monitoring.

• Assist the Audit Director 1 with compliance or audit revisions, policy reviews, compliance schedules, and directives/initiatives as appropriate and assigned.
• Assist with staff oversight on audits Report deficiencies to the Audit Director for review.
• Train subordinate staff in compliance/audit work, as needed.
• Ensure all audit documentation is ready for each audit.
• Ensure all audit documentation has been reviewed, scanned, and uploaded for review.
• Lead audits in the absence of leadership and assists other divisions with audits, as assigned.
• Report or present on matters related to compliance.
• Attend training and conferences related to compliance.
• Other administrative tasks, as assigned.

Education and Experience:

Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree and experience equivalent to five years of correctional work, including at least three years' experience as an audit team lead and/or supervisory experience.

Substitution of Experience for

Education:

Qualifying full-time professional or paraprofessional correctional experience may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis to a maximum of four years. OR 7 years of compliance or auditing experience in correctional facilities or programs, including at least three years' experience as an audit team lead.

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.