Unit Case Manager

Job Information

Job
Agency:
Department of Corrections

Location:

Sioux Falls, SD
Salary: $26.00-$32.00 hourly, depending on qualifications
Pay Grade: I
Closing Date: 1/14/2026

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• Conduct an initial assessment and admission data summary that includes criminal history, social history, medical, dental, mental health needs, occupational experience and interests, vocational programming, education, and previous information reported by the SD DOC or other criminal justice organizations.
• Retrieve and enter information by accessing SD DOC information systems and utilizing internal and external data sources.
• Analyze retrieved data and investigate for linked information.
• Meet with individual offenders to identify and collect meaningful information to develop an initial case management plan.
• Locate wants and warrants for law enforcement agencies and communicate location.
• Recommend custody level and facility placement based on offender classification and program needs.
• Meet with individual offenders to effectively guide them in accordance with SD DOC needs and regulations, Federal Laws, State Statues and other case management goals and objectives ensuring continuity of care from intake to release.
• Deliver case management services utilizing motivational interviewing and cognitive based interventions in alignment with South Dakota DOC Mission and Vision.
• Identify and collect meaningful information in relation to criminogenic needs.
• Determine an individual case plan, proper programmatic needs, and goals in collaboration with the offender.
• Coordinate offender access to work, education, treatment and recreational programs, determine earned time grants, develop initial parole board risk assessments and actions, and design parole plans.
• Monitor, evaluate, and record progress.
• Complete assessments and updates at regular intervals in accordance with SD DOC policy and case management procedures.
• Maintain regular interaction with offenders coordinating medical and mental health and/or substance treatment, education, program referrals, work assignments and periodic re‑assessment, as needed.
• Research case files and prepare plans for presentation to the community and parole boards.
• Assist offenders in preparing for transition.
• Maintain a multidisciplinary network of effective communication, providing opportunities for offenders to receive feedback, crisis intervention, and grievance resolution.
• Stresses results oriented direction in guiding offender behavior to conform to socially acceptable standards through role modeling pro‑social behavior while monitoring physical, mental and emotional well‑being of assigned offenders.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Successfully pass all modules of the South Dakota Department of Corrections Basic Training, to include English reading comprehension, relevant competency assessments and written/practical exams in Defensive Tactics.
• Possess the physical ability to successfully complete Defensive Tactics.
• Lift arms above head and kick as high as own waist.
• Stabilize another person to accomplish a controlled take down.
• Use arms, palms of hands, shins, and feet to deliver blows.
• Withstand impact (slow speed or with a safety bag) on own body from strikes/blows.
• Swing a baton in a striking technique.
• Rotate body 90 degrees with feet planted for striking with foot or using a defensive tactic.
• Get down on one or both knees and up again with multiple repetitions.
• Will be exposed to Oleoresin Capsicum during Basic Training and will be exposed while on assignment.
• Must be able to see and hear in order to observe, address and respond to potential breaches in safety and security.
• Seize, hold, control or subdue violent or assaultive persons and defend oneself or others to prevent injury.
• Demonstrate body agility, strength of all four limbs and the ability to walk and climb stairs consistently.
• Work in situations…