Superintendent | WCCW

Leadership in corrections is more than managing a facility—it is shaping a culture of positive change. If you are a strategic, mission-driven executive ready to lead at the highest level, the Superintendent A at Washington Corrections Center for Women offers the chance to make a meaningful impact on public safety and institutional excellence.

The Superintendent serves as the executive administrator and appointing authority for the facility, managing adult incarcerated individuals across the full spectrum of custody levels. In this role, the Superintendent provides comprehensive leadership, long-term planning, and strategic direction for all aspects of institutional operations, ensuring alignment with the agency’s mission to improve public safety. In addition, the Superintendent will ensure gender responsive treatment for women is available based on the distinctive characteristics of the female physiology, women's roles, socialization and relative status within the larger culture.

Collaboration is key as you will work with internal and external stakeholders to provide the full scope of facility management, including fiscal oversight, classification processes, plant maintenance, safety and sanitation standards, educational and vocational programming, work programs, and all security and custody operations. This executive leader ensures operational excellence while fostering an environment that supports rehabilitation, accountability, and professional standards.

This is a rare opportunity to lead a complex organization where decisions have lasting impact. If you are prepared to guide a correctional facility with integrity, vision, and decisive leadership, we invite you to bring your expertise to a role that advances safety, strengthens operations, and supports meaningful change.

We are looking for teammates who share our vision of public service and are committed to an equitable and inclusive culture that fosters and inspires excellence, while promoting innovation, engagement, and safety, leading to better outcomes for our incarcerated population, our agency, and our community.

• Planning, leading, organizing and controlling the work performed by the organization
• Administering, monitoring, and oversight of operations, security, safety, and emergency response activities in a correctional facility
• Ensuring clean, safe facility operations
• Supporting effective communications throughout the organization
• Providing a 2-way communication between all levels of staff and offenders
• Maintaining the highest standards of personal/professional and ethical conduct and support the state's goals for a diverse workforce
• Providing a working environment free from discrimination and harassment and that promotes diversity
• Developing operational goals and working objectives and ensuring those objectives are reached
• Strengthening public confidence in the integrity of facility staff by demonstrating and setting the tone for the highest standards of personal and professional integrity, fairness, honesty, and compliance with both the spirit and the letter of the law
• Promoting an environment of public trust free from fraud, abuse of authority, and misuse of public property
• Respecting and protecting privileged information accessible through the course of official duties
• Ensuring that incarcerated individuals are not given control or authority over other incarcerated individuals with the exception of activities sanctioned within the context of a Therapeutic Community or approved peer to peer programs.
• Developing and directing = implementation plans to respond to sudden shifts in custody and security requirements that require significant changes in policies, procedures, and staff training
• Monitoring application of federal and state laws, administration of rules, regulations and orders of other agencies with jurisdiction
• Ensuring policies and procedures comply with the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA)
• Developing an Emergency Response Plan and staff training/drills to er1sure institutional readiness to respond to a wide variety of emergencies
• Facilitating and encouraging public information and education activities by conducting tours, speaking to community groups, and by providing written information concerning [insert facility name] operations
• Encouraging community agencies that the…