Correctional Superintendent

Job Description

The Department of Corrections, Division of Institutions, is recruiting for a Correctional Superintendent 3 position at the Spring Creek Correctional Center (SCCC) located in Seward, Alaska.

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Under general administrative direction, the incumbent of this position manages and directs the operations of the Spring Creek Correctional Center, maintaining appropriate control and custody of inmates and providing necessary services and rehabilitation programs within a secure environment. The incumbent will be responsible for staff training and development, operational plans for both facilities and 24-hour staffing schedule, post orders, emergency plans and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).

This is a supervisory position with substantial responsibility for the exercise of independent judgement in employing, disciplining, or adjudicating subordinate grievances.

Correctional Superintendent 3 is the Chief Executive Officer of an adult correctional facility. Protection of the public by incarceration and supervision of prisoners are the primary purposes of this position and this purpose is accomplished through sound fiscal and operational practices.

The Alaska Department of Corrections provides secure confinement, reformative programs, and a process of supervised community reintegration to enhance the safety of our communities.

In joining the Spring Creek Correctional Center, you will become an important part of a team striving to promote public safety as well as have an opportunity for continued learning and career growth. We offer flexible work schedules, excellent medical and retirement benefits, and the chance to make a positive difference in your community.

Spring Creek Correctional Center (SCCC) is a maximum custody 24 hr. / 7 Days / 365 Year facility that houses up to 535 adult male sentenced inmates and employs over 193 staff on 328 acres. You will be working at the highest guard tower in the Alaska DOC system and institution grounds are home to several black bears.

We are interested in candidates who possess some or all of the following position specific competencies:

Plans, distributes, and monitors work assignments; sets task priorities; evaluates work performance and provides feedback to others on their performance; ensures that staff are appropriately selected, utilized, and developed, and that they are treated in a fair and equitable manner. Assignments include the authority and responsibility to recommend or independently take action to employ (i.e., appoint, transfer, promote), discipline or discharge, or adjudicate grievances of direct reports.

Knowledge of the laws, regulations, and guidelines related to securing personnel, facilities, and information, including the requirements for handling, transporting, and protecting classified information and proper reporting of security incidents.

Influences, motivates, and challenges others; adapts leadership styles to a variety of situations.

Makes sound, well-informed, and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; commits to action, even in uncertain situations, to accomplish organizational goals; causes change.

One year of supervisory experience assisting higher level Correctional Superintendents in the administration, operation, and maintenance of an adult correctional institution. This experience is met by service as a Correctional Superintendent 1 with the State of Alaska or the equivalent elsewhere.

OR

Two years of experience overseeing and directing the work of lower-level employees engaged in some combination of providing:

Security duties which support the custody, security, and reformation of prisoners in an adult correctional institution;

The full range of probation/parole functions and providing rehabilitative services for an adult offender population in an institutional or community setting; and/or

The supervision and enforcement of court-ordered conditions of release for unsentenced defendants awaiting trial in a community setting.

This experience is met by service as a Correctional Officer 4, Correctional Supervisor, Adult Probation Officer 3, and/or Pretrial Services Officer 3 with the State of Alaska or the equivalent…