Correctional Superintendent

Job Description

The Department of Corrections, Division of Institutions, is recruiting for a Correctional Superintendent 1 position at the Spring Creek Correctional Center (SCCC) located in Seward, Alaska.

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Spring Creek Correctional Center is seeking a Correctional Superintendent I to join our leadership team. This position assists the Superintendent III with facility management and administrative oversight to ensure the effective operation of a 24-hour correctional institution. The Superintendent I will work closely with fellow leaders and staff to support daily operations and maintain a secure, well-run environment. The role includes supervision of various operational areas and staff members throughout the facility.

Additionally, this position oversees inmate rehabilitative programs and activities in accordance with Departmental policies and all Federal and State statutes and regulations.

The mission of Spring Creek Correctional Center is to provide a secure environment for staff and offenders that promotes public safety and provides an opportunity or staff development, and reformative offender programming to ensure safety and efficient resources management. As the State of Alaska’s only Maximum Security adult male facility we provide confinement for minimum, medium, and close custody sentenced felons including the state’s most violent and predatory offenders.

• Flexible work schedules:
• An opportunity to make a difference in people’s lives;
• Excellent benefits;
• Career Development and training;
• Being part of a team consisting of a rewarding group of professionals

Spring Creek Correctional Center is a maximum-security, state-operated adult correctional institution with a capacity of over 500 male inmates and a staff of approximately 200 employees. While much of the inmate population serves long-term sentences, the facility also houses individuals serving shorter terms.

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

• Attention to Detail:
  Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.
• Analytical Thinking/Problem Solving:
  Uses a logical, systematic, sequential approach to address problems or opportunities or manage a situation by drawing on one’s knowledge and experience base and calling on other references and resources as necessary.
• Oral and Written Communication:
  Expresses information(for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral and written presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.

One year 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 elsewhere.

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