CORRECTIONAL ADMINISTRATOR-DESIGNATION, RECORDS & TRANSPORTATION

Executive Service

CORRECTIONAL ADMINISTRATOR-DESIGNATION, RECORDS & TRANSPORTATION

Department of Correction

Prison Operations

Nashville, TN

Closing Date: 04/30/2024

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Who we are and what we do:

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 prisons and provides effective community supervision in order to enhance public safety.

How you make a difference in this role:

The Prison Operations Division is responsible for the daily operation and oversight of fourteen correctional facilities (ten state operated, and four contract operated). This division oversees Classification, Statewide Transportation, Special Operations, K-9-unit operations, and Emergency Services.

Job Overview:

This position provides oversight and current knowledge of available related correctional techniques and resources in the areas of offender classification, records administration, and transportation management. This position also provides technically sound assistance, guidance and information to central office and field staff concerning affected agency-wide programs and policies.

Key Responsibilities:

Develops and implements local program policies and procedures as required, including the formulation of local facility procedures to ensure TDOC policies are properly implemented at the institution level in the areas of offender classification, incompatibles, transportation, and correctional systems management.

Directs the implementation of offender classification, records, and transportation management state or federal policy and national best practices at the central office level by signing procedural memos and ensuring all affected staff are trained as needed.

Ensures facility classification management operations (e.g., inmate admission and release systems; physical processing of inmates, prevention of the introduction of contraband to the prison population; judgment and commitment records maintenance; and coordination of transfers between prisons) at the institution operate within TDOC and locally established rules and regulations.

Provides administrative and technical guidance to staff concerning policies on topics such as the physical processing of inmates, prevention of the introduction of contraband, and the safeguarding and disbursement of inmate personal property.

Serves as subject matter expert for classification, records, and inmate transportation, and answers technical questions to include ensuring all court ordered treatment is identified prior to an inmate's release to transitional housing, the proper placement of an inmate within an institution, etc.

Conducts regular meetings with case/unit/correctional systems management staff to discuss improvements to establish inmate treatment plans and any policy changes.

Oversees the professional treatment provided by case managers to inmates by ensuring they identify the problem, decide the appropriate action, and provide the indicated services needed (to include developing an inmate history, evaluating social factors related to an inmate's adjustment to the institution, and providing ser-vices for personal/family issues).

Oversees and/or supervises the entire case, unit management, correctional systems management operations at the Central Office. In addition, oversees the operations of case, unit management, correctional systems management in their as-signed institution.

Minimum Qualifications:

A bachelor's degree with ten (10) years of increasingly responsible management and administrative experience in adult security, law enforcement, probation/parole, rehabilitative services, correctional intelligence, correctional compliance, or another related program. Additional experience may be substituted for the required degree.

Required Experience:

Serves as subject matter expert for classification, records, and inmate transportation, and answers technical questions to include ensuring all court ordered treatment is identified prior to an inmate's release to transitional housing, the proper placement of an inmate within an institution, etc. Conducts regular meetings with case/unit/correctional systems management staff to discuss improvements to establish inmate treatment plans and any policy changes.

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.