Assistant Commissioner- Training and Development

City of New York; New York (NY); Presencial; USD 140.000 - 200.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

The City of New York Department of Correction is seeking an Assistant Commissioner to lead strategic training, curriculum development, and overall program management across facilities and personnel. This executive role emphasizes instructional leadership, operational readiness, and workforce development within public safety contexts.

The position requires upper-level leadership experience, strong data analysis and stakeholder communication skills, and alignment with reform and safety objectives

Formación

• Demonstrated strategic and instructional leadership.
• Multi-program, personnel, facility, project, and resource management.
• Adult learning, curriculum design, scenario-based instruction, competency assessment, coaching, mentoring, leadership development, compliance, emergency preparedness, and performance improvement.
• Data analysis, risk assessment, problem-solving, change leadership, collaboration, accountability, and executive-level written and oral communication with internal and external stakeholders.

Conocimientos

Strategic leadership

Instructional leadership

Program management

Public safety training

Data analysis

Stakeholder communication

Educación

Public Administration

Emergency Management

Criminal Justice

Education

Descripción del empleo

The New York City Department of Correction (DOC) is an integral part of the City’s evolving criminal justice system, participating in reform initiatives and strategies aimed at moving the city towards a smaller jail system without compromising public safety. The DOC is responsible for maintaining a safe and secure environment for our employees, visitors, volunteers, and people in our custody. Importantly, safe jails enable DOC to provide people in custody with the tools and opportunities they need to successfully re-enter their communities. The DOC operates facilities and court commands across the five boroughs with more than 7,500 diverse professionals and knowledgeable experts.

Strategic Leadership and Organizational Management

• Implement and monitor training strategy, operational plans, performance measures, staffing needs, timelines, and accountability.
• Align near- and long-term priorities with operations, workforce needs, reforms, risks, and public-safety practices; represent TDD as assigned.
• Establish short-, intermediate-, and long-term priorities aligned with Department operations, workforce needs, reform requirements, identified organizational risks, and recognized correctional and public-safety practices.

Academy, Recruit, Field, and In-Service Training

• Oversee Recruit Academy, Field Training Unit, in-service training, and assigned programs.
• Ensure adequate staff, supervision, scheduling, facilities, equipment, assessments, remediation, safety, and quality controls.
• Integrate classroom and field training through practical scenarios, coaching, competency assessments, and curricula aligned with policy and legal requirements.

Leadership and Professional Development

• Oversee supervisory, pre-promotional, mentoring, coaching, and leadership development for uniformed and civilian personnel.
• Build role-specific supervisory, administrative, interpersonal, decision-making, and operational skills; support succession planning.

Facility-Based Training and Performance Improvement

• Analyze incidents, reviews, audits, investigations, corrective actions, observations, and performance data to identify skill and supervisory gaps.
• Coordinate targeted training, coaching, and remediation with facility leadership; incorporate operational lessons into instruction.

Training Compliance, Analytics, and Quality Assurance

• Develop and monitor LMS data, training records, dashboards, completion rates, competency measures, and operational trends to identify gaps and risks.
• Evaluate learning and field application through assessments, practical testing, and supervisor observations; recommend corrective action.

Curriculum and Instructor Development

• Establish standards for curriculum design, delivery, testing, evaluation, and revision consistent with policy, law, adult learning, and operational needs reflecting current Department policies.
• Oversee instructor selection, certification, development, evaluation, and deployment, including Instructor and Master Instructor Development programs.

Emergency Preparedness and Operational Readiness

• Integrate incident command, fire and life safety, active threats, medical response, continuity, and critical-incident readiness into training.
• Coordinate drills, simulations, tabletop exercises, after-action reviews, and joint training with relevant partners.

Personnel, Budget, and Resource Management

• Direct, supervise and evaluate uniformed and civilian leaders, instructors, analysts, administrative staff, and support personnel.
• Assess staffing requirements, assignments, organizational structure, and succession needs; assist with budgets, contracts, procurement, technology, facilities, and equipment.
• Identify resource constraints affecting safety, capacity, compliance, quality, and readiness; recommend solutions.

Partnerships and Organizational Improvement

• Build relationships with educational, government, correctional, law-enforcement, research, and professional partners.
• Pursue executive education, credentials, research, technical assistance, grants, and collaboration supporting reform, safety, accountability, and performance.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Competencies

• Demonstrated strategic and instructional leadership.
• Multi-program, personnel, facility, project, and resource management.
• Adult learning, curriculum design, scenario-based instruction, competency assessment, coaching, mentoring, leadership development, compliance, emergency preparedness, and performance improvement.
• Data analysis, risk assessment, problem-solving, change leadership, collaboration, accountability, and executive-level written and oral communication with internal and external stakeholders.

ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER (DOC) - 95041

Minimum Qualifications

• Demonstrated strategic and instructional leadership.
• Multi-program, personnel, facility, project, and resource management.
• Adult learning, curriculum design, scenario-based instruction, competency assessment, coaching, mentoring, leadership development, compliance, emergency preparedness, and performance improvement.
• Data analysis, risk assessment, problem-solving, change leadership, collaboration, accountability, and executive-level written and oral communication with internal and external stakeholders.

Preferred Skills

• A master’s degree in Public Administration, Human Resources, Education,Organizational Leadership, Criminal Justice, Emergency Management, BusinessAdministration, Personnel Administration, Psychology, Human Services, or a closelyrelated field.
• A minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible professional experience in arelevant field, including substantial leadership, management, or supervisoryresponsibilities. An equivalent combination of education and experience may beconsidered, consistent with applicable requirements.
• Demonstrated experience in instructional leadership, academy administration, ortraining program management within a public safety, law enforcement, correctional, orcomparable government environment.
• Proven ability to develop, implement, deliver, supervise, and evaluate comprehensivetraining programs that support operational readiness, workforce development, andemployee performance.
• Strong knowledge of public safety training operations, instructional methodologies,curriculum development, regulatory compliance, and the application of training to fieldoperations.
• Experience overseeing training personnel, instructors, supervisors, and multidisciplinaryteams, with an emphasis on instructional quality, operational effectiveness, andaccountability.
• Demonstrated ability to assess training effectiveness, identify performance deficiencies,and implement improvements that strengthen employee competency, institutional safety,and organizational performance.

Public Service Loan Forgiveness

As a prospective employee of the City of New York, you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs. For more information, please visit the U.S. Department of Education’s website at https://studentaid.gov/pslf/.

Residency Requirement

New York City residency is generally required within 90 days of appointment. However, City Employees in certain titles who have worked for the City for 2 continuous years may also be eligible to reside in Nassau, Suffolk, Putnam, Westchester, Rockland, or Orange County. To determine if the residency requirement applies to you, please discuss with the agency representative at the time of interview.

Additional Information

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.