Supervisory Correctional Program Specialist (DSCC Operations Manager)

Bureau of Prisons / Federal Prison System; Grand Prairie (TX); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Corrections professionals who foster a humane and secure environment and ensure public safety by preparing individuals for successful reentry into our communities.

To be considered for the position, you must meet the qualification requirements and demonstrate experience with correctional programs, inmate management, and coordination with agencies such as law enforcement and courts. This role emphasizes supervision and program oversight within a federal corrections setting.

Qualifications

• Education: No substitution of education for specialized experience.
• Experience: At least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level.
• Specialized experience related to correctional programs and ability to work effectively with inmates and staff in a correctional environment.
• Supervisory or administrative duties: training subordinates, coordinating activities, evaluating performance, and maintaining standards.

Job description

Corrections professionals who foster a humane and secure environment and ensure public safety by preparing individuals for successful reentry into our communities.

To be considered for the position, you must meet the following qualification requirements:

Education:

There is no substitution of education for specialized experience for this position.

Experience:

You must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the next lower grade level. Specialized experience is directly related experience that included substantial involvement with a correctional program and provided a thorough knowledge of correctional techniques, or experience in meeting and dealing with people that demonstrated the ability to work effectively with inmates and associates in a correctional environment.

Experience must have also demonstrated the ability to perform supervisory or administrative duties successfully. This includes (1) understanding the problems of custody, treatment, training, and release of inmates of penal or correctional institutions; (2)a thorough and comprehensive knowledge of an institution's internal policies, programs, regulations, and procedures; and (3)training subordinates, coordinating and directing activities and functions, evaluating performance of operations and the effectiveness of programs, and maintaining high standards or work objectives. This experience must have been gained in an administrative position, or in other positions that included the successful direction, or assistance in the direction of, an entire correctional program or a major phase of such a program.

Some examples of this qualifying experience are:

• Experience in record maintenance, inmate sentence computations, coordination of prisoner transfers, management of data systems and inmate classification and designation.
• Experience in sentencing and the methodology of combining sentences with differing sentence structures.
• Experience with maintaining liaisons with the United States Marshals Service, the courts, committing agencies, local law enforcement agencies, Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Postal Service, U.S. Parole Commission, and other local state and federal law enforcement agencies.
• Experience as a law enforcement officer in a correctional facility which included primary responsibility for the detention, direction, supervision, inspection, training, employment care and transportation of inmates incarcerated in these facilities.

If applicable, credit will be given for paid and unpaid experience. To receive proper credit, you must show the actual time (such as the number of hours worked per week) spent in activities.

Your eligibility for consideration will be based on your responses to the many questions to.