Correctional Institution Superintendent, Correctional Institution

Initial Posting Date: 09/11/2024

Application Deadline:09/30/2024

Agency:Department of Corrections

Salary Range:$8,794 - $13,603

Position Type:Employee

Position Title:Correctional Institution Superintendent, Correctional Institution Administrator 1 (Salem)

Job Description:

Correctional Institution Superintendent, Correctional Institution Administrator 1

Oregon State Correctional Institution (Salem)

Oregon Department of Corrections

The Oregon Department of Corrections is looking for their next Superintendent of the Oregon State Correctional Institution (OSCI) in Salem, Oregon. The recruitment is for those who meet full qualifications. All interested parties are encouraged to apply. This recruitment maybe used to fill future vacancies.

The Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) seeks to employ career-oriented candidates and offers employment opportunities in a wide variety of challenging occupations. ODOC’s mission is to promote public safety by holding offenders accountable for their actions and reducing the risk of future criminal behavior.

OSCI is a 880-bed medium level security institution. Five hundred of these beds are designated as Transitional Release beds. The facility traditionally houses the department s younger inmates, including those remanded to adult prison from juvenile facilities. The correctional professionals here manage and oversee useful work and self-improvements programs enhancing adults in custody to reintegrate back into the communities.

This position is part of the department's management service; this position is not represented by a labor union.

About the Job – Your Role

As the Superintendent you will manage, supervise, and coordinate the daily operations of the facility in compliance with current statutory, administrative, and case law, and will be responsible for all programs, including fiscal planning, budget management, labor contract administration, facility maintenance, personnel management, and planning, developing and implementing long-range program objectives and short-range operational needs.

Leadership Skills and Attributes

Emotional Intelligence - The ability to consciously recognize, understand, and manage one's own emotions and to emphatically and judiciously recognize, understand, and influence the emotions of others.

Ethics and Values - The ability to behave with integrity, honesty and transparency in accordance with statute, administrative rule, DOC Code of Conduct, DOC Code of Ethics, the Criminal Justice Code of Ethics and the Department's stated values in all actions.

Inspiring a United Vision - The ability to imagine the future with creativity, wisdom and ingenuity. Leaders illuminate the path toward continuous transformation, sparking shred commitment and action in others to reach a common goal.

Strategic Thinking - The ability to forecast a broad range of alternatives, anticipate likely outcomes of individual or group actions and consider all potential risks and impacts to stakeholders and systems. Strategic thinkers recognize the relationships, complexities and implications of a situation. They anticipate possibilities and plan for the future.

Managing the External Environment - The ability to look outside the department and understand the totality of the environment within which leaders operate, engage proactively with all stakeholders and forecast the impact of actions taken inside and outside the department to promote public trust and understanding and ensure conditions are in place to meet the mission.

Influence - The ability to shape opinions, change hearts and minds and motivate others to carry out the goals of the organization by relating their personal motivations to the desired future state.

Planning and Performance Measures - The ability to develop comprehensive plans, provide direction, prioritize resources, establish measures of success, inspire action and insure continuous improvement in service of the organizational Mission, Shared Vision, and goals.

Collaboration - The ability to intentionally work together with peers, staff and stakeholders towards shared goals. Collaborative leaders are non-hierarchical and share responsibility, authority and accountability equitable with others.

Team Building - The ability to bring people of diverse thought, experience and skill sets together as a team, identify purpose and goals and manage stages of development to ensure collaboration and overall performance is successful.

Resilience - The ability to overcome adversity, opposition or failure and maintain steady, thoughtful progress towards a goal. Mental toughness, grit, tenacity).

Minimum Qualifications

Your application materials will be reviewed to verify that you have:

Five (5) years of management experience;

OR

Two (2) years of management experience and a bachelor’s degree in a related field.

Requested Skills

Advanced knowledge of concepts of public administration, correctional practices, business development, and regulation

Experience serving as a superintendent or extensive knowledge of correctional institution operations and best practices

Strong interpersonal and decision-making skills with first class ethics and a high-level of integrity and the ability to operate effectively under pressure

Demonstrate preparation of budget management and reporting

Advance knowledge of public unions and labor contracts

Thorough knowledge of the Emergency Preparedness Plan

Ability to understand and evaluate multiple perspectives as well as complex policies and issues and integrate them clearly leading the team to success

Exceptional, and demonstrated written and oral communication skills including public speaking

Demonstrated commitment and measurable results in equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives

Strong sense of accountability and transparency in all actions, ensuring consistent application of professional standards across a large, complex workforce

How to Apply – Required

Please submit a cover letter no longer than 2 pages (in PDF format) addressing how your skills and experience are relevant to and support the requested skills and minimum qualifications for this position.

In the Work Experience section of your application make sure to include the dates and duties off all relevant positions and details to support how you meet these attributes. If you do not include education or work experience meeting the minimum qualifications, you will not be considered for the position. Only the candidates whose experience most closely matches the qualifications and requested skills of this position will be invited to interview. Applicants must meet the minimum qualifications on or before the job posting close date.

About the Department

The Oregon Department of Corrections is responsible for over 12,000 adults in custody in 12 state prisons throughout Oregon. It advises and evaluates counties regarding administration of probation and parole programs supervising more than 24,000 offenders in Oregon communities. The mission is to promote public safety by holding offenders accountable for their actions and reducing the risk of future criminal behavior.

The Oregon Department of Corrections serves a diverse and changing population of people who are incarcerated and on supervision. We commit to creating an organization both reflecting the diversity of the population we serve and ensuring all employees thrive in a culture of safety, trust, and belonging. We strive to be an anti-racist corrections system. Welcoming, inclusive, and respectful of all people. Free of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.

The Department offers a variety of programs and opportunity to create a safe and healthy environment to for our staff, volunteers, and adults in custody. Joining the Oregon Department of Corrections is joining a team working for the benefit of our communities through innovative and proven correctional practices.

Benefits

The salary range listed above is for non-PERS qualifying applicants. PERS qualifying applicants may be eligible for an adjusted range to reflect an additional 6.95%.

The State of Oregon provides a generous benefit package, which includes:

Family health, vision, and dental insurance

Vacation, sick leave, and 11 paid holidays

21 days paid military leave for national guard and reserve components

Optional short and long-term disability

Term life insurance

Fully paid retirement program

Oregon Saving Growth Plan

Flexible spending accounts for health and childcare

And more

About the Process – What to Expect

After the application deadline, a recruiter will review submissions for education and experience to identify candidates who best fit the minimum qualifications and requested skills.

Top candidates will be referred to the hiring manager.

The hiring manager will review your application and schedule interviews.

Interview will be held with a panel of stakeholders who have completed panel assessment training. Scores will be determined based on predetermined questions and scoring guides. Preferences points will be applied in compliance with relevant laws and bargaining agreements. There may be multiple rounds of interviews.

Final candidates will have a background check, PREA check, and reference checks.

A Classification and Compensation analyst will review the Workday Application of the successful candidate to determine starting wages. Learn more about Equal Pay.

A job offer will be extended through Workday to the successful candidate. Congratulations, and welcome to the team!

Requirements for Employment

The successful candidate for this position must pass a Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS) fingerprint-based background check and maintain CJIS eligibility. Due to CJIS requirements related to system access, there may be some felony convictions that could disqualify you for this position. However, having a felony record does not exclusively restrict you from being considered as an applicant. CJIS clearance is done at the conditional job offer. If you have questions about whether or not your criminal record could disqualify for you, please contact the recruiter for more information.

Additional Information – Please monitor your Workday and email accounts. You may be contacted through Workday or have additional tasks to complete.

Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (EDI&B) is embedded in the Department of Corrections core values. The department strives to be a model employer committed to promoting diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. Ensuring legal compliance, efficiency, and exceeding expectations to deliver the best public services.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran or protected veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics. Additional information can be found from The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Know Your Rights.

The Oregon Department of Corrections is responsible for complying with the Federal Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA 42 U.S.C. 1997). PREA prohibits the Oregon Department of Corrections from hiring, promoting, or contracting with anyone, (that will have direct contact with residents), who has engaged in, been convicted of, or been civilly or administratively adjudicated for engaging in sexual abuse in confinement settings. Learn more about PREA.

Under Oregon Law, qualifying veterans may apply for veterans’ preference. Review our veterans’ preference page for details about eligibility. Please note – if you are a veteran, you will receive a task in Workday to upload your documents immediately after you submit your initial application.

Questions

If you have questions about the position, selection process, or need accommodations to participate in the recruitment process please contact the recruiter and reference the requisition number.

Recruiter: Maria Arellano,

Reference Number: Req-165263

Workday will timeout after 15 minutes of inactivity. You may lose progress on your application.

Workday performs weekly maintenance Friday evenings, and the system may be down for several hours.

ODOC does not offer visa sponsorship. Within three days of hire, applicants will be required to complete an I-9 and confirm authorization to work in the United States.

This applicant list may be used to fill future vacancies. Application information may be used throughout the entire selection process. This process is subject to change without notice.

This announcement is intended as a general descriptive recruitment guide and is subject to change. It does not constitute either an expressed or implied contract. The pay and benefits on all announcements may change without notice.

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