WARDEN 2 - 67487

Executive Service

https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/correction/documents/PositionAnnouncementWarden2MLTC.pdf

Background Check:

This position requires a criminal background check. Therefore, you may be required to provide information about your criminal history in order to be considered for this position.

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 Warden has overall responsibility for the operation and direction of the facility, ensuring the facility operates in accordance with state and federal law, agency policies and procedures, and the standards of the American Correctional Association. The Warden serves as a representative of the Department in performing public contact and liaison work with law enforcement, partner organization representatives, legislators, community leaders, offenders, their families, victims, and/or the general public.

Job Overview:

The Warden has overall responsibility for the operation and direction of the facility, ensuring the facility operates in accordance with state and federal law, agency policies and procedures, and the standards of the American Correctional Association. The Warden serves as a representative of the Department in performing public contact and liaison work with law enforcement, partner organization representatives, legislators, community leaders, offenders, their families, victims, and/or the general public.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Overall responsibility for the operation and direction of the facility with a maximum capacity of 411 inmates.
2. Direct and implement meaningful procedures and safety protocols designed to assist in maintaining safe and orderly correctional institution. These protocols should include evidence-based strategies aimed at reducing incidents of violence by at least 10% compared to the previous year. This may involve enhancing staff training, increasing inmate supervision, introducing conflict resolution programs, and regularly reviewing and updating facility procedures to address emerging challenges
3. Oversee the process in reducing or eradicating contraband introduction by at least 10% through the implementation of measurable strategies. These strategies should include comprehensive intelligence gathering, thorough searches of individuals entering secure areas, systematic area searches, detailed contraband mapping, and effective communication practices
4. Ensure consistent oversight to guarantee that all security and operational equipment used to enhance job efficiency and institutional safety is routinely inspected, properly maintained, and kept in optimal working condition.
5. Guide staff to ensure they are effectively utilizing the inmate discipline process by holding inmates accountable for rule violations. A structured approach, detailing who is responsible, what actions are taken, when they occur, and how they are implemented, fosters a system of fairness, and reinforces support for our front-line staff
6. Ensure effective oversight to guarantee that staff identify and develop innovative job opportunities and programs that reduce inmate idleness and promote successful reentry into society 7
7. Monitor staff efforts to decrease reliance on force and munitions in daily inmate interactions by enhancing communication strategies and providing ongoing staff training, aiming for a 5% reduction each month
8. Monitor staff to ensure they develop strategies and schedule weekly SEG meetings to reduce the reliance on restrictive housing as a management tool, reserving its use for individuals involved in the most serious infractions that pose significant risks to staff, inmates, and the public
9. Encourage staff to employ alternative methods, either in place of or alongside restrictive housing, to effectively discourage disciplinary infractions among inmates

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelors degree, with substantial and increasingly responsible management and administrative experience in adult correctional work, law enforcement, probation/parole, rehabilitative services, correctional intelligence, correctional compliance, or other related areas. Equivalent combinations of education and experience may be considered.

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.