Initial Posting Date:
12/17/2024
Application Deadline:
02/09/2025
Agency:
Department of Corrections
Salary Range:
$10,311 - $15,964
*Note: Effective Jan. 1, 2025, the compensation plan for this position will be adjusted to reflect a Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) of 6.55%. The salary listed in this posting does not reflect the COLA.
The Oregon Department of Corrections is looking for their next Superintendent of the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility (CCCF) in Wilsonville, Oregon. The recruitment is for those who meet the full minimum qualifications and requested attributes. All interested parties are encouraged to apply. This recruitment will be opened until filled.
CCCF is a multi-custody facility accommodating all of Oregon's female adults in custody. In addition to housing females only, we are Oregon's intake center for all adults (male and female) being sentenced to 12 months or more of incarceration by the courts. The numerous correctional professionals employed here manage and oversee work programs, skills training, education programs, treatment programs, health services, religious services, physical plant, warehouse space for on-site storage, a central records unit and administration.
This position is part of the department's management service; this position is not represented by a labor union.
About the Job – Your Role
This position offers a unique opportunity to oversee the implementation of gender responsive practices at CCCF, ensuring the delivery of services and programs tailored to the unique needs of incarcerated women. This role requires a demonstrated commitment to gender responsive practices and trauma-informed approaches to correctional management. As the CCCF Superintendent you will lead the institution and oversee a leadership team tasked with carrying out the duties of the correctional facility. 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:
- Seven (7) years of management experience; OR
- Four (4) 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
- A comprehensive understanding of women’s pathways into the justice system, addressing their specific risks and needs, and implementing policies to support their successful rehabilitation and reentry
- Knowledge of gender responsive correctional practices the ability to integrate those with existing operational policies and procedures
- 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
- Advanced 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:
Interested individuals can apply here.
Recruiter: Maria Arellano, Maria.A.Arellano@doc.oregon.gov