Superintendent, Correctional Institution Administrator 2 ( Umatilla)
Two Rivers Correctional Institution – Umatilla, Oregon
Oregon Department of Corrections
Initial Posting Date:
01/27/2025
Application Deadline:
02/06/2025
Agency:
Department of Corrections
Salary Range:
$10,311 - $15,964
Two Rivers Correctional Institution (TRCI) is looking for a dynamic and visionary leader to serve as its next Superintendent. As the Superintendent, you will lead the institution and oversee a leadership team responsible for managing a 1,790-bed correctional facility, including a 128-bed minimum-custody unit located outside the secure perimeter.
About the Job – Your Role
As the Superintendent, you will manage, supervise, and coordinate the daily operations of TRCI, ensuring compliance with statutory, administrative, and case law. You will be responsible for all institutional programs, including fiscal planning, budget management, labor contract administration, facility maintenance, personnel management, and planning, developing, and implementing both long-range program objectives and short-range operational goals. As a major employer in Umatilla, TRCI plays a vital role in the community, and the Superintendent will actively work to build connections with local organizations, stakeholders, and staff.
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).
This position is executive service and may be eligible for Police & Fire (P&F) benefits through Public Employees Retirement System (PERS), as defined by statute.
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 men’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
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: Cynthia Rodriguez, Cynthia.RODRIGUEZ@doc.oregon.gov