Community Corrections Center Director 1

Description of Work

This position oversees the full operation of 24‑hour contracted facilities, ensuring safe practices, strong leadership, and consistent program standards across community corrections.

• Staff Leadership: Provide guidance to treatment, security, food service, mid‑level managers, and administrative personnel while building positive working relationships.
• Facility Oversight: Conduct announced and unannounced inspections, monitor security and treatment operations, and ensure compliance with American Correctional Association (ACA), Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), and DOC standards.
• Program Direction: Develop and enforce rules and expectations for reentrants, promote access to services, and engage community leaders and employers to support reentry opportunities.
• Emergency Management: Direct emergency response efforts, serve as Incident Commander, and ensure updated plans and staff readiness for security, medical, and operational events.
• Security Operations: Administer disciplinary hearings, supervise transfers and returns, oversee security equipment, and direct drug interdiction and intelligence efforts.
• Reporting and Policy: Ensure accurate and timely reporting, address deficiencies, and help develop and implement policies affecting community corrections.

Schedule

Full‑time employment, 40 hours per week. Work hours are 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM, Monday – Friday, with a 30‑minute lunch. This position requires regular travel and does not offer telework.

Benefits

• Eligibility for full retirement benefits at age 50 or 55.
• Standard Commonwealth employee benefits (health, dental, vision, etc.) as applicable.

Qualifications

• Minimum experience:
  • Two years as a Corrections Counselor 2, or
  • Three years as a Corrections Officer 3, or
  • One year as a Corrections Officer 4, or
  • An equivalent combination of experience and training that includes three years of professional corrections security, counseling, or casework experience involving criminal offenders in a correctional facility.
• Successful completion of basic training in Elizabethtown, PA.
• Must meet Pennsylvania residency requirement.
• Ability to perform essential job functions.
• Legal requirements:
  • Pass a background investigation.
  • Meet Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) compliance requirements.

Examination Information

Completing the application, including all supplemental questions, serves as the exam for this position; no additional written exam is required. The score is based on the detailed information provided in the application and supplemental responses. Scores are valid only for this posting. Incomplete or inaccurate information may lower the score or result in disqualification. Applicants may apply only once for this posting, and results will be communicated via email.