Manager I - Manager of Security Operations & Support Programs

Texas Juvenile Justice Department

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

Performs routine (journey-level) managerial work administering the daily operations and activities of an agency’s business function, division, or department.

Provides dorm-based residential treatment to youth populations committed to TJJD and assigned to a state-operated high-security juvenile correctional facility.   Implements treatment programs and services, and the operations and programs listed below to help ensure campus security/safety and to support the facility’s rehabilitation programs and services. Provides gender responsive programs and opportunities to youth populations. Plans, assigns, and supervises the work of staff involved in the security operations and support programs and is responsible for overseeing, administering, monitoring, and evaluating the security operations and support programs.   May be assigned additional programs to supervise and oversee based on the needs of the agency and facility that may include On-Duty Supervisor, Special Tactics and Response Team (STAR), Field Training Officer, Level II Hearings, Redirect, Security Unit, Recreation, and Campus Youth Work. Serves as a member of the facility’s Accident/Physical Restraint Review Board and may chair the board in the assistant superintendent’s absence.

Works under moderate supervision with limited latitude for use of initiative and independent judgement.  May be required to work in excess of 40 hours per work week, be on-call 24 hours per day, and travel.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Preferred:

• Bachelor’s degree with major course work in business administration, public administration, criminal justice (corrections, not law enforcement or police sciences), social science, behavioral science, or related field.
• Experience providing services for juveniles in a correctional program or other program. 

Experience and Education Substitutions:

• One year of appropriate experience may substitute for one year of college (30 course hours) on a year for year basis.
• Completed course hours of undergraduate study may substitute for up to four years of experience on a basis of 30 course hours for one year of experience.
• Completed course hours of graduate study may substitute for up to two years of experience on a basis of 12 graduate course hours for one year of experience.   The course hours of graduate study may not substitute for the year of senior-level, team lead or supervisory/management position experience.  Military experience in a supervisory capacity as an E-5 or above may substitute for the year of senior-level, team lead or supervisory/management position experience.

Salary: $6,475.00 per month

Job Order #16496352