Correctional Program Officer

Duties
The Senior Deputy Assistant Director supervises the management of the various branches of the Reentry Services Division of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), which includes the integration of goals and coordination of programs within the Residential Reentry, Chaplaincy Services, Psychology Services, Female Offender Programs, and Reentry Affairs. The incumbent is involved in all major policy decisions in the assigned functional areas and therefore must stay current regarding the status of accomplishments throughout these areas. The incumbent assists the Assistant Director in the responsibility for planning, developing, managing, coordinating, and evaluating the programs in the functional areas noted. He/she also assists in the development of policies and implementing instructions, and approval of issuances effecting major policy changes.

The incumbent provides direction for the agency's National Reentry Affairs efforts, including strategy development, staffing and resource recommendations, and oversight of outreach efforts at the national level which includes collaboration with other Department of Justice (DOJ) entities, U.S. Probation and the Federal Courts, as well as numerous other federal, state, and local agencies.

The Senior Deputy Assistant Director assists the Assistant Director in the responsibility for oversight of the agency's religious services programs to ensure inmates in the custody of the BOP are afforded religious diets, personal religious items, and opportunities to workshop, while maintaining institution security. He/she assists the Assistant Director in the responsibility of developing plans, programs, and top-level policies for the management of approximately 200 Residential Reentry contracts nationwide, as well as approximately 50 contracts implemented through Inter-Governmental Agreements.

In the absence of Assistant Director, the Senior Deputy Assistant Director provides top level advice to the Deputy Director and Director of the BOP concerning assigned program areas, both operational and under development, and the impact these programs have on the total management of the agency.

Qualifications
MANDATORY TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS: To be qualified for this position, applicants must be able to show progressively responsible experience in a correctional environment which has demonstrated the ability to perform supervisory or administrative duties such as training subordinates in the specific duties related to their function in the institution, coordinating and directing operations and programs in a correctional setting, evaluating performance of institution operations and the effectiveness of programs in relation to the inmate population, and maintaining high standards and work objectives. This experience must have been gained through the direction or assistance in the direction, of an entire correctional program or major phase of a correctional program. Applicants must possess: (1) an understanding of the problems of custody (especially security), treatment and training of inmates; and (2) an understanding of a correctional program's internal policies, relationships with associates, representatives of professional organizations, staff in other law enforcement components, inmates and their family members, and staff in a variety of occupational series.

• You must be a U.S. citizen to qualify for this position.

• You must be a member of the Federal civil service. The civil service consists of all persons who occupy positions in the executive (includes excepted service), judicial, and legislative branches, excluding positions in the uniformed services.

• After appointment, you will be subject to random testing for illegal drug use.

• You will need to successfully complete a background security investigation before you can be appointed into this position.

• You will be required to travel occasionally for training and operational purposes.

• Applicants for this position must pass a pre-employment medical examination.