Description
Salary: $52,260 - $81,874
Position Grade: 15M
Department: City Justice Center
Job Type: Full-Time (Permanent)
Examination Number: EX1330
Location: Downtown - St. Louis, MO
Incumbents in this position are responsible for directing correctional institution security activities and researching and developing security policies and procedures.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- Institutional Security.
- Security Management.
- Security Operations.
- Security Training.
- Participate as a Member of the Policy Committee; Attend policy committee meetings, revise and/or develop policies & post orders, security meetings, classification meetings, MAC, mental health medical meetings.
- Plans, organizes, coordinates and controls the work unit’s operations/programs to establish operational priorities, coordinate these operations with other functions within the agency, and ensure program objectives and standards are established, attained and congruent with overall goals.
- Determines and requests/submits staff, material and equipment needs for managed operations/programs managed.
- Contributes to the formulation and justification of budgetary requests for the agency as a whole.
- Determines performance evaluation standards and procedures to provide information to subordinate staff on individual work performance expectations to ensure complete and objective appraisal of subordinates’ performance.
- Develops and directs the implementation of operational plans pertinent to managed operations/programs to ensure the establishment of appropriate goals and the development of action steps to achieve these goals.
- Develops and recommends new and revised statutes, rules, policies, and procedures to respond to changes in operational/program needs, objectives, and priorities and to improve the effectiveness of managed operations/programs.
- Develops security policies for assigned institutes.
- Attends and participates in staff briefings and supervisory staff meetings.
- Advises subordinates and supervisory personnel regarding security policies and procedures.
- Monitors detention activities and monitors detention facility activities to evaluate effectiveness of security policies and procedures and need for new/amended policies and procedures.
- Responds to security emergencies.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Data Utilization: Requires the ability to perform mid-level data analysis including the ability to audit, deduce, assess, conclude and appraise. Requires discretion in determining and referencing such established criteria to define consequences and develop alternatives.
- Human Interaction: Requires the ability to manage and direct a large group of employees, including first-line supervisors. Oversees and controls employee discipline, selection and allocation, and planning of human resources.
- Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use: Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or provide simple but continuous adjustment on equipment, machinery and tools such as computer terminal, computer printer, telephone, and/or materials used in performing essential functions.
- Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a variety of reference, descriptive and advisory data and information such as detention facility activity reports, orders, administrative directives, job descriptions, personnel policies, performance appraisals, correctional facility accreditation standards, ordinances, statutes, procedures, guidelines and non-routine correspondence.
- Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; calculate percentages, and decimals; develop and interpret descriptive statistical reports.
- Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or synthesis functions involving planning and directing of interrelated activities or multiple departments. Ability to deal with several concrete and abstract variables in working out approaches to major problems.
- Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the direction, control and planning of an entire program or multiple programs.
- Environmental Factors: Work is normally performed in an office environment under generally safe and comfortable conditions where exposure to disease and irate individuals poses a very limited risk of injury
- Physical Requirements: Requires the ability to walk and climb stairs.
- Sensory Requirements: Requires the ability to recognize and identify similarities or differences between characteristics of shapes, sounds and odors associated with job-related objects, materials and tasks to recognize objects clearly to observe detainees and sounds to assess institution security.
Qualifications
A Bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice, Public Administration, Corrections Administration or a closely related field; plus three years of supervisory experience in a major adult correctional institution or correctional system. OR an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
License: Must possess and maintain a valid Missouri driver’s license while employed by the City of St. Louis. Must possess a valid driver’s license at the time of filing application and be able to present license upon request. Please note the type of license, number, class, and expiration date on the Employment Application.
Scoring Components and Their Weights
Experience and Training: 100%
May be Subject to:
Background Investigation: Pass/Fail
Medical Examination: Pass/Fail
Documentation of Academic Credentials must be Submitted Upon Request
When completing the Employment History and the Educational/Training History sections of the Employment Application, please be as thorough as possible when describing your education, training and experience relating to this position. Applicants will only receive credit for their experience, training and education as shown on the application. Resumes will not be accepted as a substitute to a fully completed application. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
Veterans Preference Points
To be eligible for veteran's preference points, the applicant must submit a copy of their DD 214 Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty with the Employment Application or upon request. The Director of Personnel may, in their discretion, accept alternate documentation.
City Residence Preference Points
City residents who pass an examination for a position in the classified service and do not receive any other preference will receive a five (5) point preference on a scale of 100 points on the exam. An additional one (1) point shall be added to the passing score of City residents who receive any other preference on a scale of 100 points. City residents must have resided in the City for at least one (1) year at the time of filing their application to be eligible for the preference points.
Accommodations
If assistance with the job application is necessary based on a physical impairment, mental impairment, or otherwise, they should reach out to the Office on the Disabled with contact information. This office will not disclose any information that an applicant or employee has a disability or has discussed possible accommodations without the applicant's or employee's prior consent.
