Executive Director, Administration

The New York City Department of Correction (DOC) is an integral part of the Citys evolving criminal justice system participating in reform initiatives and strategies aimed to move the City towards a smaller jail system without compromising public safety. The DOC is responsible for maintaining a safe and secure environment for staff visitors volunteers and people in our custody. Importantly safe jails enable DOC to provide people in custody with the tools and opportunities they need to successfully re-enter their communities. The DOC operates facilities and court commands across the five boroughs with more than 7500 diverse professionals and knowledge experts.

The Department seeks a candidate to serve as the Executive Director of Administration. Under the executive direction of the Deputy Commissioner of Administration and with latitude to exercise independent judgment the Executive Director of Administration will serve as the Departments staffing manager and oversee the assignment and management of uniformed personnel. The candidate will develop and oversee a Roster Management Unit which will be responsible for monitoring staff assignments status and scheduling in all facilities. They will develop and implement policies and procedures to evaluate staff outages and staff placed on modified duty and create an assignment classification system that ensures all staff are appropriately deployed throughout each facility while evaluating staff schedules. This work will be done in consultation with the Deputy Commissioner of Legal Matters and the Nunez monitor to meet the requirements of the consent judgment and associated court orders. The position will be responsible for developing a plan to periodically re-evaluate staff employment status.

The candidate will collaborate with the Deputy Commissioner of Administration the Deputy Commissioner of Investigation and the Deputy Commissioner of Trials to develop a plan to provide the Department with the necessary resources to address any potential discipline that may need to be imposed for abuse of employment status.

Additionally the Executive Director of Administration will provide periodic reviews of facility-based personnel office operations including the reconciliation of tables of organization with actual personnel placement schedules in consultation with the Deputy Commissioner of Budget and Finance analysis of overtime costs tour commander certification report audits and the balancing of rotation and steady tours charts with personnel placement schedules. Ultimately they will develop a revised post analysis that is rooted in correctional best practices moving the department away from outdated practices. Furthermore the candidate will oversee the agencys initiative to civilianize certain posts across the Department by developing a plan to minimize the reliance on uniform staff for tasks that can be performed by civilian personnel. Such a plan will be in consultation with the Chief of Staff the Deputy Commissioner of Budget and Finance and the Deputy Commissioner of Human Resources.

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Qualifications :

1.A masters degree from an accredited college in economics finance accounting business or public administration human resources management management science operations research organizational behavior industrial psychology statistics personnel administration labor relations psychology sociology human resources development political science urban studies or a closely related field and two years of satisfactory full-time professional experience in one or a combination of the following: working with the budget of a large public or private concern in budget administration accounting economic or financial administration or fiscal or economic research; in management or methods analysis operations research organizational research or program evaluation; in personnel or public administration recruitment position classification personnel relations employee benefits staff development employment program planning/administration labor market research economic planning social services program planning/evaluation or fiscal management; or in a related area. 18 months of this experience must have been in an executive managerial administrative or supervisory capacity. Supervision must have included supervising staff performing professional work in the areas described above; or

2.A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and four years of professional experience in the areas described in 1 above including the 18 months of executive managerial administrative or supervisory experience as described in 1 above.

Additional Information :

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic including but not limited to an individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time