Warden (Div. Director) Adult Detention Center

Adult Detention Center Director

Directs Adult Detention Center (ADC) operations. Promulgates the ADC philosophy, and establishes and updates ADC goals, policies and procedures. Directs, manages and trains all ADC staff. Serves as liaison with the Virginia Board, the Department of Corrections, and the ADC food service vendor.

The essential functions of the job are not limited to those listed in the job description. The City retains the discretion to add to or change the duties of the position at any time.

• Promulgates ADC philosophy, ensuring that staff is trained on its meaning and application; develops long term goals for the institution, coordinating all ADC functions based on these principles, and ensuring they are integrated into the fabric of the institution's operations.
• Manages staff by establishing and updating staff position descriptions; ensuring staff understand performance requirements; motivating staff to implement the City's core values and ADC's philosophy; and interacting with staff to ensure they are appropriately handling their assignments.
• Ensures compliance with all applicable federal regulations and state jail standards by researching and writing appropriate ADC policies and procedures; posting new procedures, and ensuring all ADC staff review and understand them; and observing staff operations to ensure they are in compliance with all ADC policies and procedures.
• Ensures the ADC inmate food service operation meets all applicable federal and state regulations, and facility security and safety requirements, by reviewing, revising and negotiating the food service contract in concert with the City Purchasing Director; reviewing and approving ADC menus, ensuring meals meet minimum daily nutrition requirements, and commissary operations and items; and meeting and coordinating with the private food service vendor, to review issues related to food service operations.
• Liaisons with the Virginia Board of Corrections and Department of Corrections by attending meetings to negotiate jail standards interpretations, and ADC operational requirements; receiving technical assistance related to ADC renovations; negotiating inmate exchanges; and collaborates with the Regional Jail Superintendent and Western Region Jail Associations, and DOC representatives, to coordinate strategy related to applicable proposed state legislation.
• Prepares the ADC Annual Budget for incorporation into the Police Department budget by developing a list of necessary future purchases and critical initiatives; continuously reviewing the budget to ensure it best represents ADC's needs; and reviews all ADC purchases to ensure fiscal accountability.

Additional duties include performing additional duties as assigned.

Education and Experience: Bachelor's Degree, with broad knowledge in a general professional or technical field; and over nine years of experience. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered in lieu of the specific requirements listed above.

Certifications/Licenses:

• Valid Driver's License with acceptable driving record according to City Criteria
• Jailor Certification by the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services
• Firearms Certification
• First Aid/CPR/Blood borne Pathogens Certification

Job Knowledge: Advanced knowledge of the subject matter. Complete comprehension of the subject area to solve common and unusual problems, able to advise on technical matters, and serve as a resource on the subject for others.

Reading: Advanced: Ability to read literature, books, reviews, scientific or technical journals, abstracts, financial reports, and/or legal documents.

Writing: Advanced: Ability to write editorials, journals, speeches, manuals, or critiques.

Math: Intermediate: Ability to deal with a system of real numbers; and practical application of fractions, percentages, ratios/proportions and measurement.

Communication Skills: Recommendations regarding policy development and implementation are made and/or recommended. Contact may involve support of controversial positions or the negotiation of sensitive issues or important presentations. Evaluates customer satisfaction, develops cooperative associations, and utilizes resources to continuously improve customer satisfaction.

Independence and Decision-Making: Normally performs the duty assignments with substantial discretion and within broad parameters defined by general organizational requirements and accepted practices. Overall results determine job performance.

Technical Skills: Work requires advanced skills and knowledge in approaches and systems, which affect the design and implementation of major programs and/or processes organization wide. Independent judgment and decision-making abilities are necessary to apply technical skills effectively.

Fiscal Responsibilities: Oversees budget preparation of a division or department budget. Reviews and approves expenditures of significant budgeted funds for the department or does research and prepares recommendations for organization-wide budget expenditures.

Supervisory Responsibilities: Manages, monitors and directs work performance of subordinate supervisors, makes final decisions on hiring, discipline, performance evaluation, setting program/work objectives and realigns work and staffing as needed.

Physical Demands:

• Work requires light physical effort, exerting up to 20 lbs. occasionally, 10 lbs. frequently, or negligible amounts constantly OR requires walking or standing to a significant degree.
• Adequate vision, hearing and talking to use a computer, telephone and communicating effectively with others.
• Frequent standing, sitting, walking, handling, and fine dexterity.
• Occasional lifting, pushing/pulling, reaching, twisting, and climbing.
• Rare carrying, kneeling, crouching, crawling, bending, and balancing.

Non-Physical Demands:

• Responsible for appropriate use and maintenance of City equipment, tools and other resources, including work time.
• Regular and predictable attendance is expected.
• May frequently experience time pressure, frequent change of tasks, irregular work schedule/overtime, performing multiple tasks simultaneously, working closely with others as part of a team, and tedious or exacting work.
• May occasionally experience emergency situations and noisy/distracting environment.

Machines, Tools, Equipment, Software and Hardware: Typically requires use of standard office equipment, including computer and related hardware and software; firearm, pepper spray, gloves; and any other equipment as appropriate or required.

Work Environment: The work is typically performed in an office environment in a secure detention facility, with about one-third of time spent in the security area, where there is daily exposure to physical hazards and danger or abuse. There is occasional exposure to fire hazards, extreme temperatures, and wetness/humidity. The employee is expected to use appropriate protective equipment for the assigned task; and any other equipment as apparent or assigned.