Job Description

🔹 DIRECT HIRE | Director – Department of Correction & Rehabilitation 🔹

We are seeking an experienced and mission-driven Director of Correction & Rehabilitation to provide strategic leadership, operational oversight, and organizational direction for all correctional and rehabilitative programs and facilities.

🔻 Position Overview

The Director will oversee all departmental operations, staffing, compliance, and fiscal management. This role plays a critical part in public safety, service delivery, strategic planning, and interagency collaboration.

🔻 Key Responsibilities

• Provide executive leadership for the Department of Correction & Rehabilitation.
• Oversee operations of all correctional and rehabilitative facilities, programs, and services.
• Supervise the Administrator of Corrections and ensure safe, efficient facility operations.
• Develop and implement strategic vision, policies, and performance goals aligned with public safety objectives.
• Direct policy, procedure, post order, and emergency plan development aligned with ACA, NCCHC & Missouri Jail Standards.
• Collaborate with health and behavioral health teams to integrate medical and treatment services.
• Partner with Municipal Court, Police Department, and community organizations to strengthen intake, booking, release, and reentry processes.
• Lead workforce planning, recruitment, and training for professional, trauma-informed staff.
• Manage operating and capital budgets, ensuring fiscal accountability.
• Cultivate partnerships that support rehabilitation, reentry, and alternatives to incarceration.
• Represent the department to government officials, media, and community groups.
• Ensure full compliance with all relevant federal, state, and local laws and regulations.
• Lead planning and transition for temporary and permanent correctional facilities.
• Foster a culture of ethics, accountability, diversity, and professional development.

🔻 Required Skills & Competencies

Knowledge of:

• Modern correctional administration practices, including direct supervision & SIM.
• Behavioral health, medical, and substance use treatment operations.
• Organizational leadership, fiscal administration, and public-sector governance.
• Jail operations laws, regulations, and detainee rights.
• Trauma-informed care, DEI, and community collaboration.

Ability to:

• Lead large multidisciplinary departments with integrity.
• Develop and implement complex operational strategies.
• Build trust with justice, healthcare, and community partners.
• Communicate effectively with diverse audiences.
• Make sound, evidence-based decisions under pressure.
• Inspire and develop high-performing, mission-driven teams.

🔻 Experience Requirements

• Minimum 10+ years in correctional administration, law enforcement, or public-sector leadership.
• Minimum 5 years in a senior executive role.
• Experience integrating healthcare or rehabilitation programs into correctional systems preferred.
• Direct supervision of senior leaders and oversight of large departmental staff.

🔻 Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in criminal justice, public administration, behavioral health, leadership/management, public safety, or related field.
• Graduate degree preferred.
• Valid driver’s license required.
• Must pass background check, psychological exam, and drug screen.
• No felony convictions.

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