Corrections Security Manager Senior (Institutions): Central Administration - #01673

Title: Corrections Security Manager Senior (Institutions): Central Administration - #01673

State Role Title: Prog Admin Manager III

Hiring Range: $90,000 – $154,495

Pay Band: 6

Agency: Dept of Corr - Central Admin

Location: DOC Headquarters

Agency Website: www.vadoc.virginia.gov

Recruitment Type: General Public - G

Job Duties

The Virginia Department of Corrections is seeking an experienced leader to serve as the Corrections Security Manager Senior for Institutions. This position serves as an executive and strategic operational partner to the Deputy Director for Institutions, providing senior-level leadership, analysis, training, and direct operational support in the oversight of the Virginia Department of Corrections' institutional security operations. The position plays a critical role in promoting safe, secure, and effective correctional operations, with a strong focus on institutional security, staff and offender safety, security practices, emergency preparedness, critical incident response, and operational readiness across VADOC's correctional facilities.

Serving as an extension of the Deputy Director, the Corrections Security Manager Senior works closely with Regional Administrators, Wardens, and senior institutional leaders to assess institutional operations and security conditions, identify emerging risks and vulnerabilities, and support effective responses to complex and critical operational matters.

The position provides strategic recommendations and direct operational guidance on matters affecting institutional security, security staffing, emergency response, offender management, and overall institutional performance. The position also supports consistent implementation of agency policies, security standards, and strategic priorities while promoting accountability, professional conduct, operational excellence, and public safety.

This position operates with a high degree of independence, discretion, and professional judgment and serves as a key resource on sensitive and high-impact security and operational matters. The position may represent the Deputy Director and VADOC in institutional security reviews, operational assessments, critical incident response, emergency operations, strategic initiatives, and special assignments. Extensive statewide travel is required, and the position may be called upon to respond to institutions during significant security events, emergencies, and other critical operational situations.

Key Responsibilities include:
Providing senior-level operational leadership and strategic support to the Deputy Director, Institutions, on complex institutional security and operational matters.
Assessing institutional security, safety, operational readiness, and emerging risks; provide recommendations and support corrective actions.
Collaborating with Regional Administrators, Wardens, and institutional leadership to strengthen security practices, accountability, consistency, and operational performance.
Supporting critical incident response, emergency operations, continuity of operations, and significant security or operational events.
Promoting effective implementation of agency security policies, operational standards, strategic initiatives, and public safety priorities.
Analyzing complex operational issues and provide executive-level recommendations, guidance, and decision support.
Supporting security staffing, offender management, emergency preparedness, and institutional operational effectiveness.
Providing leadership, mentorship, and professional guidance to institutional and senior-level staff as assigned.
Representing the Deputy Director and VADOC in meetings, security reviews, operational assessments, special projects, and other assignments.
Traveling extensively statewide and respond to institutions as required during critical incidents, emergencies, and significant operational or security events.

Minimum Qualifications

Successful candidates will be experienced correctional leaders with extensive knowledge of adult correctional operations, institutional security and safety, correctional security practices, offender management, emergency preparedness and response, critical incident management, and executive leadership. Candidates must possess extensive progressively responsible experience in correctional operations, institutional management, security operations, or a closely related public safety environment, including significant senior-level or executive leadership experience within a complex co