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Title: Director of Correctional Education
Salary Range: $48,000.00 - $55,000.00
Contract Term Length: 12 Months
Standard Hours: 37.50
Work Location: Hybrid
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
College: Jefferson Community & Technical College
Campus Location: Jefferson Community College
Department: Academic Support
Total Rewards
Jefferson Community & Technical College offers a competitive benefits package and an attractive work environment that supports excellence, innovation, and creativity including:
- Exceptional health care, vision, dental coverage for you and your family
- Tuition reimbursement/waiver for you, your spouse, and dependents
- 403(b) retirement plan: a 5% employee contribution receives a 10% employer match
- Vacation/Sick Time
- Work-Life Balance
- 9.5 Paid Holidays
- 2 Weeks Institutional Closing Pay (Last 2 weeks of December) for qualifying positions
- Employee Assistance Program
Job Summary
Jefferson Community and Technical College has an opening for the Director of Correctional Education position. This position will manage the college's Correctional Education Program including: recruiting, admissions, financial aid, enrollment, transfer, career, and re-entry processes. This includes establishing partnerships and providing direct service to incarcerated students. This position can be located at any Jefferson CTC campus but must maintain on-site office hours at three days per week at Kentucky State Reformatory, and Roederer Correctional Complex both located in Oldham County.
Job Duties:
- Manage the college's Correctional Education Program, which includes coordinating the recruiting, admissions, financial aid, enrollment, transfer, career, and re-entry processes and providing direct service to incarcerated students.
- Work with Division Chairs to coordinate correctional educational course offerings each semester.
- Provide on-site academic and student support to incarcerated students and faculty. This includes maintaining on-site office hours approximately three days per week at the Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex.
- Assist the Chief Academic officer in maintaining all applicable accreditation standards including MOAs, MOUs, Faculty credentialing files, and off-site visits.
- Assist the Financial Aid Office in completing federal and state reporting requirements and maintain required financial and student records.
- Lead the development of course catalogs, promotional materials, educational materials, training manuals, newsletters, and/or online content.
- Establish and maintain relationships with correctional administration, reentry services, potential employers, transfer institutions, chamber of commerce organizations, and other local organizations to provide support to students.
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree (Social Work, Human Services, Criminal Justice, Guidance Counseling, Student Personnel Services, Educational Administration, Education, or related field). Two years of relevant experience, and the individual must be comfortable multi-tasking and organized.
Preferred Qualifications:
JCTC encourages applicants who have a background similar to the students served.
Additional Skills Requested:
Jefferson Community and Technical College is working to build an engaged faculty and staff committed to teaching and working within the community. Candidates who have demonstrated a commitment to working and supporting students through teaching, mentoring, or administration are especially encouraged to apply.
Employee Rights - Employee Polygraph Protection Act
Equal Opportunity Employer - The Kentucky Community and Technical College System is an equal educational and employment opportunity institution.
Salary : $48,000 - $55,000
