What are the responsibilities and job description for the Deputy Warden position at State of Oklahoma?
Basic Purpose
Positions in this job are responsible for serving as the Warden’s primary operating and/or administrative officer at a facility. Positions in this job will assume the duties of the facility’s Warden in their absence or at their direction.
Typical Functions
Knowledge of planning, and organizing activities of a correctional institution; of theory, techniques and trends in correctional administration, of the principles and practices of administration and management; of public relations methods; and laws concerning incarceration of felons. Knowledge of, and skill in, the use and application of appropriate information technology. Ability to plan, direct, and coordinate the activities of others and the operations of a correctional facility; to communicate effectively both orally and in writing; to establish and maintain effective working relationships, to organize and manage several projects simultaneously; and to analyze complex and security sensitive situations and adopt an appropriate course of action.
Education And Experience
Education and Experience requirements at this level consist of a bachelor’s degree and one (1) years of professional level work experience in corrections; or an equivalent combination of education and experience, substituting one year of experience in a correctional facility for each thirty semester hours of the required education.
Additional Job Description
Dick Conner Correctional Center
Positions in this job are responsible for serving as the Warden’s primary operating and/or administrative officer at a facility. Positions in this job will assume the duties of the facility’s Warden in their absence or at their direction.
Typical Functions
- Responsible for secondary accountability of the operational and/or administrative aspects of a correctional facility which may include but are not limited to security and custodial care, classification, food service, health services, physical plant maintenance, inmate programmatic activities, religious activities, education, laundry, mail, canteen, correctional industries, agri-services.
- Assists the warden in preparing the facility’s budget and a variety of correspondence, reports, and recommendations concerning the facility’s programs to departmental officials.
- Serves as the primary assistant to the Warden in managing the facility budget, staff and other resources.
- Provides guidance and information as approved by the Warden relating to the interpretation, applications of laws, rules and regulations pertaining to operation of a correctional institution; assists the warden in developing, implementing, and applying department policies and procedures to ensure compliance with statutory and applicable regulatory agencies.
- Provides oversight to contract service providers as appropriate; serves on special project committees on various department related operational activities.
- Serves as a public relations contact for the facility as needed/required.
Knowledge of planning, and organizing activities of a correctional institution; of theory, techniques and trends in correctional administration, of the principles and practices of administration and management; of public relations methods; and laws concerning incarceration of felons. Knowledge of, and skill in, the use and application of appropriate information technology. Ability to plan, direct, and coordinate the activities of others and the operations of a correctional facility; to communicate effectively both orally and in writing; to establish and maintain effective working relationships, to organize and manage several projects simultaneously; and to analyze complex and security sensitive situations and adopt an appropriate course of action.
Education And Experience
Education and Experience requirements at this level consist of a bachelor’s degree and one (1) years of professional level work experience in corrections; or an equivalent combination of education and experience, substituting one year of experience in a correctional facility for each thirty semester hours of the required education.
Additional Job Description
Dick Conner Correctional Center
