PROBATION/PAROLE DISTRICT DIRECTOR

Executive Service

PROBATION/PAROLE DISTRICT DIRECTOR

Tennessee Department of Correction

Community Supervision

Jackson, TN

Annual Salary: $79,320.00 - $125,000.00

Closing Date: 11/02/2026

Background Check:

This position requires a criminal background check. Therefore, you may be required to provide information about your criminal history in order to be considered for this position.

Who we are and what we do:

About the Agency:

To operate safe and secure facilities and provide effective community supervision in support of successful reentry. The department manages and operates or oversees 14 state prisons housing approximately 21,000 offenders. In addition, the department supervises some 79,000 offenders on probation, parole, or community correction and operates six Day Reporting/Community Resource Centers across the state. The department is fully accredited by the American Correctional Association (ACA).

How you make a difference in this role:

The District Director supervises and develops managers and staff; monitors performance, staffing, workloads, and service delivery; ensures compliance with TDOC policies, laws, court requirements, and departmental standards; and oversees significant incidents, violations, audits, corrective actions, training, and special projects. The position also evaluates resource needs, including personnel, vehicles, facilities, technology, and office operations, and makes recommendations to ensure effective use of departmental resources.

Job Overview:

The District Director serves as a key liaison with regional and Central Office leadership, courts, law-enforcement agencies, local governments, community partners, and other stakeholders. The position communicates district accomplishments, risks, needs, and recommendations to executive leadership and is accountable for ensuring that district operations are professional, efficient, responsive, and aligned with the mission and goals of the Tennessee Department of Correction.

Key Responsibilities:

• The District Director provides executive leadership and operational oversight for a Tennessee Department of Correction Community Supervision district. 
• This position is responsible for directing district and field-office operations, ensuring the effective and consistent supervision of probationers, parolees, and community-corrections participants while promoting public safety, staff safety, and evidence-based practices.

Minimum Qualifications:

• This position requires graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree and experience equivalent to five years of full-time professional level experience in one or more of the following: probation/parole, counseling, social work, investigative, or law enforcement, of which three years must be at a lead or supervisory level in probation/parole work.
• Graduate course work credit received from an accredited college or university in social science, criminal justice, criminology, social work, and/or law may be substituted for the required experience to a maximum of two years (e.g., an additional 36 graduate quarter hours in one or a combination of the above listed fields may substitute for one year of the required experience).

Pursuant to the State of Tennessee's Workplace Discrimination and Harassment policy, the State is firmly committed to the principle of fair and equal employment opportunities for its citizens and strives to protect the rights and opportunities of all people to seek, obtain, and hold employment without being subjected to illegal discrimination and harassment in the workplace. It is the State's policy to provide an environment free of discrimination and harassment of an individual because of that person's race, color, national origin, age (40 and over), sex, pregnancy, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status or any other category protected by state and/or federal civil rights laws.

Salary : $79,320 - $125,000