Associate Superintendent | MCC

Associate Superintendent | MCC

Exempt Band 3

Location: Monroe Correctional Complex | Monroe, WA

Salary Range: $ 11,141 Monthly

The Washington State Department of Corrections is seeking an experienced, collaborative leader to serve the next Monroe Correctional Complex Associate Superintendent. This executive leadership role offers the opportunity to shape the future of the facility by leading complex operations, supporting staff, and advancing a culture rooted in safety, accountability, and rehabilitation.

As a key member of the Superintendent’s Executive Leadership Team, you will provide strategic leadership across critical institutional operations, ensuring programs, services, and security functions are delivered effectively and align with the Department’s mission and values. Serving as the Superintendent’s designee when needed, you will help guide decisions that impact the facility, the Department, and the communities we serve.

You will oversee a diverse portfolio that may include security and emergency response, facility operations, incarcerated work and training programs, classification, records, support services, staff training, and safety initiatives. In addition, you will develop and manage significant portions of the facility’s budget, implement operational policies and procedures, and ensure compliance with departmental directives.

Success in this role requires a leader who builds strong relationships, develops high-performing teams, and collaborates with local agencies, law enforcement, elected officials, and community partners. If you are passionate about leading people, driving operational excellence, and making a meaningful impact through public service, we encourage you to apply and help shape the future of corrections.

A completed application packet will include:

We are looking for teammates who share our vision of public service and are committed to an equitable and inclusive culture that fosters and inspires excellence, while promoting innovation, engagement, and safety, leading to better outcomes for our incarcerated population, our agency, and our community.

As an Associate Superintendent, some of your duties will include: 

• Acting as the Superintendent's designee during appointing authority absences
• Planning, leading organizing and controlling the daily work performed by the agency
• Administer, monitor and oversee operations, safety, security, and emergency response activities in a correctional facility
• Ensuring clean and safe facility operations
• Supporting effective communications throughout the organization
• Providing and managing two-way communication between all levels of staff and incarcerated individuals
• Balancing the facility mission and objectives within budgeted resources
• Maintaining the highest standards of personal/ professional and ethical conduct and supporting the state's goals for a diverse workforce
• Providing a working environment free from discrimination and harassment that promotes diversity
• Developing operational goals and working objectives and ensure those objectives are reached
• Strengthening public confidence in the integrity of facility staff, demonstrating and setting the tone for the spirit and the letter of the law
• Promoting an environment of public trust free from fraud, abuse of authority, and misuse of public property
• Respecting and protecting privileged information accessible through the course of official duties
• Ensuring that no incarcerated individual or group of incarcerated individuals are given control or authority over the other incarcerated individual with the exception of active sanctions within the context of a Therapeutic Community
• Developing and directing implantation plans to respond to sudden shifts in custody and security requirements that require significant changes in policies, procedures, and staff training
• Monitoring application of federal and state laws, administration of rules, regulations, and orders of other procedures comply with the CBA
• Developing the Emergency Response Plan and managing staff training and drills to ensure institutional readiness to respond to a wide variety of emergencies
• Facilitating and encouraging public information and education activities by conducting tours, speaking to community groups, and by providing written information concerning operations
• Encouraging community agencies that the facility has contact with to participate in policy development, coordinated planning, and interagency consultation
• Serving as a Duty Officer:
  • Serving in the capacity of Duty Officer, making decisions for incidents that occur at the facility level, on a rotational basis
  • Determining how, in an emergency, incident, or significant event, the facility's operations are managed, authorizes activities and provides direction to all facilities and community corrections offices outside of normal business hours
  • Opening and assuming command of the Facility Emergency Operations Center (EOC) in the event of a major emergency or disaster
  • Serving as an Incident Commander during emergencies, with responsibilities to manage the facilities response and recovery from critical incidents and significant events
  • Determining allocation of resources and personnel, management of the incident

What we need (required qualifications):

• High school diploma or equivalent

         OR

• Satisfactory completion of two (2) years of college (60 semester or 90 quarter credits) from a college or university whose accreditation is recognized by the council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) or the US Department of Education or foreign equivalent
• Three (3) or more years of broad based, progressive managerial or administrative (operational) experience (Managerial and/ or operational experience level is defined as the CMP, Captain, CUS or equivalent level), which includes supervisory experience in a multi-level custody, adult corrections environment and experience in at least five (5) of the following areas:
  • Emergency Management (Incident Command System) and contingency planning
  • Correctional practice, theory and law
  • Budget administration and development
  • Offender classification processes and policy
  • Labor relations
  • Public relation methods and applications
  • Training and staff development
  • Experience working with unions
• One (1) year of experience in Unit Team Management (the Unit Team is a multi- 3 important disciplinary group of staff that manages the security, classification and programs of all incarcerated individuals assigned to an offender living unit
  • (The Unit Team is typically composed of a CUS, Correctional Sergeant, Classification Counselors, a support staff and Correctional Officers. Through the effective use of the unit team of the providing for a safe and effective unit operation).
• Effective project management skills and Quality Improvement Analysis (critical thinking)
• Organization and time management skills
• Conflict resolutions skills and abilities
• Working knowledge of policies, procedures, CBA's, WAC's and RCW's
• Ability to be calm and thoughtful in emergent situations
• Working knowledge of LEAN practices and how to apply them in a large-scale organization to improve business practices
• Experience in budget administration and development
• Experience working with minimum security camp incarcerated individuals to include off-site work crews
• Professional experience in working with mentally ill incarcerated individuals

What will make your application stand out (preferred qualifications): 

• A bachelor’s degree from a college or university whose accreditation is recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) or the US Department of Education or foreign equivalent
• All staff entering into employment with the Department of Corrections must possess the following competencies at the time of hire
• Safety
  • Treats other with Respect and Courtesy
  • Dependability
  • Accountability
  • Judgement and Problem Solving
  • Leadership
  • Communication
  • Relationship Building
  • Ethics and Integrity
  • Embracing Diversity and Cultural Differences
• All supervisors and managers must also have People Management skills and Managing for Results

Vision: Working together for safer communities.

Mission: Improving public safety by positively changing lives.

Our Commitment: To operate a safe and humane corrections system and partner with others to transform lives for a better Washington.

Our Core Values:

DOC is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, honorably discharged veteran, veteran status, genetic information, or the presence of any sensory, mental or physical disability or the use of a trained guide dog or service animal by a person with a disability.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

• DOC complies with the employment eligibility verification requirements for the federal employment eligibility verification form I-9. The selected candidate must be able to provide proof of identity and eligibility to work in the United States consistent with the requirements of that form. https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents
• DOC does not use E-Verify; therefore, we are not eligible to extend STEM-Optional Practice Training (OPT). For information, please visit www.uscis.gov.
• This recruitment may be utilized to fill more than one position. 
• Please include a minimum of three (3) professional references with your application. A professional reference is defined as an individual who has been paid to supervise your work and can attest to your work performance, technical skills, and job competencies. If you do not have any or sufficient professional references, please include non-related professionals, such as educators or other professional associates.
  **Please note:  Phone number AND email address are required for all professional references.
• A background check including criminal record history will be conducted prior to a new hire.  Information from the background check will not necessarily preclude employment but will be considered in determining the applicant’s suitability and competence to perform in the position.
• Employees may work directly with or near incarcerated individuals in a potentially hazardous setting. Please consider this when deciding whether to apply. 
• We are committed to maintaining a drug and alcohol-free work environment, and our employees are expected to comply with all state and federal laws. A pre-employment drug test may be administered as part of the selection process, and applicants who test positive for any controlled substances, will be disqualified from consideration. 
• Oleoresin Capsicum (OC) is an aerosol pepper spray made available as a means of self-defense and/or de-escalation. Applicants with sensitivities or allergies are encouraged to ask about the level of exposure they could expect in this position. 
• Animal care projects are a common component of most Washington State prisons, including dog and cat programs. Applicants with animal sensitivities or allergies are encouraged to ask about the level of exposure they could expect in this position.
• Tuberculosis (TB) is a priority health issue for DOC employees. The successful candidate may be required to provide valid proof of a baseline TB skin test within 60 days from the date of hire.  When positive tests result, further information, testing and treatment will also be required. Employment is not contingent upon test results.
• Foreign equivalent degrees awarded outside the United States must have a credential evaluation report attached to your application. You may request the required evaluation/documentation from www.wes.org and www.aice-eval.org. Until this documentation is provided, you will not be selected to move forward in the hiring process.

Telework Details

This position may be allocated for telework. If authorized for the role, work may be performed from your home or another offsite location within the state of Washington using a reliable internet or cellular hotspot service at that time.  Employees are expected to perform assigned duties in a safe manner, to take proper care all state-issued equipment, and maintain confidentiality of all information in possession while working offsite.  Employees will be required to commute to a Department of Corrections facility or field office as business requires, to potentially include components of the onboarding process. Some offices will have a “drop in” area available, however, a dedicated workspace within a DOC facility will not be provided.

What We Offer: 

As an employee of the Department of Corrections, your work-life integration is a priority. Washington State employees are offered one of the most inclusive and competitive benefits packages in the nation. Besides comprehensive family insurance for medical, dental, and vision, these perks also may include:

• Remote/telework/flexible schedules (depending on position)
• Up to 25 paid vacation days a year
• 8 hours of paid sick leave per month
• 12 paid holidays a year
• Generous retirement plan
• Flex Spending Accounts
• Dependent Care Assistance
• Deferred Compensation and so much more!

PERS: State Employees are members of the Washington Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS).  New employees have the option of two employer contributed retirement programs.  For additional information, check out the Department of Retirement Systems' web site.

For questions about this recruitment, or to request reasonable accommodation in the application process, please email mackenzie.conley@doc1.wa.gov or call us at 509-630-9160. For TTY service, please call the Washington Relay Service at 7-1-1 or 1-800-833-6388.