Executive Director of Policy and Procedures Unit
Executive Director of Policy and Procedures Unit
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Job Description
The New York City Department of Correction (DOC) is an integral part of the Citys evolving criminal justice system participating in reform initiatives and strategies aimed to move the City towards a smaller jail system without compromising public safety. The DOC is responsible for maintaining a safe and secure environment for our employees visitors volunteers and people in our custody. Importantly safe jails enable DOC to provide people in custody with the tools and opportunities they need to successfully reenter their communities. The DOC operates facilities and court commands across the five boroughs with more than 7500 diverse professionals and knowledgeable experts.
The New York City Department of Correction is seeking a highly motivated collaborative and goaloriented individual to join the Strategic Initiatives Unit in the role of Executive Director. The Strategic Initiatives Unit oversees critical programs and initiatives initiated to improve systems and encourage institutional reform. The Unit is responsible for managing projects and programs designed to innovate transform and improve operations in support of the Departments overall mission. These may include shortterm highimpact Departmentwide initiatives as well as largescale multiagency projects requiring coordination with both internal and external stakeholders. The Strategic Initiatives Unit is also responsible for policy management development and implementation. Reporting to the Assistant Commissioner of Strategic Initiatives with latitude to exercise independent judgment and decisionmaking the selected candidate will play a critical leadership role.
The selected candidates responsibilities will include but not be limited to the following:
Oversee direct and manage a team of professionals responsible for policy management
including tracking and managing all agency policies operations orders and memorandums;
Work closely with all levels of the agency including senior leadership on policy development;
Employ a holistic projectbased approach to policy development and project planning;
Conduct analysis monitoring measurement reviews and continuous improvement of the
agencys policies;
Create systems to improve policy development and evaluation;
Ensure policies are aligned with regulatory and oversight entities standards and requirements;
Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to translate Departmental goals into
actionable plans and policies;
Develop process improvement strategies to enhance the creation of policies and promulgation
and access for employees;
Deliver informed recommendations to align policy and program efforts with agency priorities;
Recognize risks and mitigation strategies and escalate issues and concerns to appropriate
stakeholders;
Communicate transformative and innovative ideas to agency employees to support successful
project and policy implementation;
Identify effective ways to minimize potential adverse effects of institutional change;
Build and maintain effective relationships with a wide range of individuals including internal
and external stakeholders;
Initiate and lead policy working groups with policymaking stakeholders and frontline staff;
Ensure timely promulgation publication and distribution of all new policies; and
Perform special projects and related duties as assigned.
Qualifications :
1. For Assignment Level I (only physical biological and environmental sciences and public health) A masters degree from an accredited college or university with a specialization in an appropriate field of physical biological or environmental science or in public health.
To be appointed to Assignment Level II and above candidates must have:
1. A doctorate degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an appropriate field of physical biological environmental or social science and one year of fulltime experience in a responsible supervisory administrative or research capacity in the appropriate field of specialization; or
2. A masters degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an appropriate field of physical biological environmental or social science and three years of responsible fulltime research experience in the appropriate field of specialization; or
3. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to 1 or 2 above. However all candidates must have at least a masters degree in an appropriate field of specialization and at least two years of experience described in 2 above. Two years as a City Research Scientist Level I can be substituted for the experience required in 1 and 2 above.
NOTE:
Probationary Period
Appointments to this position are subject to a minimum probationary period of one year.
Additional Information :
The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic including but not limited to an individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
