Title: Victim Services Director: Central Administration #01202

State Role Title: Prog Admin Manager III

Hiring Range: $75,423 - $139,533

Pay Band: 6

Agency: Dept of Corr - Central Admin

Location: DOC Headquarters

Agency Website: www.vadoc.virginia.gov

Recruitment Type: General Public - G

Job Duties

To further develop the quality programs and services that enhance long term public safety by providing victims the opportunity for healing, by encouraging the secure and safe operation of facilities and community corrections units, and by supporting wrap around services to victims during in-mate reentry. To plan and coordinate a statewide system for information, notification and services for crime victims and their complex needs.

To plan, administer and supervise all of the Department’s interactions with victims and fulfill the Department’s statutory obligations to crime victims. To serve as subject matter expert on correctional based victim services and impact of crime on victims for the DOC, Academy, legislature, executive staff, Parole Board and external stakeholders. To ensure a strategic approach is used to implement and provide victim services best practices in all correctional settings. To include directing and overseeing all victim services programs and their components based on research, strategic planning, organization development, effective implementation processes, and staff training. To ensure effective victim services by providing subject matter expertise as it relates to in-mate supervision, management and programmatic services. To ensure on-going measurement and evaluation are conducted on services with continually adapting according to new evidence-based information in the victim services and correctional fields. To coordinate, develop and manage resources, including grants, technical assistance and contracts.

Minimum Qualifications

Considerable successful professional experience in leading victim services operations in a state or local level setting. Experience effectively implementing victim services/advocacy culture change and managing staff to achieve success and goals. Delivering victim services approaches and service including program development, staff training, evaluation, policy analysis and development, and coordination across organizational boundaries and with non-correctional partners. Considerable experience with contemporary evidence-based research and practice for victim services and in-mate programming and management. Program evaluation and design, strategic planning, management and budgetary procedures, organizational development strategies, procedure development and implementation. Use of PC Microsoft applications including PowerPoint, Outlook, Word and Excel. Considerable experience effectively leading staff to accomplish large scale department-wide initiatives. Plan, design, implement and evaluate evidence-based practices. Provide technical assistance to administrative staff and field sites. Develop funding/grant budgets related to area and manage implementation. Effectively communicate orally and in writing with all levels of DOC staff, in-mates, victims, public and other agencies and government branches.

Additional Considerations

N/A

Special Instructions

You will be provided a confirmation of receipt when your application and/or résumé is submitted successfully. Please refer to “Your Application” in your account to check the status of your application for this position.

If selected as a finalist with the VADOC, candidates can expect the following:

Background Investigation Requirements: All applicants are subject to a background investigation. Investigations may include fingerprint checks (State Police, FBI); local agency checks; employment verification; verification of education (relevant to employment); credit checks; and other checks based on the position.

Drug Testing Requirements: Applicants applying to a designated safety sensitive position are subject to a pre-employment drug screen. Marijuana use is prohibited for positions that require possession of a firearm or a Commercial Driver’s License in the performance of official duties such as Corrections Officers, Probation Officers, Tractor Trailer Drivers and others.

Application Requirements: Application and/or résumé for this position are only accepted electronically through the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Electronic Recruitment System. All applications should be submitted by 11:55pm on the closing date for the position. Mailed, emailed, faxed, or hand delivered applications and/or résumés will not be accepted. The decision to interview an applicant is based solely on the information received for this position from the electronic application and/or résumé.

Layoff Preferences: Applicants who possess an Interagency Placement Screening Form (Yellow Form) or a Preferential Hiring Form (Blue Form) as issued under the Department of Human Resources Management (DHRM) Policy 1.30 Layoff (Commonwealth of VA employees only) MUST attach these forms when submitting their state application and/or résumé. VADOC is an EEO employer and is committed to supporting workforce diversity, equitable opportunities and inclusivity. Reasonable accommodations are available upon request.

VADOC values our Veterans and encourages all to apply and receive preference in the hiring process. AmeriCorps, Peace Corps, and other nation service alumni are also encouraged to apply. Click here for more information: Virginia Values Veterans (V3) Program - Virginia Department of Veterans Services.

Contact Information

Name: Human Resources

Phone: 804-641-9840

Email: EMAILED APPLICATIONS/RÉSUMÉS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED FOR THIS POSITION

In support of the Commonwealth’s commitment to inclusion, we are encouraging individuals with disabilities to apply through the Commonwealth Alternative Hiring Process. To be considered for this opportunity, applicants will need to provide their AHP Letter (formerly COD) provided by the Department for Aging & Rehabilitative Services (DARS), or the Department for the Blind & Vision Impaired (DBVI). Service-Connected Veterans are encouraged to answer Veteran status questions and submit their disability documentation, if applicable, to DARS/DBVI to get their AHP Letter. Requesting an AHP Letter can be found at AHP Letter or by calling DARS at 800-552-5019.

Note: Applicants who received a Certificate of Disability from DARS or DBVI dated between April 1, 2022- February 29, 2024, can still use that COD as applicable documentation for the Alternative Hiring Process.