Montana Women's Correctional Services Administrator

State of Montana • Miles City, MT

19h • Onsite

About The Position

The Montana Department of Corrections is hiring a Women’s Correctional Services Administrator to lead Montana’s women’s correctional system. The Administrator guides facilities with distinct missions toward shared goals and consistent standards, promoting a secure, rehabilitative, and humane environment through gender-responsive and trauma-informed correctional practices. The position works alongside Wardens, who direct daily facility operations, and focuses on systemwide coordination aligned with the Department’s mission.

The Administrator leads and advises on women’s corrections, coordinates practices and resources across facilities, directs gender-responsive programming, and leads planning and innovation. The role oversees systemwide compliance and contracted services, builds partnerships, serves as the senior contact for legislative and media inquiries about the women’s system, manages budget recommendations and resource allocation, and directly manages the Wardens of multiple women’s correctional facilities. The position is based at Montana Women’s Prison, with a work location in Billings or Miles City, Montana.

Requirements

• Seven or more years of job-related work experience in corrections, law enforcement, behavioral health, or a closely related field, including senior-level management experience.
• A degree in Political Science, Sociology, Criminal Justice, or a closely related field from an accredited college or university; an additional four years of management-level experience in corrections or law enforcement may substitute for the degree.
• Extensive knowledge of corrections or law enforcement, management, and budgeting best practices.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with women’s corrections, gender-responsive practice, and trauma-informed practice.
• Knowledge of the legislative process.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and serve as the Department’s expert on women’s corrections.
• Integrate public safety, Department goals, public perception, community, financial, and legal considerations into a shared vision for multiple facilities.
• Advise executive leadership on population trends, risks, and best practices.
• Support Wardens with policy frameworks, data, resources, and partnerships, while helping ensure women receive appropriate treatment and care and maintaining security, public safety, and public confidence.
• Coordinate across facilities to promote continuity of care, aligned practices, collaboration, and efficient use of resources.
• Direct the strategic design, implementation, and evaluation of gender-responsive, trauma-informed treatment, education, vocational, parenting, family connection, and wellness programs in collaboration with Department resources.
• Lead long-term planning and innovation using data, research, and best practices to improve the women’s correctional system.
• Design and manage strategic implementation plans for new initiatives and seek funding for new programs.
• Evaluate existing programs and new case management approaches, life skills development, and reentry services.
• Oversee systemwide compliance with state and federal requirements and work with legal staff on system-level matters while supporting facilities with facility-specific cases.
• Oversee compliance of contracts and contracted providers serving the women’s population.
• Build partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to expand programming, reentry support, and gender-responsive services.
• Serve as the highest-level contact for legislative and media inquiries about the women’s system.
• Prepare and manage budget recommendations in consultation with Wardens, recommend resource allocation between facilities, and pursue grants and other funding.
• Directly manage Wardens of multiple women’s correctional facilities.
• Support Wardens in meeting staffing, licensing, and training requirements, and develop systemwide training in gender-responsive practice, trauma-informed care, and de-escalation.
• Support the Department in labor relations as assigned.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• Generous State of Montana benefits.
• State employment may qualify for student loan forgiveness under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior