REGIONAL DIRECTOR, NORTHERN REGION

at  SA Government DEPARTMENT FOR CORRECTIONAL SERVICES

DEPARTMENT FOR CORRECTIONAL SERVICES

Job reference: 649096
Location: 5088 - HOLDEN HILL
Job status: Long Term Contract
Eligibility: Open to Everyone
If you are passionate about transforming lives and advancing community safety, this is your chance to lead with purpose.
A rare opportunity is currently available to join the Department in a critically important key executive management role, holding overall responsibility for providing leadership and planning of a high quality and cost-effective Community Correctional service with the Northern Region.

Reporting to the Executive Director, Community Corrections and Specialist Prisons, the Regional Director, Northern Region will be tasked with adhering to best practice standards, legislative requirements and the Departmental Strategic and Business Plans; providing leadership and planning of a high quality and cost effective Community Correctional Service within the Northern region which includes ensuring the development and implementation of Community Corrections policies and ensuring Departmental policies, programs and procedures are effectively implemented and maintained for the effective supervision of offenders on probation, parole, bail, community service and home detention including electronic monitoring; providing leadership and oversight of the implementation and management of operational strategy and policy development for existing and new Community Corrections Programs; managing and overseeing the provision of effective reporting frameworks to assist Courts, Prosecutions and the Parole Board in determining sentencing and other decisions relating to the judicial management and the ultimate rehabilitation of offenders; representing the Department both within the State and at a national level in meetings, forums and steering committees; contributing as an Executive with Correctional Services, for the promotion and provision of effective leadership, vision and strategic initiatives to deliver quality services in line with the State Strategic Plan and the Department’s Strategic Plan. This includes but is not limited to the Strong Foundations and Clear Pathways – Women’s Action Plan 2019-24 and the National Agreement on Closing the Gap to reduce the rate of Aboriginal adults incarcerated, with a commitment to a new target of reducing reoffending 20% by 2026 (20by26).