Administrative Program Director 2

Louisiana Department of

Public Safety & Corrections -

Corrections Services

www.doc.louisiana.gov

HEADQUARTERS OFFICES

Baton Rouge, LA

This position is located in the Office of Adult Services-ACA Compliance Section.

THIS POSITION WILL BE FILLED BY PROMOTION

OF A PERMANENT CLASSIFIED EMPLOYEE OF

LA DPS&C - CORRECTIONS SERVICES (Adult DOC)

This position may be filled as:

• DETAIL: The selected employee may be required to serve a trial detail prior to being permanently promoted.

Exams and License Requirements

• No Civil Service Test Score is required in order to be considered for this vacancy.

• Any degree, certificate, special license, or DD-214 must be verified by official documentation prior to hire.

• Any qualifying experience that is based on college credit/college hours should have an accompanying transcript for verification.

• Failure to provide your qualifying work experience may result in your application not being considered.

• To apply for this vacancy, click on the "Apply" link above and complete an electronic application, which can be used for this vacancy as well as future job opportunities.

REVIEW YOUR APPLICATION TO MAKE SURE IT IS CURRENT. 

•  IMPORTANT: In the supplemental questions section, applicants must authorize the HR Office of DPS&C-Corrections Services to contact prior employers to check references under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), to be considered for employment, by answering 'YES' to the PREA question.

• Resumes WILL NOT be accepted in lieu of completed education and experience sections on your application. Applications may be rejected if incomplete.

• There is no guarantee that everyone who applies to this posting will be interviewed. The hiring supervisor/manager has 90 days from the closing date of the announcement to make a hiring decision. Specific information about this job will be provided to you in the interview process, should you be selected.

• Applicants are responsible for checking the status of their application to determine where they are in the recruitment process. Further status message information is located under the Information section of the Current Job Opportunities page.

•  This Agency is a Drug Free Workplace.

• This is a 24 hour facility.

• Applicants may be required to work shift work

• To view and apply to any of our other postings we currently have available, click HERE.

The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections - Corrections Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate based on any non-merit factor including disability.

For further information about this vacancy contact:

Megan Coco

Human Resources Department

HeadquartersPEEmployees@la.gov

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

A baccalaureate degree plus three years of professional level experience in administrative services.

SUBSTITUTIONS:

Six years of full-time work experience in any field may be substituted for the required baccalaureate degree.

Candidates without a baccalaureate degree may combine work experience and college credit to substitute for the baccalaureate degree as follows:

A maximum of 120 semester hours may be combined with experience to substitute for the baccalaureate degree.
30 to 59 semester hours credit will substitute for one year of experience towards the baccalaureate degree.

60 to 89 semester hours credit will substitute for two years of experience towards the baccalaureate degree.

90 to 119 semester hours credit will substitute for three years of experience towards the baccalaureate degree.

120 or more semester hours credit will substitute for four years of experience towards the baccalaureate degree.

College credit earned without obtaining a baccalaureate degree may be substituted for a maximum of four years full-time work experience towards the baccalaureate degree. Candidates with 120 or more semester hours of credit, but without a degree, must also have at least two years of full-time work experience to substitute for the baccalaureate degree.

NOTE:

Examples of professional administrative service fields include: Accounting, Financial Auditing, Budget work, Contract/Grants work, Human Resources/Personnel, Information technology, Insurance, Purchasing/Procurement, Quality assurance, Records management, Risk management, and Safety. In the area of wholesale/retail sales, we will also accept store managers, business managers, regional sales managers, or district sales managers as experience in administrative services.

NOTE: Any college hours or degree must be from an accredited college or university.

FUNCTION OF WORK:

To direct administrative programs and support functions for an organizational institution, office or department.

LEVEL OF WORK:

Manager.

SUPERVISION RECEIVED:

Broad from an administrator or manager of a higher-level.

SUPERVISION EXERCISED:

Direct over 2 or more lower-level positions.

LOCATION OF WORK:

May be used by all agencies.

JOB DISTINCTIONS:

Administrative Program Director jobs within this job series differ by a combination of organizational hierarchy, independence, complexity and scope.

Administrative Program Director 2 positions differ from those allocated to the job of Administrative Program Manager 2 by the presence of directing administrative programs and support functions and by the supervision exercised.

Any level of this series may involve two to twenty administrative functions, such as human resources, purchasing, information technology, inventory, property control, accounting, telecommunications, budget, buildings and grounds, maintenance, duplicating/printing, central records, warehousing, grants/contracts, dietary, housekeeping, laundry, quality assurance and motor pool/fleet management.