Correctional Facility Manager
What the work is
Manages the daily operations of a correctional facility.
Would you enjoy the work?
These are the main tasks in the official description. Mark how each one sounds to you.
- Manages the daily operations and finances of a correctional facility or a subsection of a correctional facility
- Monitors, leads and supports correctional facility staff, and ensures subordinates comply with policies and procedures
- Manages the implementation of initiatives aimed at preventing reoffending
- Ensures the admission and discharge of detainees are undertaken in accordance with relevant legislation, policies and procedures
- Ensures that correctional facility hygiene, safety and security complies with regulations and standards
Try it
A simulation and a case study from this kind of work, set in a fictional regional emergency management office preparing for storm season. They are fictional.
The kind of days you could have
Good days
- A flood plan you wrote months ago works on the day and nobody has to improvise
- A town you helped through a disaster invites you back for the rebuild
- You bring three agencies into one room and they leave with a shared plan
Hard days
- Phones ring all night and you must make decisions with only half the facts
- Preparing for events everyone hopes will never happen, and not being thanked when they do not
- Competing agencies each sure that their priority should come first
Written by Career Calling as a general guide. Real roles vary by employer and place.
Work a mission
Step into a simulated workplace in this field, with a brief from your manager.
Description and tasks: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Occupation Standard Classification for Australia, 2024, Version 1.0 (opens another site), occupation 149932, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The skill guide above is our plain English summary.