Salary: $7,686.00 - $12,299.00 Monthly
Location : Denver, CO
Job Type: Full Time
Job Number: DEN #34609 Admin V 09.2026
Department: Department of Corrections
Opening Date: 08/13/2026
Closing Date: 8/27/2026 4:00 PM Mountain
FLSA: Determined by Position
Type of Announcement: This position is open only to Colorado state residents.
Primary Physical Work Address: Denver Correctional Complex; Denver, Colorado
FLSA Status: Exempt; position is not eligible for overtime compensation.
Department Contact Information:
How To Apply: Please submit an online application for this position at https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/colorado. Reach out to the Department Contact to apply using a paper application, including any supplemental questions. Failure to submit a complete and timely application may result in the rejection of your application. Applicants are responsible for ensuring that application materials are received by the appropriate Human Resources office before the closing date and time listed.

Who May Apply:

This position is only open to Colorado state residents.
Job Location:

This recruitment is for the Denver Correctional Complex
The resulting eligibility list may be used to fill future vacancies at this location.
Description of Job
This position will provide staff authority of Prison Programs services within a correctional facility. Programs include oversight of the Specialized Program for Juveniles and Young Adults Convicted as Adults (JYACAP), Career and Technical, Academic, and Cognitive Education, Library Services, Peer Education, and Faith and Citizens. The position will provide full staff and faculty supervision, oversee the delivery of services to students, and budget management. Provide oversight and accountability of educational goals and programmatic guidelines. Position exists to meet and uphold the Mission, Vision, and Values of the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC). This position exists to encourage and promote self discipline, self motivation, safe and productive work habits and positive attitudes. This position may also supervise other facility work units at the discretion of the appointing authority and per the needs of the facility.
Primary Job duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Provide supervision over Prison Programs to include Education, Library Services, Faith and Citizens, JYACAP and Peer Led programming and Post-Secondary Education;
• Implement comprehensive Career and Technical Education (CTE) and Academic education plans in accordance with Department policy;
• Oversee incarcerated individual programming for Prison Program;
• Implement new programming and evaluate current offerings;
• Provide guidance and leadership to the Prison Program staff through strong leadership, Performance Management, and mentoring;
• Ensure instructors are teaching from approved curriculum and documenting student data and progress as required by Prison Programs;
• Manage budget with fiscal integrity, ensuring good stewardship of money, maintaining programs, and supporting student and staff success;
• Participate in facility management team and carry out responsibilities of a manager through duties to include staff supervision, policy review and revision, support of security, and promotion of offender and staff success through accountability
• Promote a high level of performance by setting the work standard according to agency mission, vision and values. This includes the supervision of staff who also supervise other staff and inmates;
• Ensure completion of teacher induction program and positive progress of staff towards full credentialing;
• Coordinate with credentialing officer for obtainment for credentialing and licensure for new instructors;
• Manage the programs operating budget;
• Ensure data tracking is accurate and complete;
• Submit required numbers to Assistant Director that are accurate;
• Participate in Prison Programs audits, curriculum review, and professional development:
• Other duties as assigned,

Safety & Security - Only in emergent situations, this position may maintain safety and security by training inmates or perform inmate counts, searches, escorts, movement control, and inmate access to classrooms. Through conscientious observation and adherence to agency Administrative Regulations and the Code of Penal Discipline, the position promotes a safe and secure work environment.
Minimum Qualifications, Substitutions, Conditions of Employment & Appeal Rights
Ensure that the 'Work Experience" section of the application is complete and contains all relevant work experience related to the position that you are applying for. This information will be used to help determine compensation for the position. "See resume" statements cannot be accepted in lieu of the "work experience" section of the application. Additional work experience will not be accepted after the job announcement close date for compensation purposes. Failure to include adequate information or follow instructions by the closing date may result in your application not being accepted and/or may affect your score, rank or inclusion in the final pool of eligible applicants.

Former CDOC employees who are rehired or reinstated within six months of their separation from CDOC will return at either their previous pay rate, if hired into the same class level, or based on their time in the class series, whichever is higher.

Experience Only:
Eight (8) years of *professional work experience that includes two (2) years of education related experience in the areas of administration, counseling, library services or teaching. **Experience must be clearly described within the work experience section of your application to meet this requirement and receive credit.

OR
Education and Experience combined:
. A combination of related education and/or relevant experience in an occupation related to the work assigned equal to eight (8) years.
**You must submit a copy of your unofficial transcripts with your name, college name, degree and date conferred in order to receive credit.

Substitutions:

• Work experience in education which provided the same kind, amount and level of knowledge acquired in the required education, may be substituted on a year-for-year basis for the bachelor's degree.
• A master's or doctoral degree from an accredited college or university in the fields listed above will substitute for the bachelor's degree and general work experience on a year-for-year basis.
• A bachelor degree that is not in a related field of study, may substitute for up to 60 semester hours of core coursework on a year for year basis. **You must submit a copy of your unofficial transcripts with your name, college name, degree and date conferred in order to receive credit.

*Professional work experience: involves exercising discretion, analytical skills, judgment, and personal accountability and responsibility for creating, developing, integrating, applying, and sharing an organized body of knowledge that characteristically is: uniquely acquired through an intense education or training regimen at a recognized college or university; equivalent to the curriculum requirements for a bachelor's or higher degree with major study in or pertinent to the specialized field; and continuously studied to explore, extend, and use additional discoveries, interpretation, and application and to improve data, materials, equipment, applications, and methods.

Employment history is calculated on a full-time basis (40 hours per week). Less than full-time employment is calculated on a prorated basis to determine qualifications. Please be sure your application specifically addresses your qualifications, experience, work products, and accomplishments as they relate to the position and minimum requirements.

Special Qualifications:
Must possess at least one of the following credentials at the time of application (and must upload a copy of your credential to this application):

• Professional Colorado Department of Education (CDE) teaching license
• Professional Career and Technical Education (CTE) license
• Adult Basic Education Authorization (ABE)
• Colorado Community College System (CCCS) Credential

Required Competencies:

• Significant knowledge of effective teaching strategies, methods and techniques;
• Must possess high level oral communication and writing skills;
• Proven experience in policy analysis, development and implementation;
• Creativity skills and the ability to develop or produce new concepts, techniques, or programs through imaginative or innovative skills;
• Excellent interpersonal skills;
• Ability to problem solve and execute decisions;
• Ability to respond to emergency situations involving inmates (such as fights, fires or escapes);
• Excellent leadership, supervisory, and team building skills;
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with individuals in a diversity of roles;
• Proven ability to manage multiple programs;
• Proven ability to provide efficient, elegant, and effective customer service to the stakeholders of Colorado which includes exemplary responsiveness;
• Ability to understand, develop, and implement performance and outcome measures, managing effective operations while ensuring performance measures are met;
• Proven ability to provide analytical expertise in strategic planning, operational effectiveness and progressive evaluation of measurements;
• Demonstrated working knowledge and experience with Microsoft Office Suites applications;
• Comprehensive understanding of Performance Management Program (PMP), ensuring staff training and development.
• Ability to read and comprehend the English language;
• Ability to effectively communicate fluently in English both verbally and in writing.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Supervisory experience teaching adult learners;
• Demonstrated knowledge of post secondary education, CTE, and GED;
• Proven experience evaluating and recommending changes to existing Prison Programs;
• Demonstrated knowledge of correctional facility operations as a whole;
• Strong ability to work through all aspects of education and programming in the correctional environment to implement programs to their strongest fidelity and effectiveness;
• CDE Principal license;
• Prior supervisory work experience of employees with influence on hiring, evaluation, training, and pay;
• Demonstrated team building experience;
• Proven experience managing a staff with diverse professional experience;
• Demonstrable experience with prison operations, emergency management and prison policy;
• Experience working with justice-impacted students;
• Ability to work with correctional staff and in a correctional setting.

*Supervisory experience: Supervision is exercising span and control over subordinate staff to include coaching, mentoring, daily monitoring, performance management (planning, reviewing and evaluating), resolving complaints/grievances at the informal level, responsibility for scheduling and leave approval, and providing input that could affect pay, status, or tenure.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

The Assessment Process: Your application will be reviewed to determine if you meet the minimum Qualifications (MQ's). Applicants that meet MQ's will be included in the Comparative Analysis process. Colorado Revised Statutes require that state employees are hired and promoted through a comparative analysis which may include, but is not limited to, a suitability screening, Online Assessment, oral assessment, written performance assessment or it may include a review of your application material and your responses to any supplemental questions by a Subject Matter Expert (SME) to assess and rank applicants in order to establish an eligible list for referral to the hiring manager for final consideration.
Be sure the "Work Experience" section of your application is complete and specifically addresses your qualifications, experience, and accomplishments as they relate to the Description of the Job, Minimum Qualifications, Required Competencies and Preferred Qualifications as listed above. Resumes and "see resume" statements will not