Contracts Administration Director jobs in Columbus, GA

This position is responsible for directing and overseeing the provision of administrative services to the Corrections Department.

• Participates in the overall management and operation of the prison; assumes responsibility for the operation of the prison in the absence of the Warden and Deputy Warden of Security.
• Oversees the operation and maintenance of business office functions, including Property Control, the Inmate Store, the Trust/Commissary, and accounting receivables and payables.
• Oversees and conducts inspections, searches, investigations, and evaluations; monitors, inspects, and audits institutional operations and activities for compliance with policies within Administration/Care and Treatment duties.
• Directs administrative operations through subordinates; directs, manages, and supervises in assigned areas to ensure the provision of effective and efficient services in accordance with established guidelines.
• Administers personnel functions including transactions, benefits, worker’s compensation, and new applicants for employment within Administration/Care and Treatment duties.
• Oversees the maintenance, repair, and construction operations of the facility.
• Ensures that food is prepared within applicable budgetary guidelines and in accordance with the master menu.
• Oversees operations and procedures for the telecommunications and computer systems of the institution.
• Develops, revises, implements, maintains, interprets, explains, and clarifies pertinent rules, regulations, policies, procedures, and plans in areas of assigned responsibility.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

• Knowledge of modern corrections practices and procedures.
• Knowledge of the criminal justice system.
• Knowledge of Georgia Department of Corrections guidelines.
• Knowledge of applicable federal, state, and local laws.
• Skill in interpersonal relations.
• Skill in oral and written communication.

The work is typically performed while sitting at a desk or table. The employee must occasionally lift light objects.

• Balancing – maintain equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or crouching.
• Climbing – ascending, descending ladders, stairs, ramps, requires body agility.
• Crawling – moving about on hands, knees, or hands, feet.
• Crouching – bending body forward by bending leg, spine.
• Feeling – perceiving attributes of objects by touch with skin, fingertips.
• Grasping – applying pressure to object with fingers, palm.
• Handling – picking, holding, or working with whole hand.
• Hearing 1 – perceiving sounds at normal speaking levels, receive information.
• Hearing 2 – receive detailed information, make discrimination in sound.
• Kneeling – bending legs at knee to come to rest at knees.
• Lifting – raising objects from lower to higher position, moving objects side to side, using upper extremities, back.
• Manual Dexterity – picking, pinching, typing, working with fingers rather than hand.
• Mental Acuity – ability to make rational decisions through sound logic, deductive reasoning.
• Pulling - use upper extremities to exert force, haul or tug.
• Pushing – use upper extremities to press against objects with force, or thrust forward, downward, outward.
• Reaching – extending hands or arms in any direction.
• Repetitive Motion – substantial movements of wrists, hands, fingers.
• Speaking – expressing ideas with spoken word, convey detailed, important instructions accurately, concisely.
• Standing – for sustained periods of time.
• Stooping – bending body downward, forward at waist, with full motion of lower extremities and back.

The work is typically performed in an office, library, or computer room.