Sentence Admin Supervisor

**Job Information**

Job Requisition ID: 63250
Ministry: Public Safety and Emergency Services
Location: Edmonton
Full or Part-Time: Full Time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Permanent
Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: October 15, 2024
Classification: Administrative Support 6

**Salary**: $2,073.50 to $2,549.41 bi-weekly ($54,118 - $66,539/year)

**Role Responsibilities**:
Do you have a strong background in Sentence Administration and a desire to expand your leadership accountabilities? The Edmonton Remand Centre is looking to fill a vital Sentence Administrator Supervisor position with someone who can lead, train, guide, and mentor a team of Sentence Administrators.

The Sentence Administration Supervisor must have strong knowledge of the judicial system, correctional policies and practices and the legislation that guides decisions made within the area.

Your systematic reasoning will enable you to manage and review the processes within your team and give support to the Chief Sentence Administrator. Your analytical skills will allow you to review documents from court to determine legitimacy of detention and ensure offenders are released as required.

You will also be responsible for:

- Administering sentences handed down from the court.
- Establishing key dates for release planning purposes.
- Guide, support, and develop a team of sentence administrators.
- Liaise with external agencies, working cooperatively with Alberta Justice stakeholders.
- Ensure provincial policy and procedures are followed and identify emerging trends.

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**APS Competencies**:
Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

This link will assist you with understanding competencies:
**Creative Problem Solving**: Ability to assess options and implications in new ways to achieve outcomes and solutions. The Centre Director will encourage innovation from the bottom up and encourage employees to be proactive and take ownership for identifying solutions within their work.

**Agility**: Ability to anticipate, assess, and readily adapt to changing priorities, manage resilience in times of uncertainty and effectively work in a changing environment. The Centre Director will be resourceful in their approach to shifting the culture in the centre and move corrections forward, focusing on long-term goals and values based behaviors during change.

**Build Collaborative Environments**: Leads and contributes to the conditions and environments that allow people to work collaboratively and productively to achieve outcomes. The Centre Director will provide a safe and respectful environment to allow staff to work together and develop cohesive teams. As a leader, you will create opportunities for people to connect, communicate with transparency, share ideas and bring different perspectives to a discussion, in a respectful manner working towards a common goal.

**Systems Thinking**: The work done within the APS is part of a larger integrated and inter-related environment. It is important to know that work done in one part of the APS impacts a variety of other groups/projects inside and outside the APS. Systems Thinking allows us to keep broader impacts and connections in mind. The Centre Director will consider the ever changing environment to adapt and become versatile in a complex, ambiguous world.

**Develop Self and Others**: A commitment to lifelong learning and the desire to invest in the development of the long-term capability of yourself and others. The Centre Director will share their knowledge, expertise, skills and perspective to help change continue, to help to adapt and keep the knowledge of one’s self and employee’s current and ahead of new developments. Investing in learning and development in innovative ways to ensure the APS has the capacity to be healthy, successful and sustainable into the future.

**Qualifications**:

- High school Diploma and three years of related experience (Sentence Administrator, Senior Judicial Clerk, Criminal Legal Assistant/Paralegal).

Assets:

- Working knowledge of JOIN, ORCA, EMDT, CPIC.

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**Notes**:
This posting will be used to fill one permanent position at the Edmonton Remand Centre.

This position works 36.25 hours per week and involves shift work on a rotational schedule. Overtime may be required.

**Instructions for your resume**:
For Employment Experience:

- Please indicate duration of employment (month, year)
- Please specify employment status (i.e. casual, part-time, or full-time)
- Ex: Youth Worker, Jan 2006 - June 2009, Part-time (three, 8-hour shifts/week)

For any Post-Secondary Education:

- Please specify