Centre Director, Rdrc

**Job Information**

Job Requisition ID: 76581
Ministry: Public Safety and Emergency Services
Location: Red Deer
Full or Part-Time: Full Time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Permanent
Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: November 6, 2025
Classification: Senior Manager Zone 2

**Salary**: $4,402.49 to $5,590.52 ($114,904 - $145,912/year)

The Public Safety and Emergency Services is responsible for all provincial correctional and remand centers, young offender programs and community corrections across the province.

**Role Responsibilities**:
Reporting to the Executive Director, you will be responsible for the overall management, administration, development, coordination and monitoring of services provided by the Red Deer Remand Centre. You will also be responsible for the allocation of human, financial, and material resources in a manner consistent with the efficient and orderly delivery of institutional services.

**In addition to the above noted responsibilities, you will also be responsible for**:

- the entire operation including the legal administration of orders of the courts including;
- the admission, detention and release of inmates under various judicial documents;
- the provision of deterrence and rehabilitation of inmates through custody and correctional programs;
- fiscal management of the correctional centre budget;
- providing a safe and secure environment for inmates and staff;
- leadership and management of a large team of correctional employees in a complex correctional environment that operates 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.

To be successful in this role, you must possess strong leadership skills acquired through leading large, complex teams. You must be motivated to play an active role in shifting cultural paradigms within the Centre and utilizing change management techniques to support the evolution of the Centre. Effective networking skills are essential as this position is required to interact daily and maintain positive relationships with law enforcement agencies, other correctional and remand centres, the judiciary, lawyers, service providers and other ministry agents. You must have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and must be able to adjust your communication to suit a variety of audiences. Interpersonal skills, decision making skills and problem-solving abilities are critical. The ability to promote staff engagement and lead staff effectively will ensure your success in this role.

**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:

- **Agility**:Ability to prioritize competing workload pressures in an effective manner and contribute to the organizational goals.
- **Systems Thinking**: Ability to consider the inter-relationships among different aspects of an approach including how they relate to other programs and areas.
- **Creative Problem Solving**:Ability to gather information from varied sources, analyze and interpret information to formulate reports and make decisions related to case planning.
- **Drive for Results**: Sets and accomplishes goals and priorities in order to deliver outcomes consistent with departmental objectives and directives.
- **Building Collaborative Environment**:Ability to work cooperatively and collaboratively with a variety of teams within the workplace, community and other Government ministries/agencies to meet client and ministry goals and objectives.
- **Developing Networks**: Ability to interact positively, build relationships and work effectively with others.
- **Develop Self and Others**: Ability to contribute to team learnings by sharing information, knowledge, and experiences. Additionally, ability to further develop strengths by volunteering for “stretch” assignments and taking on increase responsibilities.

**Qualifications**:
**Required**:

- University graduation in a related field (Criminology, Law Enforcement, Justice Studies etc.)
- Seven years of progressively responsible experience (Deputy Director, Assistant Deputy Director, Director, Senior Manager.)

**Equivalency**:
Directly related experience or education will be considered on the basis of:

- 1 year of experience for 1 year of education; or
- 1 year of education for 1 year of experience

**Assets**:

- Related experience within a law enforcement agency.
- Continued education in leadership, management, human resources and/or change management.

Preferences will be given to those with management experience in the Correctional Services Division.

Minimum recruitment standards outline the minimum education and experience required for appointment to a job classification.
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**Notes**:

- This posting is intended to fill one perman