This position is located at Alexander Correctional Institution in Taylorsville, North Carolina. Alexander Correctional is a closed custody all male facility with 1,252 offender capacity.
• Review current recreation programs and maintain compliance for accreditation and development new structures to enhance and improve programs.
• Analyze and develop a comprehensive annual recreation plan to promote the physical, mental, emotional and social well-being of the population.
• Plan structured activities with specific purposes that include various types such as leisure activities, activities that focus on specific topics, all which at various times will involve both the facility and the community.
• Coordinate seasonal and holiday events.
• Examine critical needs such as evaluating recreational areas; preventive maintenance of equipment and upkeep, purchasing supplies, reporting damages, inventory and distribution.
• Facilitate and review library access for all offenders (books, movies); and communicate concerns and/or revised procedures and plans with staff and management.
• Ensure offenders with disabilities housed in close custody and/or restrictive housing have access to all recreational programs within their assigned restrictions.
• Work strategically with community agencies to enrich programs, establish new programs and work with community volunteers.
• Supervise staff and offenders who work with the recreational programs but will not be responsible for an offender caseload.