Chief Deputy - Custody Division - Cayuga County New York

• Oversees facility operation by issuing orders and disseminating required information to subordinate correction staff to ensure a secure facility at all times;
• Oversees and coordinates social, educational and recreational activities and programs for facility incarcerated individuals;
• Oversees the assignment of staff for the supervision of assigned work details;
• Performs employee appraisals on correction staff, reviews marginal employees and counsels them to improve performance;
• Adapts and develops new or revised practices for security, incarcerated individuals custody and control in response to changing situations in the facility by evaluation of problems by on-site inspection and consultation with employees;
• Formulates facility procedures for control of contraband and orders searches as required;
• Oversees the safe and secure transport of inmates from the County facility to the State correctional institutions and courts;
• Develops security plans for the facility including access, issuance and use of keys, weapons, and other equipment;
• Over sees procedures to facilitate employee training, use of weapons, chemical restraining agents and other safety and emergency equipment;
• Monitors and reviews trends in law enforcement and criminal justice, and recommends operational and policy improvements to the Undersheriff;
• Prepares the department budget dealing with security program aspects by projecting personnel and equipment needs;
• Oversees the preparation of the billing for housing of inmates and associated cost to proper government agencies, in conjunction with the Department’s Fiscal Officer;

• Prepares a variety of records and reports;
• May supervise the law enforcement division in the absence of the Sheriff and Under-Sheriff;
• Monitors stats, efficiency, and overall functioning;
• Oversees staff recruiting and hiring;
• Oversees Administrative Investigations, including disciplinary actions;
• Provides budgetary Oversight and Approval Layer (MUNIS);
• Assists with identifying/writing/obtaining/monitoring/coordinating Grant Funds or Reimbursements;
• Provides oversights of contractual agreements;
• Oversees development of new programs/operational tools;
• Performs a variety of related duties as required.

• Comprehensive knowledge of the rules, regulations, and requirements of the Correction Law governing the treatment of inmates, safety and security of the facility and department employees;
• Comprehensive knowledge of the layout and location of security personnel post assignments throughout the facility;
• Thorough knowledge of the problems of correction facility incarcerated individual supervision;
• Thorough knowledge of search and frisk methods;
• Thorough knowledge of the proper function and correction facility security equipment, devices, and safe use of chemical restraining agents;
• Thorough knowledge of the use of defensive and restraining physical techniques;
• Thorough knowledge of budgeting process to identify and support personnel and equipment needs for a security facility program;
• Ability to use an alphanumeric keyboard to enter and retrieve data;
• Ability to learn and use department software programs to complete reports and evaluations.
• Ability to plan for and train subordinate corrections staff in work type situations;
• Ability to read, understand and interpret reports, rules and regulations governing the operation of a correction facility;
• Ability to take charge and determine appropriate action in emergency situations;
• Physical condition commensurate with the demands of the position.

Cayuga County Civil Service Commission hires for 35 county departments, 23 Towns, 9 Villages, 6 School Districts and 5 Special Districts.We also administer Civil Service examinations to interested candidates for civil service jobs within Cayuga County.