Corrections Ombuds

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The OCO is hiring for an Executive Assistant

Application due by June 25, 2024

As the Executive Assistant, you will focus on providing administrative assistance to the Director and at the direction of the Director to the Deputy Director. This team member brings their technical skills to provide confidential, executive administrative support to the Director and Deputy Director while working on various high-level, state-wide projects and initiatives with the goal of accomplishing the objectives of the OCO.

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Provide confidential administrative support for the OCO Director and Deputy Director.
• Assist the Director with: 
  • Calendaring and Email 
    • Review and prioritize the Director’s and Deputy Director’s incoming postal and electronic mail for timely response.
    • Alert the Director and Deputy Director to significant items needing attention.
    • Provide customer service to those in contact with the Director & Deputy Director.
  • Hiring process, including supporting the onboarding and exiting of OCO staff.
  • Travel arrangements and reimbursements, including approvals.
  • Public records request responses involving the Director and Deputy Director.
  • Scheduling, planning for, and hosting meetings.
• Serve as the Director’s point of contact for internal and external stakeholders and other state agencies. May also provide similar executive assistant services to the Deputy Director. 
• Work closely with the OFM payroll office for over/under, labor reports, and payroll time sheet audits; troubleshoot errors as necessary. 
• At the direction of the Director: 
  • Review and format legislative reports and other externally facing correspondence.
  • Provide technical writing and communication assistance to OCO staff as requested by the Director.
  • Provide program specific technical assistance to OCO staff.
  • Update and maintain our externally facing website.
  • Update and maintain all OCO social media pages.
  • Update and maintain internally facing SharePoint Pages. 

Learn More . . . 

• Job opportunity details & application.

For questions about this recruitment or to request reasonable accommodation in the application process, please email Leila Vandiver at TalentAcquisition@ofm.wa.gov. For TTY service, please call the Washington Relay Service at 7-1-1 or 1-800-833-6388.

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What we do

The Office of the Corrections Ombuds is the civilian oversight of corrections in Washington state government, and a respected leader in strengthening procedures and practices that lessen the possibility of actions occurring within the DOC that would negatively impact the health, safety, welfare, and rehabilitation of incarcerated persons, and reduce the exposure of the DOC to litigation.