Executive Director, Board of Correction

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ABOUT BOARD OF CORRECTION The New York City Board of Correction (BOC) is an independent, nine-member oversight body responsible for regulating, monitoring, and inspecting the City's correctional facilities. Board members are appointed by the Mayor, the City Council, and the Presiding Justices of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court for the First and Second Judicial Departments. Established in 1957, the Board is among the nation's earliest independent correctional oversight entities. Its authority and independence were significantly expanded in 1977. Pursuant to the New York City Charter, the Board is charged with: -Establishing and enforcing minimum standards governing the care, custody, supervision, treatment, and discipline of individuals in the custody of the Department of Correction; -Investigating serious incidents within the City's correctional system; -Reviewing grievances from both people in custody and correctional staff; -Evaluating the performance of the Department of Correction; and -Making recommendations concerning correctional planning and policy. The Board has promulgated comprehensive Minimum Standards governing conditions of confinement, mental health care, and health services, and continues to play a leading role in advancing correctional reform through oversight, monitoring, investigations, and rulemaking. In recent years, the Board has undertaken significant regulatory initiatives addressing issues including the prevention of sexual violence, reporting of serious injuries, and the elimination of punitive segregation. The agency currently operates with a staff of approximately 29 employees, with authorized headcount expansion underway. Staff are based in Lower Manhattan and on Rikers Island. At a critical moment for New York City's correctional system, the Board continues to advance transparency, accountability, and systemic reform. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR POSITION The Executive Director serves as the agency's chief executive officer and principal advisor to the Board, responsible for advancing the Board's strategic vision, operational effectiveness, public credibility, and oversight mission. The Executive Director provides executive leadership across all agency functions, including operations, policy, investigations, monitoring, external affairs, intergovernmental relations, communications, and regulatory compliance. This position requires an accomplished executive leader with exceptional strategic, managerial, political, and interpersonal skills. The successful candidate must be capable of navigating highly complex governmental, operational, and public-facing environments while maintaining the Board's independence, integrity, and institutional credibility. The Executive Director will maintain regular engagement with senior leadership of the New York City Department of Correction (DOC) and Correctional Health Services (CHS) regarding matters impacting conditions of confinement, operational practices, safety, compliance with the Board's Minimum Standards, and broader correctional policy initiatives. The role requires the ability to establish professional and productive working relationships with agency leadership while exercising independent oversight authority and ensuring accountability. The Executive Director will serve as the Board's senior representative and public-facing leader, cultivating and maintaining effective relationships with a broad range of stakeholders, including City Hall, the New York City Council, DOC, CHS, oversight entities, labor representatives, advocacy organizations, impacted communities, and the media. The ideal candidate will possess the judgment and diplomacy necessary to engage constructively with stakeholders holding competing priorities while advancing the Board's mandate and preserving its independent oversight role. The Executive Director will also play a central role in strengthening the Board's visibility, transparency, and public engagement efforts. This includes overseeing external communications, public reporting, testimony, and stakeholder engagement strategies; serving as a spokesperson for the agency; and ensuring that the Board's work, findings, and policy positions are communicated clearly, accurately, and effectively to governmental, stakeholder, and public audiences. Key responsibilities include: -Providing visionary and strategic leadership to advance the Board's oversight, monitoring, investigative, and regulatory priorities in a dynamic and high-profile policy environment; -Managing and overseeing agency staff in partnership with the Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel and Deputy Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer, including establishing organizational priorities, setting performance expectations, supporting staff development, promoting accountability, and ensuring effective coordination across operational, monitoring, investigative, legal, policy, and administrative functions; -Building and sustaining product