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About the Position

The Extra-Duty / Off-Duty Employment Program Manager provides enterprise-level management, compliance oversight, and audit-driven reform of the Sheriff’s Office Extra-Duty and Off-Duty Employment Program (EODEP). This position serves as the centralized civilian authority responsible for policy implementation, vendor and contract oversight, risk mitigation, and institutional compliance, as required by the July 2025 Internal Audit and the Sheriff’s Office management action plan. EODEP Oversight Population includes all sworn, detention, reserve, and posse personnel, as well as any applicable civilian personnel authorized or required to participate in extra-duty or off-duty employment.

Position Qualifications

We recognize your time is valuable, so please apply if you meet the following required qualifications:

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Public Administration, Criminal Justice, Business Management, or a related field.

Experience

• Five (5) years of professional law enforcement, governmental program management, auditing, or compliance experience, including two (2) years of supervisory experience.

Combined education and experience qualifications

• Other combinations of education or directly related professional-level experience may substitute for the minimum qualifications on a year-for-year basis.

Other requirements

• Must possess a valid Arizona driver’s license or have the ability to obtain by the time of hire.
• Training that may be provided on-the-job: Safety; Payroll; PREA.
• Prior to hiring, the Sheriff's Office requires that all candidates pass a background review.

Our Preferred Candidate has

• Law enforcement captain experience in sworn, detention/custody, or senior civilian director roles.
• 7 years’ experience in program management, compliance oversight, law enforcement operations, or regulatory administration, including responsibility for policy implementation, risk management, auditing, or contract oversight.

Essential Job Tasks

(This is not an all-inclusive list of all job duties that may be required; employees will be required to perform other related duties as assigned.)

• Serves as the designated centralized authority for management and oversight of the Extra-Duty and Off-Duty Employment Program, consistent with Internal Audit findings and the MCSO Action Plan.
• Plans, directs, and manages Office-wide implementation of Policy EA-18, including audit-mandated reforms related to conflict of interest, exemptions, monitoring, and enforcement.
• Exercises independent authority to identify, document, and address program risks, policy violations, and systemic compliance issues, including matters involving sworn, detention, reserve, posse, civilian personnel, vendors, and outside employers.
• Manages and oversees all contractual relationships with extra-duty/off-duty management vendors; evaluates vendor performance; ensures compliance with service agreements; and coordinates contract amendments or addenda as required by audit recommendations.
• Directs and oversees program monitoring, auditing, and reporting strategies, including analysis of system data related to job bidding, exemptions, work hours, clock-in/clock-out activity, GPS/geo-fencing data, and other compliance indicators.
• Coordinates with MCSO auditors, command staff, and legal or administrative stakeholders regarding audit findings, corrective actions, documentation, and sustained compliance.
• Oversees the authorization, documentation, and periodic review of exemptions to randomized job bidding to ensure consistency, transparency, and alignment with policy and public-interest requirements.
• Ensures program compliance with Arizona conflict-of-interest statutes, County merit rules, and Office ethics requirements; identifies prohibited relationships or practices and initiates corrective action.
• Develops, implements, and oversees training and guidance for MCSO personnel, vendors, and outside employers related to off-duty and extra-duty program requirements, system usage, reporting expectations, and compliance standards.
• Prepares and presents management-level reports to executive leadership detailing program performance, trends, risks, audit status, and recommended corrective actions.
• Supervises the assigned analyst and assistant personnel.
• Establishes work priorities, provides work direction, reviews performance, and ensures analytical, reporting, and compliance functions support program objectives.
• Provides oversight authority flows through policy mandate and compliance jurisdiction, not through traditional line supervision.

Working Conditions

Maricopa County is an EEO/ADA Reasonable Accommodation Employer.

The following environments described are only representative of how the essential job tasks are currently performed or envisioned. As such, in order to accommodate a disability or limitation, the essential job tasks may be performed in ways other than described on these pages.

Work occurs primarily indoors.  Tasks require sitting for long periods, managing time pressures and high work volumes with a high degree of decision making, concentration, and accuracy. Position requires ethical conduct and a professional demeanor.

Work environment

• Indoors
• Outdoors on occasion
• Rarely in temperatures above 90 degrees or below 40 degrees

• Conditions occasionally include use of stairs or ladders, wet/damp area, smoke/dust, confined area, and/or high noise level

Physical environment

• Sitting, standing, walking
• Driving a vehicle
• Speaking, hearing, seeing, reading
• Distinguishing colors
• Bending/kneeling, reaching, twisting
• Climbing, crouching, balancing
• Wearing protective gear on occasion
• Lifting floor to waist twenty-five (25) pounds
• Lifting waist to shoulder of twenty-five (25) pounds
• Lifting shoulder to overhead of twenty-five (25) pounds
• Carrying a weight of twenty-five (25) pounds for a distance of 50 feet
• Pushing/pulling a weight of twenty-five (25) pounds for a distance of 100 feet

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Knowledge of

• MCSO Policy EA-18 off-duty/extra-duty.
• Arizona Revised Statutes, County merit rules, or ethics provisions (e.g., A.R.S. § 38-504(C)).
• Audit frameworks, corrective action planning, and sustained compliance concepts.
• Internal audit methodologies, risk registers, controls design, and monitoring strategies.
• Quality assurance methods for analytical outputs.

Skill in

• Producing executive-level analytical reports and compliance documentation.
• Interpreting and applying Statutes, County merit rules, or ethics provisions (e.g., A.R.S. § 38-504(C)).
• Drafting standard operating procedures and program advisories consistent with legal and audit findings.
• Policy gap analysis and remediation planning.

Ability to

• Manage or oversee audit-driven compliance programs or institutional reform initiatives.
• Manage complex vendor relationships, contracts, or compliance-driven service programs.
• Exercise independent judgment to identify prohibited relationships, conflicts, and non-compliant practices.
• Maintain objectivity and neutrality when making compliance determinations across sworn, detention, reserve/posse, civilian personnel, and external parties.
• Produce policy-aligned exemption criteria and documented rationale for approvals/denials.

Selection Procedure

• Consideration will only be given to candidates who submit online applications

• Candidates will be contacted primarily through email and their Workday online application profile

• Must pass a pre-employment background and/or fingerprint investigation as required by statute or policy, including drug and alcohol testing requirements for positions designated as safety-sensitive

Maricopa County is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application process or to perform the essential functions of the position under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), please contact MHRFeedback@maricopa.gov to initiate the interactive process.

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