<p>Job Description</p> <p>The Department of Corrections, Division of Pretrial, Probation, and Parole is recruiting for a Criminal Justice Technician 1/2 position for the Fairbanks Probation Office located in Fairbanks, Alaska.</p> <p>Watch Alaska DOC's video here:</p> <p>DOC Extended Cut mp4 (vimeo.com)</p> <p>Watch Alaska DOC's Division of Pretrial, Probation, & Parole video here:</p> <p>DP3 - 30sec mp4 (vimeo.com)</p> <p>What you will be doing:</p> <p>The successful candidate will aid probation staff in the monitoring of adult defendants reporting to the Department of Corrections. This position is responsible for maintaining records, greeting offenders, filing violation reports, working in law enforcement data base's such as APSIN and ACOMS and conducting urinalyses and portable breath tests. In this role your communication and people skills will be constantly challenged by the ever-evolving criminal justice system.</p> <p>Our organization, mission, and culture:</p> <p>The Department of Corrections, Division of Pretrial, Probation and Parole strives to provide positive change throughout Alaska's diverse communities by enhancing public safety, assisting the courts with the fair administration of justice for victims and defendants, and providing community supervision that holds defendants accountable, while connecting them to community partners and resources that can provide an individual the tools for long-term change and success. Being a part of the Division of Pretrial, Probation, Parole you are contributing to improve the successful community reintegration of pretrial defendants, probationers, and parolees.</p> <p>The benefits of joining our team:</p> <p>By joining the Fairbanks Adult Probation Office, you will be an integral team member in making our communities healthier, stronger and safer. The Department of Corrections offers paid training, paid time off and many opportunities for career advancement.</p> <p>The working environment you can expect:</p> <p>The Fairbank Adult Probation Field Office is responsible for a geographic area extending from the Alaska Range to the Brooks Range, including the Tanana and Yukon River watersheds. The daily work environment includes interaction with defendants, victims, the court, and community partners to enhance effective supervision and community safety.</p> <p>Who we are looking for:</p> <p>We are interested in candidates who possess some or all of the following position specific competencies:</p> <ul> <li>Interpersonal Skills: Treats others with courtesy, sensitivity, and respect. Considers and responds appropriately to the needs and feelings of different people in different situations. </li><li>Written Communication: Writes in a clear, concise, organized, and convincing manner for the intended audience. </li><li>Information Management: Identifies a need for and knows where or how to gather information; organizes and maintains information or information management systems. </li><li>Teamwork: Encourages and facilitates cooperation, pride, trust, and group identity; fosters commitment and team spirit; works with others to achieve goals. </li></ul> <p>Minimum Qualifications</p> <p>Competency Based Minimum Qualifications Instructions</p> <p>This job class uses competency based minimum qualifications. Please ensure your application (through work history, volunteer experience (duties summary), training, education, licenses, certifications, etc.) supports how you have gained the knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors (competencies) and that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class.</p> <p>Competency Description</p> <p>The competency description(s) listed below have been designed to promote a common understanding of the essential elements of the job class. They highlight the more general and customary knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), tasks, and behaviors used to describe the competency. They typically list expectations, as opposed to specific tasks, and are to be used only as parameters and guidelines. A competency's description is not intended to exclusively define every KSA, task, and behavior needed to successfully meet the competency, but rather to provide the manager/agency with a broad reference of options as to how an applicant can meet the job expectation.</p> <p>Criminal Justice Technician 1</p> <p>Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in:</p> <ul> <li>Accountability: Accepts responsibility for own actions and decisions and demonstrates commitment to accomplish work in an ethical, efficient, and cost-effective manner. </li><li>Computer Skills: Uses computers, software applications, databases, and automated systems to accomplish work. </li><li>Interpersonal Skills: Shows understanding, friendliness, courtesy, tact, empathy, concern, and politeness to others; develops and maintains effective relationships with others; may include effectively dealing with individuals who are difficult, hostile, or distressed; relates well to people from varied backgrounds and different situations; is sensitive to cultural diversity, race, gender, disabilities, and other individual differences. </li><li>Oral and Written Communication: Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral and written presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately. </li><li>Problem Solving: Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of information; uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives, and to make recommendations. </li></ul> <p>Equivalent to those typically gained by:</p> <p>Any combination of education and/or work, internship, and/or volunteer experience or service from any combination of fields that sufficiently builds the above and any job-specific competencies.</p> <p>Criminal Justice Technician 2</p> <p>Successful completion of training under a formally established Criminal Justice Technician 1-2 flexible staffing training plan with the State of Alaska;</p> <p>OR</p> <p>Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in:</p> <ul> <li>Integrity/Honesty: Contributes to maintaining the integrity of the organization; displays high standards of ethical conduct and understands the impact of violating these standards on an organization, self, and others; is trustworthy. </li><li>Computer Skills: Uses computers, software applications, databases, and automated systems to accomplish work. </li><li>Interpersonal Skills: Shows understanding, friendliness, courtesy, tact, empathy, concern, and politeness to others; develops and maintains effective relationships with others; may include effectively dealing with individuals who are difficult, hostile, or distressed; relates well to people from varied backgrounds and different situations; is sensitive to cultural diversity, race, gender, disabilities, and other individual differences. </li><li>Oral and Written Communication: Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral and written presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately. </li><li>Problem Solving: Identifies and analyzes problems; weighs relevance and accuracy of information; generates and evaluates alternative solutions; makes recommendations. </li><li>Reasoning: Identifies rules, principles, or relationships that explain facts, data, or other information; analyzes information and makes correct inferences or draws accurate conclusions. </li></ul> <p>Equivalent to those typically gained by:</p> <p>Any combination of education and/or paraprofessional or professional experience or service in criminal justice, juvenile justice, probation, parole, public safety, law enforcement, corrections, court, legal services, law office, social services, social sciences, or public assistance programs or functions.</p> <p>Additional Required Information</p> <p>REQUIRED DOCUMENTS</p> <p>If selected for an interview, the applicant must provide the following:</p> <ul> <li>List of three professional references (at time of interview) </li><li>Last three performance evaluations (at the time of your interview). If you are unable to obtain your last three evaluations please provide a written reason why. </li></ul> <p>APPLICATION NOTICE</p> <p>You can ONLY apply for this position through the Workplace Alaska website or via a hardcopy application. If you accessed this recruitment bulletin through a job search portal, such as AlaskaJobs or any other database, you MUST use a Workplace Alaska online or hardcopy application to apply successfully. Instructions on how to apply with Workplace Alaska may be found on the Workplace Alaska "How to Apply" page. Your application must be submitted by 5:00 p.m. Alaska Standard Time on the closing date.</p> <p>PREA NOTIFICATION</p> <p>The Department of Corrections follows and maintains federal and state requirements standards including, but not limited to, Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) standards which apply to all public and private institutions that house adult or juvenile offenders. PREA standards preclude the department from hiring or promoting anyone who has engaged in, or been convicted of any conduct which would violate PREA standards related to sexual assault including:</p> <ul> <li>Sexual abuse in a prison, jail, lockup, community confinement facility, juvenile facility, or other institution; </li><li>Convicted of engaging or attempting to engage in sexual activity in the community facilitated by force, overt or implied threats of force, or coercion, or if the victim did not consent or was unable to consent or refuse; or </li><li>Has been civilly or administratively adjudicated to have engaged in the activity described above. </li></ul> <p>FLEXIBLY STAFFED</p> <p>This position is flexibly staffed. The level of the job offer will be based on the selected candidate's credibly possessed and proven competencies. If hired at the lower level, you will be promoted to the higher level after completing the training plan and demonstrating competency in the work.</p> <p>EDUCATION</p> <p>If post-secondary education is required to meet the minimum qualifications, you must fill in the Education section of the application. If you have not obtained a degree, please indicate the number of units completed. Copies of transcripts are required to verify educational credentials if used to meet the minimum qualifications for a position. Transcripts can be attached at the time of application or provided at the time of interview, at the discretion of the hiring manager.</p> <p>SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR FOREIGN EDUCATION</p> <p>Education completed in foreign colleges, universities, or high schools may be used to meet the minimum qualifications listed above. If utilizing this education, you must show that the education credentials have been submitted to a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign educational credentials and that such education has been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education programs; or an accredited U.S. post-secondary institution reports the other institution as one whose transcript is given full value, or full value is given in subject areas applicable to the curricula at the post-secondary institution or high school. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.</p> <p>WORK EXPERIENCE</p> <p>If using work experience not already documented in your application, also provide the employer's name, job title, employment dates, and whether full or part-time. Applications will be reviewed to determine if the responses are supported and if minimum qualifications are clearly met. If they are not, the applicant may not advance to the recruitment interview and selection phase.</p> <p>Note: Attaching a resume is not an alternative to filling out the application in its entirety. Noting, "see resume" or any similar response on any portion of your application may lead to a determination that your application is incomplete and removal from consideration for this job posting.</p> <p>CRIMINAL HISTORY CHECKS/APSIN/ACOMS</p> <p>Please be aware - this position requires the use of the Alaska Public Safety Information Network (APSIN)/Alaska Corrections Offender Management System (ACOMS). A security clearance issued by the Department of Public Safety (DPS) is necessary to use APSIN/ACOMS. DPS will deny security clearance for any applicant who has been convicted of a felony or misdemeanor in this state or another jurisdiction, or who may be a fugitive from justice. Additionally, security clearance will be withdrawn if DPS discovers that material information was falsified or omitted at the time of the initial application for security clearance.</p> <p>FINGERPRINT NOTICE</p> <p>All Department of Corrections employees are required to be fingerprinted. The successful candidate must pass a criminal history check.</p> <p>MULTIPLE VACANCIES NOTICE</p> <p>This recruitment may be used for more than one (1) vacancy. The applicant pool acquired during this recruitment may be used for future vacancies for up to ninety (90) days after this recruitment closes. Interested applicants are encouraged to apply to each recruitment notice to ensure consideration for all vacancies.</p> <p>DRIVER'S LICENSE REQUIREMENT</p> <p>Applicants must possess a valid driver's license. Proof of licensure will be required prior to reporting to duty.</p> <p>EEO STATEMENT</p> <p>The State of Alaska complies with Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Individuals with disabilities, who require accommodation, auxiliary aides or services, or alternative communication formats, please call 1-800-587-0430 or 465-4095 in Juneau or (907) 465-3412 (TTY) or correspond with the Division of Personnel & Labor Relations at the address above. The State of Alaska is an equal opportunity employer.</p> <p>LEGAL EMPLOYMENT</p> <p>The State's online recruitment system, Workplace Alaska, requires applicants to certify that they have a legal right to accept employment in the United States. It is the responsibility of the employee to maintain the appropriate documentation to accept or continue legal employment. The State of Alaska does not function in the role as an employer sponsor.</p> <p>WORKPLACE ALASKA APPLICATION QUESTIONS & ASSISTANCE</p> <p>Questions regarding application submission or system operation errors should be directed to the Workplace Alaska hotline at 1-800-587-0430 (toll free) or (907) 465-4095 if you are located in the Juneau area. Requests for information may also be emailed to recruitment.services@alaska.gov.</p> <p>For applicant password assistance please visit: https://www.governmentjobs.com/OnlineApplication/User/ResetPassword</p> <p>Contact Information</p> <p>For specific information in reference to the position please contact the hiring manager at:</p> <p>Name: Amber Terrill - Adult Probation Officer 3</p> <p>Email: amber.terrill@alaska.gov</p> <p>Phone: 907-458-6830</p> <p>Careers with the State of Alaska offer MANY benefits</p> <p>The following information describes typical benefits available to employees of the State of Alaska. Actual benefits received may differ by bargaining unit or branch of government, position type, or be prorated for other than full time work.</p> <p>For a quick breakdown of the insurance, health, and retirement benefits available for State Employees you can view an orientation video from Division of Retirement and Benefits. (Please note this video is specifically designed for new State Employees.)</p> <p>Insurance Benefits</p> <ul> <li> <p>Health insurance, which includes employer contributions toward medical/vision/dental</p> </li><li> <p>The following employee groups are under AlaskaCare Benefits administered by the State: See https://drb.alaska.gov/help/plans.html for additional information.</p> </li><li> <p>AVTEC</p> </li><li> <p>Confidential</p> </li><li> <p>Correctional Officers</p> </li><li> <p>Marine Engineers</p> </li><li> <p>Mt. Edgecumbe Teachers</p> </li><li> <p>Supervisory</p> </li><li> <p>Unlicensed Vessel Personnel/Inland Boatman's Union</p> </li><li> <p>Exempt employees (not covered by collective bargaining)</p> </li><li> <p>The following employee groups are covered by Union health trusts. Contact the appropriate Union for additional information.</p> </li><li> <p>General Government</p> </li><li> <p>Labor, Trades and Crafts</p> </li><li> <p>Public Safety Employees Association</p> </li><li> <p>Masters, Mates & Pilots</p> </li><li> <p>Employer paid Basic Life insurance with additional coverage available (amount depends on Bargaining Unit)</p> </li></ul> <p>Optional Insurance Benefits</p> <ul> <li> <p>Group-based insurance premiums for</p> </li><li> <p>Term life (employee, spouse or qualified same sex partner, and dependents)</p> </li><li> <p>Long-term and short-term disability</p> </li><li> <p>Accidental Death and Dismemberment</p> </li><li> <p>Long-term care (self and eligible family members)</p> </li><li> <p>Supplemental Survivor Benefits</p> </li><li> <p>Employee-funded flexible spending accounts for tax savings on eligible health care or dependent care expenses</p> </li></ul> <p>Retirement Benefits</p> <ul> <li>Membership in the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS)/Teachers' Retirement System (TRS) </li><li>Matching employer contribution into a defined contribution program (new employees) </li><li>Employer contribution into a defined benefit or defined contribution program (current employees) </li><li>Contributions to the Alaska Supplemental Annuity Plan in lieu of contributions to Social Security </li><li>Option to enroll in the Alaska Deferred Compensation Program </li><li>Note: The Defined Contribution Plan, Supplemental Annuity Plan and Deferred Compensation Program offer a variety of investment options </li></ul> <p>See https://drb.alaska.gov/retiree/ for additional information</p> <p>Paid Leave & Other Benefits</p> <ul> <li>Personal leave with an accrual rate increase based on time served </li><li>Twelve (12) paid holidays a year </li></ul> <p>01</p> <p>Do you have any periods of employment in a 24-hour institutional setting where you were responsible for the care and custody of others that are not already included in your job application (such as correctional facilities, juvenile facilities, or residential treatment centers)? If so, provide the name of each institution, your job title(s), and dates of employment in the space below.</p> <p>02</p> <p>Have you ever been the subject of an investigation for engaging, or attempting to engage in sexual activity in the community facilitated by force, overt or implied threats of force, or coercion, or if the victim did not consent or was unable to consent or refuse?</p> <ul> <li>Yes </li><li>No </li></ul> <p>03</p> <p>Have you ever been disciplined, terminated, or resigned in lieu of an employment action surrounding allegations of sexual harassment, sexual abuse, or assault?</p> <ul> <li>Yes </li><li>No </li></ul> <p>04</p> <p>Have you ever been civilly or administratively adjudicated to have engaged in the activity described in the prior questions above related to sexual abuse or sexual activity?</p> <ul> <li>Yes </li><li>No </li></ul> <p>05</p> <p>Have you ever initiated or engaged in a sexual assault and/or sexual abuse in prison, jail, lockup, community confinement facility, juvenile facility or other institutions?</p> <ul> <li>Yes </li><li>No </li></ul> <p>06</p> <p>If you responded "Yes" to the any of the four preceding questions, please describe each incident, including dates and locations, in the text box below.</p> <p>Required Question</p> <p>Employer State of Alaska</p> <p>Address PO Box 110201</p> <p>Juneau, Alaska, 99811</p> <p>Phone (800) 587-0430 (Statewide toll-free number)</p> <p>(907) 465-4095 (Juneau and out-of-state callers)</p> <p>Website http://workplace.alaska.gov/</p>