Criminal Justice Technician 1/2

Job Description

The Department of Corrections, Division of Pretrial, Probation and Parole (DP3) is recruiting for a Criminal Justice Technician 1/2 position for the DOC Training Academy in Palmer, Alaska.

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What You Will Be Doing

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This position supports the DP3 training academy staff as well as all DP3 employees in many aspects.  Preferred skill set is advanced knowledge or willingness to learn databases, Acadis, Aspire, Articulate, ACOMS, Department of Corrections Policies &Procedures, Teams, Internet, Share Point, and overall knowledge of Department of Corrections functions and Standards of Procedures. Have creative and excellent writing skills.

Our Mission, Values, and Culture

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The Alaska Department of Corrections Division of Pretrial, Probation & Parole Training Academy enhances the safety of the residents in the State of Alaska and the employees of the Department, providing training for the Department's pretrial, probation and parole professionals. The Academy provides a structured adult learning-based model, centered on providing the State of Alaska with qualified and trained staff personnel. These trained professionals are prepared to address the numerous challenges facing the supervision of the offender population and their successful reintegration back into the community.

Benefits of Joining Our Team

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As a Criminal Justice Technician with the DP3 Training Academy, you will play a direct role in helping to shape Alaska's next generation of confident and capable pretrial, probation and parole officers. This position allows you to be an influential and integral part of training employees for success; work that ultimately makes communities across the state safer. The position offers clear pathways for growth, including on-the-job training, and assisting in creating high-quality training for the department. You'll join a small, mission-driven team where your organizational and administrative skills are valued and visible in the day-to-day success of the DP3 Training Academy. It's a chance to contribute meaningfully to public safety and to give back to your community.

The Working Environment You Can Expect

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This position is located at the DOC Training Academy in Palmer, Alaska, where the incumbent works in an office environment alongside academy instructors and staff. Daily work includes supporting training and certification operations through course development assistance, document preparation, records maintenance, and data compilation.

Who We Are Looking For

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We are interested in candidates who possess some or all of the following position specific competencies:

Attention to Detail: Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail

Clerical: Knowledge of filing, typing, entering data, maintaining records, taking shorthand, and using and completing forms

Flexibility: Is open to change and new information; adapts behavior or work methods in response to new information, changing conditions, or unexpected obstacles; effectively deals with uncertainty.

Minimum Qualifications

Competency Based Minimum Qualifications Instructions

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.

Competency Description

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.

Criminal Justice Technician 1:

Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in:

Accountability: Accepts responsibility for own actions and decisions and demonstrates commitment to accomplish work in an ethical, efficient, and cost-effective manner.

Computer Skills: Uses computers, software applications, databases, and automated systems to accomplish work.

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.

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.

Problem Solving: Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of information; uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives, and to make recommendations.

Equivalent to those typically gained by:

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.

Criminal Justice Technician 2

Successful completion of training under a formally established Criminal Justice Technician 1-2 flexible staffing training plan with the State of Alaska;

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Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in:

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.

Computer Skills: Uses computers, software applications, databases, and automated systems to accomplish work.

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.

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.

Problem Solving: Identifies and analyzes problems; weighs relevance and accuracy of information; generates and evaluates alternative solutions; makes recommendations.

Reasoning: Identifies rules, principles, or relationships that explain facts, data, or other information; analyzes information and makes correct inferences or draws accurate conclusions.

Equivalent to those typically gained by:

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 offi