Juvenile Probation Officer 5

Job Description

This position is open to Alaska Residents only.

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The Division of Juvenile Justice Director’s Office is recruiting for a Juvenile Probation Officer 5. If you are interested in being part of a dynamic and innovative team, please continue reading!

Our Organization, Mission, and Culture

Through Restorative Justice approach, the division works to hold juvenile offenders accountable for their behaviors, promote the safety and restoration of victims and communities, and assist offenders and their families in developing the skills to prevent crime. Our core values include:

Prioritizing Safety - of our youth, staff, families, and communities

Responsiveness – providing timely response to youth, families, victims, staff, and justice partners.

Professional Relationships – recognizing that successful efforts with our clients, coworkers, victims, and others rely on positive, respectful, and collaborative relationships and a spirit of inclusiveness.

Dedication – doing the right things for the right reasons and modeling integrity and leadership.

Respect – for the inherent value of each person’s unique strengths and individual differences.

For more information about our mission and juvenile probation, please visit our website:

http://dhss.alaska.gov/djj/Pages/default.aspx

What You Will Be Doing

As the Juvenile Probation Officer 5, you will provide senior leadership and oversight for community-based juvenile probation services across Alaska. You will drive statewide policy and program development, lead implementation of system improvement projects. You will collaborate with stakeholders, evaluate data, and conduct research to promote effective services. Reporting directly to division executives, you will manage subordinate probation supervisors, handle personnel matters, and navigate labor relations and progressive discipline.

Grounded in restorative justice, you will champion offender accountability and family development while collaborating closely with partner agencies, communities, Tribal governments, and division leadership. Ultimately, you will serve as a member of the division leadership team to support the safe and effective administration of juvenile probation in Alaska.

The Benefits of Joining Our Team

As Juvenile Probation Officer 5 you will have the opportunity to change the lives of young Alaskans and strengthen communities across the state as part of a dynamic, deeply committed team. In this role, you will work alongside dedicated professionals within a restorative justice and trauma informed framework, aligning executive vision with regional field operations to strengthen public safety and support meaningful community restoration. Our work drives meaningful change through data-driven practices, rigorous court representation, and vital partnerships with schools, law enforcement, community providers, and Tribal entities. We strive to deliver equitable, culturally relevant services that balance offender accountability with personal growth and family development.

The Working Environment You Can Expect

Working primarily from a division office in Anchorage, Fairbanks, or Juneau; this position requires some travel around the state (approximately six trips per year) to support field staff and offices. This position provides for flexibility in working hours and situational telework opportunities, although formal-long term teleworking is not available.

Who We Are Looking For

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

Decision Making

: Makes sound, well-informed, and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; commits to action, even in uncertain situations, to accomplish organizational goals; causes change.

Planning and Evaluating:

Organizes work, sets priorities, and determines resource requirements; determines short- or long-term goals and strategies to achieve them; coordinates with other organizations or parts of the organization to accomplish goals; monitors progress and evaluates outcomes.

Professionalism:

Consistently displays the collection of competencies and skill expected of a professional. Professionalism is defined by its key behaviors including being accountable for actions and assigned projects; practicing efficient work habits to effectively manage time and workload; clearly communicating and expressing thoughts and ideas in writing and in person; possessing the ability to understand how non-verbal communication impacts the workplace; working effectively as part of a team to achieve productive outcomes; and consistently demonstrating, emotional intelligence, integrity, and ethical behavior

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To view the general description and example of duties for a Juvenile Probation Officer 5 please go to the following link:

https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/alaska/classspecs/1341331?keywords=juvenile%20probation%20officer&pagetype=classSpecifications

Minimum Qualifications

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

Psychology:

Knowledge of the concepts, principles, and theories of human behavior and performance in various contexts, mental processes, or the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.

Financial Management:

Understands the organization's financial processes. Prepares, justifies, and administers the program budget. Oversees procurement and contracting to achieve desired results. Monitors expenditures and uses cost-benefit thinking to set priorities.

Performance Measurement:

Knowledge of the principles and methods for evaluating program or organizational performance using financial and nonfinancial measures, including identification of evaluation factors (for example, workload, personnel requirements), metrics, and outcomes.

Leadership:

Influences, motivates, and challenges others; adapts leadership styles to a variety of situations.

Conflict Management:

Encourages creative tension and differences of opinions. Anticipates and takes steps to prevent counter-productive confrontations. Manages and resolves conflicts and disagreements in a constructive manner.

Human Capital Management:

Builds and manages workforce based on organizational goals, budget considerations, and staffing needs. Ensures that employees are appropriately recruited, selected, appraised, and rewarded; takes action to address performance problems. Manages a multi-sector workforce and a variety of work situations.

Partnering:

Develops networks and builds alliances; collaborates across boundaries to build strategic relationships and achieve common goals.

equivalent to those typically gained by:

Training in counseling, education, corrections, criminal justice, the behavioral sciences, public administration, or a closely related field and/or progressively responsible professional experience developing, coordinating, implementing, supervising, or managing a juvenile detention unit, treatment unit, or professional juvenile probation officers; an institutional or transport unit for an adult correctional facility; or probation work involving individuals incarcerated in a correctional institution or who are on parole or probation while in the community.

"Typically gained by" means the prevalent, usual method of gaining the competencies expected for entry into the job.

"Training" and "education" in this guidance are synonyms for the process of acquiring knowledge and skills through instruction. It includes instruction through formal and informal methods (such as classroom, on-line, self-study, and on-the-job), from accredited and unaccredited sources, and long-duration (such as a post-secondary degree) and short-duration (such as a seminar) programs.

"Progressively responsible" means indicating growth and/or advancement in complexity, difficulty, or level of responsibility.

"Professional experience" means work that is creative, analytical, eva