TSU Juvenile Probation Officer 1/2

Job Description

This position is open to Alaska Residents only.

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The Juneau Youth Probation is recruiting to fill a

Juvenile Probation Officer 1/2

located at the Johnson Youth Center.

What you will be doing

As a Retry Case Manager JPO you will be working to positively influence, motivate, and steer young offenders toward community restoration and developing competencies to lead a productive and crime free life. This position assists with transitioning youth back into the community after completion of a b1 institution order as well as the managing of community cases.   JPOs are asked to set high expectations for themselves as well as the youth they work with. You will collaborate with detention and treatment facility staff as well as other community agencies for care and collaboration. At times you may be required to arrest, restrain, and transport a youth or to travel to itinerant community for JPO duties.  Additional JPO duties include, but are not limited to, drafting court documents, data entry, court presentation, youth supervision, site audits, mandatory training, and on-call coverage. The supervision and accountability-based services you provide are designed to promote notable, long-term, positive benefits to the families, youth, and communities that we serve.

Our organization, mission, and culture

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.

Accountability

– holding ourselves accountable to our mission, our communities, and our budget; holding youth accountable for their actions and for the restoration of victims.

The benefits of joining our team

We are a small, close-knit, dedicated team with long-term tenancy and close ties in the communities that we serve. We take pride in working well with local entities including police departments and courts, district attorneys, school districts, and residential and community-based treatment providers. Our care and dedication to achieving the most benefit for our probationers is recognized throughout our area. Joining our team gives one the opportunity to have a significant positive impact on the youth, their families, and the communities that we serve. We believe in enhancing strengths in our staff by promoting training and professional development.

The working environment you can expect

This position is centrally located in Juneau at the Johnson Youth Center, 3252 Hospital Drive. Each officer has their own office from which to work, and there is a small fitness area with shower on site. While most of the work is local to Juneau, supervising our probationers does occasionally require travel to other communities, working a variety of hours, and sharing on-call responsibilities with other staff. In addition to Juneau, we supervise probationers in Gustavus, Haines, Hoonah, Skagway, and Yakutat.

Who we are looking for

In addition to the Minimum Qualifications below, we are looking for a candidate with the following competencies:

Written Communication

: Writes in a clear, concise, organized, and convincing manner for the intended audience.

Self-Management

: Sets well-defined and realistic personal goals; displays a high level of initiative, effort, and commitment towards completing assignments in a timely manner; works with minimal supervision; is motivated to achieve; demonstrates responsible behavior.

Stress Management

: Deals calmly and effectively with high stress situations (for example, tight deadlines, hostile individuals, emergency, or dangerous situations that require quick, sensible, and defensible decisions).

To view the general description and example of duties for Juvenile Probation Officer 1/2please go to the following link:

https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/Alaska/

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Minimum Qualifications

Juvenile Probation Officer 1:

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.

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.

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.

Adaptability:

adjusts planned work by gathering relevant information and applying critical thinking to address multiple demands and competing priorities in a changing environment.

Equivalent to those typically gained by:

Training in juvenile justice, criminal justice, criminology, sociology, social work, psychology, guidance and counseling, the behavioral sciences, or a closely related field and/or experience providing juvenile justice probation, adult probation, adult protection services, child protection services, or supervision of juvenile offenders in a juvenile justice facility; or providing care or service to delinquent juveniles.

“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.

Juvenile Probation Officer 2:

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.

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.

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.

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.

Adaptability:

adjusts planned work by gathering relevant information and applying crit