Criminal Justice Technician 1/2

Corrections; Juneau (AK); On-site; USD 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

The Alaska Department of Corrections is seeking a Criminal Justice Technician I/II for Lemon Creek Correctional Center in Juneau. This role will support inmate store operations, supervise inmates, and fulfill inmate requests, including photos and commissary items.

Responsibilities include maintaining movie library, tracking inventory, and ensuring secure operation within the facility. Competency-based qualifications emphasize detailed work, communication, and problem solving in a corrections

Qualifications

• Minimum qualifications emphasize competencies in KSAs and behaviors.
• Proven ability to apply accountability, computer skills, interpersonal and oral/written communication, problem solving.
• Education/experience combination acceptable per competency description.

Responsibilities

• Order, track, and maintain inventory for inmate multi-Culture store.
• Supervise inmates during store operations.
• Fulfill printed photo requests from inmates.
• Process special commissary requests (Xbox, games, TV, comforters).
• Maintain inmate movie library and supervise weekly distribution.

Skills

Attention to Detail

Oral Communication

Problem Solving

Interpersonal Skills

Accountability

Computer Skills

Job description

Job Description

The Department of Corrections, Division of Institutions (DOI) is recruiting for a Criminal Justice Technician 1/2 position for the Lemon Creek Correctional Center (LCCC) in Juneau, Alaska.

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What You Will Be Doing

• Ordering, tracking, maintaining inventory for the inmate multi-Culture store
• Provide supervision of inmates during store operations.
• Receive and fulfill printed photo requests from the inmate population
• Receive and fulfill special commissary requests for items such as Xbox console, games, TV and comforters.
• Maintain inmate movie library with up-to-date titles and supervise weekly distribution

Our Mission, Values, and Culture

The Alaska Department of Corrections provides secure confinement, reformative programs and a process of supervised community reintegration to enhance the safety of our communities.

Benefits of Joining Our Team

The benefits of joining our team:

• Flexible work schedules;
• An opportunity to make a difference in people's lives;
• Career Development and High Caliber Training;
• Excellent benefits; and
• Being part of a team consisting of a rewarding group of professionals.

The Working Environment You Can Expect

Lemon Creek Correctional Center serves both as an intake and long-term facility which houses both female and male inmates, located in Juneau Alaska.

Who We Are Looking For

• Attention to Detail: Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.
• Oral Communication: Makes clear and convincing oral presentations. Listens effectively; clarifies information as needed.
• Problem Solving: Identifies and analyzes problems; weighs relevance and accuracy of information; generates and evaluates alternative solutions; makes recommendations.

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

• 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;
• OR
• 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 groupseffectively, 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 office, social services, social sciences, or public assistance programs or functions.

Additional Required Information

REQUIRED DOCUMENTS

• Pre-Employment Certification
• PREA
• Nepotism Form (if applicable)
• US Verification Form

LEGAL EMPLOYMENT

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.

EDUCATION

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.

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR FOREIGN EDUCATION

Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the minimum qualifications listed above. If utilizing this education,