Juvenile Probation Officer 1/2

Family & Community Services; Bethel (AK); On-site; USD 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Family & Community Services seeks a Juvenile Probation Officer 1/2 in Bethel, Alaska. The role involves supervising juvenile offenders, conducting assessments, and collaborating with agencies to support rehabilitation and community safety. It requires travel within the state and on‑call duties as needed.

The position offers opportunities for professional growth, training, and working within a mission‑driven team committed to restorative justice and positive outcomes for youth and families.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of psychology concepts and behavior.
• High ethical standards and trustworthiness.
• Ability to relate well to youth and families from diverse backgrounds.

Responsibilities

• Supervise a caseload of juvenile offenders and ensure compliance with court orders and probation terms.
• Conduct comprehensive assessments to identify risk factors and needs.
• Provide counseling and support to juveniles and families to promote positive change.
• Monitor progress, visit homes, and prepare detailed court reports.

Skills

Psychology knowledge

Integrity and honesty

Interpersonal skills

Adaptability

Education

Training in juvenile justice or related field

Job description

Job Description

This position is open to Alaska Residents Only.

This position will be filled at either the 1 or 2 level depending on the applicant’s qualifications and job experience. It is recommended that you apply for all levels if you are qualified.

The Division of Juvenile Justice is recruiting to fill a Juvenile Probation Officer 1/2 position in Bethel at Bethel Juvenile Probation.

What You Will Be Doing:

Influence, motivate, and steer young offenders to work towards community restoration and developing the competencies they need to lead productive and crime free adult lives. The supervision and accountability based services you provide will be challenging but in return produce major, long-term benefits to the families and youth served. This is achieved by:

• Case Management: Supervise and manage a caseload of juvenile offenders from Nome and outlying areas, ensuring compliance with court orders, probation terms and completing rehabilitative goals.
• Assessment: Conduct comprehensive assessments of juveniles to determine risk factors, needs, and appropriate intervention strategies.
• Counseling and Support: Provide counseling, guidance, and support to juveniles and their families, promoting positive behavioral changes and rehabilitation.
• Monitoring and Reporting: Regularly monitor juvenile activities, conduct home visits, and submit detailed reports to the court regarding progress, concerns, and recommendations.
• Collaboration: Work collaboratively with legal, social services, and community organizations to develop and implement intervention plans that address the unique needs of each juvenile.

Our Mission, Values and Culture:

Through Restorative Justice, we hold youth offenders accountable for their behavior; 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

Benefits of Joining Our Team:

We are a small, dedicated team with long-term tenure and close ties to the communities we serve. We take pride in our strong working relationships with local agencies, including law enforcement, the courts, district attorneys, school districts, and residential- and community-based treatment providers. Our commitment to supporting probationers and creating positive outcomes is recognized throughout the region.

Joining our team offers an opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of Alaska’s youth, families, and communities. We are committed to building upon our employees’ strengths through training, professional development, and opportunities for career growth.

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The Working Environment You Can Expect:

This position is located in Bethel at the Bethel Youth Facility located at 950 State Hwy, Bethel AK. 99559. In addition to supervising the city of Bethel, we supervise probationers in 52 outlying villages encompassing the Yukon/Kuskokwim Delta.

This is a flexibly staffed position at the JPO 1 or 2 level, a full-time position of 37.5 hours per week, Monday through Friday. This position requires the ability to assume on‑call duties on a rotating basis, afterhours on evenings and on weekends. Supervision of probationers also requires travel to outlying communities.

Who We Are Looking For:

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

• 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.
• 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 Tolerance: Deals calmly and effectively with high stress situations (for example, tight deadlines, hostile individuals, emergency situations, dangerous situations).

Please Note

This position requires frequent travel within the State, and afterhours on‑call duties that could include nights, weekedns, and holidays. This position also requires 20-hours of annual One on One Control Tactics Training and use of the Alaska Public Safety Informaton Network (APSIN) Which includes passing a background investigation and fingerprinting.

To view the general description and example of duties for Juvenile Probation Officer 1/2

please go to the following link:

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

Minimum Qualifications

PJ0451 - Juvenile Probation Officer 1:

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.

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