Psychology Technician

Bureau of Prisons / Federal Prison System; Coleman (FL); On-site; USD 40,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Bureau of Prisons / Federal Prison System seeksCorrections psychology professionals to oversee testing, data management, and compliance with regulations. Responsibilities include administering and scoring tests, implementing PDS, and managing expenditures under strict security and privacy controls.

Position requires experience with psychology procedures, procurement tasks, and providing security escorts for volunteers and visitors, including background checks.

Qualifications

• Experience operating psychological tests: administering, scoring, distributing, and storing tests.
• Experience interpreting and applying complex regulations related to psychology procedures.
• Implementation of the BOP automated psychology data entry system (PDS) including training and data handling.
• Experience obligating expenditures, preparing purchase orders, requisitions, and maintaining department expenditures.
• Experience providing security escort for volunteers and visitors including NCIC background checks.

Responsibilities

• Administer, score, distribute, and store a variety of psychological tests.
• Research, interpret, and apply regulations regarding psychological procedures and practices.
• Lead implementation of the BOP's psychology data entry system (PDS) including staff training and data management.
• Obligate expenditures, prepare POs and requisitions, and maintain department expenditure records.
• Provide security escort for volunteers and visitors, including NCIC checks and paperwork.

Education

Graduate education

Tools

PDS system

Data entry

Test scoring

Discrepancy reconciliation

Staff training

Procurement

NCIC checks

Job description

Corrections professionals who foster a humane and secure environment and ensure public safety by preparing individuals for successful reentry into our communities.

To be considered for the position, you must meet the following:

Basic Requirements:

Applicants must have one-year specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the next lower grade level. (For positions at GL-4 and above): experience that involved the observation of and assistance in the application of techniques relating to behavior, capacities, traits, interests, and activities of either humans or, under laboratory conditions, animals. Experience may have been gained in connection with a program of research or direct services in psychology that gave a practical understanding of some of the principles, methods, and techniques of psychology needed to assist professional psychologists.

OR

Education:

One year of graduate education or 27 quarter hours of graduate education in the related field of the position.

NOTE: Graduate education or an internship meets the specialized experience required above GS-5 only in those instances where it is directly related to the work of the position.

Experience:

• Experience in administering, scoring, distributing, and storing a variety of psychological tests.
• Experience assisting in researching, interpreting, and applying a variety of complex regulations, rules and laws regarding psychological procedures and practices.
• Experience in implementation of the BOP's automated/computerized psychology data entry system including initial implementation of PDS, training of all psychology staff, routine data entry and retrieval, automated test scoring and reconciling discrepancies in the files.
• Experience in obligating expenditures, preparing purchase orders, requisitions, and maintaining accounting of department expenditures and adjustments.
• Experience in providing security escort for volunteers, guest speakers, and visitors including running NCIC background checks and preparing paperwork for volunteers, guest speakers and visitors.

Combination of Education and Experience:

Equivalent combinations of education and experience are qualifying for all grade levels and positions for which both education and experience are acceptable.

If applicable, credit will be given for paid and unpaid experience. To receive proper credit, you must show the actual time (such as the number of hours worked per week) spent in activities.

**Your eligibility for consideration will be based on your responses to the questions in the application.**