Office Assistant 3

Job Description

The Department of Corrections, Anchorage Sentenced Electronic Monitoring Office is currently recruiting for an Office Assistant 3 position in Anchorage, Alaska.

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What You Will Be Doing:

Processes revenues collected from offender payments for Electronic Monitoring Services

Maintains budget, prepares invoices for payment and posts expenditures

Provides general administrative support for Electronic Monitoring

Acts as property custodian and conduct annual inventories

Our Mission, Values, and Culture:

To promote public safety through supervision of inmates who are transitioning from incarceration or Community Residential Center (CRC) to the community while placed on electronic monitoring equipment.

Benefits of Joining Our Team:

Join a cohesive team of professionals with various experiences with DOC and outside the department

Learn about community resources, case law, and the criminal justice system related to Sentence Electronic Monitoring

We offer flexible work schedules, accrual of paid leave, and 12 paid holidays a year

There are opportunities for advancement within the office and the Department

The Working Environment You Can Expect:

This position is at the Anchorage Sentenced EM Office in Anchorage, Alaska.

Who We Are Looking For:

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

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.

Clerical:
Knowledge of filing, typing, entering data, maintaining records, taking shorthand, and using and completing forms.

Communications and Media:
Knowledge of the production, communication and dissemination of information and ideas to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media and social media.

Minimum Qualifications

High school diploma or the equivalent.

AND

One year of experience that includes clerical tasks such as performing reception duties, answering routine questions on services or products, retrieving information from electronic or hard copy files, recording expenditures and receipts, or typing routine correspondence.

Substitution:

Education from an accredited college may substitute for six months of the required experience (3 semester hours or 4 quarter hours equal one month of experience; 150 hours of vocational education equal one month of experience).

Special

Note:

'High school diploma equivalent' means one of the following:
1) a G.E.D.;
2) completion of any basic adult education course equivalent to 480 class hours (16 weeks at 30 course hours per week);
3) acceptance in full standing by an accredited college or university;
4) highest grade of school completed plus an amount of paid or volunteer experience that totals 12 years and includes basic clerical tasks such as greeting clients, answering phones, typing, filing, sorting mail, entering data, receiving payments, making change, or maintaining logs.

Some positions in this class may require the incumbent to operate motor vehicles. Such positions require that the applicant possess a regular driver's license and be 18 years of age or older.

Some positions in this class may require skill in typing. Recruitment and selection may include this requirement.

Additional Required Information

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, you must show that the…