Adult Probation Officer​/2B; PCN's

Adult Probation Officer 1/2B

The Department of Corrections, Division of Pretrial, Probation and Parole, is recruiting for multiple Adult Probation Officer 1/2B's for the Anchorage Probation Office, located in Anchorage, Alaska.

Make a lasting impact on your community while working at the Anchorage Probation/Parole Office, the state's largest community supervision office. This position provides a rewarding balance of field and office-based supervision responsibilities for felons supervised in the community. On any given day, field-based responsibilities can include conducting home visits, community compliance checks, or collaboration with law enforcement and community partners. While daily office-based responsibilities include conducting office visits, maintaining accurate and timely supervision records, preparation of reports for the Court and Alaska Board of Parole, testimony in court and parole hearings, and collaboration with local justice partners and community partners across the state.

If you're ready to make a difference and thrive in a role that combines investigative work, communication, and community engagement, we want you on our team!

Our mission is to help provide positive change in every town, village, and neighborhood in Alaska by enhancing public safety, assisting the Court with the fair administration of justice for victims and defendants, and by providing quality supervision that holds defendants accountable, while connecting them to community partners and resources that can provide an individual the tools for long-term change and success.

At the Anchorage Probation Office, you'll be a part of a dedicated team committed to making Alaska's communities safer. You'll receive paid training, paid time off, and ongoing opportunities for career growth and advancement. This is more than a job—it's a chance to build a meaningful career while making a real difference every day.

This position is based at the Anchorage Probation Office near midtown Anchorage, in a professional and collaborative environment while serving the communities of Anchorage, Eagle River, Chugiak, and Girdwood.

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

• 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.
• Accountability:
  Holds self and others accountable for measurable high-quality, timely, and cost-effective results. Determines objectives, sets priorities, and delegates work. Accepts responsibility for own actions and decisions. Complies with established control systems and rules.
• Attention to Detail:
  Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.
• 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.

PJ04A 1 –Adult Probation Officer 1

A bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in any field.

Or substitution:

Four years of paraprofessional experience in probation, parole, pretrial, criminal justice, juvenile justice, social services, corrections, criminal investigation, public safety or law enforcement.

Or substitution:

Four years in any combination of postsecondary education from an accredited college and paraprofessional experience in probation, parole, pretrial, criminal justice, juvenile justice, social services, corrections, criminal investigation, public safety or law enforcement (2.67 semester hours or 4 quarter hours of post-secondary education are equal to…