Correctional Officer

Job Description

The Department of Corrections, Division of Institut

ions, is recruiting for a Correctional

Officer 4 at the Yukon Kuskokwim Correctional Center located in Bethel, Alaska.

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As a Correctional Officer 4 you will perform a wide variety of administrative, operational, and educational duties in support of the safety and security of an adult correctional facility, personnel, and inmates.

The mission of the Alaska Department of Corrections is to promote public safety. Our Division provides secure confinement, access to reformative programs and offender management planning that promotes successful community reentry.

• Work with dynamic group of individuals.
• Work with a variety of experienced DOC professionals.
• The Correctional Officer 4 provides a positive supervisor role in providing training, mentorship, and overseeing the safety and security of the entire staff, as well as the prisoners.

Located inside the secure portion for the YKCC where we are a close security institution serving as an intake facility for the Western Alaska and providing unsentenced and sentenced prisoner housing.

• 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.
• Communications Security Management:
  Knowledge of the principles, policies, and procedures involved in ensuring the security of communications services and data, and in maintaining the communications environment on which it resides.
• Compliance Inspection:
  Knowledge of the guidelines, regulations, and procedures associated with compliance inquiries, including application of compliance rules and criteria and ability to make appropriate decisions and issue citations, fines, or orders.
• 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.
• Knowledge Management:
  Knowledge of the value of collected information and the methods of sharing that information throughout an organization.

• Successful completion of the Alaska Correctional Officer Academy or the equivalent program accredited by the Alaska Police Standards Council
• AND
• One year of experience performing duties in a specialized area requiring advanced training and/or certification in support of the custody, security, and reformation of prisoners in an adult correctional institution. The required experience is met by service as a Correctional Officer 3 with the State of Alaska or the equivalent elsewhere.
• OR
• Two years of experience performing duties which support the custody, security, and reformation of prisoners in an adult correctional institution. The required experience is met by service as a Correctional Officer 2 with the State of Alaska or the equivalent elsewhere.
• OR
• Two years of experience independently performing the full range of probation/parole duties to assess, evaluate, supervise, and guide incarcerated or released felony adult offenders. The required experience is met by service as an Adult Probation Officer 2 with the State of Alaska or the equivalent elsewhere.

At the time of employment: be 21 years of age and a United States citizen or a United States National; have a high school or home school diploma recognized or certified by a state or a local school district within a state as having met that state's graduation requirement; or have a General Educational Development certificate.

Appointment to Correctional Officer 4 is conditional, pending successful completion of a thorough background investigation, psychological evaluation, drug screening, and medical examination.

This class series is considered technical/paraprofessional for purposes of evaluating minimum qualifications.

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