Cleveland Region - Parole Officer Continuous

Job Title

Parole Officer – Continuous Posting 2026 (Job H)

Ohio Department of Rehabilitation & Correction – Parole and Community Service

DPCS Cuyahoga, 2900 Carnegie Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44115

Full-time, 40 hours per week

• Under general supervision from a supervisor, oversee offenders.
• Interview, visit and observe offenders at residences, workplaces or other community locations.
• Utilize evidence‑based supervision practices to facilitate behavioral change in offenders.
• Obtain certification in the Ohio Risk Assessment System and complete offender risk assessments as directed.
• Interview offenders and review documents, records and reports to develop case plans in conjunction with offenders to address identified risk factors.
• Maintain and review case plans with offenders throughout the supervision period to gauge progress of established goals.
• Provide individual and group advice by listening, speaking and giving written instructions to offenders.
• Conduct visual and auditory surveillance, which includes operating electronic monitor equipment as needed.
• Perform drug testing by collecting and transporting specimens or using drug kit procedures when necessary, and maintain a written chain of evidence from sample collection through testing and hearing process.
• Conduct DNA testing as prescribed by statute.
• Find employment and vocational opportunities for offenders by making referrals to community service agencies.
• Maintain contact with offender families, friends, employers and others by interviewing, observing behaviors and reviewing written documents and records.
• Develop sound caseload management involving analysis of caseload and making necessary community referrals in order to adjust offender activity.
• Oversee a caseload that requires special training to properly supervise substance abusers, drug offenders, sex offenders, special releasees and special‑needs offenders as needed.
• Conduct and complete placement, arrest and violation investigations by interviewing individuals, reading and understanding technical information, including medical, psychological, law‑enforcement and legal documents.
• Complete, by operating a personal computer, writing or dictating appropriate reports of investigations and making correctional recommendations for use in decisions of judges, parole administrators or parole‑board members in sentencing and revocation procedures.
• Update and use records through the use of field‑officer tools (FOT) to include recording offender case activity and officer activity.
• Travel to offender homes, places of employment, jails and courts, etc., by operating a personal or state vehicle.
• Prepare information and initiate packets for Parole‑Board hearings.
• Screen inmates to determine eligibility and make recommendations for transfer into the Transitional Control Program.
• Respond in writing to inmate inquiries (e.g., kites).
• Conduct and complete clemency and other investigations by interviewing individuals, reading and understanding technical information, including medical, psychological, law‑enforcement and legal documents.
• Facilitate special hearings (e.g., clemency, full board) when needed.
• Deliver written arrest, hold and release orders, and secure and deliver search warrants and subpoenas to jails, law‑enforcement, correctional and court agencies.
• Pursue declared violators‑at‑large, arrest violators and conduct search and seizure of contraband, which involves walking, running, climbing, crawling, bending, stooping, lifting or using force such as applying unarmed self‑defense techniques or using restraining devices like handcuffs, belly chains or leg irons and OC spray or pepper gas as needed.
• Develop and present cases at revocation hearings; collect evidence; organize written documents, records and reports; examine and cross‑examine witnesses; testify as required.
• Operate personal or state vehicle to transport witnesses, violators or other releases.
• Provide work direction and train staff as necessary through conducting orientation of new staff, on‑the‑job training and in‑service training.
• Create lesson plans and documents for training activities.
• Oversee an outpost office which consists of…