Assistant Corrections Counselor

This classification provides counseling services for inmates, including personal and social adjustment. Work involves coordinating inmate programs and activities, managing inmates, and preparing reports.

The following duties are typical for this position. The omission of specific statements of the duties does not exclude them from the classification if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment for this classification. Other duties may be required and assigned.

• Serves as a coordinator and instructor over inmates’ programs, including the Pre‑Release Program; provides inmates with various information, including creating resumes, completing job applications, and developing job skills.
• Assists inmates with residential issues; seeks alternative housing through community resources.
• Performs various counseling services for inmates, including securing documents in the inmates’ files.
• Ensures that the inmates' institutional and medical files are prepared for transferring out; secures all incoming institutional and medical files on inmates transferring in.
• Answers incoming calls: routes calls to the appropriate party; takes messages as needed.
• Serves as a member of the Inmate’s Classification Committee for assigning work details to new inmates.
• Advices and informs the Warden and Deputy Warden of all prison operations and information; notifies them of potential problems or matters of concern.
• Receives various forms, reports, correspondence, manuals, reference materials, or other documentation; reviews, completes, processes, forwards, or retains as appropriate.
• Operates a computer to enter, retrieve, review, or modify data; verifies accuracy of entered data and makes corrections; utilizes spreadsheets or other software programs.
• Communicates with supervisors, employees, other departments, the public, and other individuals as needed to coordinate work activities, review work status, exchange information, or resolve problems.
• Attends workshops and conferences as required.

• Assists other employees or departments as needed.
• Performs other related duties as required.

High school diploma or GED; supplemented by vocational training in business and office technology; supplemented by two (2) years of previous experience and/or training that includes counseling and office administration; or any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience which provides the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities for this job. Must possess and maintain a valid Georgia driver’s license.

Requires the ability to evaluate, audit, deduce, and/or assess data using established criteria. This includes exercising discretion in determining actual or probable consequences and referencing such evaluation to identify and select alternatives.

Requires the ability to function in a managerial capacity for a division or organizational unit. Includes the ability to make decisions on procedural and technical levels.

Requires the ability to operate, maneuver, and/or control the actions of equipment, machinery, tools, and/or materials used in performing essential functions.

Requires the ability to utilize various reference, descriptive, advisory, and/or design data and information.

Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; the ability to calculate decimals and percentages; the ability to utilize principles of fractions; and the ability to interpret graphs.

Requires the ability to apply principles of influence systems, such as motivation, incentive, and leadership, and to exercise independent judgment to apply facts and principles for developing approaches and techniques to resolve problems.

It requires the ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness, and creativity in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental, or subjective criteria, as opposed to those clearly measurable or verifiable.