Corrections Program Specialist Oahu

Recruitment Number: 25-0402

The job posting will remain open until 30 applications are received. Please apply immediately as this recruitment may close at any time.

Salary: $5,369 to $6,535 per month (SR-22, Step D to I).

There are two (2) current permanent, full‑time vacancy positions located in Downtown with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Hiring rates will be based on availability of funds, the applicant's qualifications, and other relevant factors.

The Corrections Program Specialist series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are to perform staff services to management by performing program development and evaluation, policy review and recommendation, and studies of management, organization, staffing and related concerns relative to all aspects of the State's Corrections program.

The Corrections Program Specialist I class reflects responsibility for performing program planning, evaluation and analysis studies and participating in the development of program plans, policies, standards, guidelines for the overall correctional program and/or conducting management, organization, staffing and related studies and coordinating the preparation of the operating and/or CIP budget and related financial documents and organizational/reorganizational packages for the statewide correctional program;

and performs other related duties as assigned.

To qualify, you must meet all of the following requirements:

The State of Hawaii requires all persons seeking employment with the government of the State to be citizens, nationals, or permanent resident aliens of the United States, or eligible under federal law for unrestricted employment in the United States.

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited four‑year college or university with a major in sociology, psychology, criminology, penology or other related behavioral science which included coursework in research or statistics.
• Excess general or specialized experience as described below, or any other progressively responsible administrative or professional work experience which provided comparable knowledge, skills and abilities may be substituted for education on a year‑for‑year basis. The experience must have been of such scope, level and quality as to assure the possession of comparable knowledge, skills and abilities. The education or substitutable experience background in sociology, criminology, penology, psychology or other related behavioral science must have included, but need not have been limited to, a basic theoretical knowledge of the general principles dealing with human behavior;
  
  counseling; current state of practice and concepts in corrections programs; and principles and methods of research or statistics.

• Two and one‑half (2‑1/2) years of progressively responsible professional counseling or other related social services work experience which demonstrated the applicant's knowledge of and application of modern theories, techniques and practices in corrections work as they relate to redirection and rehabilitation. Such work experience may have been obtained in any agency concerned with reduction of criminals (e.g., courts, corrections or public/private rehabilitation organization).
• At least six (6) months of the general experience must have demonstrated the applicant's aptitude for the performance of full‑time program/staff specialist work in corrections. Evidence of such ability may be demonstrated through participating or assisting in the planning, coordinating or development of programs or program activities requiring the conduct of research and analysis and the application of problem‑solving methods and techniques including the identification of problems and pertinent causal factors, development and evaluation of alternative solutions, recommendation/implementation of appropriate courses of action and the preparation of narrative reports describing the problem or situation, various factors impinging upon the situation, presentation of alternatives and recommendation and justification of an appropriate…