Criminal Justice Technician

Recruitment Information

This recruitment is exempt from the hiring freeze (Administrative Order 358).

This position is open to Alaska Residents only. Applicants must meet Alaska Residency Requirements to be considered for employment at this time.

Criminal Justice Technician 2 (CJT2) is the sole administrative support for the Tok Post, assisting the public, sergeant, and three troopers and serving as the Post's evidence custodian. Administrative duties include in‑person and telephonic receptionist duties, accurately entering data into criminal databases, processing criminal paperwork, collecting fees and reconciling cash, ensuring payroll is completed correctly and timely, and ordering and maintaining post supplies.

Evidence custodian duties include receiving, storing and managing property, maintaining the chain of custody for all evidence—including weapons, drugs and paraphernalia, currency, sensitive documents, vehicles, bio‑hazards—and managing and providing evidentiary discovery to the District Attorney's Office.

Our mission is public safety—preserve the peace, enforce the law, prevent and detect crime and protect life and property. All positions within the Alaska State Troopers support or carry out this mission. While the commissioned Troopers are on the front lines, civilian staff work just as hard ensuring everything behind the scenes runs smoothly and maintains the necessary integrity.

• Competitive health and retirement benefits
• Paid personal leave with generous leave accrual
• Twelve paid holidays
• Opportunity to work in a unique law enforcement agency that embraces loyalty, integrity, courage, compassion, leadership and accountability

Co‑located with DMV at 1314 Alaska Highway, the Tok Trooper Post has a private entrance for employees. The CJT2’s desk is in an open area behind the public counter, near the sergeant’s office and trooper’s squad room but separated from the prisoner holding cells. The public counter is separated by a window and the front door can be locked and unlocked remotely.

• Attention to detail:
  Accuracy and conscientiousness in work.
• Clerical:
  Filing, typing, data entry, maintaining records, completing forms.
• Computer skills:
  Knowledge of computer systems, software applications, databases, and automated systems.
• Organizational skills:
  Initiative, commitment, responsible behavior.
• Customer service:
  Anticipating and meeting needs of internal and external customers with high‑quality services and continuous improvement.

• Experience maintaining confidentiality and integrity of confidential and sensitive information.
• Integrity and honesty:
  Trustworthiness and high ethical standards.
• Interpersonal skills:
  Courtesy, empathy, and effective relationships with diverse individuals.
• Oral and written communication:
  Clear and convincing presentations and listening skills.
• Problem solving:
  Identify, analyze, evaluate alternatives, and recommend solutions.
• Reasoning:
  Logical inference and accurate conclusions.

Successful completion of formal Criminal Justice Technician 1‑2 flexible staffing training plan with the State of Alaska.

Equivalent education or experience in criminal justice, juvenile justice, probation, parole, public safety, law enforcement, corrections, court, legal services, or related fields.

A cover letter is NOT required for this position. Your complete application will be used to determine which applicants will advance to the interview phase.

• List of three professional references, two from a current or former direct supervisor.
• Last two performance evaluations, if available.
• Academic transcripts (unofficial acceptable, include institution name/URL) to verify minimum qualifications.

This position requires use or possession of a firearm or ammunition. If convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence, you may not hold this position.

Applicants must submit to a fingerprint‑based criminal history background check. Applicants with criminal convictions will not proceed in the selection…