Vocational Instructor; PCN

Vocational Instructor Position

The Department of Corrections, Division of Institutions, is recruiting for a Vocational Instructor position at the Wildwood Correctional Center (WCC) located in Kenai, Alaska.

What you will be doing:

• Providing class lecture and instruction of textbook curriculum including PowerPoint and Media;
• Setting up hand-on laboratories for instruction including supervising inmates for safety and compliance for performance testing, setting up and operating computer simulators;
• Deliver tests to individuals and submitting paperwork for accredited training sponsors;
• Coordinate scheduling classroom space for contract trainers.

Our mission, values, and culture:

The mission of the Division of Institutions is to promote public safety by providing secure confinement, access to reformative programs, and offender management planning that promotes successful community reentry. WCC thrives on achieving our mission in a positive, supportive, and encouraging environment. WCC provides reformative programs such as:
Adult Basic Education, General Education Development, classes/testing, Post-Secondary Academic Services, Residential Substance Abuse Treatment, Vocational/Employment programming, and many others.

The benefits of joining our team:

• Flexible work schedule
• On the job and professional training
• Access to world class fishing on the Kenai River

The working environment you can expect:

Wildwood Correctional Complex is a state adult correctional institution housing inmate of all custody levels, consisting of a pretrial facility housing up to 115 male and female inmates, a sentenced facility housing 264 male inmates and a transitional program housing 92 male inmates. This position works in the vocational shop of building 7 and will routinely be around the inmate population.

Who we are looking for:

• 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.
• Computer
  
  Skills:
  
  Uses computers, software applications, databases, and automated systems to accomplish work.
• Education and Training:
  Knowledge of teaching, training, research, making presentations, lecturing, testing, and other instructional methods.
• 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.
• Oral and Written Communication:
  Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral and written presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and response appropriately.

Minimum Qualifications:

Three years of journey-level trade experience in the applicable trade; OR Three years as a certified teacher in a vocational/technical construction or maintenance related training program; OR National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER) certification in the applicable trade(s).

Additional Required Information:

REQUIRED DOCUMENTS

If selected for an interview, the applicant must provide the following:

• Resume
• Copy of Transcripts if post-secondary education is be applied for meeting minimum qualifications.
• List of three professional references; including name, job title, employer, and current phone number.
• Copy of your last three performance evaluations. Supervisory letters of reference may be substituted if evaluations are not available.

SPECIAL NOTICE

• Driver's License Preferred

RECRUITMENT DIFFICULTIES

Starting salary may be approved up to Step D-$34.37, if criteria are met.

PREA NOTIFICATION

The Department of Corrections follows and maintains federal and state requirements standards including, but not limited to, Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) standards which apply to all public and private institutions that house adult or juvenile offenders. PREA standards preclude the department from hiring or promoting anyone who has engaged in, or been convicted of any conduct which would violate PREA standards related to sexual assault including:

• Sexual abuse in a prison, jail, lockup, community confinement facility, juvenile facility, or other institutions.
• Convicted of engaging or attempting to engage in sexual activity in the community facilitated by force, overt or implied threats of force, or coercion, or if the victim did not consent or was unable to consent or refuse; or
• Has been civilly or administratively adjudicated to have engaged in the activity described above.

EDUCATION

If post-secondary…