Office Assistant 2; PCN

Job Title

Office Assistant 2

The Department of Corrections, Division of Institutions, is recruiting for an Office Assistant 2 for the Anvil Mountain Correctional Center (AMCC), located in Nome, Alaska. The duties include processing incoming and outgoing institutional mail, filing, processing inmate commissary, receiving money for inmate accounts, receipt and balance till daily, assume Accounting Clerk duties during their absence and assisting with inmate travel processing to include gathering necessary paperwork and submitting for payment.

Other duties as assigned. May be assigned to cover other administrative tasks due to staff on leave or vacancies.

Our Mission, Values, and Culture:
The mission of the Alaska Department of Corrections is to promote public safety. Our division provides secure confinement, access to reformative programs and offender management planning that promotes successful community reentry.

Benefits of Joining Our Team:
Working for Anvil Mountain Correctional Center, you will not only be an important part of a team but will also have the opportunity for continued learning and growth.

The Working Environment You Can Expect:
Anvil Mountain Correctional Center is a minimum/medium custody facility that houses up to 150 inmates. You will be working closely with other staff daily.

Who We Are Looking For:

• Frequent Interaction With Others: applies a strong 'people orientation' rather than a task orientation to comfortably deal with multiple interruptions on a continual basis, always maintaining a friendly interface with others.
• Organized Workplace: successfully organizes activities, tasks, and projects that require accuracy, planning, and record keeping.
• Self Management: effectively prioritizes and completes tasks in order to deliver desired outcomes within allotted time frames.

High school diploma or the equivalent. AND One year of experience that includes clerical tasks such as greeting clients, answering phones, typing, filing, sorting mail, entering data, receiving payments, making change, or maintaining logs. Substitution:
Education from an accredited college may substitute for the required experience (3 semester hours or 4 quarter hours equal one month of experience; 150 hours of vocation education equal one month of experience).

LEGAL EMPLOYMENT:
The State's online recruitment system, Workplace Alaska, requires applicants to certify that they have a legal right to accept employment in the United States. It is the responsibility of the employee to maintain the appropriate documentation to accept or continue legal employment. The State of Alaska does not function in the role as an employer sponsor.

RECRUITMENT DIFFICULTIES:
Starting salary may be approved up to Step D-$32.40, if criteria are met.

EDUCATION:

If post-secondary education is required to meet the minimum qualifications, you must fill in the Education section of the application. If you have not obtained a degree, please indicate the number of units completed. Copies of transcripts are required to verify educational credentials if used to meet the minimum qualifications for a position. Transcripts can be attached at the time of application or provided at the time of interview.

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR FOREIGN

EDUCATION:

Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the minimum qualifications listed above. If utilizing this education, you must show that the education credentials have been submitted to a private organization that specializes in the interpretation of foreign educational credentials and that such education has been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education programs;

or an accredited U.S. post-secondary institution reports the other institution as one whose transcript is given full value, or full value is given in subject areas applicable to the curricula at the post-secondary institution. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

If using work experience not already documented in your application, also provide the employer name, your job title, dates of employment, and whether full-or part-time. Applications will be reviewed to determine if the responses are supported and minimum qualifications are clearly met. If they are not, the applicant may not advance to the interview and selection phase of the recruitment.

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…