Adult Probation Officer​/2B; PCN

Adult Probation Officer 1/2B

The Department of Corrections, Division of Institutions is recruiting for an Adult Probation Officer 1/2B located in Palmer, Alaska. What you will be doing includes supervising offenders serving their term of imprisonment on Electronic Monitoring. You will primarily handle all Private EM applications, transfers, discretionary parole reports, and all pertinent documents. You will travel to other EM offices on an as-needed basis.

Our mission, values, and culture are to provide secure confinement, reformative programs, and a process of supervised community reintegration to enhance the safety of our communities. We are trained professionals committed to a safe, open, and respectful organization. Our unit's goal is to promote public safety through supervision of offenders who are transitioning from prison to the community while placed at Community Residential Centers, treatment centers, or on Electronic Monitoring.

Benefits of joining our team include flexible work schedules, the ability to cross-train within the unit, and promotional opportunities within our unit and division. The working environment you can expect is located at the Palmer State Office Building, near popular shopping and dining areas. The work environment is fast-paced with a positive working atmosphere in which cross-training and assisting Furlough & CRC's unit is expected.

We are looking for candidates who possess some or all of the following position-specific competencies: written/oral communication, analytical thinking/problem solving, flexibility, decision making, and stress tolerance.

PJ04A 1 – Adult Probation Officer 1 requires a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in any field. Or substitution: four years of paraprofessional experience in probation, parole, pretrial, criminal justice, juvenile justice, social services, corrections, criminal investigation, public safety, or law enforcement. Or substitution: four years in any combination of postsecondary education from an accredited college and paraprofessional experience in probation, parole, pretrial, criminal justice, juvenile justice, social services, corrections, criminal investigation, public safety, or law enforcement.

PJ04A3 – Adult Probation Officer 2B requires successful completion of training under a formally established Adult Probation Officer 1-2 (A or

B) flexible staffing training plan with the State of Alaska OR a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in any field. And one year of professional experience in probation, parole, pretrial, criminal justice, juvenile justice, social services, criminal investigation, public safety, law enforcement, or as a social services case manager or counselor. Or substitution: five years in any combination of postsecondary education from an accredited college and paraprofessional experience in probation, parole, pretrial, criminal justice, juvenile justice, social services, criminal investigation, public safety, law enforcement, or corrections.

Special note:
At the time of employment, a qualified applicant must be 21 years of age and a United States citizen or a United States National; have a high school or home school diploma recognized or certified by a state or a local school district within a state as having met that state's graduation requirement; or have a General Educational Development certificate.

Possess a valid driver's license issued within the United States at time of appointment. Some positions in this job class series may be required to carry a firearm and maintain a firearms proficiency qualification. If this requirement is present, it will be stated in the position description and vacancy announcement.

Employees may be required to work shift assignments and on-call availability may be required. Individuals not continuously employed since February 9, 1991, by the State of Alaska Department of Corrections in a "correctional officer," "probation officer," or "parole officer" position, as defined by 13 AAC 85.900, are subject to requirements established by Alaska Police Standards Council (APSC). As a condition of continued…