Electronic Monitoring Probation Officer​/2B

The Department of Corrections, Division of Institutions is recruiting for an Adult Probation Officer 1/2B located in Palmer, Alaska.

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Supervise offenders serving their term of imprisonment on Electronic Monitoring. Will primarly handle all Private EM applications, transfers, discretionary parole reports, and all pertinent documents. Will travel to other EM offices on as needed basis.

The Alaska Department of Corrections provides 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.

Our small and dynamic unit contributes to the safety and protection of the community by supervising offenders through reentry on Electronic Monitoring. This unit offers flexible work schedules and the ability to cross-train within the unit. Promotional opportunities exist within our unit and division.

The unit office 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 interested in candidates who possess some or all of the following position specific competencies:

• Written/Oral 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 responds appropriately.
• Analytical Thinking/Problem Solving: uses a logical, systematic, sequential approach to address problems or opportunities or manage a situation by drawing on one’s knowledge and experience base and calling on other references and resources as necessary.
• Flexibility:
  Is open to change and new information; adapts behavior or work methods in response to new information, changing conditions, or unexpected obstacles; effectively deals with uncertainty
• Decision Making:
  Makes sound, well-informed, and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; commits to action, even in uncertain situations, to accomplish organizational goals; causes change.
• Stress Tolerance:
  Deals calmly and effectively with high stress situations (for example, tight deadlines, hostile individuals, emergency situations, dangerous situations)

PJ04A 1 –Adult Probation Officer 1

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 (2.67 semester hours or 4 quarter hours of post-secondary education are equal to one month of experience).

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All Adult Probation Officer 1 positions are flexibly staffed. Advancement to the Adult Probation Officer 2 level occurs only when the incumbent successfully completes all training, including the specified terms of the APSC training and certification requirements, and is certified by the supervisor as prepared to perform at the next level. Advancement to the Adult Probation Officer 2B level is contingent upon completion of the Department’s Probation Officer Academy and the Probation Officer Field Training Manual.