Vocational Instructor; PCN

The Department of Corrections, Division of Institutions, is recruiting for a Vocational Instructor position at the Goose Creek Correctional Center (GCCC) in Mackenzie Point, Alaska.

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• Teaching National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER) certified courses.
• Setting up hands-on laboratories for instruction including supervising inmates for safety and compliance of NCCER’s performance testing.
• Delivering NCCER tests to inmates and submitting paperwork to the Accredited Training Sponsor.
• Counseling prisoners in areas of career development, education, and vocational training.

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.

When working for Goose Creek Correctional Center, you’ll be a vital part of a collaborative team, with opportunities for extensive learning about correctional settings and processes. In addition, we offer:

• Flexible work schedules
• Comprehensive benefits such as medical, dental, vision, and retirement
• On-site amenities including a free on-site gym with locker rooms and showers for employee use only and low-cost lunches
• Convenient parking with winter plug-ins and a scenic drive to work while avoiding the congested commute to Anchorage!

Goose Creek Correctional Center is a minimum/medium custody facility that houses up to 1500 inmates and employs over 350 staff. You will be working in an educational/shop environment with daily interaction with inmates.

We are interested in candidates who possess some or all of the following position specific competencies:

• 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, hosties, 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.

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).

Positions in the Vocational Instructor job class require expertise in a particular vocational trade such as the electrical, construction, or other trades. Recruitment and selection for these positions will be from among only those candidates who have the appropriate specialty background identified in the recruitment bulletin.

As a condition of employment, some positions will be required to obtain NCCER certification in the applicable field with one year of employment.

Some positions will require an extensive background investigation will be required for successful applicants and will work with inmates requiring care in observing institution security policies and procedures and may involve personal risk.

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…