Criminal Justice Technician 1/2 (PCN 20-6411)

State of Alaska•Kenai, AK

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Department of Corrections, Division of Institutions is recruiting for a Criminal Justice Technician 1/2 position for Wildwood Correction Center (WCC) located in Kenai, Alaska. This role involves managing all incoming and outgoing inmate property, maintaining meticulous records, investigating property allegations, managing abandoned property, and assisting with inmate records. The mission of Wildwood Correctional Complex is to provide a secure environment for staff and offenders that promotes public safety and provides an opportunity for staff development, and reformative offender programming to ensure safety and efficient resources management. At Wildwood, we strive to provide a positive environment for all staff and offenders, leading to a cohesive and productive place to work.

Requirements

Accountability: Accepts responsibility for own actions and decisions and demonstrates commitment to accomplish work in an ethical, efficient, and cost-effective manner.
Computer Skills: Uses computers, software applications, databases, and automated systems to accomplish work.
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 responds appropriately.
Problem Solving: Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of information; uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives, and to make recommendations.
Integrity/Honesty: Contributes to maintaining the integrity of the organization; displays high standards of ethical conduct and understands the impact of violating these standards on an organization, self, and others; is trustworthy.
Reasoning: Identifies rules, principles, or relationships that explain facts, data, or other information; analyzes information and makes correct inferences or draws accurate conclusions.
Any combination of education and/or paraprofessional or professional experience or service in criminal justice, juvenile justice, probation, parole, public safety, law enforcement, corrections, court, legal services, law office, social services, social sciences, or public assistance programs or functions.

Nice To Haves

Attention to Detail: Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.
Clerical: Knowledge of filing, typing, entering data, maintaining records, taking shorthand, and using and completing forms.
Self-Management: Sets well-defined and realistic personal goals; displays a high level of initiative, effort, and commitment towards completing assignments in a timely manner; works with minimal supervision; is motivated to achieve; demonstrates responsible behavior.
Successful completion of training under a formally established Criminal Justice Technician 1-2 flexible staffing training plan with the State of Alaska.

Responsibilities

Manage all incoming and outgoing inmate property, including organization of the secured property rooms and regular inventory duties.
Maintains meticulous records, including both computerized and hard copies and thoroughly scrutinizing all property for potential contraband.
Investigate allegations of lost or damaged property, which includes gathering documentation on inmate’s movement history, current inventories, commissary orders, transfer receipts and contacting other facilities for relevant documentation.
Manage abandoned or excess property to include mailing or disposing of property according to the Department policies.
Assist with the maintenance of inmate records such as court judgments, booking records, classifications or disciplinary paperwork.