Juvenile Probation Officer 1/2

Salary: $26.12 - $29.99 Hourly
Location : Anchorage, AK
Job Type: Full Time
Job Number: 49558
Department: Family & Community Services
Division: Juvenile Justice
Opening Date: 03/04/2025
Closing Date: 4/14/2025 5:00 PM Alaska
Position Open To: Alaska Residents Only
Bargaining Unit: General Government
Range: 14/16

Job Description
THE RECRUITMENT PERIOD FOR THIS VACANCY HAS BEEN EXTENDED
This position is open to Alaska Residents only. Please check our residency definition to determine if you qualify .
The Division of Juvenile Justice is recruiting to fill a Juvenile Probation Officer 1/2 position located in the Anchorage Juvenile Probation office on the campus of the McLaughlin Youth Center.
What You Will Be Doing

The Juvenile Probation Officer is responsible for monitoring, motivating, and supervising a caseload of both formal case and informal case juvenile offenders to address accountability, facilitate community restoration, and develop the skills necessary to lead productive and crime free lives as adults. The services provided to youth are individualized and focused on their rehabilitation, building upon their strengths. This position will screen and process juvenile criminal referrals from the early pre-court services through the court process, with supervision and case management. The position will facilitate communication and service delivery with parties to include: the youth, their family, attorneys, the court, service providers, and victims of juvenile offenses. The position will develop case plans after coordination with multiple community agencies and treatment programs to provide trauma informed services for delinquent youth, their families, and victims. The position frequently represents the department in formal court environments and produces petitions, reports, documents, and reports to the court most often under inflexible timelines.
Our Organization, Mission, and Culture
Through Restorative Justice, we hold juvenile offenders accountable for their behavior; promote the safety and restoration of victims and communities; and assist offenders and their families in developing the skills to prevent crime. Our core values include:
•   Prioritizing Safety - of our youth, staff, families, and communities
•   Responsiveness - providing timely response to youth, families, victims, staff, and justice partners.
•   Professional Relationships - recognizing that successful treatment services provided to our clients, coworkers, victims, and others rely on positive, respectful, and collaborative relationships and a spirit of inclusiveness.
•   Dedication - doing the right things for the right reasons and modeling relentless integrity and leadership.
•   Respect - for the inherent value of each person's unique strengths and individual differences. The Benefits of Joining Our Team

Join a dynamic, fast-paced team in the largest juvenile probation office in Alaska. Our team is committed to making a meaningful difference in youths' lives using cutting-edge, evidence-based, and trauma informed practices. Our staff work closely with the courts to hold youth accountable, victims of juvenile offenses to repair the harm caused, and with youths' families and the broader community to monitor youth and create an environment where youth can thrive. We take pride in working closely with the local entities including law enforcement, the court, attorneys, the school district, and many residential- and community-based treatment providers. We believe in enhancing the strengths of our staff by promoting training and professional development. Take advantage of a unique opportunity to learn and grow professionally while serving Alaska's youth and families and making our communities better.
The Working Environment You Can Expect

This position is co-located with the McLaughlin Youth Center, a 24-hour juvenile detention and treatment facility, located at 2600 Providence Drive in Anchorage. The Anchorage Juvenile Probation Office is comprised of four units of Juvenile Probation Officers and administrative staff, with approximately 30 staff. The office covers the Anchorage bowl and beyond, north to the Eklutna flats and south to Portage, Whittier, and Hope areas.
This is a full-time position with a 7.5-hour workday, that will include an alternative work week schedule that may temporarily include a weekend workday as part of a newer employee rotation. This position requires the ability to be "on-call/standby" on a rotating basis on weekdays and weekends. Juvenile Probation Officers may also be required to travel periodically.
Who We Are Looking For
In addition to the Minimum Qualifications below, we are looking for a candidate with the following competencies:
•   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 presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.
•   Teamwork: Encourages and facilitates cooperation, pride, trust, and group identity; fosters commitment and team spirit; works with others to achieve goals.
•   Analytical Thinking/Problem Solving: Uses a logical, systematic, and 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.
•   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.
•   Attention to Detail: Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail. To view the general description and example of duties for Juvenile Probation Officer 1/2, please go to the following link:

Minimum Qualifications
Juvenile Probation Officer 1:
Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in
•   Psychology: Knowledge of the concepts, principles, and theories of human behavior and performance in various contexts, mental processes, or the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.
•   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.
•   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.
•   Adaptability: adjusts planned work by gathering relevant information and applying critical thinking to address multiple demands and competing priorities in a changing environment. equivalent to those typically gained by:
Training in juvenile justice, criminal justice, criminology, sociology, social work, psychology, guidance and counseling, the behavioral sciences, or a closely related field and/or experience providing juvenile justice probation, adult probation, adult protection services, child protection services, or supervision of juvenile offenders in a juvenile justice facility; or providing care or service to delinquent juveniles.

"Typically gained by" means the prevalent, usual method of gaining the competencies expected for entry into the job.

"Training" and "education" in this guidance are synonyms for the process of acquiring knowledge and skills through instruction. It includes instruction through formal and informal methods (such as classroom, on-line, self-study, and on-the-job), from accredited and unaccredited sources, and long-duration (such as a post-secondary degree) and short-duration (such as a seminar) programs.

Special Note
Successful candidates are subject to a background investigation, criminal record check, fingerprinting, and must complete a medical examination to determine the essential duties of the position can be safely performed. A valid Alaska driver's license is required at the time of appointment.

Juvenile Probation Officer 2:
Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in
•   Psychology: Knowledge of the concepts, principles, and theories of human behavior and performance in various contexts, mental processes, or the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.
•   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.
•   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.
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