Criminal Justice Specialist

Criminal Justice Specialist

The Department of Corrections, Division of Administration and Support, is recruiting for a Criminal Justice Specialist position located in Juneau, Alaska.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Serve as the Department's point of contact for the Records section — responding to court orders, subpoenas, and requests from law-enforcement partners (FBI, U.S. Marshals, and other corrections agencies) and from individuals for inmate and offender records.
• Safeguard the confidential offender records repository, maintaining, tracking, and securing both hard-file and electronic records.
• Audit Alaska Corrections Offender Management System (ACOMS) criminal-justice records for completeness, accuracy, and timeliness against Federal Bureau of Investigation standards, and correct discrepancies.
• Query the Department's information systems using SQL and statistical analysis software to find and fix data anomalies and to produce recurring and ad hoc reports for criminal-justice partners and DOC colleagues.
• Oversee the day-to-day work of records staff digitizing files, train and affirm the proficiency of ACOMS users, and coordinate with outside scanning vendors.

Our Mission, Values, and Culture:

The mission of the Alaska Department of Corrections is to promote public safety; we provide secure confinement, access to reformative programs, and offender management planning that promotes successful community reentry. The Research and Records section is the Department's authoritative source of offender records and criminal-justice data—accurate, secure, and available to the partners who depend on it. We value precision, confidentiality, and getting the record right.

Benefits of Joining Our Team:

This is a role for someone who takes pride in being the trusted custodian of records that matter—your work directly supports law-enforcement partners, the courts, and Alaskans seeking their own files. You will work across both the records and data sides of the job, from securing the confidential repository to writing queries that keep the Department's criminal-justice data accurate and complete. As the senior records position in a small section, you will guide other records staff and help set the standard for how the work is done. The State of Alaska offers a competitive benefits package, including health coverage, both defined-benefit and defined-contribution retirement options, and generous personal leave. This position is eligible for a flexible/hybrid schedule consistent with Department telework policy.

The Working Environment You Can Expect:

This position is based at the Department of Corrections office in the Douglas Island Building, with ample parking and a short walk to Savikko Park and Sandy Beach, and is eligible for a flexible/hybrid schedule consistent with Department telework policy. The work is detail-driven and deadline-sensitive, with frequent interruptions, daily handling of confidential offender records, and regular contact with DOC staff and outside criminal-justice agencies.

Who We Are Looking For:

• Attention to Detail: Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.
• 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.
• Information Management: Identifies a need for and knows where or how to gather information; organizes and maintains information or information management systems.
• Quality Assurance: Knowledge of the principles, methods, and tools of quality assurance and quality control used to ensure a product fulfills functional requirements and standards.
• Computer Skills: Uses computers, software applications, databases, and automated systems to accomplish work.

Minimum Qualifications

A bachelor's degree from an accredited college. OR An associate's degree from an accredited college in Criminal Justice, Paralegal Studies, Justice, or a closely related field. OR Two years of advanced paraprofessional experience in support of professional law enforcement staff in the development, analysis, and implementation of a law enforcement, public safety or criminal justice program. The required experience includes work such as Criminal Justice Technician 2 with the State of Alaska or the equivalent with another employer. OR Four years of advanced or supervisory paraprofessional or technical experience in support of criminal justice staff, involving data or evidence collection, processing, analysis and reporting. The required experience includes work such as Criminal Justice Technician 1, Emergency Services Dispatcher with the Department of Public Safety, Fingerprint Technician, Paralegal, or Law Office Assistant 2 with the State of Alaska or the equivalent with another employer.

Special Note: An applicant is subject to a national criminal history background check; an applicant may not have any felony or misdemeanor convictions, and must not be a fugitive from justice.

Additional Required Information

Required Documents

If selected for an interview, the applicant must provide the following:

• Educational transcripts, if using education to meet the minimum qualifications
• Three most recent performance evaluations (or letters of reference from the three most recent supervisors if no evaluations were completed within the last five years)

Special Notice

Requires ability to lift file boxes weighing up to 50 pounds.

Legal Employment

The State's online recruitment system, Workplace Alaska, requires applicants to certify that they have a legal right to accept employment in the United States. It is the responsibility of the employee to maintain the appropriate documentation to accept or continue legal employment. The State of Alaska does not function in the role as an employer sponsor.

Education

If post-secondary education is required to meet the minimum qualifications, you must fill in the Education section of the application. If you have not obtained a degree, please indicate the number of units completed. Copies of transcripts are required to verify educational credentials if used to meet the minimum qualifications for a position. Transcripts can be attached at the time of application or provided at the time of interview.

Special Instructions for Foreign Education

Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the minimum qualifications listed above. If utilizing this education, you must show that the education credentials have been submitted to a private organization that specializes in the interpretation of foreign educational credentials and that such education has been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education programs; or an accredited U.S. post-secondary institution reports the other institution as one whose transcript is given full value, or full value is given in subject areas applicable to the curricula at the post-secondary institution. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.

Work Experience

If using work experience not already documented in your application, also provide the employer name, your job title, dates of employment, and whether full-or part-time. Applications will be reviewed to determine if the responses are supported and minimum qualifications are clearly met. If they are not, the applicant may not advance to the interview and selection phase of the recruitment.

Criminal History Checks/APSIN/ACOMS

Please be aware – this position requires the use of the Alaska Public Safety Information Network (APSIN). A security clearance issued by the Department of Public Safety (DPS) is necessary to use APSIN. DPS will deny security clearance for any applicant who has been convicted of a felony or misdemeanor in this state or another jurisdiction, or who may be a fugitive from justice. Additionally, security clearance will be withdrawn if DPS discovers that material information was falsified or omitted at the time of the initial application for security clearance.

Fingerprint Notice

All Department of Corrections employees are required to be fingerprinted. The successful candidate must pass a criminal history check.

Driver's License Requirement

Applicants must possess a valid driver's license. Proof of licensure will be required prior to reporting to duty.

EEO Statement

The State of Alaska complies with Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Individuals with disabilities, who require accommodation, auxiliary aides or services, or alternative communication formats, please call View phone number on click.appcast.io (toll-free) or 465-4095 in Juneau or View phone number on click.appcast.io (TTY) or correspond with the Division of Personnel & Labor Relations at: P.O. Box 110201, Juneau, AK 99811-0201. The State of Alaska is an equal-opportunity employer.

Workplace Alaska Application Questions & Assistance

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