Sergeant- Nights

This is a Full-Time 40 Hour Weekly position with the Department of Corrections New Rapid City Women's Prison Facility . Join the DOC - view DOC Recruitment video here:
Maintains daily contact with offenders, to assist them with their day-to-day living in a correctional facility and to organize their activities while providing motivation and guidance; Department of Correction’s Inmate Living Guide, classification system and unit plan;
Department of Correction’s policies and the institution’s operations and procedures;
communicate and document logically, accurately, and concisely all pertinent information and decisions;
apply department policies and institution operations and procedures for the assigned housing unit;
Organizes the schedules, coordinates the activities, and manages events for an assigned housing unit to ensure smooth operation.
Assists offenders with individual and family problems, scheduling and institutional adjustment to help them to understand and change their behavior.
Coordinates and manages unit offender programs to ensure compliance with department policies and institutional operations.
Provides work direction to Correctional Officers on the unit and performs security operations to ensure staff and offender safety and unit security.
Conducts unit orientation and offender interviews and completes documentation used to determine cell/room assignment, and the priority for scheduling follow-on meetings with offenders.
Serves as a member of the unit Job Boards providing input on classifications, housing and program assignments, work assignments, and program goals to ensure offender needs are met.
Represents offenders convicted of rule infractions at disciplinary hearings to provide for the security of the unit, the safety of the staff and offenders, and the rehabilitation of the offenders.
Performs the delegated Corrections Unit Manager duties in their absence.
Two (2) years of experience working directly with a *hard to serve high needs client population in a correctional or human services environment.
Hard to serve needs clients include individuals with multiple barriers to employment, lack of educational or occupational skills attainment, low-income workers earning wages below self-sufficiency, low levels of literacy or English proficiency, disability status, basic skills deficient, homelessness, ex-offenders and justice involved, and public assistance dependency.
Two (2) years of **corrections experience where knowledge of offender classification, offender disciplinary system, grievance process, housing assignments and offender programs was obtained and Role Modeling Pro-Social Behaviors while maintaining Positive Professional Communications by providing offender population with Crisis Intervention was demonstrated.
~ Corrections-related experience is defined as experience in which the employee provided a direct service to/with clients detained against their will such as custody/control, teaching, social work, nursing, food service, and general maintenance; or supervised offenders in the implementation of a program such as correctional industries. This experience is not typically earned in clerical support programs.

Entry level officers and clerical support experience does not have the authority outlined in the minimum qualifications to perform components of offender management as it relates to classification hearings, Multi-disciplinary staffing, vetting responses to offender grievances etc. Therefore, experience as an entry level officer and clerical support does not meet the definition of offender management as outlined in the minimum qualifications.
~ A combination of education(Criminal Justice, Social Work, Sociology, Psychology, or similarly related field)and experience as defined above equal to two (2) years.
successfully pass all modules of the South Dakota Department of Corrections Basic Training, to include English reading comprehension, relevant competency assessments and written/practical exams in Defensive Tactics and firearms/armed transport curriculum;
will be exposed to Oleoresin Capsicum during Basic Training and will be exposed while on assignment;
must be able to work 12 hour rotating shifts to include holidays and weekends;
work in an environment with fluctuating noise and temperature (hot and cold) which may include working outdoors in inclement weather and/or concrete floor/wall work settings;
willing and able to travel;
willing and able to work various shifts: days, afternoons, and graveyards (nights) which includes a rotating shift schedule;
This position is eligible for Veterans’ Preference per ARSD 55:10:02:08.
NCRC: If you possess a National Career Readiness Certificate, please submit the certificate with your application. For more information on how to acquire a National Career Readiness Certificate contact a South Dakota Department of Labor and Regulation Job Service Office. The State of South Dakota does not sponsor work visas for new or existing employees. The State of South Dakota offers $0 premium employee health insurance option plus eleven paid holidays, generous vacation and sick leave accrual, dental, vision, and other insurance options, and retirement benefits. This position is a member of Class B retirement under SDRS.
Must apply online:
You must apply online, emailed resumes or submissions will not be accepted.
South Dakota Bureau of Human Resources
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