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Job Description
Job Description 911 Dispatcher Job Description

Exempt:
No
Department:
911 Dispatch
Reports To
911 Director
Location:
411 W Monroe, Jonesboro

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF POSITION This safety sensitive (SS) position is responsible for receiving emergency and administrative calls from the public and dispatching the appropriate emergency personnel.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Receives, monitors, and dispatches radio communications traffic for Police, EMS, Sheriff, and Fire, including all 911 calls.
• Receives and screens incoming telephone calls from the public and other Public safety agencies, categorizes and prioritizes calls during emergency.
• Dispatches the appropriate emergency personnel to incident locations, provides emergency medical instructions to callers prior to the arrival of emergency personnel as appropriate.
• Maintains a continuous log of incoming telephone and radio calls, logs incoming calls for participating agencies.
• Monitors and routes incoming messages from national and state computer networks.
• Checks, confirms, ads, and deletes in-house warrants.
• Participates in training exercises to include in-house training, GPS tracking, AWIN, CAD updates, ACIC recertification, etc.
• Completes work site cleanup.
• Updates contact list.
• Perform any other related duties as required or assigned.
• Perform any other related duties as required or assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty mentioned satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE Mental alertness and adaptability to office and field area work routines. Equivalent to four years high school or GED, with particular emphasis during high school in office skills, shop skills, or others, plus 7 to 11 months related experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

COMMUNICATION SKILLS Ability to read, analyze, and understand general business/company related articles and professional journals; Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide numbers. Ability to perform these mathematical skills using money and other forms of measurement.

CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS Ability to utilize common sense understanding in order to carry out written, oral or diagrammed instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving several known variables in situations of a routine nature.

REQUIRED CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

Ability to be ACIC & NCIC certified.

PREFERRED CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

Not indicated.

SOFTWARE SKILLS REQUIRED

Not indicated.

INITIATIVE AND INGENUITY SUPERVISION RECEIVED Under immediate supervision, performs general assignments of work, with periodic check of performance by supervisor.

PLANNING Limited responsibility with regard to specific assignments in planning time, method, manner, and/or sequence of performance of own work operations.

DECISION MAKING Performs work operations which permit infrequent opportunity for decision-making of minor importance and which would only affect the operating efficiency of the individual involved to a slight degree.

MENTAL DEMAND Close mental demand. Operations requiring close and continuous attention for control of operations. Operations requiring intermittent direct thinking to determine or select the most applicable way of handling situations regarding the organization's administration and operations; also to determine or select material and equipment where highly variable sequences are involved.

ANALYTICAL ABILITY / PROBLEM SOLVING Moderately repetitive. Activities with slight variation using a definite set of processes or directions with some degree of supervision. Choice of learned things in situations which conform to clearly established patterns and modes.

RESPONSIBILITY FOR WORK OF OTHERS

Responsibility for work of others: Not indicated.

RESPONSIBILITY FOR FUNDS, PROPERTY and EQUIPMENT
No responsibility for this factor.

ACCURACY Probable errors would not likely be detected until they reached another department, office or patron, and would then require considerable time and effort to correct the situation. Frequently, possibility of error that would affect the organization's prestige and relationship with the public to a limited extent, but where succeeding operations or supervision would normally preclude the possibility of a serious situation arising as a result of the error or decision.

ACCOUNTABILITY FREEDOM TO ACT

Standardized. Accepted processes covered by well-defined standardized policies and procedures with supervisory review.

ANNUAL MONETARY IMPACT The amount of annual dollars generated based on the job's essential duties / responsibilities. Examples would include direct dollar generation, departmental budget, proper handling of organization funds, expense control, and savings from new techniques or reduction in manpower.

None. Job does not create any dollar monetary impact for the organization.

IMPACT ON END RESULTS Modest impact. Job has some impact on the organizations end results, but still from an indirect level. Provides assistance and support services t