Accountability Specialist FT (Sun-Thurs 4pm-12am) (68118)

About the role

The Accountability Specialist (ACS) reports to the Assistant Director, Resident Services. The role involves coordinating resident approved movement schedules with case managers, monitoring residents on GPS devices, and ensuring compliance with Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and America Corrections Association (ACA) guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Install GPS devices on residents and monitor their movements, including home confinement, job sites, treatment sites, and other authorized community activities.
• Coordinate with case managers to develop and implement resident schedules to ensure compliance with BOP and ACA guidelines.
• Coordinate job-site visits with the Employment Placement Specialist, ensuring schedules are appropriate and reasonable.
• Implement community-based monitoring based on approved monitoring plans and as mandated by ACA, VOACC, and funding source.
• Conduct home detention site visits according to a standard checklist and coordinate with Control Center staff to verify each resident’s authorized location and schedule.
• Monitor and document any deviations from residents’ authorized community activities, report violations, and conduct investigations.
• Complete disciplinary incident reports and report any issues to the Program Director/designee.
• Coordinate initial meetings with residents and their families to complete orientations and visit release addresses.
• Maintain accurate monitoring inventory of GPS devices, records, and documentation, filing weekly in Secure-Manage (SM).
• Participate in Program Review Team Meetings, staff meetings, and other VOACC work-related functions as directed.
• Provide pre-service and in-service training for staff as directed.
• Prepare and submit required reports as needed.
• Attend annual training as mandated by ACA, VOACC, and funding source, and maintain certification in CPR/First Aid.
• Represent the program to the public, community agencies, and funding sources professionally and appropriately.
• Ensure facility compliance with American Correctional Association (ACA) standards for accreditation and Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA).

Qualifications

• A high school/GED certificate is required.
• A bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in criminal justice, psychology, sociology, Human Services, or a related field is preferred.
• Minimum of three (3) years of experience counseling or supervising adult inmates in a correctional setting or one (1) year as a probation filed officer.
• Experience handling facility and inmate disciplinary procedures, investigation, hearing, and compliance guidelines.
• Experience applying standard inmate progressive sanction assessments.
• Experience conducting investigations and conducting evidential hearings in a correctional setting, court, or probation hearing.
• Working knowledge and understanding of GPS monitoring procedures, activities, and responsibilities of an Accountant Specialist.
• Excellent ability to interpret and apply BOP and facility rules as well as grievance processes, understand resident files, and pertinent facts from the case records, and make independent, fair, and impartial applications of judgments under stressful conditions.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills are a must due to extensive collaboration and networking required in the field.
• Bilingual in any language is a plus.