Probation Officer I - Snowflake IPS

About the role

Probation officers provide casework services to probationers at the direction of the Superior Court under the provisions of evidence-based practices and consistent with the Arizona Code of Judicial Administration.

Responsibilities

• Supervise the caseloads of assigned probationers, meeting with probationers in their homes or at their places of school/work, conducting interviews and social or pre-sentence/pre-disposition investigations, evaluating probationers' progress, performing searches, and making arrests.
• Build relationships to encourage compliance with the case plan including conditions of probation through frequent telephone contacts, work/school site contacts, day, and evening home contacts.
• Direct and/or refers probationers and parents/guardians when supervising juveniles to community resources, treatments or other interventions based on assessments, behaviors and conditions of probation.
• Participate in case review conferences to determine if change in level of supervision is warranted.
• Performs searches, breathalyzers/urinalysis collection, and makes a documented effort to locate absconders.
• Serves warrants, makes arrests, and brings persons before the court who are on probation including defaulting probationers facing revocation.
• Monitors payment of restitution and probation fees and ensures victims' notification rights are provided according to statutory requirements.
• In confrontational situations with probationers or others, appropriately and effectively respond and use defensive tactics and techniques, as learned at the Defensive Tactics Safety Training Academy, when necessary.
• Investigates cases referred to the officer and makes a written report to the court.

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities:

• The ability to operate a variety of equipment necessary to perform job duties such as motor vehicles, computers, telephones, radios, handcuffs, body armor and other equipment depending on case assignments.
• Independent body mobility to stand, walk, bend and sit for prolonged periods of time and/ or drive a vehicle.
• The manual dexterity necessary to reach, grasp, handwrite, and use a computer.
• Vision sufficient to see and read.
• Hearing and speech sufficient to communicate in person and over the phone.
• The ability to withstand varying weather temperatures.
• The ability to lift, drag, push and carry items of various weight.
• Skills in the areas of: Self-control, patience, initiative, courtesy, tact and diplomacy in order to maintain effective relationships with a diverse population.
• Interviewing, motivating, and interpersonal relationships.
• Time management and organization with the ability to apply principles and methods of correctional casework.
• Critical analysis of individuals and situations in order to problem solve and make sound decisions.
• Effective oral and written communication.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge and understanding of:The criminal justice system and community resources.
• Diversion, Standard and Juvenile and/or Adult Intensive Probation and community supervision.
• Social and community corrections casework.
• Principles of adolescent and general human behavior; and evidence-based practices in community corrections.

Benefits

Navajo County offers a comprehensive employee benefits package to regular employees working 40 Hours Per Week That Includes (Regular Part Time employees working 30 – 39 hours a week receive some benefits on a pro-rated basis. Part Time employees working less than 30 hours a week and temporary employees do not receive benefits).

Required Questions

• Do you have the required 4 year College Degree and able to provide proof?
• Have you ever been arrested or charged?
• Do you have any misdemeanor convictions?
• How would you be an asset to probation?
• This job requires a high volume of data entry and court report writing. Do you type at least 40 words per minute?