Residential Re-Entry Accountability Specialist (67533)

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 facilities, 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 using a standard checklist and coordinate with Control Center staff to verify each resident’s authorized location and schedule.
• Maintain accurate monitoring inventory of GPS devices, records of site visits, home confinement, telephone contacts, GPS tracking alerts, and incidents, and ensure proper filing in the Secure-Manage (SM).
• Report any deviations from residents’ authorized community activities to the Program Director/designee and complete disciplinary incident reports accordingly.
• Coordinate and conduct initial meetings with residents and their families to complete orientations to home plans and visit their release addresses.
• Maintain and demonstrate working knowledge of ACA requirements, VOACC policies and procedures, and operational procedures, as well as contractual obligations established by the funding source.
• Participate in the Center Disciplinary Procedures as directed.
• Drive on company business to perform residential and employment site visits and transport clients as required.
• Participate in Program Review Team Meetings weekly and attend staff meetings and other VOACC work-related meetings and functions as directed.
• Provide pre-service and in-service training for staff as directed.
• Prepare weekly, monthly, or other periodic reports as required in the performance of position duties.
• Participate in 44 hours annual training as mandated by the 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.
• Afford assistance in ensuring the facility’s compliance with the American Correctional Association’s standards for accreditation and Prison Rape Elimination Acts (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.
• A 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 is required.
• Experience handling facility and inmate disciplinary procedures, investigation, hearing, and compliance guidelines is required.
• Experience applying standard inmate progressive sanction assessments is required.
• Experience conducting investigations and conducting evidential hearings in a correctional setting, court, or probation hearing is required.
• A working knowledge and understanding of GPS monitoring procedures, activities, and responsibilities of an Accountant Specialist is required.
• The 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 is required.
• The ability to use computers, terminals, cell phones to communicate with residents, understand due process and its significance in GPS and disciplinary processes, read and interpret GPS tracking and navigation systems, and develop effective working relationships with the person served population is required.
• The ability to multitask and function within a non-traditional work environment is required.
• The ability to be self-started and work independently with limited supervision at times is required.
• A high level of compassion and respect for persons with special needs is required.
• Experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, email, and other systems such as electronic time punches, electronic medical records, etc., is preferred.
• Bilingual in any language is a plus.