Description
Salary: $37,154 - $55,718
Position Grade: 203G
Department: City Justice Center
Job Type: Full-Time (Permanent)
Examination Number: EX1668
Location: Downtown - St. Louis, MO
Incumbents in this position are responsible for assigning detainees to appropriate housing units based on security level.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- Reviews and examines databases for detainees’ contact with the criminal justice system.
- Determines detainee security level placement based on established guidelines and assigns detainees to appropriate housing unit.
- Monitors and documents detainees' adjustments to confinements and screens detainees' for needed medical and mental health services, well-being concerns and other needs, and refers as appropriate.
- Screens detainees to determine eligibility for optional services and programs.
- Completes daily transfer sheets and distributes them to appropriate personnel.
- Reviews, interprets, and verifies authenticity of various legal documents relating to the commitment, transfer of custody, and release of detainees.
- Reviews detainees’ file material and extracts data to provide statistical information about inmate population.
- Responsible for maintaining logs pertinent to all accountable mail services and special mail.
- Communicates with other law enforcement entities.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Data Utilization: Requires the ability to perform basic level of data analysis including the ability to review, classify, categorize, prioritize and/or reference data, statutes and/or guidelines and/or group, rank, investigate and diagnose. Requires discretion in determining and referencing such to established standards to recognize interactive effects and relationships.
- Human Interaction: Requires the ability to explain, demonstrate and clarify to others within well-established policies, procedures and standards. Ability to follow specific instructions and respond to simple requests from others.
- Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use: Requires the ability to start, stop, operate and monitor functioning equipment, machinery and tools such as computer terminal, and/or materials used in performing essential functions.
- Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference and descriptive data and information such as detainee records, social service files, custody assessment/reassessment guidelines, computer data printouts, transfer sheets, segregation logs, classification manuals, policy/procedure manuals and regulations.
- Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; calculate percentages and decimals.
- Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of rational systems. Ability to interpret instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic or schedule form. Ability to exercise independent judgment to adopt or modify methods and standards to meet variations in assigned objective.
- Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental and/or subjective criteria, as opposed to criteria that are clearly measurable or verifiable.
- Environmental Factors: Tasks may risk exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such irate individuals, intimidation, violence, disease, or pathogenic substances.
- Physical Requirements: Requires the ability to lift files and papers up to twenty pounds. Requires the ability to stand for long periods of time to observe detainees and sustain prolonged visual concentration.
- Sensory Requirements: Requires the ability to recognize and identify individual characteristics of shapes, sounds and odors associated with job-related objects, materials and tasks to clearly distinguish objects, communicate with staff and detainees and detect irregularities through smell.
Qualifications
An Associate’s degree in Public or Business Administration, Criminal Justice, or a related field, OR two years of administrative support experience. OR an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
Preferences: Previous work experience in a Correctional setting.
Scoring Components and Their Weights
Experience and Training: 100%
May be Subject to:
Background Investigation: Pass/Fail
Medical Examination: Pass/Fail
Documentation of Academic Credentials must be Submitted Upon Request
When completing the Employment History and the Educational/Training History sections of the Employment Application, please be as thorough as possible when describing your education, training and experience relating to this position. Applicants will only receive credit for their experience, training and education as shown on the application. Resumes will not be accepted as a substitute to a fully completed application. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
Veterans Preference Points
To be eligible for veteran's preference points, the applicant must submit a copy of their DD 214 Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty with the Employment Application or upon request. The Director of Personnel may, in their discretion, accept alternate documentation.
City Residence Preference Points
City residents who pass an examination for a position in the classified service and do not receive any other preference will receive a five (5) point preference on a scale of 100 points on the exam. An additional one (1) point shall be added to the passing score of City residents who receive any other preference on a scale of 100 points. City residents must have resided in the City for at least one (1) year at the time of filing their application to be eligible for the preference points.
Accommodations
If assistance with the job application is necessary based on a physical impairment, mental impairment, or otherwise, they should reach out to the Office on the Disabled with contact information. This office will not disclose any information that an applicant or employee has a disability or has discussed possible accommodations without the applicant's or employee's prior consent.
