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Criminal Justice Technician 2 - Operations (PCN 20-5802)

State of Alaska

Corrections

Fresh

Location

Salary

From $26.90

per hour

Closes

May 1, 2026

SES Pay Grade

Base salary range: $147,649 - $221,900

Typical requirements: Executive-level leadership experience. Senior executive qualifications required.

Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).

Job Description

Summary

This job involves handling administrative tasks in a correctional center, such as tracking prisoner time, managing bookings and mail, overseeing commissary purchases, and maintaining staff training records to support the facility's operations.

It's a Monday-through-Friday office role that sometimes enters secure areas, focused on ensuring accurate records and smooth support for correctional officers.

A good fit would be someone detail-oriented with strong computer skills and a trustworthy nature, who enjoys team-based work in public safety without needing shift rotations.

Key Requirements

  • Successful completion of a Criminal Justice Technician 1-2 training plan with the State of Alaska, or equivalent education/experience
  • Knowledge of accounting practices, including accrual, obligations, and cost methods
  • Strong attention to detail and conscientious work habits
  • Proficiency in using computers, software applications, databases, and automated systems
  • High integrity, honesty, and ethical conduct
  • Effective interpersonal skills, including empathy, tact, and handling difficult individuals
  • Clear oral and written communication skills, with sensitivity to diverse backgrounds

Full Job Description

The Department of Corrections, Division of Institutions, is recruiting for a Criminal Justice Technician 2 position for the Ketchikan Correctional Center

The Department of Corrections, Division of Institutions, is recruiting for a Criminal Justice Technician 2 position for the Ketchikan Correctional Center (KCC) in Ketchikan, Alaska.

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What you will be doing:
  • Verify and certify the accuracy of prisoner time accounting, learn and assist with prisoner bookings.
  • Assist with the Electronic Monitoring (EM) program as needed.
  • Process and assist with prisoner mail.
  • Review and approve prisoner commissary.
  • Maintain all facility training schedules and track yearly certifications.
Our mission, values, and culture:

The Division of Institutions mission is to promote public safety. You will be contributing to that by supporting staff with administrative and criminal justice duties. You will be a valuable member of a team who accomplishes all support functions for Correctional Officers and operations staff.


The benefits of joining our team:

You will be part of team, where your contributions are recognized and valued. You will be providing essential support to Correctional Officers charged with protecting public safety.


The working environment you can expect:

This position will, at times, work within the secure areas of the Correctional Center, other times you will work from a shared office area. This is a Monday – Friday position and does not require shift work.



Who we are looking for:

We are interested in candidates who possess some or all of the following position specific competencies:

  • Accounting: Knowledge of traditional accounting practices including accrual, obligations, and cost methods.
  • Attention to Detail: Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.
  • Computer Skills: Uses computers, software applications, databases, and automated systems to accomplish work.


Requirements

Successful completion of training under a formally established Criminal Justice Technician 1-2 flexible staffing training plan with the State of Alaska;
OR
Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in:
  • Integrity/Honesty: Contributes to maintaining the integrity of the organization; displays high standards of ethical conduct and understands the impact of violating these standards on an organization, self, and others; is trustworthy.
  • Computer Skills: Uses computers, software applications, databases, and automated systems to accomplish work.
  • Interpersonal Skills: Shows understanding, friendliness, courtesy, tact, empathy, concern, and politeness to others; develops and maintains effective relationships with others; may include effectively dealing with individuals who are difficult, hostile, or distressed; relates well to people from varied backgrounds and different situations; is sensitive to cultural diversity, race, gender, disabilities, and other individual differences.
  • Oral and Written Communication: Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral and written presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.
  • Problem Solving: Identifies and analyzes problems; weighs relevance and accuracy of information; generates and evaluates alternative solutions; makes recommendations.
  • Reasoning: Identifies rules, principles, or relationships that explain facts, data, or other information; analyzes information and makes correct inferences or draws accurate conclusions.

Equivalent to those typically gained by:
Any combination of education and/or paraprofessional or professional experience or service in criminal justice, juvenile justice, probation, parole, public safety, law enforcement, corrections, court, legal services, law office, social services, social sciences, or public assistance programs or functions.

Qualifications

Applicants are required to either attach to their application or provide at time of interview the following:

REQUIRED DOCUMENTS

If selected for an interview, the applicant must provide the following:

  • Three professional references with current contact information.

SPECIAL NOTICE

  • Valid Driver's License preferred.

PREA NOTIFICATION
The Department of Corrections follows and maintains federal and state requirements standards including, but not limited to, Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) standards which apply to all public and private institutions that house adult or juvenile offenders. PREA standards preclude the department from hiring or promoting anyone who has engaged in, or been convicted of any conduct which would violate PREA standards related to sexual assault including:
  • Sexual abuse in a prison, jail, lockup, community confinement facility, juvenile facility, or other institutions.
  • Convicted of engaging or attempting to engage in sexual activity in the community facilitated by force, overt or implied threats of force, or coercion, or if the victim did not consent or was unable to consent or refuse; or
  • Has been civilly or administratively adjudicated to have engaged in the activity described above.

EDUCATION

If post-secondary education is required to meet the minimum qualifications, you must fill in the Education section of the application.

If you have not obtained a degree, please indicate the number of units completed.

Copies of transcripts are required to verify educational credentials if used to meet the minimum qualifications for a position.

Transcripts can be attached at the time of application or provided at the time of interview.


SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR FOREIGN EDUCATION

Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the minimum qualifications listed above.

If utilizing this education, you must show that the education credentials have been submitted to a private organization that specializes in the interpretation of foreign educational credentials and that such education has been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S.

education programs; or an accredited U.S.

post-secondary institution reports the other institution as one whose transcript is given full value, or full value is given in subject areas applicable to the curricula at the post-secondary institution.

It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.



WORK EXPERIENCE

If using work experience not already documented in your application, also provide the employer name, your job title, dates of employment, and whether full-or part-time.

Applications will be reviewed to determine if the responses are supported and minimum qualifications are clearly met.

If they are not, the applicant may not advance to the interview and selection phase of the recruitment.


CRIMINAL HISTORY CHECKS/APSIN/ACOMS
Please be aware – this position requires the use of the Alaska Public Safety Information Network (APSIN). A security clearance issued by the Department of Public Safety (DPS) is necessary to use APSIN. DPS will deny security clearance for any applicant who has been convicted of a felony or misdemeanor in this state or another jurisdiction, or who may be a fugitive from justice. Additionally, security clearance will be withdrawn if DPS discovers that material information was falsified or omitted at the time of the initial application for security clearance.

FINGERPRINT NOTICE
All Department of Corrections employees are required to be fingerprinted. The successful candidate must pass a criminal history check.

MULTIPLE VACANCIES NOTICE
This recruitment may be used for more than one (1) vacancy. The applicant pool acquired during this recruitment may be used for future vacancies for up to ninety (90) days after this recruitment closes. Interested applicants are encouraged to apply to each recruitment notice to ensure consideration for all vacancies.

EEO STATEMENT

The State of Alaska complies with Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

Individuals with disabilities, who require accommodation, auxiliary aides or services, or alternative communication formats, please call 1-800-587-0430 or 465-4095 in Juneau or (907) 465-3412 (TTY) or correspond with the Division of Personnel & Labor Relations at: P.

O. Box 110201, Juneau, AK 99811-0201. The State of Alaska is an equal-opportunity employer.

WORKPLACE ALASKA APPLICATION QUESTIONS & ASSISTANCEQuestions regarding application submission or system operation errors should be directed to the Workplace Alaska hotline at 1-800-587-0430 (toll free) or (907) 465-4095 if you are located in the Juneau area.

Requests for information may also be emailed to recruitment.services@alaska.gov.

For applicant password assistance please visit: https://www.governmentjobs.com/OnlineApplication/User/ResetPassword

Additional Information

Bertha Williams
Administrative Assistant 2
Phone: 907-228-7376
bertha.williams@alaska.gov

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Posted on NEOGOV: 4/10/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 4/11/2026

Source: NEOGOV | ID: neogov-alaska-5302836