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Supervisory Probation Officer
District of Columbia Courts · Posted 1 days ago
About the Role
The Supervisory Probation Officer (SPO), is located in Family Court Social Services Division in DC Superior Court. Incumbent is responsible for managing either a Juvenile Intake Team, or one of the Pre and Post Adjudicated Probation Supervision Team which may be located in the main court campus or in one of the quadrants of the city. The SPO is also responsible for assisting the Assistant Deputy Directors in providing management, leadership and guidance to their assigned office/unit.
What You'll Do
- →Ensures all direct reporting staff are informed of the duties, expectations, directives, new and existing initiatives, structured programming, and achieving the strategic desired outcomes of the division.
- →Collaborates with the Assistant Deputy Directors in developing training priorities for POs, and facilitates trainings on core requirements for juvenile probation supervision for all newly assigned POs, clerical staff, interns, and volunteers designated to the Unit.
- →Accompanies POs to Family Group Conferences to various court hearings (e.g., status, trial, disposition), Multidisciplinary and external meetings, to observe presentations made by the PO.
- →Works a flexible schedule to include one or more evening tours of duty and weekends to provide supervision and assistance with group facilitation, meal preparation, curfew monitoring and other evening activities.
- →Additionally, the SPO identifies staff needs, plans and conducts training programs, and ensures staff members are abreast of cutting-edge theories and practices.
- →Ensures recommendations for lengths of probation supervision are logically sound within the context of the nature of the offense and, objectives established guiding the service supervision plan, including but not limited to: pro-social development, BARJ program attendance and engagement, mentoring, tutoring, behavioral health services, vocational support, community service and/or restitution.
- →Collaborates with Assistant Deputy Directors in analyzing existing and emerging statutory measures to ensure staff is kept abreast of cutting-edge theories, policies, procedures and best practices in the field of juvenile justice.
- →Prepares modifications to policies designated or approved by the Assistant Deputy Directors and ensures implementation by staff.
- →Provides oversight of community supervision, including home and school visits and evening curfew checks as well as community activities.
- →Prepares monthly narratives and statistical reports specific to case activity and outcomes tracked by unit.
- →Compiles and validates data (detailing caseloads, youth and family contacts, and youth compliance with court ordered conditions) captured by staff.
- →Submits valid data and statistical reports monthly to the Directors Office and prepares monthly data trends to inform priority actions and activities for staff.
- →This announcement may be used to make more than one selection.
Requirements
- ✓Maximum Age Requirement: First-time appointees to positions covered under law enforcement officer retirement provisions must not have reached their 37th birthday at the time of appointment.
- ✓Background Check Investigation: As a condition of employment, the selected candidate(s) must complete a fingerprinting background check, a Child Protection Register (CPR) check and will be subject to an updated investigation every two (2) years thereafter.
- ✓Retention in the position will depend upon favorable suitability determination.
- ✓Driver's License and Driving Record: This position involves the operation of Court vehicles and therefore requires the possession of a valid driver's license, maintaining an acceptable driving record, and having no license suspensions within the past 60 months or felony/misdemeanor driving convictions.
- ✓Failure to maintain a valid driver's license and acceptable driving record may impact the incumbents' continued employment with the Court.
- ✓At a minimum, candidates must possess a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in a field of social science (i.e., social work), criminal justice, criminology, psychology, or sociology.
- ✓You must upload a copy of your college transcript or degree for consideration.
- ✓The transcript must show the name of the college or university, your name, degree conferred date, a list of courses with credit hours, major(s), and grade-point average or class ranking.
- ✓Foreign Education: If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must upload a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript at the time of application to receive credit for that education.
- ✓For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/ A probationary period of one (1) year must be successfully completed.
- ✓Fingerprinting Background and Child Protection Registry Check is required All eligible DC Courts Employees (refer to Policies 0210 and 0200)
Benefits
- ★The DC Courts is an independent branch of the District of Columbia Government and is not under the authority of the City Mayor or the D.
- ★DC Courts' appropriation comes directly from Congress.
- ★All DC Courts non-judicial employees receive federal benefits for the following programs: Life Insurance, Retirement Benefits, Health Insurance and Workers Compensation.
- ★Please click on the following for more information about these benefits: http://www.opm.gov/Insure/health/enrollment/new_employees.asp The DC Courts leave policy is as follows: Annual Leave: New full-time employees earn four (4) hours of annual leave biweekly.
- ★After three years of service this increases to six (6)hours biweekly, and at 15 years it increases to eight(8)hours biweekly.
- ★Most military, federal and District of Columbia government service counts toward the time required to go into the next higher annual leave category.
- ★Employees can carry over no more than 240 hours of annual leave into the next leave year.
- ★Sick Leave is used for personal medical needs, care of a family member, or adoption related purposes.
- ★Full-time employees earn four(4)hours of sick leave biweekly.
- ★This leave can be accrued without limit.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 7800db29-d2d8-4cfe-8c6c-85ab4545bcce
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