Correctional Program Specialist (Training Instructor)

Summary

Corrections professionals who foster a humane and secure environment and ensure public safety by preparing individuals for successful reentry into our communities.

Duties

Delivers a wide variety of courses in correctional procedures, policies, and techniques. The subject matter is complex, constantly changing, and often controversial. Required to develop and teach basic, advanced and specialized programs. These classes are heterogeneous in nature, comprised of employees with widely different bases of experience and drawn from a wide range of specialties including medical services (doctors, dentists, psychiatrists), clerical specialists, correctional officers, secretaries, business office personnel, food service employees, unit management employees, etc. Serves as a subject matter expert to the field locations, which requires a broad range of knowledge and experience related to Bureau of Prisons policy and procedure, as well as demonstration of sound correctional practices.

Qualifications

To be considered for the position, you must meet the following qualification requirements: Education: There is no substitution of education for specialized experience for this position. Experience: You must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the next lower grade level. Specialized experience is directly related experience that included substantial involvement with a correctional program and provided a thorough knowledge of correctional techniques, or experience in meeting and dealing with people that demonstrated the ability to work effectively with inmates and associates in a correctional environment. Experience must have also demonstrated the ability to perform supervisory or administrative duties successfully. This includes: (1) understanding the problems of custody, treatment, training, and release of inmates of penal or correctional institutions, (2) a thorough and comprehensive knowledge of an institution's internal policies, programs, regulations, and procedures, and (3) training subordinates, coordinating and directing activities and functions, evaluating performance of operations and the effectiveness of programs and maintaining high standards or work objectives. This experience must have been gained in an administrative position, or in other positions that included the successful direction, or assistance in the direction of, an entire correctional program or a major phase of such a program. Some examples of this qualifying experience are: Experience in developing and teaching basic, advanced, and specialized programs and creating lesson plans to support the classes presented. Experience in tailoring presentations to the academic and experience level of a specific class. Experience designing test questions, performance demonstrations, and exercises to evaluate the effectiveness of classroom presentations. If applicable, credit will be given for paid and unpaid experience. To receive proper credit, you must show the actual time (such as number of hours worked per week) spent in the activities. **Your eligibility for consideration will be based on your responses to the questions in the application.**