LOCATION OF (1) POSITIONTO BE FILLED: DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION, NORTHWEST CORRECTIONAL COMPLEX, LAKE COUNTY
Qualifications
Education and Experience: Possession of certification by the Tennessee Department of Education in a specialty area.
Necessary Special Qualifications: Applicants for this class must:
Applicants for this class must be certified by the Tennessee Department of Education to teach in a specialty area.
Examination Method: Education and Experience, 100%, for Preferred Service positions. For Executive Service positions, Minimum Qualifications, Necessary Special Qualifications, and Examination Method are determined by the appointing authority.
Summary
Summary: Under general supervision, is responsible for sub professional vocational instruction work of average difficulty; and performs related work as required.
Distinguishing Features: An employee in this class is responsible for instructing rehabilitation and correctional students in vocational training in order to prepare them to re-enter the job market.
Responsibilities
Training and Teaching Others:
Teaches job adjustment and living skills, and helps clients find places of employment.
Identifies the educational needs of others, develops formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaches or instructs others.
Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards:
Applies relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
Maintains familiarity with information on policies and procedures to comply with laws, regulations, and standards.
Coaching and Developing Others:
Identifies the developmental needs of others and coaches, mentors, or otherwise helps others to improve their knowledge or skills.
Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment:
Services, repairs, adjust, and tests machines, devices, moving parts, and equipment that operates primarily on the basis of mechanical (not electronic) principles.
Controlling Machines and Processes:
Maintains and monitors the safety of clients.
Maintains and operates a variety of equipment in compliance with policy and industry standards.
Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others:
Handles complaints, settles disputes, negotiates with others, and resolves grievances and conflicts in a professional manner.
Getting Information:
Assesses data and clients ability to perform tasks.
Observes, receives, and otherwise obtains information from all relevant sources.
Repairing and Maintaining Electronic Equipment:
Services, repairs, calibrates, regulates, fine-tunes, or tests machines, devices, and equipment that operates primarily on the basis of electrical or electronic (not mechanical) principles.
Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment:
Provides documentation, detailed instructions, drawings, or specifications to tell others about how devices, parts, equipment, or structures are to be fabricated, constructed, assembled, modified, maintained, or used.
Monitoring and Controlling Resources:
Monitors and controls resources and oversees the spending of money.
Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material:
Inspects equipment, structures, or materials to maintain functional use and to identify the cause of errors, other problems, or defects.
Performs preventive maintenance on equipment, structures, and materials.
Performing General Physical Activities:
Performs physical activities that require using and moving the whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, installing and handling of materials with reasonable accommodations as required.
Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment:
Operates, maneuvers, navigates, or drives vehicles or mechanized equipment such as forklifts and passenger vehicles as required.
Documenting/Recording Information:
Prepares a variety of records and reports such as attendance records, progress reports, and discipline reports.
Enters, transcribes, records, stores, or maintains information in written or electronic form.
Performing Administrative Activities:
Performs day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information:
Estimates sizes and quantities, and determines time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
Thinking Creatively:
Develops and creates new methods of instruction, relationship building, systems, or products to address client needs.
Analyzing Data or Information:
Interprets data to determine, develop, and identify individualized plans for clients.
Provides the necessary tools, materials, and activities for evaluation purposes.
Provide Consultation and Advice to Others:
Provides guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems, or process-related topics.
Making Decisions and Solving Problems:
Recognizes and solves problems by developing a plan of action to identify the best resolution.
Developing Objectives and Strategies:
Establishes long and short term objectives and specifies the strategies and actions to achieve them.
Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others:
Translates or explains what information means and how it can be used.
Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge:
Keeps up-to-date on products, techniques, services, and industry standards while applying current knowledge relevant to the job.
Scheduling Work and Activities:
Develops specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish work.
Schedules events, programs, and activities, as well as coordinates work with others.
Interacting With Computers:
Uses computers and computer systems to enter data or process information.
Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events:
Identifies information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities and detects and adapts to changes in circumstances or events.
Communicating with Persons Outside Organization:
Communicates with persons outside the organization representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources; exchanges information in person, in writing, by telephone or by e-mail.
Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships:
Develops constructive and cooperative working relationships with others and maintains them over time.
Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates:
Provides information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
Attends various staff and professional meetings.
Competencies
Competencies:
Problem Solving
Organizing, Planning
Time Management
Action Oriented
Written Communications
Listening
Self-Knowledge
Knowledge:
Administration and Clerical
Building Construction and Design
Communication Techniques
Computers and Electronics
Customer and Personal Service
Education and Training
Mathematics
Mechanical
Production and Processing
Psychology
Skills:
Active Learning and Listening
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
Learning Strategies
Mathematics
Monitoring
Reading Comprehension
Speaking
Writing
Coordination
Instructing
Negotiation and Persuasion
Service Orientation
Social Perceptiveness
Maintenance, Repair and Troubleshooting
Equipment Selection
Monitoring and Controlling Operations
Judgment and Decision Making
Management of Financial and Material Resources
Time Management
Abilities:
Category Flexibility, use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways
Deductive and Inductive Reasoning
Fluency of Ideas
Mathematical Reasoning
Memorization
Oral Comprehension and Expression
Originality
Problem Sensitivity
Selective Attention
Time Sharing
Written Comprehension and Expression
Manual Dexterity
Multilimb Coordination and Flexibility
Rate Control and Reaction Time
Stamina
Far, Near, and Peripheral Vision
Recognition of Speech and Clarity
Tools & Equipment
Computer
Telephone
Multi-Functional Printer
Multi-Media Equipment
Electrical, Power, Hand, and Battery-Operated Tools
General Hardware
Safety Equipment
Adaptive & Low-Vision Equipment (If Applicable)
Culinary Equipment (If Applicable)
Automotive Repair Equipment (If Applicable)
Motor Vehicle (If Applicable)
Additional Trade-Specific Equipment As Needed
Pursuant to the State of Tennessee’s Workplace Discrimination and Harassment policy, the State is firmly committed to the principle of fair and equal employment opportunities for its citizens and strives to protect the rights and opportunities of all people to seek, obtain, and hold employment without being subjected to illegal discrimination and harassment in the workplace. It is the State’s policy to provide an environment free of discrimination and harassment of an individual because of that person’s race, color, national origin, age (40 and over), sex, pregnancy, religion, creed, disability, veteran’s status or any other category protected by state and/or federal civil rights laws.