DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION VOCATIONAL INSTRUCTOR - 03272024-56742

Job Information

Opening Date/Time03/27/2024 12:00AM Central TimeClosing Date/Time04/09/2024 11:59PM Central TimeSalary (Monthly)$4,627.00 - $8,231.00Salary (Annually)$55,524.00 - $98,772.00Job TypeFull-TimeCity, State LocationHenning, TNDepartmentCorrectionState of Tennessee Job Information

LOCATION OF (1) POSITION TO BE FILLED: DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION, WEST TENNESSEE STATE PENITENTIARY, LAUDERDALE COUNTY

Drug screen is required prior to employment.

This position requires a criminal background check. Therefore, you may be required to provide information about your criminal history in order to be considered for this position.

Qualifications

1. Applicants for this class must be certified by the Tennessee Department of Education to teach in a specialty area.

Summary

Responsibilities

Training and Teaching Others:

1. Teaches job adjustment and living skills, and helps clients find places of employment.
2. Identifies the educational needs of others, develops formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaches or instructs others.

1. Applies relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
2. Maintains familiarity with information on policies and procedures to comply with laws, regulations, and standards.

1. Identifies the developmental needs of others and coaches, mentors, or otherwise helps others to improve their knowledge or skills.

1. Services, repairs, adjust, and tests machines, devices, moving parts, and equipment that operates primarily on the basis of mechanical (not electronic) principles.

1. Maintains and monitors the safety of clients.
2. Maintains and operates a variety of equipment in compliance with policy and industry standards.

1. Handles complaints, settles disputes, negotiates with others, and resolves grievances and conflicts in a professional manner.

1. Assesses data and clients' ability to perform tasks.
2. Observes, receives, and otherwise obtains information from all relevant sources.

1. 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.

1. 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.

1. Monitors and controls resources and oversees the spending of money.

1. Inspects equipment, structures, or materials to maintain functional use and to identify the cause of errors, other problems, or defects.
2. Performs preventive maintenance on equipment, structures, and materials.

1. 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.

1. Operates, maneuvers, navigates, or drives vehicles or mechanized equipment such as forklifts and passenger vehicles as required.

1. Prepares a variety of records and reports such as attendance records, progress reports, and discipline reports.
2. Enters, transcribes, records, stores, or maintains information in written or electronic form.

1. Performs day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork.

1. Estimates sizes and quantities, and determines time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.

1. Develops and creates new methods of instruction, relationship building, systems, or products to address client needs.

1. Interprets data to determine, develop, and identify individualized plans for clients.
2. Provides the necessary tools, materials, and activities for evaluation purposes.

1. Provides guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems, or process-related topics.

1. Recognizes and solves problems by developing a plan of action to identify the best resolution.

1. Establishes long and short term objectives and specifies the strategies and actions to achieve them.

1. Translates or explains what information means and how it can be used.

1. Keeps up-to-date on products, techniques, services, and industry standards while applying current knowledge relevant to the job.

1. Develops specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish work.
2. Schedules events, programs, and activities, as well as coordinates work with others.

1. Uses computers and computer systems to enter data or process information.

1. Identifies information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities and detects and adapts to changes in circumstances or events.

1. 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.

1. Develops constructive and cooperative working relationships with others and maintains them over time.

1. Provides information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
2. Attends various staff and professional meetings.

Competencies

1. Administration and Clerical
2. Building Construction and Design
3. Communication Techniques
4. Computers and Electronics
5. Customer and Personal Service
6. Education and Training
7. Mathematics
8. Mechanical
9. Production and Processing
10. Psychology

1. Active Learning and Listening
2. Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
3. Learning Strategies
4. Mathematics
5. Monitoring
6. Reading Comprehension
7. Speaking
8. Writing
9. Coordination
10. Instructing
11. Negotiation and Persuasion
12. Service Orientation
13. Social Perceptiveness
14. Maintenance, Repair and Troubleshooting
15. Equipment Selection
16. Monitoring and Controlling Operations
17. Judgment and Decision Making
18. Management of Financial and Material Resources
19. Time Management

1. Category Flexibility - Use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways
2. Deductive and Inductive Reasoning
3. Fluency of Ideas
4. Mathematical Reasoning
5. Memorization
6. Oral Comprehension and Expression
7. Originality
8. Problem Sensitivity
9. Selective Attention
10. Time Sharing
11. Written Comprehension and Expression
12. Manual Dexterity
13. Multilimb Coordination and Flexibility
14. Rate Control and Reaction Time
15. Stamina
16. Far, Near, and Peripheral Vision
17. Recognition of Speech and Clarity

Tools & Equipment

1. Computer
2. Telephone
3. Multi-Functional Printer
4. Multi-Media Equipment
5. Electrical, Power, Hand, and Battery-Operated Tools
6. General Hardware
7. Safety Equipment
8. Adaptive & Low-Vision Equipment (If Applicable)
9. Culinary Equipment (If Applicable)
10. Automotive Repair Equipment (If Applicable)
11. Motor Vehicle (If Applicable)
12. Additional Trade-Specific Equipment As Needed