Occ. Code 3923500
SUPERVISOR CORRECTIONAL FACILITY VOLUNTEER TUTORS,
GRADE 14
New York State Department of Civil Service
Classification Standard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF CLASS
Supervisors Correctional Facility Volunteer Tutors are responsible for planning, developing, implementing, and evaluating a correctional facilitys Inmate Program Associate (IPA) Program, where inmates paid assignments involve assisting staff in providing services to other inmates. Incumbents recruit, select, train, supervise, and evaluate the IPAs and participants; provide administrative direction for the Inmate Program Associate Program; and coordinate and review the programmatic activities of the program. Positions in this class are only classified in the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS).
DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS
SUPERVISOR CORRECTIONAL FACILITY VOLUNTEER TUTORS: full performance level; responsible for the operation of the Inmate Program Associate (IPA) Program at an individual facility; recruits, selects, trains, evaluates, and supervises Inmate Program Associates; and assists and supports Offender Rehabilitation Coordinators assigned to Transitional Services by providing assistance in monitoring groups and assessing the progress of inmate participants.
ILLUSTRATIVE DUTIES
Plans, develops, and implements Inmate Program Associate (IPA) Program.
Evaluates and supervises Inmate Program Associates who function as literacy tutors, teacher aides, vocational aides, and substance abuse treatment aides.
Provides assistance to Offender Rehabilitation Coordinators assigned to Transitional Services by monitoring groups and assessing the progress of inmate participants.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Open Competitive: Bachelors degree and one year of full-time secondary level teaching experience; or a bachelors degree and one year of full-time experience conducting a classroom based training program. The experience must have included evaluation of the training program and the recruitment, training, and/or supervision of its participants; or four years of full time experience conducting a classroom based training program. The experience must have included evaluation of the training program and the recruitment, training, and/or supervision of its participants. Substitution: college credit may be substituted for experience at the rate of 30 semester credit hours equaling one year of experience, for a maximum of three years.
Rev: 8/18
NOTE: Classification Standards illustrate the nature, extent and scope of duties and responsibilities of the classes they describe. Standards cannot and do not include all of the work that might be appropriately performed by a class. The minimum qualifications above are those which were required for appointment at the time the Classification Standard was written. Please contact the Division of Staffing Services for current information on minimum qualification requirements for appointment or examination.