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 facility’s 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.

• Conducts orientation sessions for all prospective Inmate Program Associates.

• Initiates recruitment of inmates eligible to participate in the program through other facility employees and existing IPAs based on the Policies and Procedures established by the Office of Transitional Services.

• Trains IPA candidates following the standardized Inmate Program Associate’s Orientation and Training Manual developed by the Office of Transitional Services.

• Ensures that training is provided according to NYS Department of Labor guidelines.

Evaluates and supervises Inmate Program Associates who function as literacy tutors, teacher aides, vocational aides, and substance abuse treatment aides.

• Provides written reports to facility management and Central Office staff relating to program activities as required.

• Supervises IPAs in the group setting.

• Ensures proper documentation of all IPA completions in the Occupational Educational (OCED) system.

• Maintains records of the number of IPAs required by the facility and additional resources needed for a successful program.

• Interacts with all instructors of IPAs regarding the performance evaluations of current IPAs and meets with IPAs and staff to address any concerns raised during the evaluation process.

Provides assistance to Offender Rehabilitation Coordinators assigned to Transitional Services by monitoring groups and assessing the progress of inmate participants.

• Assists with the scheduling and smooth operation of Phases I and III of Transitional Services and support Transitional Services staff.

• Ensures that attendance records in Transitional Services are accurate and ready to be processed by payroll, correcting discrepancies where noted.

• Monitors progress of individual participants in support of Transitional Services case management duties.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Open Competitive:  Bachelor’s degree and one year of full-time secondary level teaching experience; or a bachelor’s 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.