Assistant Classification Officer - Maine Correctional Center

Location: Windham,Maine,United States

Assistant Classification Officer

Grade: 17   $20.94/hour - $27.88/hour

(This includes $0.60/hour Institutional Stipend and a $2.00/hour Career Incentive)

Code: 5223

041001853

OPEN: May 27, 2025

CLOSE: June 10, 2025

Maine Department of Corrections (MDOC) is destigmatizing corrections for the betterment of all Maine communities. Through the ‘Maine Model of Corrections’, we promote the safety of our staff, clients and residents while reducing barriers to meaningful rehabilitative opportunities. We facilitate restorative justice practices that equip justice-involved residents and clients with the skills they need to become contributing members of society, including treatment, education, and job training. We are committed to rebuilding lives and are searching for great team players, with a professional attitude and well-developed integrity and ethics, to join us in this mission.

Maine Correctional Center is seeking qualified candidates for the positions of Assistant Classification Officer in Windham, ME. This is paraprofessional work involving the resident classification system for a correctional institution. Work is performed under general supervision.

Responsibilities Include:

• Work includes interviewing incoming residents.
• Developing computerized case histories and other special reports.
• Overseeing or taking and recording resident identification data.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: (Entry level knowledges, skills, and/or abilities may be acquired through, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO the following coursework/training and/or experience).

• Two (2) years’ experience in a correctional, detention, law enforcement, medical or institutional setting, or closely related field, which provided a knowledge of computerized management information system operations and requirements as it relates to managing client and/or patient information.

REPRESENTATIVE TASKS: (A position may not be assigned all the duties listed, nor do the listed examples include all the duties that may be assigned).

• Interview incoming residents, takes fingerprints, and gathers identification data in order to obtain required resident information and prepare necessary records.
• Input data into the corrections master records system to be used in the development of case histories for the Classification Committee, Probation and Parole Division, other correctional facilities, and law enforcement agencies in order to determine housing and custody levels and programs and provide required information.
• Compile, calculate, and record "extra good time", "good time", and "lost time" to adjust a resident's release date.
• Analyze and interpret court documents prior to initiating resident files to verify correctness and extract required information.
• Sit as a member of the Classification Committee when requested or in the absence of the Classification Officer.
• Prepare and distribute bi-monthly resident release sheets to all correctional institutions housing residents under the jurisdiction of parent institution.
• Correspond directly with courts, district attorneys, and other judicial entities to determine the status of warrants or detainers and exchange information.
• Compile data on residents for statistical reports.

DESIRED KNOWLEDGES, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES: (These are required to successfully perform the work assigned).

Knowledge Of:

• Computerized record system development, maintenance, and security.
• Advanced interviewing techniques.
• Applicable portions of Maine Criminal Code and Laws.
• The correctional classification system.

Ability To:

• Use and update data in a computerized record system.
• Communicate effectively.
• Write clearly and effectively.
• Interpret legal documents.
• Compile and maintain social and criminal case his