Description of Work

• Developing, implementing, and maintaining Programs activities for offenders in one or more major and broad programs for offenders at the institution. (The primary programs areas are offender classification; correctional programs including work release, incentive wage, study release, educational/vocational, volunteer programs, religion, and recreation, and correctional counseling.)
• Contacting community agencies regularly to enrich programs, to establish new programs, and to conduct work release investigations, if needed.
• Monitoring the effectiveness of community volunteer workers assigned to programs activities and supervising subordinate staff as needed.
• Coordinating Programs activities with custody and other facility staff.

Granville Correctional Institution houses close custody offenders in both single cells and dormitories. The facility houses offenders assigned to various restrictive housing and control statuses and some pre-trial safe-keepers. The prison's high-security unit houses the state's most violent and assaultive offenders.

The prison offers a wide variety of educational and vocational programs and is home to one of the prison system's four schools for young offenders.

Formerly known as Polk Correction Institution, the facility opened in 1997, replacing the former Polk Youth Institution on Blue Ridge Road in Raleigh, at the current site of the NC Museum of Art.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities / Competencies

• Documented knowledge of internal and/or external services available to offenders.
• Documented 12 months (1 year) of correctional program experience.
• Documented knowledge of case management practices, or supportive counseling techniques and/or interviewing techniques for intake assessments.

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements

Supplemental and Contact Information

• Applicants seeking Veteran's Preference must attach a DD-214 Member-4 Form (Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty) to their applications.
• Applicants seeking National Guard Preference must attach a NGB-23A (RPAS) if they are a current member of the NC National Guard in good standing. If a former member of the NC National Guard who served for at least 6 years and was discharged under honorable conditions, they must attach either a DD-256 or NGB-22.
• If applicants earned college credit hours but did not complete a degree program, they must attach an unofficial transcript to each application to receive credit for this education.
• Per NC General Statute 143B-972.1 (Download PDF reader) (Download PDF reader), applicants hired into a position certified as a criminal justice officer or justice officer are required to electronically submit fingerprints to the NC State Bureau of Investigation for a state and national criminal history record check and enrollment in the FBI’s Next Generation Identification System: Criminal Justice Record of Arrest and Prosecution Background Service (“RAP Back”). This is in addition to submitting fingerprints during the application process.