What are the responsibilities and job description for the SHERIFF SUPPORT SPECIALIST position at Kitsap County?
The Warrants Sheriff Support Specialist role is an outstanding opportunity for a detail-driven professional who is eager to make meaningful contributions to the safety, accuracy, and daily operations of the Corrections Division in the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office. This position ensures that critical warrant information is processed with precision and urgency. Your work will directly support law enforcement officers, dispatchers, and court personnel while enhancing the reliability and compliance of essential countywide systems.
In this role, you will play a vital part in maintaining the flow of information that underpins community safety. Your expertise will help ensure that state and federal requirements are met, deadlines are honored, and warrant processes remain consistent and dependable. This position offers not only a chance to build deep technical knowledge, but also the opportunity to grow professionally within a highly collaborative environment that values accuracy, accountability, and continuous learning.
If you are seeking a career path that is both impactful and community driven, this role offers a truly exceptional opportunity to build your future while serving the greater good.
As the Warrants Sheriff Support Specialist, you will:
- Manage the accurate entry and removal of warrants in ACCESS and EIS, ensuring full compliance with state and federal requirements.
- Direct the timely coordination of warrant confirmation and verification efforts by maintaining ongoing communication with Kitsap911 dispatchers.
- Oversee the processing of fugitives from justice and deletion of attempts to locate, ensuring data integrity and operational efficiency.
- Maintain specialized knowledge of EIS functionality and court adjudication processes.
- Ensure the accuracy of warrant validations, meeting all mandatory timelines and compliance standards.
- Support operational continuity by adjusting work hours or performing mandatory overtime when required to meet statutory deadlines.
- Drive collaboration across Support Services teams by assisting other units within the jail as operational needs arise.
- Represent the division by appearing in court to testify when necessary.
What you bring:
Professional Credentials and Experience:
- Three years specialized office, customer service, and clerical support work involving daily operation of a computer and heavy public contact
- Within one year of appointment, the successful candidate must possess Washington State ACCESS Certification
Technical Background:
Strong time-management abilities and self-direction in handling workloads efficiently; critical for meeting high-volume operational demands and strict statutory deadlines
- Ability to collaborate effectively with Support Services Specialists, dispatchers, and federal/state professionals
- Proficiency in specialized systems such as EIS, WACIC, NCIC, and ACCESS, for navigating law enforcement databases and executing precise warrant functions
- Previous clerical experience within a judicial or law enforcement agency
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- This position is classified as eligible for overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
- This position is covered under a collective bargaining agreement with the Sheriff's Support Services Guild. Internal applicants should be aware that a change in union status or bargaining unit may impact your benefits and accruals. Please contact Human Resources if you have questions.
- Employees must wear the office issued uniform for Support Services Guild Members.
- The Sheriff's Office is a critical 24/7 public safety agency which operates in all weather and emergency conditions. The incumbent may be required to respond regardless of external factors. Must be willing and able to work at any shift at any Sheriff's Office location within Kitsap County including within a secure correctional facility.
Application Requirements
All applicants, internal and external, must submit a complete and fully detailed application. Your application must clearly demonstrate how you meet all minimum qualifications for the position by the posted closing date. The County uses the information provided in the application (not the résumé) to verify relevant work experience and to determine placement on the pay scale if you are selected for the position.
To be considered, your application must:
- Be fully completed, including all supplemental questions. Provide specific and detailed information showing that you have performed the duties and gained the experience required for the role. Include the total years of relevant experience, quantified based on full-time equivalency. Applications that are incomplete, lack sufficient detail, or do not clearly demonstrate that the applicant meets all minimum qualifications will be screened out and will not move forward in the hiring process. Meeting the minimum qualifications is required.
- Prior to employment the successful candidate must:
- In accordance with RCW 41.14.100, applicants must be a citizen of the United States, a lawful permanent resident, or a deferred action for childhood arrivals recipient who can speak, read, and write the English language.
- Pass multi-phased testing process including a credit and criminal background check through law enforcement agencies and a lie detection examination.
RECRUITMENT PROCESS:
This position is being posted to create a new hiring register for 2026 openings in the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office. In order to qualify for a position on the hiring register, you are required to successfully pass the following requirements: Review of qualifications; technical phone screen for a skill review; and oral board interviews. An applicant must successfully pass each examination requirement before being able to proceed to the next process. Notification will be sent to all qualified applicants that will include the actual date, time, and location for when they are scheduled to take the tests.
- TECHNICAL PHONE SCREEN: Applicants meeting minimum qualifications of the position will be invited to schedule themselves for a phone screen of technical qualifications. The minimum passing score for this step in the process is 70%. The 12 candidates with the highest passing score will be eligible to continue on in the process. The technical phone screen reflects 60% of the applicant's overall score.
- ORAL BOARD INTERVIEWS: The oral board interview score reflect 40% of the applicants overall score.
- HIRING REGISTER: When an applicant on the hiring register is offered permanent employment it is contingent upon the applicant successfully passing a polygraph examination, psychological, and a complete reference and background investigation, executive board interview, and any other process deemed necessary (which may include medical and psychological) by the Sheriff's Office. Any conviction record may be disqualifying. The term of the hiring register shall normally be for six (6) months and in no event longer than two (2) years.
- Work hours for this position are 8:00am - 4:30pm, Monday - Friday, with occasional mandatory overtime to meet statutory deadlines or operational needs.
- This posting may be used to fill future openings.
- This position receive assignment pay equal to three and one-half percent (3.5%) of the employee’s base hourly pay.
- Only authorized employees and hiring authorities have access to the application materials submitted. Per RCW 42.56.250, all applications for public employment, including the names of applicants, resumes, and other related materials submitted with respect to an applicant are exempt from public inspection.
Salary : $28 - $35