Department Information
Please note: This recruitment may be used to fill multiple vacancies.
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About the Division of Youth Services:
The Division of Youth Services (DYS) provides a continuum of residential and non-residential services that encompass juvenile detention, commitment and parole. DYS is the agency statutorily mandated to provide for the care and supervision of youth committed by the District Court to the custody of the Colorado Department of Human Services. The Division operates 15 secure facilities that serve youth between the ages of 10 and 21, who are pre-adjudicated, sentenced, or committed. The Division also contracts with numerous private residential and non-residential service providers throughout the State. For pre-adjudicated youth, the Division is also responsible for the management and oversight of Senate Bill 91-94; a State-funded, locally administered program that provides services to youth at risk of further progressing into the juvenile justice system. In addition to residential programming, the Division administers juvenile parole services throughout the State.
Description of Job
Overall Function of the Work Unit
This work unit exists to provide academic, vocational, and other education-related services to youth in institutional facilities, to provide professional consultation to community programs which serve DYC youth, and to establish and maintain collaboration with other state and community agencies that provide or monitor education services.
The purpose of this position is to provide testing support to the school assessment center in a secure treatment facility and perform some data entry duties required for educational program monitoring. These include test results, assessment reports, classroom grades, and may include student credits and transcripts. This will include inputting data into the state tracking system.
Job Duties:
Test Proctoring, Scheduling and Results Monitoring. Maintains a secure test environment and proctor MAP test, state mandated tests, and GED tests for identified students. Create and maintain a testing schedule that is communicated to all parties. Track and monitor tests, testing information, results in a digital format and update as needed. Downloads reports from tests and various databases to include in assessment reports for MDT and IEP meetings, student pre-test results from GED, writing samples, and grades and as requested by school principal.
Educational Assessment and Data Entry. Enters testing data into spreadsheets, forms, and tools to be used by multiple stakeholders in a timely manner. Works with teachers and staff to create a safe testing environment, assists with giving tests orally as needed, follow up on next educational data collection required. Updates and sends monthly data sheets and MTSS information to principal and DYS Education Director via email attachments. Monitors attendance and grades to report to principal and DYS education director monthly or as asked. Maintaining organized spreadsheets and documentation.
Classroom Support and other duties as described. Works with State Teacher I’s and the Principal to determine what classrooms need additional support based on specific lesson plans and student needs. Sits with students to help with guided work or computer-based work.
Assists the special education coordinator with scheduling IEP meetings and sending out meeting notification. Assists with planning information for MDT’s and monitoring MDT calendar. Informing the principal of testing commitments.
Other Duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications, Substitutions, Conditions of Employment & Appeal Rights
Applicants must meet minimum qualifications listed below to continue in the selection process for this position. Work experience must be specifically documented on your application.
Do not use "see resume" or "see attached" statements on your application.
Education/Licensure/Certification/Experience:
- Associate’s degree from an accredited institution in a field of study related to the work assignment
Substitutions:
- Two (2) years of study at an accredited institution (equivalent to 48 semester hours) will substitute for the degree requirement.
- Demonstrated knowledge of and ability to assist in instructing reading, writing, and mathematics through a formal state or local academic assessment (e.g., ACT WorkKeys) will substitute for the degree requirement, but a high school diploma or General Education Diploma (GED) is required if using this substitution.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working with youth
- Evidence of customer service and communication skills
- Education and/or work history
Conditions of Employment
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Full Background. CDHS employees (all Direct contact with vulnerable persons):
CBI name check and fingerprint check, ICON Colorado court database, Medicare fraud database, Reference Checks, Professional License verification (licensure requirements), Drug Screen, PREA (Division of Youth Services), Trails check (direct contact with children), CAPS (direct contact with adults – Mental Health Institutes, Regional Centers, Veterans Community Living Centers). - Must possess a valid, unrestricted U.S. Driver's License.
- Travel – travel to education trainings may be required
- Continued employment is contingent upon successful completion of the DYS Pre-service Training Academy, Field Training Program (FTO) and mandatory annual training in all subject areas.
- Must be 21 years old or older.
- Former State employees who were disciplinarily terminated or resigned in lieu of termination must (1) disclose that information on the application (2) provide an explanation why the prior termination or resignation should not disqualify the applicant from the current position, (3) provide the employee number from the applicant’s prior State employment. Absent extraordinary circumstances, prior disciplinary termination or resignation in lieu of termination and failure to provide this information will disqualify the applicant from future State employment with CDHS.
- The Diana Screen®, a sexual risk screening tool, is administered to all applicants to the Division of Youth Services (DYS) seeking positions of trust with children and teens to help ensure that ethical boundaries between children and adults are maintained. At the DYS, the safety and protection of the youth who have been entrusted to us is our #1 priority.
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Our Values:
We believe in a people-first approach: To serve the people of Colorado, we develop a culture and work environment that creates an energized, inspired, and healthy team capable of giving their best to Coloradans.
Balance creates quality of life: We want our team to be resilient through a supportive workplace that values flexibility, health and wellness, and employee engagement.
We hold ourselves accountable: We take responsibility through our actions, programs, and results for the state of health and human services in Colorado.
Transparency matters: We are open and honest with employees, our partners, the Coloradans we serve, and the public.
We are ethical: We abide by what is best for those we serve by doing what is right, not what is easy.
Collaboration helps us rise together: We work together with all partners, employees, and clients to achieve the best outcomes for Coloradans.
We are committed to increasing the diversity of our staff and providing culturally responsive programs and services. Therefore, we encourage responses from people of diverse backgrounds and abilities.
ADAA Accommodations: CDHS is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, our agency will assist individuals who have a disability with any reasonable accommodation requests related to employment, including completing the application process, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, participating in the employee selection process, and/or to perform essential job functions where the requested accommodation does not impose an undue hardship. If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodation to ensure you have a positive experience applying or interviewing for this position, please direct your inquiries to our ADAAA Coordinator, Nancy Schmelzer, at [email protected] or call 1-800-929-0791.
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