Correctional Officer (Correctional Systems Officer) Position Available In Talladega, Alabama

Tallo's Job Summary: Correctional Officers, also known as Correctional Systems Officers, work within the Department of Justice to maintain a humane and secure environment in federal prison facilities. They ensure public safety by preparing individuals for successful reentry into communities. The salary ranges from $59,613 to $76,384 per year, with a promotion potential of GL 08. The position is located in Talladega, AL, with occasional travel required for training purposes. The role involves a wide range of duties related to correctional security procedures and contact with law enforcement agencies. Internal federal employees and those eligible for priority hiring are encouraged to apply.

Company:
Bureau of Prisons
Salary:
$67998
JobFull-timeOnsite

Job Description

Correctional Officer (Correctional Systems Officer) Department of Justice Justice, Bureau of Prisons/Federal Prison System Summary Corrections professionals who foster a humane and secure environment and ensure public safety by preparing individuals for successful reentry into our communities. Overview Accepting applicions Open & closing des 05/01/2025 to 05/22/2025 Salary $59,613 – $76,384 per year Pay scale & grade GL 08 Locion Talladega, AL 1 vacancy Remote job No Telework eligible No Travel Required Occasional travel – Travel may be required for training and/or work reled issues. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Competitive Promotion potential 08 Job family (Series) Supervisory stus No Security clearance Drug test Yes Announcement number

TDG-2025-0022

Control number 836301100 This job is open to Internal to an agency Current federal employees of the hiring agency th posted the job announcement. Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL) Federal employees whose job, agency or department was elimined and are eligible for priority over other applicants. Clarificion from the agency

  • BOP Employees nionwide
  • DOJ Surplus and Displaced (CTAP) Employees in the local commuting area.
Duty Locion:

FCI Talladega, AL Duties This position is loced in the Correctional Systems Department a Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) correctional facility. The Correctional Systems Department is a multi-faceted operion, consisting of Mail Room, Receiving and Discharge, and Records Office. This position involves a wide range of duties th require knowledge in the following areas: institution mail; postal regulions; the receiving and discharge of inmes; inme bus movement; processing of writs; handling of legal documents to include the interpretion of judgments for filing detainers; Interste Agreement on Detainers (IAD); locor center procedures; temporary and final releases; release paperwork; file archiving; certificion of records; correctional security procedures; and contact with a variety of law enforcement agencies. Additionally, this position requires a general skill level in the areas of sentence compution, sentencing laws, court processes, and compliance with court directives in order to address inme inquiries. Along with all other correctional institution employees, incumbent is charged with responsibility for maintaining security of the institution. The staffs correctional responsibilities precede all others required by this position and are performed on a regular and recurring basis. Requirements Conditions of Employment U.S. Citizenship is Required. See Special Conditions of Employment Section. The Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) provides eligible surplus and displaced competitive service employees in the Department of Justice with selection priority over other candides for competitive service vacancies. If your Department of Justice component has notified you in writing th you are a surplus or displaced employee eligible for CTAP eligibility, you may receive selection priority if: 1) this vacancy is within your CTAP eligibility; 2) you apply under the instructions in this announcement; and 3) you are found well qualified for this vacancy. To be well qualified, you must sisfy all qualificion requirements for the vacant position and score 85 or better on established ranking criteria. You must provide a copy of your written notificion of CTAP eligibility with your applicion. Additional informion about CTAP eligibility is : Qualificions To be considered for the position, you must meet the following qualificion requirements:

Educion:

There is no substitution of educion for specialized experience for this position this grade level.

OR Experience:

You must have least one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the next lower grade level in federal service. This experience must have equipped the applicant with the qualificions necessary to successfully perform the duties of the position. Some examples of this qualifying experience are: Experience directly reled to the various functions of the Mailroom and Receiving and Discharge areas; to include admission and release, physical processing, identificion, coordinion of prisoner transfers, security procedures, bus movement, final releases. Experience in supervising large groups of inmes in preparion for bus or airlift operions. This includes coordining and carrying out various functions (i.e., visual searching, fingerprinting, photographing). Experience in carrying out the proper release of inmes who have completed their federal sentences; to include proper identificion of inmes, review of clearances, fines, all forms of release paperwork, etc. Experience in coordining exchanges of custody with federal and non-federal agencies.

Medical Requirement:

The Department of Justice, Bureau of Prisons has established the following medical requirements for Correctional Officer positions: The duties of these positions involve unusual mental and nervous pressure, and require arduous physical exertion involving prolonged walking and standing, restraining of prisoners in emergencies, and participing in escape hunts. Applicants must be physically capable of performing efficiently the duties of these positions, and be free from such defects or disease as may constitute employment hazards to themselves or others. The duties of a Correctional Officer are arduous; and sound health as well as physical fitness is required. If applicable, credit given for paid and unpaid experience. To receive proper credit, you must show the actual time (such as the number of hours worked per week) spent in activities.

  • Your eligibility for considerion based on your responses to the questions in the applicion.
  • Educion See Qualificions Section for educion requirements, if applicable .

ONLY if educion is a requirement/substitution for specialized experience, applicant MUST upload legible transcripts as verificion of educional requirement. Transcripts MUST be uploaded and electronically linked from USAJOBS the time you apply and MUST include identifying informion to include School Name, Student Name, Degree and De Awarded (if applicable). All academic degrees and coursework must be completed a college or university th has obtained accredition or pre-accredition stus from an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion. For a list of schools th meet this criteria, .

Foreign Educion:

For informion regarding foreign educion requirements, please see Foreign Diploma and Credit Recognition the U.S.

Department of Educion website:

. If you are selected for this position and qualified based on educion (i.e. basic educion requirement and/or substitution of educion), you required to provide an

OFFICIAL

transcript prior to your first day on duty. Additional informion This position IS included in the bargaining unit. In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 3307, a maximum entry age of 36 has been established for initial appointment to a position in a Bureau of Prisons institution. The representive re for this position is $65,203 per annum ($31.24 per hour).

Special Conditions of Employment Section:

Appointment is subject to sisfactory completion of a urinalysis, physical, and background investigion. All applicants are subject to Nional Crime Informion Center (NCIC) and credit checks. All applicants not currently working in an institution required to complete a qualificion inquiry regarding convictions of misdemeanor crimes of domestic violence in order to be authorized to carry a firearm. The Core Value Assessment (CVA) is an in-person assessment th must be facilited a Bureau of Prisons Human Resource Servicing office. On the day of the scheduled interview, a CVA administered. The applicant assessment must be completed within a 70 minute time period and a passing score must be obtained. Further employment considerion will not be extended if the applicant fails to complete the examinion or fails to achieve a passing score.

Note:

The Core Value Assessment will not be administered to current BOP employees. Successful completion of the “Introduction to Correctional Techniques,” three-week training course Glynco, Georgia is required. The addresses listed on the USAJOBS account/resume must be the primary residence the time of applicion. You may be required to provide proof of residence. Additional selections may be made if vacancies occur within the life of the certifice. Although competitive and non-competitive applicions are being accepted, the selecting official may elect to have only one group reviewed. Benefits A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window . Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. How You Will Be Evalued You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above. If your composite score exceeds the average score for this job, your resume and supporting documention compared to your online assessment questionnaire responses and utilized to determine whether you meet the job qualificions listed in this announcement. If you re yourself higher than wh is supported by your applicion merials, your responses may be adjusted and/or you may be excluded from considerion for this job. If you are found to be among the top candides, you referred to the selecting official for employment considerion. There are several parts of the applicion process th affect the overall evaluion of your applicion: Your resume, which is part of your USAJOBS profile; Your responses to the eligibility questions; Your responses to the online assessment questionnaire; Your supporting documention, if required.

Time-in-Grade:

Federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements for considerion. You must meet all qualificion requirements upon the closing de of this announcement. Wh Competencies/Knowledge, Skills and Abilities are Required for this Position? The following Competencies/Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA’s) are required: Ability to communice orally. Ability to communice in writing. Ability to work with da on a computer. Ability to interpret and apply regulions, rules, and laws reled to the incarcerion of inmes. Knowledge of acceptable security practices reled to Mail Room and Receiving and Discharge (R D) operions. Ability to organize and maintain record and filing systems. Ability to supervise inmes, including large groups of inmes. You may for this vacancy. Benefits A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window . Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. Required Documents As a new or existing federal employee, you and your family may have access to a range of benefits. Your benefits depend on the type of position you have – whether you’re a permanent, part-time, temporary or an intermittent employee. You may be eligible for the following benefits, however, check with your agency to make sure you’re eligible under their policies. Resume showing relevant experience (cover letter optional). Experience th would not normally be part of the Federal employee’s position is creditable when documented by sisfactory evidence (e.g., a memorandum from the manager, Human Resource Manager, SF-52, etc.) To receive credit for experience contained in an applicion, the experience must be documented in month/year form (MM/YYYY), reflecting starting de and ending de and include the number of hours worked per week. Failure to follow this form may result in disqualificion. Current or former Federal employees NOT employed by the Bureau of Prisons MUST submit a copy of their SF-50 Form which shows competitive service appointment, tenure group, and salary. If you have promotion potential in your current position, please provide proof. If you are applying for a higher grade, and your experience was gained a Federal agency other than the Bureau of Prisons, you MUST provide the SF-50 Form which verifies the length of time you have been in your highest grade and supports your claim for time in grade. Employees applying with an interchange agreement must provide proof of their permanent appointment. Current federal employees NOT employed by the BOP and former federal employees MUST submit a copy of their lest yearly performance appraisal/evaluion. CTAP, , if applicable. A college transcript which includes the School Name, Student Name, Degree and De Awarded, if applicable. (

Note:

If you are selected for this position, official transcript(s) required prior to your first day.) Failure to provide these documents could possibly result in removal from considerion for this vacancy. If uploading documention, do not identify/save your documents utilizing a special character such as %, #, @, etc. Documention should be identified/saved as VA Letter, DD214, or Transcripts. We cannot be held responsible for incompible software, delays in mail service, applicant applicion errors, etc. If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply You must apply through the online applicion system www.

USAJOBS.gov. Follow the prompts to register, answer a few questions and submit all required documents.

NOTE:

Submission of a resume alone is not a complete applicion. This position may require the completion of additional forms and/or supplemental merials as described under the Required Documents section. Please carefully review the complete job announcement and the “How to Apply” instructions. Failure to provide the required informion and/or merials will result in your applicion not being considered for employment. Required supporting documention must be electronically uploaded or transferred from USAJOBS (uploaded). All required supporting documention MUST be received by the Consolided Staffing Unit by 11:59 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, on the closing de of the vacancy announcement. You MUST include the vacancy announcement number on your supporting documention.

NOTE:

Failure to follow these applicion procedures will result in the applicant losing considerion for this position.

Paper applicions:

If applying online is impossible, please contact the Consolided Staffing Unit the telephone number listed below, prior to the closing de of the announcement for the alterne applicion procedure. Contact for Assistance in

Applying On-Line:

DOJ, Federal Bureau of Prisons Consolided Staffing Unit 346 Marine Forces Drive Grand Prairie, TX 75051

E-Mail:

BOP-HRM-HRSC-ConsolidedStaffingUnit-S@bop.gov

Phone:

972-352-4200 Agency contact informion CSU Phone Address

JUSTICE, BUREAU OF PRISONS

Consolided Staffing Unit 346 Marine Forces Drive Grand Praire, Texas 75051 United Stes Next steps We will notify you of the outcome after each step of the applicion process has been completed. Normally, Selecting Officials will make a selection within 90-days. When deemed necessary, the selection process may be extended up to 180-days from the de the certifice(s), (Exception, Best Qualified Lists) is/are genered to make a selection. Fair and Transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Required Documents Resume showing relevant experience (cover letter optional). Experience th would not normally be part of the Federal employee’s position is creditable when documented by sisfactory evidence (e.g., a memorandum from the manager, Human Resource Manager, SF-52, etc.) To receive credit for experience contained in an applicion, the experience must be documented in month/year form (MM/YYYY), reflecting starting de and ending de and include the number of hours worked per week. Failure to follow this form may result in disqualificion. Current or former Federal employees NOT employed by the Bureau of Prisons MUST submit a copy of their SF-50 Form which shows competitive service appointment, tenure group, and salary. If you have promotion potential in your current position, please provide proof. If you are applying for a higher grade, and your experience was gained a Federal agency other than the Bureau of Prisons, you MUST provide the SF-50 Form which verifies the length of time you have been in your highest grade and supports your claim for time in grade. Employees applying with an interchange agreement must provide proof of their permanent appointment. Current federal employees NOT employed by the BOP and former federal employees MUST submit a copy of their lest yearly performance appraisal/evaluion. CTAP, , if applicable. A college transcript which includes the School Name, Student Name, Degree and De Awarded, if applicable. (

Note:

If you are selected for this position, official transcript(s) required prior to your first day.) Failure to provide these documents could possibly result in removal from considerion for this vacancy. If uploading documention, do not identify/save your documents utilizing a special character such as %, #, @, etc. Documention should be identified/saved as VA Letter, DD214, or Transcripts. We cannot be held responsible for incompible software, delays in mail service, applicant applicion errors, etc. If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply You must apply through the online applicion system www.

USAJOBS.gov. Follow the prompts to register, answer a few questions and submit all required documents.

NOTE:

Submission of a resume alone is not a complete applicion. This position may require the completion of additional forms and/or supplemental merials as described under the Required Documents section. Please carefully review the complete job announcement and the “How to Apply” instructions. Failure to provide the required informion and/or merials will result in your applicion not being considered for employment. Required supporting documention must be electronically uploaded or transferred from USAJOBS (uploaded). All required supporting documention MUST be received by the Consolided Staffing Unit by 11:59 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, on the closing de of the vacancy announcement. You MUST include the vacancy announcement number on your supporting documention.

NOTE:

Failure to follow these applicion procedures will result in the applicant losing considerion for this position.

Paper applicions:

If applying online is impossible, please contact the Consolided Staffing Unit the telephone number listed below, prior to the closing de of the announcement for the alterne applicion procedure. Contact for Assistance in

Applying On-Line:

DOJ, Federal Bureau of Prisons Consolided Staffing Unit 346 Marine Forces Drive Grand Prairie, TX 75051

E-Mail:

BOP-HRM-HRSC-ConsolidedStaffingUnit-S@bop.gov

Phone:

972-352-4200 Agency contact informion CSU Phone Address

JUSTICE, BUREAU OF PRISONS

Consolided Staffing Unit 346 Marine Forces Drive Grand Praire, Texas 75051 United Stes Next steps We will notify you of the outcome after each step of the applicion process has been completed. Normally, Selecting Officials will make a selection within 90-days. When deemed necessary, the selection process may be extended up to 180-days from the de the certifice(s), (Exception, Best Qualified Lists) is/are genered to make a selection. Fair & Transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Overview Accepting applicions Open & closing des 05/01/2025 to 05/22/2025 Salary $59,613 – $76,384 per year Pay scale & grade GL 08 Locion Talladega, AL 1 vacancy Remote job No Telework eligible No Travel Required Occasional travel – Travel may be required for training and/or work reled issues. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Competitive Promotion potential 08 Job family (Series) Supervisory stus No Security clearance Drug test Yes Announcement number

TDG-2025-0022

Control number 836301100 ., .

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