The salary range indicated in this announcement is based on the Employee/Employer retirement compensation schedule. An employer-only option is available at a reduced salary range. Generally, salaries start at the lowest level of a step 1 and increase with each year of service to the highest level of a step 10.

For more information on benefit and retirement programs, please see the sections below.
In order to receive consideration, applicants must indicate their availability for any work type, travel, and location requirements listed.

Parole & Probation Specialists perform technical duties in administrative functions and units, which do not require peace officer status. Duties include casework services, investigations, tracking and monitoring assigned parolees and probationers, pre-sentence investigations, determination of restitution and supervision fees, and referral services for the assigned unit. Positions in this series obtain and verify information; prepare and process case files and recommend appropriate action; and monitor offender activities. Incumbents are not Peace Officer's Standards and Training (P.O.S.T.) certified and do not perform law enforcement functions such as conducting field inspections of offenders' worksite or residence, conducting surveillance, searches and arrests, or transporting prisoners to court or detention facilities.

Parole & Probation Specialist II's function as a fully trained specialist in the Pre-Release Unit or Interstate Compact Unit, or as a trainee in the Court Services Unit.

This position serves the Reno Office's Warrants and Extradition (WEU) unit. The primary duties include coordinating the scheduling of extraditions of offenders both in and out of state and the associated paperwork needed by Headquarters, the Courts, and the Parole Board. The position will gather pertinent reports and documentation and coordinate with the WEU Unit in Headquarters to update files and calculate credit for time served and set up those files for court. This position maintains the Reno WEU cabinet and associated file set ups for absconded offenders. The position has required in person service of arrested offenders (parolees) at the Washoe County Jail, as well as attending District Court for Probation Violation Hearings for returned offenders. The position is responsible for the assignment of pre-parole investigations within the Reno Office, serves as the point of contact for files being returned from Headquarters and assigning ?goldenrod? parole paperwork for new file set ups. This position monitors a caseload of incarcerated offenders expected to be deported, as well as those offenders serving extended 90 & 120 day temporary revocations.

In order to be qualified, you must meet the following requirements: