Education Registrar

Job Description:

Facility: Guadalupe County Correctional Facility

Compensation Base:

Compensation Bonus (if applicable):

Equal Opportunity Employer.

Summary

Provides counseling services and coordinates student registration procedures in the facility's Education Department.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Counsel's inmates on appropriate academic/vocational programs based upon educational and occupational interests and experience

• Ensures that all Education Bureau and outside agency educational documentation involving registrations processed according to guidelines

• Serves as a liaison between instructors and the facility Classification Department for inmate good time recommendation

• Serves on the Institutional Initial and Reclassification committees

• Coordinates all file transfers

• Coordinates selected program services with the direction of the Education Director

• Assists the Education Director in the overall management of the Education Program

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.

• Excellent oral and written communications skills.

• Knowledge of basic counseling techniques and the ability to listen and communicate effectively with a wide variety of personality types and educational backgrounds.

• Ability to interact in a professional manner with both staff and inmates.

• Knowledge of Adult Basic Education curriculum and teaching methodology.

• Ability to maintain records including testing, daily inmate work, attendance and general record keeping.

• Ability to work individually with inmates students having learning or behavioral problems.

• Ability to discuss progress or need for improvement with inmate students.

• Ability to make suggestions for curriculum improvement.

• Ability to organize orientation and registration of student.

• Ability to counsel students of widely varying levels of interest and achievement.

• Ability to review educational files for special learning indicators and refer to the Special Education Teacher.