PART-TIME INVESTIGATOR

SUPERIOR COURT OF FULTON COUNTY:
JOB ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE POSITION OF :
PART-TIME INVESTIGATOR
SALARY GRADE 18: $29.51 (Hourly Rate):
Unclassified Position in the Superior Court Administrator's Office:
(Current Vacancy in Accountability Court):
CLOSING DATE: June 18, 2024:

** THIS IS A TEMPORARY PART-TIME NON-BENEFIT ELIGIBLE POSITION **

THIS RECRUITMENT MAY BE USED TO FILL MULTIPLE POSITIONS
INCLUDING PERMANENT AND GRANT-FUNDED POSITIONS :


The Superior Court of Fulton County Georgia (“Court”) has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Investigator within its Accountability Courts Division. The primary functions will include conducting home visits, electronic monitoring of participants, acting as liaison between patrol officers and the Court, serving warrants, and attending court staffing and hearings.

Superior Court is Georgia's busiest trial court of general jurisdiction. The Court seeks to provide a forum in which legal disputes between citizens can be resolved in a fair and efficient process with attention to equal access, impartiality, efficiency, and safety. After joining the Court, you will become part of a fast-paced team dedicated to providing the citizens of Fulton County with the service they deserve.

Performs professional investigative work for the Superior Court Accountability Court to assist in the resolution of cases. Work involves providing support, resources, and security to participants in Superior Court Accountability Court after the prosecution of felony criminal cases.

Qualifications:
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Requires knowledge of Federal, state, and local laws governing area of assignment. Principles and practices of leadership and supervision. Court rules and procedures related to area of assignment. Techniques used to conduct research of legal and administrative issues. General office practices, procedures, equipment, and technology.
Requires skill in Data Utilization: Requires the ability to evaluate, audit, deduce, and/or assess data using established criteria. Includes exercising discretion in determining actual or probable consequences and in referencing such evaluation to identify and select alternatives.
Human Interaction: Requires the ability to work with and apply principles of persuasion and/or influence over others to coordinate programs or activities of a project, and resolve typical problems associated with the responsibilities of the job.
Equipment, Machinery, Tools, and Materials Utilization: Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or control the actions of equipment, machinery, tools, and/or materials used in performing essential functions.
Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference, descriptive, and/or advisory data and information.
Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; ability to calculate decimals and percentages; may include ability to perform mathematical operations with fractions; may include ability to compute discount, interest, and ratios; may include ability to calculate surface areas, volumes, weights, and measures.
Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of influence systems, such as motivation, incentive, and leadership, and to exercise independent judgment to apply facts and principles for developing approaches and techniques to resolve problems.
Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness and creativity in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental, or subjective criteria, as opposed to that which is clearly measurable or verifiable.

Education and Experience:
Bachelors Degree in criminology, criminal justice or related field required, and three or more years of experience in law enforcement or investigative fields; or any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience which provides the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities for this job.

Licensing Requirements::
Must possess and maintain a valid Georgia driver’s license. Must possess and maintain Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Certification.

Physical Requirements:
Physical Ability: Tasks require the ability to exert very moderate physical effort in light work, typically involving some combination of stooping, kneeling, crouching and crawling, and which may involve some lifting, carrying, pushing and/or pulling of objects and materials of moderate weight (12-20 pounds).
Sensory Requirements: Some tasks require the ability to perceive and discriminate colors or shades of colors, sounds, taste, odor, depth, texture, and visual cues or signals. Some tasks require the ability to communicate orally.
Environmental Factors: Performance of essential functions may require exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as dirt, dust, pollen, odors, wetness, humidity, rain, fumes, smoke, temperature and noise extremes, hazardous materials, traffic hazards, bright/dim lights, toxic agents, animal/wildlife attacks, animal/human bites, explosives, firearms, water hazards, violence, disease, pathogenic substances, or rude/irate customers.

Performance Metrics::
Factor 1: Decision-Making
Operational:: In carrying out the process, there is a choice as to what and how operations will be completed.
Factor 2: Complexity
Patterned:: Studies information to determine what it means and how it fits together in order to get practical solutions.
Factor 3: Purpose of Contact
Collect/Exchange Information:: Purpose is to detect, discover, expose information, problems, violations or failures by interviewing or investigating.
Factor 4: Line/Staff Authority
Individual Contributor:: Partially accountable for the work product of others, including timeliness, correctness, and soundness.