Sheriff's Public Safety Dispatcher II

Overview

THE EL DORADO COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE – The El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office is dedicated to providing exceptional public service in alignment with the Sheriff’s Office Mission and Vision, taking a modern approach to the traditional services of law enforcement, fostering leadership and employee development, and remaining faithful and responsive to the communities we serve.

Sheriff's Public Safety Dispatchers have the opportunity to serve their communities in a unique way; following the Sheriff’s Vision of Total Care and connecting services to citizens in their time of need. Public Safety Dispatchers are assigned to the Public Safety Facility in Placerville, CA and have the opportunity to serve as Communication Training Officers and Tactical Dispatchers.

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• Receive, analyze and evaluate 911, emergency and business calls, and other public utility service calls; transfers calls to appropriate parties or creates a law enforcement call for service.
• Operate multi-channel radio systems, monitor other communication channels, while maintaining radio traffic on main channels.
• Respond to law enforcement-initiated radio traffic and relay information to law enforcement units.
• Operate computer equipment to access local, state and federal criminal justice information systems; operate communication systems to transmit and receive information with allied law enforcement agencies.

For a full description of duties and responsibilities, please review the job description.

Sheriff’s Personnel Unit will assess your application to determine if you are minimally qualified. Any combination of the required experience, education, and training that would provide the essential knowledge, skills, and abilities is qualifying.

Sheriff's Public Safety Dispatcher II: Experience – Equivalent to graduation from high school; AND One (1) year of emergency dispatching experience at a level equivalent to the County’s class of Sheriff’s Public Safety Dispatcher I.

Licenses and Certifications – A Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Professional Public Safety Dispatcher Basic Certificate is desirable.

Apply online by clicking the Apply link at the top of this announcement. When your online application and responses to the required supplemental questions are complete, click Accept.

If you have any questions regarding this recruitment, please contact Miah Linson in the Sheriff’s Personnel Unit at linsonr.

The Sheriff’s Personnel Unit will screen all applications to identify qualified candidates. Those applicants who meet the minimum requirements for this position will be required to complete a pre-investigative questionnaire. Based on the information provided, applicants may be disqualified based on criteria set forth in Part 7, Section 706.1 of the County of El Dorado Personnel Rules and in conjunction with Sheriff’s Selection Policy 1000.

After screening, qualified candidates will be referred to the next step and notified of all further procedures applicable to their status in the recruitment process.

Please refer to Sheriff’s Policy 1000 – Selection Standards for more information regarding disqualifying events in an applicant's background.

A training and experience review consists of candidates responding to supplemental questions on the job application. A subject matter expert will evaluate each candidate's responses based on predetermined criteria. The subject matter experts are not granted access to the candidate's application; therefore, responses to the supplemental questions should be thorough, detailed, and complete. All candidates will be notified of any changes in the selection procedures.

The El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office is recruiting applicants for Sheriff’s Public Safety Dispatcher I/II. This recruitment will establish a list for the purpose of filling current and future full time and extra help vacancies.

We currently have the following vacancies:
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