Deputy Sheriff II - Court Security - Extra-

Overview

Position Information
The Sonoma County Sheriff's Office seeks qualified experienced law enforcement officers for Deputy Sheriff II - Court Security positions. Candidates with English/Spanish bilingual skills and out-of-state applicants are encouraged to apply!
STARTING SALARY UP TO $65.46/HOUR*

The Sonoma County Sheriff's Office is recruiting for multiple intermittent, Extra-Help Deputies to provide law enforcement security for the Sonoma County Courts.

Join Our Team
Since 1850, the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office has been providing law enforcement, court security services, and detention services to the people of Sonoma County. The Sheriff s Office is comprised of over 650 employees and approximately 100 volunteers. Servicing a county of over 1,600 square miles and population of over 500,000 people, the Sheriff s Office is responsible for primary law enforcement services of the unincorporated area, the Town of Windsor, and the City of Sonoma.

To learn more about how we serve the community, please visit the Sonoma County Sheriff s Office website.

In order for out of state applicants to qualify for this position, they must obtain a California POST Basic Course Waiver (BCW). Corrections experience is not applicable.

This recruitment is being conducted to fill multiple monolingual (English) or bilingual (English/Spanish) Deputy Sheriff II – Court Security Extra-Help positions in the Sheriff’s Office. Bilingual positions require English and Spanish skills at either the basic (conversational) or fluent (reading, writing, and conversational) level. Applicants who wish to be considered for a bilingual position must indicate their level of skill in the required supplemental questionnaire.

An examination will be conducted prior to employment in a bilingual position to confirm the level of skill in this area. Bilingual premium pay is $1.15/hour for basic and $1.50/hour for fluent skill sets.

Extra-Help Employment
Extra-help employees relieve or augment permanent staff. Intermittent, extra-help employees are not in the classified civil service and do not have property rights to permanently allocated positions. In addition, they do not receive most regular employee benefits such as long-term disability insurance coverage; accrual of vacation; participation in the County retirement program; or eligibility to take promotional examinations. Intermittent, extra-help employees are limited in their employment to a maximum of 1,380 hours within any twelve-month consecutive period.

Extra-help employees who meet the eligibility requirements may qualify for a County contribution toward medical coverage.

Application Submissions require the supplemental questionnaire to be completed.

Education: Graduation from high school or possession of an acceptable General Education Development Certificate.

Experience: One year of recent, full-time paid experience as a law enforcement officer with a city, county, state or federal police agency.

Special

Qualifications:

Possession of the P.O.S.T. basic certificate. Law enforcement experience performing patrol functions is highly desirable.

License: Possession of a valid California driver s license and a good driving record.

Background Requirement: Incumbents shall not have been convicted of a felony in this state or any other state or in any federal jurisdiction, or of any offense in any other state or in any federal jurisdiction, which would have been a felony If committed in this state, nor be under current formal probation supervision.

Citizenship Requirement: Permanent resident aliens who wish to be employed as peace officers must apply for citizenship at least one year before application for such employment. If a permanent resident alien has not obtained citizenship within three years after application for employment or is denied citizenship, he or she shall be disqualified for peace officer status.

Working knowledge: of the laws, ordinances, rules and regulations enforced by the department; modern procedures and methods employed in crime detection and investigation and knowledge of general police practices and techniques; court…