About This Role
This role involves conducting investigations, interviewing clients and witnesses, preparing legal documents, and collecting evidence in various institutional and field settings. The investigator will interact with numerous government offices and external departments, maintaining strict client confidentiality.
Responsibilities
- Interview and consult with clients and staff at correctional facilities, medical centers, and other institutions
- Prepare and serve subpoenas and other legal papers
- Operate office equipment, including computers, photocopiers, scanners, and facsimiles
- Interact with internal government offices and external government departments such as police departments, prisons, and the District Attorney
- Interview potential witnesses, prepare reports concerning those interviews, and prepare to testify in court
- Conduct field investigations and prepare reports
- Photograph and videotape crime scenes and other areas, collecting evidence, and audio tape witnesses as needed
- Search and collect public and institutional records and locate witnesses
- Investigate and follow-up leads on cases regardless of location or time of day
- Coordinate court appearances of incarcerated clients with the Sheriff
- Maintain strict confidentiality of clients
- Perform other job-related duties as required
- Schedule psychiatric examinations for clients as needed
- Perform duties of support staff in their absence
- Attend meetings, training, or in-service as required
- Transport important and confidential documents to various locations
- Schedule foreign language interpreters for preliminary hearings and other court dates
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in criminal justice or a related field, OR Paralegal certification and investigative experience, OR any equivalent combination of acceptable training and experience
- Two to three (2-3) years of working experience involving investigation work and additional technical training in the criminal justice system and/or related field
- Experience in the criminal justice system or a related field preferred
- Valid Pennsylvania driver’s license
- Willingness to travel as needed
Important Details
- Schedule: 8 AM to 4 PM Monday through Friday (actual work hours established by department to include unpaid lunch)
- Budgeted Hours: 7.5 hours per day / 37.5 hours per week
About the Company
Centre County Government is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
