MALINDA ANDERSEN

· Assists in the development, implementation, and modification of policies, procedures, and programs.

· Participates in the organization and management of the office to insure timely and accurate completion of all work.

· Directly supervises, mentors and supports Supervisory U.S. Probation Officers and U.S. Probation Officers who oversee supervision and investigation services.

· Assists in the selection of officers and support personnel for appointments and promotion.

· Assists in the orientation of new employees.

· Assists in the development and implementation of performance appraisal systems

· Assists in identifying and correcting performance or conduct problems and makes recommendations on personnel matters.

· Assists in investigating and resolving employee grievances.

· Develops strategies for enhancing employee performance.

· Assists in establishing and maintaining cooperative relationships within the office and stakeholders.

· Assists in communicating mission, policy, procedures, and programs.

· Assists in maintaining liaison with judicial officers.

· Assists in planning of personnel, space, and budget.

· Assists with identifying and planning training.

• Manage, develop and mentor officers under my supervision
• Experience with supervision of officers in headquarters and for a period of time I was responsible for the day-to-day operation of a branch office
• Incorporate evidence based practices such as STARR, into a comprehensive organizational effort to improve offender management, pre-release investigations, and re-entry policies and practices
• Participates with the Chief Probation Officer and other administrative staff in development of programs and policies to increase the effectiveness of the office
• Recommends changes to enhance the overall capability, productivity, and quality of staff and organization
• Keeps staff informed of the policies and procedures of the organization
• Performs quality control by monitoring, conducting internal audits
• Answers procedural questions for judges, staff, and the public
• Facilitate, mediate and negotiate complex and sensitive matters with the judges and staff
• Organize work processes to optimize the use of time and resources, ensuring results meet expectations
• Utilize DSS reports to monitor district workload, assign cases, distribution of workload and management of cases
• Supervise a team who supervises Reentry Court, RRC, WITSEC, sex offenders, gender specific and financial cases
• Assist in identifying district training needs and monitor the district’s training program
• Review and edit written work (including case plans, correspondence, and reports that are submitted to the court), ensuring that recommendations made by supervisors or officers to the court adhere to local and national policy, federal statutes and guidelines
• Develop short-term and long-range workforce plans
• Ensure adequate coverage for office activities and court appearances
• Conduct audits and reviews of case work
• Establish schedules and deadlines for completion of work
• Communicate clearly and effectively, both orally and in writing
• Explain complex information, concepts, rules, and regulations to individuals and groups with varying experience and backgrounds, including counsel, law enforcement, collateral agency personnel at different government levels, community service providers, and offenders/defendants.

• Supervise a caseload of high risk, high needs offenders who participate in the Portland Reentry Court
• Supervise a caseload of prerelease offenders at the residential reentry center (RRC) in Portland and Eugene who are still in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP)
• Facilitate safe and successful reintegration of offenders into the community, through early assessment and planning
• Conduct intakes on prerelease offender who are 30 days out from starting supervision and front load services and assessments
• Liaison to the RRC and the BOP Community Corrections Office and oversees offender reentry programs
• Frequented FCI and Camp Sheridan and presented information to the inmates at the Resource Fairs and the Ex-Offender Panels about what to expect about supervision upon release
• On occasion, I would travel with the judges from Reentry Court and present program information to a group of inmates.

• Supervised a caseload of low/moderate, moderate and high-risk clients, including gender specific, gang members, Native American reservation cases and financial clients
• Liaison with the multi-disciplinary team gang task force
• Address non-compliance swiftly with appropriate sanctions through STARR skills, by modifying conditions or returning the person on supervision to Court
• Enforce court-ordered supervision conditions, provide guidance and refer the person on supervision to resources (vocational services, educational services, life skills, transitional housing, tattoo removal, clothing, furniture needs) and treatment (substance abuse, mental health, domestic violence, cognitive based therapy) to help them be successful on supervision
• Facilitate long-term, positive changes in persons on supervision through proactive interventions
• Develop a constantly evolving case plan designed around the person on supervisions’ dynamic risk factors and strategies to control and correct the risk
• Recruitment and supervision of interns from colleges.

• Oregon
• 75% of my time was spent with the Administrative Office and 25% of my time was spent in the District of Oregon with a small caseload
• Assigned to mentor STARR coaches from multiple districts to ensure proficiency in their skill usage and coaches skills for the sustainability and fidelity of the STARR initiative and STARR's effectiveness in case management
• Communicated with Chief's, Deputy Chief's to assist with implementation questions and to problem solve areas of concern or difficulty
• Developed national curriculum for STARR coaches and presented the curriculum at national trainings while serving as the Chairperson
• As adjunct faculty at the National Training Academy in Charleston, SC co-facilitating STARR user and coaches’ trainings
• Developed national curriculum for STARR lead coaches
• Participated in working groups for the STARR Online Resource Library.

• Use of policies, procedures, the Guidelines Manual, federal statutes and Ninth Circuit case law as needed to apply the appropriate guidelines and statutory limitations
• Prepared a final report for the Court by a strict deadline with a sentencing recommendation taking into account the personal history and characteristics of the defendant
• Conducted collateral investigations for other districts by requesting, gathering and condensing criminal history information by a deadline.

• Assisted with records checks, defendant interviews and bail reports
• Collected urine samples and sent samples to the laboratory for verification
• Observed court and met with magistrate judges to staff cases prior to court
• Extended Duties
• District Supervision Assignments
• Reentry Court
• BOP Liaison