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Posted : Tuesday, November 07, 2023 06:56 PM
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The City of Fayetteville is committed to attracting, engaging and rewarding a multi-generational workforce.
By offering a total rewards package including competitive compensation and benefits plans and a purposeful work life, the City is an employer of choice focused on serving our community.
Safety/Security Sensitive Designation: This is a safety/security sensitive position for purposes of the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Amendment.
Provide good customer service to both internal and external customers, maintain positive and effective working relationships with other City employees (especially members, of his or her own team), and have regular and reliable attendance that is non-disruptive.
Responsible for operating a communications console and related equipment to dispatch police, fire personnel and after hour city on-call staff in response to requests for assistance in emergency situations in accordance with established departmental procedures and policies.
Main Police Channel – Dispatch and monitor all radio traffic generated by Police Personnel related to calls for service and self-initiated activity.
Includes directing the "net" during emergency situations and being able to determine when calls should be held for cross beat dispatching versus calls that have priority.
Fire Dispatch Channel – Dispatch and monitor all radio traffic generated by Fire Personnel related to calls for service and self-initiated activity.
Fire incidents require several tasks to be done at the same time, i.
e.
locating hydrant information, weather information, monitoring on scene times, paging notifications when policy dictates, etc.
Police B Channel – Information channel which handles all informational request from officers to include driver's license checks, criminal history checks, vehicle checks, want and warrants checks from in-house computer, calls for a wrecker, incident number and times, etc.
This channel handles non-emergency police radio traffic during emergency situations when the main police channel has the net directed.
911 Public Safety Answering Point – Answer all 911 calls for City of Fayetteville including medical calls.
Goal is to answer within 6 seconds.
Must know procedures for call taking and be able to deal with callers who might be irate, under the influence of alcohol and drugs, obscene, suicidal and mentally impaired.
Must know procedure for adding on the language line, contacting various emergency agencies such as poison control, and other agencies not in our jurisdiction.
Must be able to interpret map data when a wireless call is received.
Responsible for recording and entering 911 data for statistical purposes.
Citywide Channel- Dispatches and monitors this channel for after hour city emergency calls.
Including Animal Services, Meter, Water/Sewer, Transportation, etc.
Responsible for monitoring this channel for traffic from all city agencies.
Must know each department/division's policy for emergency calls.
Must be able to notify various contacts for these departments depending on their needs, i.
e.
Arkansas One Call, Arkansas Highway Department, etc.
Police Department Business Lines – Must be able to answer this line within 3 rings.
This responsibility requires transferring of calls from other agencies or departments, answering questions regarding civil matters, handling irate, drunk, obscene, suicidal and mentally impaired callers in a professional manner.
Dealing with multiple phone calls virtually at the same time.
Must be able to answer questions on a variety of topics and/or find out where to get the answers, i.
e.
related to special events in town, weather, other agencies, business and address locations, etc.
Enter stolen property and wanted persons into the Arkansas Crime Information Center System.
Validate all records entered by following policies created by ACIC.
Second party review of all entries.
Update informational books kept in dispatch such as position books, disaster book, and fire book.
Updating pre-arrival information kept in the AS400.
Updating special instructions, this is information on who to call after hours in case of emergency on all businesses in Fayetteville.
This job requires regular, professional, and diplomatic contact with vendors, citizens, business owners, local public safety agencies and outside representatives.
Maintain trespass log – this is for when officers notify dispatch that a person was warned of criminal trespass and used not only by the officers but also the prosecuting attorneys office; extra patrol log – these are requested by citizens for extra patrol in a particular reasons such as out of town, traffic problems, etc; this log lets officers know where these requests are so they can be checked.
Briefing log – dispatchers log information items for officers to read about variety of topics such as stolen vehicles, officer safety items, etc.
Record Maintenance-such as making sure names are attached properly, addresses are entered without overrides, etc.
EXAMPLE OF DUTIES Tactical/Special Event Dispatch – some dispatchers are assigned to this duty.
Respond with Emergency Response Team to various call-outs.
Work the command post and special events independent of the dispatch centerSecondary duties as assigned.
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION CURRENT INCENTIVES: Incentive Pay: Longevity Pay: Central Dispatch members of the Police Department receive longevity pay based on completed consecutive years of service during previous pay period as follows: i) Completed years of service 5 – 9 will receive $250 annually split by pay period ii) Completed years of service 10 – 14 will receive $500 annually split by pay period iii) Completed years of service 15 – 19 will receive $1,000 annually split by pay period iv) Completed years of service 20 – 24 will receive $2,000 annually split by pay period v) Completed years of service 25+ will receive $3,000 annually split by pay period Specialized Pay: Central Dispatch members of the Police Department shall receive 2% specialized pay of their hourly rate for each of the following specialization(s).
(1) Communication Training Officer (2) Bilingual Shift Differential: Shift differential will be paid at a rate of $1.
50 per hour worked by assignment to afternoon shift (2p-10p) and night shift (10p-6a).
By offering a total rewards package including competitive compensation and benefits plans and a purposeful work life, the City is an employer of choice focused on serving our community.
Safety/Security Sensitive Designation: This is a safety/security sensitive position for purposes of the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Amendment.
Provide good customer service to both internal and external customers, maintain positive and effective working relationships with other City employees (especially members, of his or her own team), and have regular and reliable attendance that is non-disruptive.
Responsible for operating a communications console and related equipment to dispatch police, fire personnel and after hour city on-call staff in response to requests for assistance in emergency situations in accordance with established departmental procedures and policies.
Main Police Channel – Dispatch and monitor all radio traffic generated by Police Personnel related to calls for service and self-initiated activity.
Includes directing the "net" during emergency situations and being able to determine when calls should be held for cross beat dispatching versus calls that have priority.
Fire Dispatch Channel – Dispatch and monitor all radio traffic generated by Fire Personnel related to calls for service and self-initiated activity.
Fire incidents require several tasks to be done at the same time, i.
e.
locating hydrant information, weather information, monitoring on scene times, paging notifications when policy dictates, etc.
Police B Channel – Information channel which handles all informational request from officers to include driver's license checks, criminal history checks, vehicle checks, want and warrants checks from in-house computer, calls for a wrecker, incident number and times, etc.
This channel handles non-emergency police radio traffic during emergency situations when the main police channel has the net directed.
911 Public Safety Answering Point – Answer all 911 calls for City of Fayetteville including medical calls.
Goal is to answer within 6 seconds.
Must know procedures for call taking and be able to deal with callers who might be irate, under the influence of alcohol and drugs, obscene, suicidal and mentally impaired.
Must know procedure for adding on the language line, contacting various emergency agencies such as poison control, and other agencies not in our jurisdiction.
Must be able to interpret map data when a wireless call is received.
Responsible for recording and entering 911 data for statistical purposes.
Citywide Channel- Dispatches and monitors this channel for after hour city emergency calls.
Including Animal Services, Meter, Water/Sewer, Transportation, etc.
Responsible for monitoring this channel for traffic from all city agencies.
Must know each department/division's policy for emergency calls.
Must be able to notify various contacts for these departments depending on their needs, i.
e.
Arkansas One Call, Arkansas Highway Department, etc.
Police Department Business Lines – Must be able to answer this line within 3 rings.
This responsibility requires transferring of calls from other agencies or departments, answering questions regarding civil matters, handling irate, drunk, obscene, suicidal and mentally impaired callers in a professional manner.
Dealing with multiple phone calls virtually at the same time.
Must be able to answer questions on a variety of topics and/or find out where to get the answers, i.
e.
related to special events in town, weather, other agencies, business and address locations, etc.
Enter stolen property and wanted persons into the Arkansas Crime Information Center System.
Validate all records entered by following policies created by ACIC.
Second party review of all entries.
Update informational books kept in dispatch such as position books, disaster book, and fire book.
Updating pre-arrival information kept in the AS400.
Updating special instructions, this is information on who to call after hours in case of emergency on all businesses in Fayetteville.
This job requires regular, professional, and diplomatic contact with vendors, citizens, business owners, local public safety agencies and outside representatives.
Maintain trespass log – this is for when officers notify dispatch that a person was warned of criminal trespass and used not only by the officers but also the prosecuting attorneys office; extra patrol log – these are requested by citizens for extra patrol in a particular reasons such as out of town, traffic problems, etc; this log lets officers know where these requests are so they can be checked.
Briefing log – dispatchers log information items for officers to read about variety of topics such as stolen vehicles, officer safety items, etc.
Record Maintenance-such as making sure names are attached properly, addresses are entered without overrides, etc.
EXAMPLE OF DUTIES Tactical/Special Event Dispatch – some dispatchers are assigned to this duty.
Respond with Emergency Response Team to various call-outs.
Work the command post and special events independent of the dispatch centerSecondary duties as assigned.
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION CURRENT INCENTIVES: Incentive Pay: Longevity Pay: Central Dispatch members of the Police Department receive longevity pay based on completed consecutive years of service during previous pay period as follows: i) Completed years of service 5 – 9 will receive $250 annually split by pay period ii) Completed years of service 10 – 14 will receive $500 annually split by pay period iii) Completed years of service 15 – 19 will receive $1,000 annually split by pay period iv) Completed years of service 20 – 24 will receive $2,000 annually split by pay period v) Completed years of service 25+ will receive $3,000 annually split by pay period Specialized Pay: Central Dispatch members of the Police Department shall receive 2% specialized pay of their hourly rate for each of the following specialization(s).
(1) Communication Training Officer (2) Bilingual Shift Differential: Shift differential will be paid at a rate of $1.
50 per hour worked by assignment to afternoon shift (2p-10p) and night shift (10p-6a).
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• Location : Fayetteville, AR
• Post ID: 9005014262
