Join The JCSO
The JCSO has great vision with great people.
Exceptional employees ensure our continued success. Therefore, recruiting and hiring good, qualified sworn and professional staff is a top priority.
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office is a professional organization of committed men and women who share a vision of contributing to the quality of life for our community. Because of that vision The JCSO will continue to be a leader in providing superior law enforcement services to our community.
Now Hiring!
- Bldg Maintenance Tech - Electronics
- Crime Lab Director
- Crime Lab Supervisor
- Data/Admin supervisor
- Detention Deputy Sheriff Academy
- Detention Deputy Sheriff LATERAL
- Detention Specialist
- Emergency Management Coordinator
- Inmate Services Technician
- Inmate Worker Crew Lead
- preventative Maintenance
- System Admin
- Tech Support Tech
- Tech Support Tech Sr
- Victim Services Volunteers
Building Maintenance Technician - Electronics
Category: Maintenance & Trades
Salary: $56,061 - $84,091 annually
The Building Maintenance Electronics Technician is responsible for performing skilled work in the maintenance and repair of Sheriff's Department building and detention facilities, with particular emphasis on electrical systems installation and repair. Also performs welding and plumbing maintenance repair. If this type of skilled work is in your wheelhouse, come join our family!
Crime Laboratory Director
Category: Executive Management
Salary: $89,624 - $143,399 annually
Use your scientific skills to help solve crime! The Crime Lab Director is responsible for directing the Jefferson County Regional Crime Laboratory (JCRCL), which provides forensic lab services to law enforcement agencies within Jefferson County.
Crime Laboratory Supervisor
Full-time $99,526 - $115,710/yr
This position requires amazing attention to detail, organization, and leadership capabilities. As a manager, you would provide comprehensive forensic services to the law enforcement agencies within Jefferson County, and others as necessary; participate in case assignment and review; budget and grant funding; instruct, train and advise other employees in the department. If you are a thoughtful leader and detail-oriented, this may be just the position for you!
Detention Deputy
Detention deputies can transport inmates, provide court security, train new recruits, join the tactical team, climb the ladder, and so much more. The possibilities are endless!
Detention deputies work three 12-hour days per week. That’s four days off a week to do all the other things you also enjoy. And the starting salary is $58,521.78. But only for nine weeks. After you graduate from the academy, you’ll be making $66,221.63 with a top salary of $94,293.24 after merit and time in grade-based pay increases.
Those who successfully complete this process will join one of Colorado’s oldest and largest sheriff’s offices to help make Jefferson County a safe place for all people to live, learn, work, and play.
This is not a job. It is a calling.
If you are called to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, you will find the duties, qualifications, and information on how to apply below.
Detention Deputy - Lateral
Salary: $66,221.63 - $94,293.24 based on a one for one year credit
Category: Enforcement & Protective Services
This is a lateral position for a deputy who is currently employed with another department. A Detention Deputy's work involves classifying and assigning inmates to jail housing, explaining rules and regulations, maintaining security and control of an assigned area of facility, preventing violence and supervising inmate activity, directing visitors, supervising distributions of meals and services to inmates, providing security in the public lobby, operating central control panel, preparing various reports and logs, conducting periodic inspections, and assuming other duties of Deputy Sheriff, as directed by policy, procedure and post orders.
This is not a job. It is a calling.
Detention Specialist
Salary: $20.72 - $31.07/HR
Category: Enforcement & Protective Services
Do you prefer routine or diversity in your day? Like both?
You can experience the stability of routine and the refreshment of change as a JCSO Detention Specialist. Be a crucial part of our innovative environment that adds new initiatives, specialized housing units, and beneficial programs to reduce the likelihood individuals will return to jail once released. This career is key to better help inmates with behavioral, mental health, or substance abuse issues. A detention specialist doesn't generally have physical contact with inmates but performs an integral part of monitoring and managing inmate, visitor, and employee movement in the facility.
Join us to Do Good In Green and play a crucial role in ensuring the safety and security of one of Colorado's most extensive detention facilities, with cutting-edge technology and a clean environment.
Emergency Management Coordinator
Full time: $66,806 - 103,550
Make a real difference in our county! The Emergency Management Coordinator is responsible for complex projects and activities for all aspects of the Jeffco EM program. This includes the coordination of preparedness activities associated with the prevention of, protection from, response to, recovery from, and mitigation of incidents affecting Jefferson County. Check out the full job description to see if you'd like to join our team!
Inmate Services Technician
Salary Range: $20.72 - $31.07/HR
Category: Enforcement & Protective Services
The Inmate Services Technician serves as the first level for the booking intake of arrestees, inmate money, property, and maintains jail records throughout the inmate’s incarceration.
Under general supervision, an Inmate Services Technician performs specialized administrative and accounting work for the Detention Services Division of the Sheriff’s Office.
Technicians are responsible for calculating an inmate’s release date, as well as determining whether an inmate is eligible for release from custody. Other responsibilities include scheduling court appearances, notifications regarding inmate release, analyzing, monitoring, and updating the custody status, charges, bonds, and cash account balances for inmates throughout their incarceration, which results in interaction with inmate detainees. The work also includes using multiple computer systems to enter, retrieve information, and provide information to incoming calls from the public and information requests from inmate detainees.
Inmate Worker Crew Lead
Salary - $43,099 - 64,620/yr. full-time
Category: Enforcement & Protective Services
The Inmate Worker Crew Lead performs specialized detention work in providing supervision and training for inmate workers. Direct inmates in the proper operation of kitchen sanitation, commercial laundry operation, custodial services, and outside authorized landscape activities including light carpentry work, greenhouse and horticulture operations, sign engraving, facility snow management techniques, and special community project management.
Preventative Maintenance Technician
Salary: $21.35 - $32.02/HR
Category: Maintenance & Trades
The Preventative Maintenance Technician is responsible for assisting building operations and repairs for the Sheriff's Office complex. What kind of person is the JCSO seeking? The one who believes in core values and ethics, who is professional and knowledgeable, and who isn’t afraid of a new challenge. The jack-of-all-trades that wants to make a difference in their community.System Administrator
Salary: Full time $70,858 - 109,830/year
The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office relies heavily on our computer systems in every aspect of our jobs. If you are a "techy" and have high integrity, we need you! The System Administrator is responsible for performing hardware server setup; install and configure the operating system, new releases and updates; and much much more.
Technical Support Technician
Salary: Full time $21.89 - $32.85/hr
The Technical Support Tech is responsible for performing customer service and entry level technical support for users for IT function within a department or division. In other words, you can officially tell us "reboot" to solve many of our IT problems! However, if that doesn't work, we can count on you for help. Come join our family!
Tech Support Technician, Senior
Salary: Full time $23.64 - $35.47/hr
The Technical Support Technician Senior is responsible for providing evaluation, installation, maintenance, and support for all aspects of the respective information technology hardware platform and software in the department. If you are a "techy" with experience and knowledge to share, we need you!
The JCSO is seeking volunteer victim advocates to perform specialized counseling work as a call-out advocate for victims and witnesses of crimes. Make a difference and apply to be a Volunteer Victim Advocate today!
Applications are processed throughout the year.
Professionalism
A commitment to modern, community-policing principles, along with a proactive approach to crime prevention, creates a professional and engaged workforce. From line-level staff to the sheriff, we are accountable for partnering with citizens to solve crime and quality-of-life problems in JeffCo communities.
Make a Difference
Sheriff's Office employees make a difference in their community every day. We affect people’s lives positively by apprehending dangerous criminals, reaching out to crime or crisis victims and helping the underprivileged through community programs.
Diverse Assignments
A deputy may spend part of his or her career in a myriad of assignments: School Resource Officer, K-9 or civil deputy, motorcycle or bike units, or as an investigator. He or she may also be tracking drug activity in and around suburban Jefferson County and may later live and work as a resident deputy in the rural mountain area.
Professional employees work in a variety of functions from emergency management to animal control and crime analysis to criminalistics. The supportive administrative functions are vital in supporting The JCSO mission, vision, and values.
A Great Place to Live, Learn, Work & Play
Jefferson County is located on the western edge of metropolitan Denver and offers urban and rural lifestyles, and thriving mountain communities in the Rocky Mountains. Just minutes from downtown Denver, Jefferson County enjoys fantastic weather, with more than 250 days of sunshine per year, with an abundance of national, state, and local parks.
Jefferson County has a nationally acclaimed school district and a highly educated workforce. Residents and businesses have convenient access to higher educational institutions and a terrific base of heritage companies creating world-class technologies and products.
Family
Despite being relatively large, the Sheriff's Office retains a family atmosphere. In addition to the welcoming staff, there are internal programs in place, including peer support, employee assistance, and a robust alumni that provide support to employees and their families.
More Information
If you are considering a career at the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office and would like to schedule a tour or ride-along to get a better understanding of the job, please click here.
If you need assistance completing an electronic application, or have any other questions about the hiring process please contact recruiting at 303-271-5332.