State of Connecticut Executive Branch

WORKING LEAD LEVEL: 

• Incumbents in this class report to a supervisor and are normally assigned full time lead responsibility for a unit with a minimum of two (2) other employees while performing unit work activities. 
• For supervisory type duties performed by a working lead the final/"sign-off" authority is vested in the supervisory level employee to whom the incumbent reports.

ADVANCED WORKING LEVEL: 

• Incumbents in this class perform work in a unit which must clearly exceed the norm and include a concentration of highly advanced functions within assigned disciplines. 
• Class use is on a limited or exceptional basis.

WORKING LEAD LEVEL: 

• As assigned by a supervisor, distributes, prioritizes, oversees and reviews office unit work; 
• Provides staff training and assistance; conducts or assists in conducting performance evaluations; 
• Acts as liaison with operating units, agencies, consultant staffs and other outside officials regarding unit office policies and standards; 
• Prepares reports and correspondence; 
• Performs related duties as required.

ADVANCED WORKING LEVEL:

• Performs more difficult and complex phases of fingerprint identification, rendering decisions on complex patterns, partial print, smudged or damaged prints and other problem cases; 
• Takes postmortem prints for identification; 
• Examines and processes latent prints; 
• Assists in establishment, application and maintenance of office procedures including new methods or systems in classification and identification of fingerprints; 
• Provides staff training and assistance in identification methods and techniques and may assist in both field and laboratory work; 
• Instructs and trains on proper fingerprinting methods; 
• Supervises maintenance of fingerprint files; 
• Assists in conducting performance evaluations; 
• Acts as liaison with operating units, other agencies and outside officials regarding unit policies and procedures; 
• May make recommendations on policies or standards; 
• May testify as an expert witness in court; 
• May prepare reports and correspondence; 
• Performs related duties as required.

• Considerable knowledge of methods, principles and techniques of fingerprint classification and identification; 
• Considerable skill, speed and accuracy in classifying fingerprints; 
• Skills
  • interpersonal skills; 
  • oral and written communication skills; 
• Considerable ability to take, develop, analyze, classify, compare and file fingerprints and impressions including latent prints; 
• Ability to
  • solve difficult and complex identification problems; 
  • train others in fingerprint classification and identification work; 
  • utilize computer software; 
  • lead others.