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Navajo Nation Personnel Policies Manual
Section IV. K. Background Check and Adjudication for Sensitive Positions

These policies apply to all employees who are regular status, seasonal, at-will, or temporary, applicants, volunteers, interns, and to employees who are assigned (i.e., transfer, promotion or position reclassification) to a sensitive position.

Sensitive positions are those positions with the following job responsibilities:

1. providing child care in a child care facility, or providing for the health, safety and welfare of a child, particularly where responsibility involves direct repetitive contact with a child or unsupervised access to children;
2. providing patient care or providing for the health, safety and welfare of adults and elders;
3. having responsibility for money, receipts and/or disbursement of negotiable instruments, e.g., money, checks and property disbursements;
4. having responsibility for credit data, credit account records or credit transactions;
5. carrying and using firearms;
6. having responsibility for the safety and security of Navajo Nation property;
7. having routine access to security control and key systems;
8. having responsibility for controlled substances or toxic, radioactive or other hazardous materials;
9. having responsibility for confidential information or sensitive data protected by federal, state, or Navajo Nation law.

Additional federal regulations and requirements may be applicable dependent upon a program's funding source.