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Administrative Officer 2
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The Department of Natural Resources, Support Services Division , is recruiting for an Administrative Officer 2 in Juneau
***Effective July 1, 2025, the Supervisory Bargaining Unit received a 3.25% pay increase***
This job posting reflects the new salary.
This position is open to Alaska Residents only.
The Support Services Division is the cornerstone of DNR, with the Administrative Officer 2 playing a crucial role in delivering consistent, high-quality service to both internal and external customers. This position is responsible for managing and performing budget projections for SSD components, tracking and reviewing all departmental restriction waivers (including hiring, travel, and purchases) for accuracy and completeness, and liaising with multiple sections of the Governor's Office. Additionally, this role supports the DNR Admin Chiefs group by ensuring that timely and accurate guidance and training are accessible to more than 50 members across various platforms, including Teams and the intranet. The Administrative Officer 2 also ensures that adequate resources and support are available in Juneau for the DNR Commissioner's Office staff and the Administrative Services Director during the legislative session. Each day in this role is unique, offering endless opportunities to learn from subject matter experts in fiscal, procurement, budget, and administrative fields!
Mission and Values/Culture:
The Support Services Division is a unified organization dedicated to delivering client-focused financial, budget, procurement, human resources, and information technology services to support all DNR staff and public-facing service programs. Providing superior customer service is at the core of everything we do!
Benefits of Joining Our Team:
At SSD, we take great pride in our positive work culture! We maintain a supportive and collaborative team environment that fosters professional development, accountability, and service excellence. Staff eagerly share knowledge and resources, look for ways to assist one another, and are celebrated for suggesting ways to increase efficiency in our daily work. Our team enjoys flexible schedules, hybrid telework options and places a strong emphasis on maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
The Working Environment You Can Expect:
Our office in Juneau is located on the 5th floor of the Willoughby building in downtown Juneau, just across from the State Office Building. Staff enjoy spectacular channel and mountain views, ample parking, and quick access to dining and shopping establishments.
We are looking for a candidate who possesses the following position-specific competencies.
- Supervision: Plans, distributes, and monitors work assignments; sets task priorities; evaluates work performance and provides feedback to others on their performance; ensures that staff are appropriately selected, utilized, and developed, and that they are treated in a fair and equitable manner. Assignments include the authority and responsibility to recommend or independently take action to employ (i.e., appoint, transfer, promote), discipline or discharge, or adjudicate grievances of direct reports.
- Creativity and Innovation: Develops new insights into situations; questions conventional approaches; encourages new ideas and innovations; designs and implements new or cutting-edge programs/processes.
- Oral and Written Communication: Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral and written presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.
Minimum Qualifications
Competency-Based Minimum Qualifications Instructions
This job class uses competency-based minimum qualifications.Please ensure your application(through work history, volunteer experience (duties summary), training, education, licenses, certifications, etc.) supports how you have gained the knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors (competencies) and that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class.
Competency Description
The competency description(s) listed below have been designed to promote a common understanding of the essential elements of the job class. They highlight the more general and customary knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), tasks, and behaviors used to describe the competency. They typically list expectations instead of specific tasks and are only used as parameters and guidelines. A competencys description is not intended to exclusively define every KSA, task, and behavior needed to meet the competency successfully, but rather to provide the manager/agency with a broad reference of options for how an applicant can meet the job expectation.
Minimum Qualifications
Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in
- Administration and Management: Knowledge of planning, coordination, and execution of business functions, resource allocation, and production.Analytical Thinking/Problem Solving: uses a logical, systematic, sequential approach to address problems or opportunities or manage a situation by drawing on ones knowledge and experience base and calling on other references and resources as necessary.
- Budget Administration: Knowledge of the principles and practices of budget administration and analysis; including preparing, justifying, reporting on, and executing the budget; and the relationships among program, budget, accounting, and reporting systems.
- Financial Management: Prepares, justifies, and/or administers the budget for program areas; plans, administers, and monitors expenditures to ensure cost-effective support of programs and policies; assesses financial condition of an organization.
- Organizational Awareness: Knows the organization's mission and functions, and how its social, political, and technological systems work and operates effectively within them; this includes the programs, policies, procedures, rules, and regulations of the organization.
Job Description
The Department of Natural Resources, Support Services Division , is recruiting for an Administrative Officer 2 in Juneau
***Effective July 1, 2025, the Supervisory Bargaining Unit received a 3.25% pay increase***
This job posting reflects the new salary.
This position is open to Alaska Residents only.
Please check ourresidency definition to determine if you qualify.
What You Will Be Doing:
The Support Services Division is the cornerstone of DNR, with the Administrative Officer 2 playing a crucial role in delivering consistent, high-quality service to both internal and external customers. This position is responsible for managing and performing budget projections for SSD components, tracking and reviewing all departmental restriction waivers (including hiring, travel, and purchases) for accuracy and completeness, and liaising with multiple sections of the Governor's Office. Additionally, this role supports the DNR Admin Chiefs group by ensuring that timely and accurate guidance and training are accessible to more than 50 members across various platforms, including Teams and the intranet. The Administrative Officer 2 also ensures that adequate resources and support are available in Juneau for the DNR Commissioner's Office staff and the Administrative Services Director during the legislative session. Each day in this role is unique, offering endless opportunities to learn from subject matter experts in fiscal, procurement, budget, and administrative fields!
Mission and Values/Culture:
The Support Services Division is a unified organization dedicated to delivering client-focused financial, budget, procurement, human resources, and information technology services to support all DNR staff and public-facing service programs. Providing superior customer service is at the core of everything we do!
Benefits of Joining Our Team:
At SSD, we take great pride in our positive work culture! We maintain a supportive and collaborative team environment that fosters professional development, accountability, and service excellence. Staff eagerly share knowledge and resources, look for ways to assist one another, and are celebrated for suggesting ways to increase efficiency in our daily work. Our team enjoys flexible schedules, hybrid telework options and places a strong emphasis on maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
The Working Environment You Can Expect:
Our office in Juneau is located on the 5th floor of the Willoughby building in downtown Juneau, just across from the State Office Building. Staff enjoy spectacular channel and mountain views, ample parking, and quick access to dining and shopping establishments.
We are looking for a candidate who possesses the following position-specific competencies.
- Supervision: Plans, distributes, and monitors work assignments; sets task priorities; evaluates work performance and provides feedback to others on their performance; ensures that staff are appropriately selected, utilized, and developed, and that they are treated in a fair and equitable manner. Assignments include the authority and responsibility to recommend or independently take action to employ (i.e., appoint, transfer, promote), discipline or discharge, or adjudicate grievances of direct reports.
- Creativity and Innovation: Develops new insights into situations; questions conventional approaches; encourages new ideas and innovations; designs and implements new or cutting-edge programs/processes.
- Oral and Written Communication: Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral and written presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.
Minimum Qualifications
Competency-Based Minimum Qualifications Instructions
This job class uses competency-based minimum qualifications.Please ensure your application(through work history, volunteer experience (duties summary), training, education, licenses, certifications, etc.) supports how you have gained the knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors (competencies) and that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class.
Competency Description
The competency description(s) listed below have been designed to promote a common understanding of the essential elements of the job class. They highlight the more general and customary knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), tasks, and behaviors used to describe the competency. They typically list expectations instead of specific tasks and are only used as parameters and guidelines. A competencys description is not intended to exclusively define every KSA, task, and behavior needed to meet the competency successfully, but rather to provide the manager/agency with a broad reference of options for how an applicant can meet the job expectation.
Minimum Qualifications
Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in
- Administration and Management: Knowledge of planning, coordination, and execution of business functions, resource allocation, and production.Analytical Thinking/Problem Solving: uses a logical, systematic, sequential approach to address problems or opportunities or manage a situation by drawing on ones knowledge and experience base and calling on other references and resources as necessary.
- Budget Administration: Knowledge of the principles and practices of budget administration and analysis; including preparing, justifying, reporting on, and executing the budget; and the relationships among program, budget, accounting, and reporting systems.
- Financial Management: Prepares, justifies, and/or administers the budget for program areas; plans, administers, and monitors expenditures to ensure cost-effective support of programs and policies; assesses financial condition of an organization.
- Organizational Awareness: Knows the organization's mission and functions, and how its social, political, and technological systems work and operates effectively within them; this includes the programs, policies, procedures, rules, and regulations of the organization.
Any combination of preparatory post-secondary education and/or progressively responsible experience providing administrative support to a business or organization, business administration, public administration, finance, banking, accounting, industrial relations, marketing, human resource management, logistics and supply chain management, or a similar business field.
Special Note:
Competencies means a combination of interrelated knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors that enable a person to act effectively in a job or situation.
Typically gained by means the prevalent, usual method of gaining the competencies expected for entry into the job.
Training and education in this guidance are synonyms for the process of acquiring knowledge and skills through instruction. It includes instruction through formal and informal methods (such as classroom, on-line, self-study, and on-the-job), from accredited and unaccredited sources, and long-duration (such as a post-secondary degree) and short-duration (such as a seminar) programs.
Progressively responsible means indicating growth and/or advancement in complexity, difficulty, or level of responsibility.
Additional Required Information
** Please read the information below carefully. **
At the time of the interview,please ensure that you provide the following materials:
- Three (3) most recent evaluations or letters of recommendation
- List of three (3) professional references with current contact information
Application Notice
You can ONLY apply for this position through the Workplace Alaska website or a hard copy application. Instructions on how to apply with Workplace Alaska may be found on the Workplace Alaska How to Apply " page. Your application must be submitted by 5:00 p.m. Alaska Standard Time on the closing date.
Supplemental Questions
For your application to be evaluated, you must answer the Supplemental Questions. The State of Alaska (SOA) utilizes four proficiency levels to measure and describe an applicants level of competence in applying certain behaviors, knowledge, skills, and abilities to accomplish a specific task. The four proficiency levels are Mastery, Fluency, Literacy, and Discovery. You must rate your proficiency level for each competency listed in the supplemental questions.
Education
If post-secondary education is required to meet the minimum qualifications, you must fill out the Education section of the application. If you have not yet obtained a degree, please indicate the units you have completed. Copies of transcripts are required to verify educational credentials if used to meet the minimum qualifications for a position.
Special Instructions for Foreign Education
Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the minimum qualifications listed above. If utilizing this education, you must show that the education credentials have been submitted to a private organization that specializes in the interpretation of foreign educational credentials and that such education has been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education programs; or an accredited U.S. post-secondary institution reports the other institution as one whose transcript is given full value, or full value is given in subject areas applicable to the curricula at the post-secondary institution. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.
Work Experience
If using work experience not already documented in your application, also provide the employers name, job title, employment dates, and whether full or part-time. Applications will be reviewed to determine whether the responses are supported and whether the minimum qualifications are met. If they are not, the applicant may not advance to the recruitment interview and selection phase.
Note: Attaching a resume is not a substitute for completing the application in its entirety. Noting, "see resume" or any similar response on any portion of your application may lead to a determination that your application is incomplete and removal from consideration for this job posting.
Bargaining Unit
If you are acurrent state employee, please indicate the union to which you belong at the time of application. Do not complete this question if you are not a current state employee.
Drivers License Requirement
Applicants must possess a valid driver's license. Proof of licensure will be required prior to reporting to duty.
EEO STATEMENT
The State of Alaska complies with Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Individuals with disabilities who require accommodation, auxiliary aides or services, or alternative communication formats should call 1-800-###-#### or (907) ###-#### in Juneau or TTY: Alaska Relay 711 or 1-800-###-#### or correspond with the Division of Personnel & Labor Relations at P.O. Box 110201, Juneau, AK 99811-0201. The State of Alaska is an equal opportunity employer.
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Contact Information
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Questions regarding application submission or system operation errors should be directed to the Workplace Alaska hotline at 1-800-###-#### (toll-free) or (907) ###-#### if you are in the Juneau area. Requests for information may also be emailed to ...@alaska.gov.
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For specific information about this position, please get in touch with the hiring manager at the following:
Melissa Hurley-Marvin
Deputy Director
Phone: 907.###.####
Email:...@alaska.gov
Careers with the State of Alaska offer MANY benefits
Careers with the State of Alaska offer MANY benefits
The following information describes typical benefits available to employees of the State of Alaska. Actual benefits received may differ by bargaining unit or branch of government, position type, or be prorated for other than full time work.
For a quick breakdown of the insurance, health, and retirement benefits available for State Employees you can view an orientation video from Division of Retirement and Benefits . (Please note this video is specifically designed for new State Employees.)
Insurance Benefits
- Health insurance, which includes employer contributions toward medical/vision/dental
- The following employee groups are under AlaskaCare Benefits administered by the State: See for additional information.
- AVTEC
- Confidential
- Correctional Officers
- Marine Engineers
- Mt. Edgecumbe Teachers
- Supervisory
- Unlicensed Vessel Personnel/Inland Boatman's Union
- Exempt employees (not covered by collective bargaining)
- The following employee groups are covered by Union health trusts. Contact the appropriate Union for additional information.
- General Government
- Labor, Trades and Crafts
- Public Safety Employees Association
- Masters, Mates & Pilots
- The following employee groups are under AlaskaCare Benefits administered by the State: See for additional information.
- Employer paid Basic Life insurance with additional coverage available (amount depends on Bargaining Unit)
- Group-based insurance premiums for
- Term life (employee, spouse or qualified same sex partner, and dependents)
- Long-term and short-term disability
- Accidental Death and Dismemberment
- Long-term care (self and eligible family members)
- Supplemental Survivor Benefits
- Employee-funded flexible spending accounts for tax savings on eligible health care or dependent care expenses
Retirement Benefits
- Membership in the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS)/Teachers' Retirement System (TRS)
- Matching employer contribution into a defined contribution program (new employees)
- Employer contribution into a defined benefit or defined contribution program (current employees)
- Contributions to the Alaska Supplemental Annuity Plan in lieu of contributions to Social Security
- Option to enroll in the Alaska Deferred Compensation Program
- Note: The Defined Contribution Plan, Supplemental Annuity Plan and Deferred Compensation Program offer a variety of investment options
Paid Leave & Other Benefits
- Personal leave with an accrual rate increase based on time served
- Twelve (12)paid holidays a year
Please rate your level of proficiency in Administration and Management: Knowledge of planning, coordination, and execution of business functions, resource allocation, and production.
- Mastery: Able to successfully apply all relevant concepts, procedures, and practices of the subject area. I have successfully performed all relevant concepts, procedures, and practices and facilitate knowledge transfer to others.
- Fluency: Able to successfully apply all relevant concepts, procedures and practices of the subject area. I have successfully performed the concepts, procedures, and practices independently.
- Literacy: Ability to communicate all relevant concepts, procedures and practices of the subject area. I have limited application or practice.
- Discovery: Awareness of basic/fundamental concepts, procedures, and practices of the subject area.
- None of the above.
Please rate your level of proficiency in Analytical Thinking/Problem Solving: Uses a logical, systematic, sequential approach to address problems or opportunities or manage a situation by drawing on ones knowledge and experience base and calling on other references and resources as necessary.
- Mastery: Able to successfully apply all relevant concepts, procedures, and practices of the subject area. I have successfully performed all relevant concepts, procedures, and practices and facilitate knowledge transfer to others.
- Fluency: Able to successfully apply all relevant concepts, procedures and practices of the subject area. I have successfully performed the concepts, procedures, and practices independently.
- Literacy: Ability to communicate all relevant concepts, procedures and practices of the subject area. I have limited application or practice.
- Discovery: Awareness of basic/fundamental concepts, procedures, and practices of the subject area.
- None of the above.
Please rate your level of proficiency in Budget Administration: Knowledge of the principles and practices of budget administration and analysis; including preparing, justifying, reporting on, and executing the budget; and the relationships among program, budget, accounting, and reporting systems.
- Mastery: Able to successfully apply all relevant concepts, procedures, and practices of the subject area. I have successfully performed all relevant concepts, procedures, and practices and facilitate knowledge transfer to others.
- Fluency: Able to successfully apply all relevant concepts, procedures and practices of the subject area. I have successfully performed the concepts, procedures, and practices independently.
- Literacy: Ability to communicate all relevant concepts, procedures and practices of the subject area. I have limited application or practice.
- Discovery: Awareness of basic/fundamental concepts, procedures, and practices of the subject area.
- None of the above.
Please rate your level of proficiency in Financial Management: Prepares, justifies, and/or administers the budget for program areas; plans, administers, and monitors expenditures to ensure cost-effective support of programs and policies; assesses financial condition of an organization.
- Mastery: Able to successfully apply all relevant concepts, procedures, and practices of the subject area. I have successfully performed all relevant concepts, procedures, and practices and facilitate knowledge transfer to others.
- Fluency: Able to successfully apply all relevant concepts, procedures and practices of the subject area. I have successfully performed the concepts, procedures, and practices independently.
- Literacy: Ability to communicate all relevant concepts, procedures and practices of the subject area. I have limited application or practice.
- Discovery: Awareness of basic/fundamental concepts, procedures, and practices of the subject area.
- None of the above.
Please rate your level of proficiency in Organizational Awareness: Uses knowledge that is acquired through formal training or extensive on-the-job experience to perform one's job; works with, understands, and evaluates technical information related to the job; advises others on technical issues.
- Mastery: Able to successfully apply all relevant concepts, procedures, and practices of the subject area. I have successfully performed all relevant concepts, procedures, and practices and facilitate knowledge transfer to others.
- Fluency: Able to successfully apply all relevant concepts, procedures and practices of the subject area. I have successfully performed the concepts, procedures, and practices independently.
- Literacy: Ability to communicate all relevant concepts, procedures and practices of the subject area. I have limited application or practice.
- Discovery: Awareness of basic/fundamental concepts, procedures, and practices of the subject area.
- None of the above.
Please rate your level of proficiency in Supervision: Plans, distributes, and monitors work assignments; sets task priorities; evaluates work performance and provides feedback to others on their performance; ensures that staff are appropriately selected, utilized, and developed, and that they are treated in a fair and equitable manner. Assignments include the authority and responsibility to recommend or independently take action to employ (i.e., appoint, transfer, promote), discipline or discharge, or adjudicate grievances of direct reports.
- Mastery: Able to successfully apply all relevant concepts, procedures, and practices of the subject area. I have successfully performed all relevant concepts, procedures, and practices and facilitate knowledge transfer to others.
- Fluency: Able to successfully apply all relevant concepts, procedures and practices of the subject area. I have successfully performed the concepts, procedures, and practices independently.
- Literacy: Ability to communicate all relevant concepts, procedures and practices of the subject area. I have limited application or practice.
- Discovery: Awareness of basic/fundamental concepts, procedures, and practices of the subject area.
- None of the above.
Please rate your level of proficiency in Creativity and Innovation: Develops new insights into situations; questions conventional approaches; encourages new ideas and innovations; designs and implements new or cutting-edge programs/processes.
- Mastery: Able to successfully apply all relevant concepts, procedures, and practices of the subject area. I have successfully performed all relevant concepts, procedures, and practices and facilitate knowledge transfer to others.
- Fluency: Able to successfully apply all relevant concepts, procedures and practices of the subject area. I have successfully performed the concepts, procedures, and practices independently.
- Literacy: Ability to communicate all relevant concepts, procedures and practices of the subject area. I have limited application or practice.
- Discovery: Awareness of basic/fundamental concepts, procedures, and practices of the subject area.
- None of the above.
Please rate your level of proficiency in Oral and Written Communication: Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral and written presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.
- Mastery: Able to successfully apply all relevant concepts, procedures, and practices of the subject area. I have successfully performed all relevant concepts, procedures, and practices and facilitate knowledge transfer to others.
- Fluency: Able to successfully apply all relevant concepts, procedures and practices of the subject area. I have successfully performed the concepts, procedures, and practices independently.
- Literacy: Ability to communicate all relevant concepts, procedures and practices of the subject area. I have limited application or practice.
- Discovery: Awareness of basic/fundamental concepts, procedures, and practices of the subject area.
- None of the above.
Do you have a valid driver's license?
- Yes
- No
I understand that to be considered for this position, my knowledge, skills, experience, and ability to perform the required tasks, as outlined by the minimum qualifications and position-specific competencies, must be clearly documented in this application. Submitting a resume is not a substitute for completing the application in its entirety. Failure to provide a complete application may result in disqualification from consideration for this job opening.
- I acknowledge that I understand this requirement.
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Employer State of Alaska
Address PO Box 110201
Juneau, Alaska, 99811
Phone (800) ###-#### (Statewide toll-free number)
(907) ###-#### (Juneau and out-of-state callers)
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