Administrative Officer 1 - Northern Region

Job Description

The Department of Natural Resources, Division of

Forestry & Fire Protection,

is recruiting for an

Administrative Officer 1 in Fairbanks.

This position is open to Department of Natural Resources employees only

Only permanent State employees currently working for or laid off from the recruiting department's classified service may apply.

What You Will Be Doing:

This position, under the direct supervision of the Administrative Officer 2, provides administrative support for the Northern Region Fire Protection Program and, when assigned, assists area offices in Fairbanks, Delta, and Tok. It supervises the Northern Region Administrative team (two Administrative Assistant 3s, one Administrative Assistant 1/2, and one Administrative Assistant 1) across core administrative functions, including budgeting, accounting, personnel, payroll, travel, procurement, contracts, and HR support.

The position collaborates closely with the Administrative Officer 2 and counterpart Administrative Officer 1 to develop, coordinate, and implement consistent administrative processes that strengthen internal controls and streamline regional operations in budgeting, accounting, recruitment, payroll, travel, procurement, property control, and general administrative services.

Mission and Values/Culture:

This role supports the Division of Forestry & Fire Protection’s (DFFP) mission: Safely managing wildland fires across 150 million acres to protect life, property, and critical infrastructure. We maintain readiness of personnel and equipment and collaborate with emergency agencies to manage fires effectively throughout Alaska.

Our values include safety, integrity, teamwork, and resilience, ensuring proactive planning, transparency, and service. DFFP’s culture promotes respect, improvement, and adaptability to environmental challenges.

We foster an inclusive, supportive workplace encouraging innovation, professional growth, and open communication. Collaboration, accountability, and shared purpose drive our readiness and uphold public trust.

Benefits of Joining Our Team:

The DFFP Wildland Fire Team offers the opportunity to work with skilled professionals dedicated to advancing fire, fuels, and forestry objectives. Members thrive in a dynamic, mission-driven environment that protects Alaska, its residents, businesses, and natural resources. Daily challenges foster personal and professional growth, with a strong commitment to excellence and camaraderie.

Team members benefit from ongoing training, competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and career advancement. The DFFP connects individuals with leaders in forestry and emergency response, expanding professional networks and expertise.

Joining the team means becoming part of a supportive, inclusive community dedicated to diversity, safety, and innovation in fire suppression. Members play a critical role in protecting Alaska’s forests from wildfires, safeguarding wildlife habitats, and strengthening local communities through effective fire management. Their efforts to control and prevent fires make their work impactful and highly valued statewide.

The Working Environment You Can Expect:

This position is located in Fairbanks, AK, at the Department of Natural Resources building: 3700 Airport Way, Fairbanks, AK 99709. The Northern Fire Protection Program shares the building with multiple other divisions within the Department of Natural Resources.

DFFP encourages team building and camaraderie. This environment helps promote friendship and loyalty within the organization. These close-knit relationships motivate our employees and build trust in a fast-paced, emergency response environment. Our team includes individuals with diverse talents, backgrounds, and abilities.

We are looking for a candidate who possesses the following position-specific competencies.

Adaptability: Adjusts planned work by gathering relevant information and applying critical thinking to address multiple demands and competing priorities in a changing environment.

Problem Solving: Identifies and analyzes problems; weighs relevance and accuracy of information; generates and evaluates alternative solutions; makes recommendations.

Flexibility: Is open to change and new information; rapidly adapts to new information, changing conditions, or unexpected obstacles.

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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 competency’s 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 one’s knowledge and experience base and calling on other references and resources as necessary.

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.

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.

Equivalent to those typically gained by:

Any combination of preparatory post-secondary education and/or 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.

Additional Required Information

** Please read the information below carefully. **

At the time of the interview

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please bring the following materials. Failure to do so may result in loss of consideration. Required documents include:

Valid driver’s license

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