# Information Officer 3 — Corrections · Alaska Jobs [← The Board](https://alaskajobs.org/) · [Public safety jobs](https://alaskajobs.org/jobs/public-safety) # Information Officer 3 Corrections - **Location** — Anchorage, AK - **PCN** — 20-4488 - **Salary** — $3,145.50 Biweekly (Range 20) - **Type** — Full Time - **Open to** — Department Employees Only - **Bargaining unit** — General Government - **Timing** — Year-round - **Posted** — 2026-11-06 - **Closes** — 2026-11-12 - **Source** — Workplace Alaska (State of Alaska) (synced) Job Description The Department of Corrections, Division of Administrator & Support, is recruiting for an Information Officer 3 position located in Anchorage, Alaska. ***This position is open to Department Employees only*** Watch Alaska DOC's video here: DOC 2026_45 sec What You Will Be Doing: This position is the department’s official public relations spokesperson, managing communications about complex, sensitive, and often controversial programs, policies, and activities. The role engages directly with the public, media, government entities, and stakeholder groups, including those who oppose departmental decisions or initiatives. As the department’s designated representative, the position addresses controversial issues, manages sensitive public relations matters, and helps affected parties communicate and resolve concerns. The role also conducts substantive research, gathers data, coordinates with other agencies, and oversees special projects. The incumbent provides strategic guidance and communications expertise to advance the department’s mission and objectives. Our Mission, Values, and Culture: The Alaska Department of Corrections provides secure confinement, reformative programs, and a process of supervised community reintegration to enhance the safety of our communities. We are trained professionals committed to a safe, open and respectful organization. We are dedicated to public safety and will always respect the rights and dignity of victims of crime. Offenders in our charge will be treated in a safe and humane manner, and will be expected to enhance their ability to reform every day. Benefits of Joining Our Team: By joining the Department of Corrections, you will become part of a team of trained professionals committed to public safety and effective staffing and hiring practices. The Working Environment You Can Expect: This position is located on the 19 th floor of the Atwood Building in downtown Anchorage, within walking distance of coffee shops, stores, restaurants, and nearby nature trails. The dynamic work environment includes daily interaction with the Commissioner and Deputy Commissioners of the Department of Corrections and the Director and Deputy Director of Institutions (DOI) and Pretrial, Probation and Parole (DP3), as well as the Director and Deputy Director of Health and Rehabilitative Services (HARs). This position requires in-office work. Eligible employees may be offered up to two telework days per week. Occasional evening and weekend work is required to support community outreach and other Department of Corrections events. Periodic travel is also required. Who We Are Looking For: We are interested in candidates who possess some or all of the following position specific competencies: Oral Communication: Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, considering the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately. Decision Making: Makes sound, well-informed, and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; commits to action, even in uncertain situations, to accomplish organizational goals; causes change. Integrity/Honesty: Contributes to maintaining the integrity of the organization; displays high standards of ethical conduct and understands the impact of violating these standards on an organization, self, and others; is trustworthy. 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, as opposed to specific tasks, and are to be used only as parameters and guidelines. A competency’s description is not intended to exclusively define every KSA, task, and behavior needed to successfully meet the competency, but rather to provide the manager/agency with a broad reference of options as to how an applicant can meet the job expectation. Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in Communications and Media: Knowledge of the production, communication and dissemination of information and ideas to inform and entertain via written, oral, visual media and social media. External Awareness: Understands and keeps up-to-date on local, national, and international policies and trends that affect the organization and shape stakeholders' views; is aware of the organization's impact on the external environment. Interpersonal Skills: Shows understanding, friendliness, courtesy, tact, empathy, concern, and politeness to others; develops and maintains effective relationships with others; may include effectively dealing with individuals who are difficult, hostile, or distressed; relates well to people from varied backgrounds and different situations; is sensitive to cultural diversity, race, gender, disabilities, and other individual differences. Multimedia Technologies: Knowledge of the principles, methods, tools, and techniques to develop or apply technology using text, audio, graphics, or other media. 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. 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. Equivalent to those typically gained by: Any combination of preparatory post-secondary education and/or progressively responsible professional level experience in journalism, communications media, education, English, literature, fine arts, library science, radio, television, photography, advertising, marketing, sales, public relations and/or promotional work, freelance writing, technical writing and/or research, education, library work or other information dissemination 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. “Professional experience” means work that is creative, analytical, evaluative, and interpretive; requires a range and depth of specialized knowledge of the profession's principles, concepts, theories, and practices; and is performed with the power or right to decide or act according to one's own judgment. “Progressively responsible” means indicating growth and/or advancement in complexity, dif [Apply at the source ↗](https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/alaska/jobs/5543658/information-officer-3-pcn-20-4488) ## Express confidential interest Alaska politics is a small world. If you can't be seen job-hunting, submit a sealed interest : the employer sees only your alias and pitch. 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