Natural Resource Manager 1

Job Description

The Department of Natural Resources, Division of

Mining, Land & Water,

is recruiting for a Natural Resource Manager 1 in Anchorage or Juneau.

This position is open to Alaska Residents only.

Please check our

residency definition

to determine if you qualify.

What You Will Be Doing:

This position serves as the working supervisor for a team of adjudicators responsible for authorizing the sale of State-owned land through the DNR’s statewide competitive land sale offerings administered by the Land Conveyance Section (LCS). This includes managing the day-to-day operations of the Competitive Unit and serving as the lead or point of contact for difficult and/or potential projects.

Mission and Values/Culture:

The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) mission is to “develop, conserve and maximize the use of Alaska's natural resources consistent with the public interest.” The DMLW mission is "to provide for the appropriate use and management of Alaska's state-owned land and water, aiming toward maximum use consistent with the public interest.” Within DMLW, the Land Conveyance Section helps fulfill this mission by providing the opportunity for private land ownership through a variety of unique land sale programs and creating opportunities to get Alaska’s Lands into Alaskans’ hands.

Benefits of Joining Our Team:

The Land Conveyance Section is a highly collaborative team where team members regularly share ideas and solutions, and work through challenges together. The project development staff work together and with other staff to provide a service that is meaningful to Alaska residents and supports the Alaska economy. The work we do is challenging, and through this position you will be introduced to many facets of land and resource management and development. The office environment is friendly, relaxed, and highly supportive. You may have the option of flexible work schedules and telework.

The Working Environment You Can Expect:

This position is being recruited in Anchorage and Juneau. Regardless of location, the incumbent will work in a private cubicle in an office setting. Both locations offer free parking and easy access to nearby shops and restaurants.

The daily routine for this position includes collaborating on projects in all forms, making decisions, discussing policy, and communicating clearly and consistently with team members and supervisors. Core office hours are 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., with an 8-hour daily work schedule, Monday through Friday; however, work schedules are flexible. Although this position is primarily office-based, there will be occasional opportunities to travel to conduct and assist with field inspections, public meetings, and/or training.

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

Project Management: Knowledge of the principles, methods, or tools for developing, scheduling, coordinating, and managing projects and resources, including monitoring and inspecting costs, work, and contractor performance.

Leadership: Influences, motivates, and challenges others; adapts leadership styles to a variety of situations.

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.

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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 rather than specific tasks and serve only 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:

Accountability:

Holds self and others accountable for measurable high-quality, timely, and cost-effective results. Determines objectives, sets priorities, and delegates work. Accepts responsibility for own actions and decisions. Complies with established control systems and rules.

Administration and Management:

Knowledge of planning, coordination, and execution of business functions, resource allocation, and production.

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.

Influencing/Negotiating:

Persuades others; builds consensus through give and take; gains cooperation from others to obtain information and accomplish goals.

equivalent to those typically gained by:

Education in a natural resource field, law, public administration, planning or economics and/or

progressively responsible professional experience in natural resource management.

Definitions:

“Competencies” means a combination of interrelated knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors that enable a person to act effectively in a job or situation.

“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, difficulty, or level of responsibility.

“Qualified” means is assessed to credibly possess the competencies needed to learn the job in a reasonable period.

“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.

“Typically gained by” means the prevalent, usual method of gaining the competencies expected for entry into the job.

Special Note:

For purposes of the minimum qualifications, natural resource management is defined as the management of the land, water, mineral, forest, oil, gas, agricultural, archaeological, natural and cultural history, park, and related surface and subsurface resources. Experience or education in natural resource management means involvement in the above resources exclusively. Those with experience or education in managing these resources may specialize in different management functions (for example, planning, regulation, research or title). All of this experience is applicable to the natural resource management definition. Some positions may require education in a particular area of natural resource management or specific technical knowledge and training gained through specialized education or progressively greater responsibilities at the lower levels of the series.

Starting Salaries

Anchorage

$2960.80

Juneau

$3108.60

Additional Required Information

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