# Natural Resource Manager 3 - Mining Section Chief — Natural Resources · Alaska Jobs [← The Board](https://alaskajobs.org/) · [State & local government jobs](https://alaskajobs.org/jobs/government) # Natural Resource Manager 3 - Mining Section Chief Natural Resources - **Location** — Anchorage, AK - **PCN** — 10-1149 - **Salary** — $3,563.25 Biweekly (Range 22) - **Type** — Full Time - **Open to** — Alaska Residents Only - **Bargaining unit** — Supervisory - **Timing** — Year-round - **Posted** — 2026-10-27 - **Closes** — 2026-11-17 - **Source** — Workplace Alaska (State of Alaska) (synced) Job Description The Department of Natural Resources, Division of Mining, Land & Water, is recruiting a Natural Resource Manager 3 to serve as the Mining Section Chief in Anchorage. This position is open to Alaska Residents only. Please check our residency definition to determine if you qualify. What You Will Be Doing: Lead the team that drives responsible, high-impact development of Alaska's mineral resources. As Mining Section Chief, you'll set the strategic vision, guide complex mine permitting, and ensure the State leads with integrity, environmental stewardship, and expertise. This mission-critical leadership role sits at the center of a rapidly expanding mining sector energized by today's federal priorities. Step into a position where your leadership will shape Alaska's future and influence one of the nation's fastest-growing industries. Mission and Values/Culture: The Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Division of Mining, Land and Water, is dedicated to safeguarding and advancing the State's land and natural resources through responsible, forward-looking management aligned with our mission and vision to put Alaska's resources to work now and into the future. Join a mission- driven team leading responsible resource development at the heart of Alaska's growing mining sector. Benefits of Joining Our Team: This position offers a professional and supportive work environment with the ability to telework a couple of days per week or on a situational basis as needed. Join a team that values collaboration, meaningful public service work, and opportunities for continued professional growth within the Division and Department. The Working Environment You Can Expect: The role is based in downtown Anchorage in a northeast corner office that provides convenient access to state partners, public services, and urban amenities. We are looking for a candidate who possesses the following position-specific competencies. 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. Leadership: Influences, motivates, and challenges others; adapts leadership styles to a variety of situations. Conflict Management: Encourages creative tension and differences of opinion. Anticipates and takes steps to prevent counterproductive confrontations. Manages and resolves conflicts and disagreements in a constructive manner. 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: Administration and Management: Knowledge of planning, coordinating, and executing business functions, resource allocation, and production. Environmental Science: Knowledge of the interdisciplinary concepts, principles, theories, and methods of investigating the natural and physical environment, including examination of ecology, biology, physics, chemistry, plant science, zoology, mineralogy, oceanography, limnology, soil science, geology and physical geography, atmospheric, and other related sciences in the protection and improvement of the environment and its resources. Influencing/Negotiating: Persuades others; builds consensus through give and take; gains cooperation from others to obtain information and accomplish goals. 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. Vision: Understands where the organization is headed and how to make a contribution; takes a long- term view and recognizes opportunities to help the organization accomplish its objectives or move toward the vision. equivalent to those typically gained by: Education in a natural resource field, law, public administration, planning or economics and/or progressively responsible professional experience or managerial 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. Additional Required Information ** Please read the information below carefully. ** If invited to interview , please bring the following materials. Failure to do so may result in loss of consideration. Required documents include: Two professional writing samples; acceptable samples include letters, memoranda, reports, or more substantial documents where you served as the primary author. Three professional references. Copy of driver's license. SPECIAL NOTICES Requires some travel within the State, including rural locations Application Notice You can ONLY apply for this position through the Workplace Alaska website or by submitting a paper application. Instructions for applying are available on the Workplace Alaska How to Apply [Apply at the source ↗](https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/alaska/jobs/5531042/natural-resource-manager-3-mining-section-chief-pcn-10-1149) ## 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. Your name and contact stay sealed until they request an introduction and you approve it . Decline, and they never learn who asked. ## More on the board - [Finance Director](https://alaskajobs.org/job/finance-director-5530771) — Sitka (CBS) — Finance - [Appraiser I (RFT)](https://alaskajobs.org/job/appraiser-i-rft-5530943) — Mat-Su Borough — Finance - [Emergency Programs Training & Exercise Coordinator](https://alaskajobs.org/job/emergency-programs-training-exercise-coordinator-5530715) — Juneau (CBJ) — Administration [What this role pays in Alaska →](https://alaskajobs.org/salaries/natural-resource-manager) [More about Natural Resources →](https://alaskajobs.org/employers/natural-resources) [State & local government jobs →](https://alaskajobs.org/jobs/government) [Jobs in Anchorage →](https://alaskajobs.org/jobs/anchorage) [All Alaska jobs →](https://alaskajobs.org/) Posted on Alaska Jobs — the daily board for Alaska public-sector work. https://alaskajobs.org/job/natural-resource-manager-3-mining-section-chief-5531042 --- Markdown mirror of https://alaskajobs.org/job/natural-resource-manager-3-mining-section-chief-5531042 · full index: https://alaskajobs.org/llms.txt