Natural Resource Specialist 2/3

Job Description

The Department of Natural Resources, Division of

Mining, Land & Water,

is recruiting a

Natural Resource Specialist 2/3 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:

Experience the energy and excitement of Alaska's newest opportunities.

Be on the leading edge and shape Alaska's current and future minerals exploration and development.

Be part of a unique team of highly skilled, professional mineral properties adjudicators.

Learn to apply statutes and regulations, working with specialized programs like ESRI ArcGIS Pro to manage Alaska's mineral estate.

Support the public and mineral industry statewide.

Mission and Values/Culture:

The Mining Section is dedicated to responsibly exploring for and developing Alaska's unique and valuable mineral wealth for the benefit of Alaskans.

Benefits of Joining Our Team:

Join the Mineral Property Management team and be on the cutting edge of shaping the future of Alaska. Gain unique experiences, specialized technical knowledge, and practical skills to advance in a unique career. Leverage opportunities for growth and professional development in a growing, exciting industry.

The Working Environment You Can Expect:

Mineral Property Management's comfortable offices are close to the amenities of vibrant downtown Anchorage and offer ample parking. The office is near the walkable Anchorage Park Strip and boasts stunning views of Anchorage, the Chugach Mountains, and the Alaska Range. This position offers opportunities for travel to industry conferences and field excursions to amazing parts of rural and remote Alaska.

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

Teamwork: Encourages and facilitates cooperation, pride, trust, and group identity; fosters commitment and team spirit; works with others to achieve goals.

Reasoning: Identifies rules, principles, or relationships that explain facts, data, or other information; analyzes information and makes correct inferences or draws accurate conclusions.

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

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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

Natural Resource Specialist 2

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Starting Salary $2365.50

Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in:

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.

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.

Legal, Government, and Jurisprudence:

Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, legal practices and documents, Government regulations, Executive orders, agency rules, Government organization and functions, and the democratic political process.

Oral 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 presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.

Writing:

Recognizes or uses correct English grammar, punctuation, and spelling; communicates information (for example, facts, ideas, or messages) in a succinct and organized manner; produces written information, which may include technical material, that is appropriate for the intended audience.

Equivalent to those typically gained by:

Education in a natural resource field (such as forestry, geology, agronomy, and hydrology), public administration, planning, economics, cartography, or a closely related field and/or professional-level experience in natural resource management.

Natural Resource Specialist 3

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Starting Salary $2725.50

Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in:

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.

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.

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.

Legal, Government, and Jurisprudence:

Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, legal practices and documents, Government regulations, Executive orders, agency rules, Government organization and functions, and the democratic political process.

Writing:

Recognizes or uses correct English grammar, punctuation, and spelling; communicates information (for example, facts, ideas, or messages) in a succinct and organized manner; produces written information, which may include technical material, that is appropriate for the intended audience.

Equivalent to those typically gained by:

Education in a natural resource field such as forestry, geology, agronomy, and hydrology, law, public administration, planning, economics, or a closely related field 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 assessed to credibly possess the competencies needed to learn the job in a reasonable period.

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