Park Superintendent

Job Description

The Department of Natural Resources, Division of

Parks & Outdoor Recreation,

is recruiting for a

Park Superintendent in 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 manages the operations of Alaska State Park units across the Southeast Region, including major communities such as Juneau, Sitka, Ketchikan, and Haines. The incumbent supervises field staff, seasonal employees, and volunteers while directing maintenance, enforcement, and resource management activities to ensure safe facilities and protection of natural and cultural resources. The position oversees regional budgets, contracts, and revenue programs, ensuring park operations are conducted efficiently and within authorized funding levels. The superintendent works closely with local communities, partner agencies, and stakeholders to address land management issues, permits, and park development projects. The position also implements park management plans and policies while resolving complex operational, environmental, and public use challenges across the region.

Mission and Values/Culture:

The Alaska Department of Natural Resources (DNR) manages Alaska’s natural resources for the maximum benefit of the people of Alaska, ensuring responsible stewardship for current and future generations. Within DNR, the Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation (DPOR) protects and manages Alaska’s state parks while providing high-quality outdoor recreation opportunities and preserving natural, cultural, and historic resources. The Field Operations section carries out this mission by maintaining park facilities, protecting park resources, ensuring visitor safety, and delivering consistent services across Alaska’s diverse and often remote park units. Our culture emphasizes public service, stewardship of public lands, teamwork, professionalism, and accountability in the management of Alaska’s state park system. Staff work collaboratively with communities, partner agencies, and stakeholders to ensure parks remain accessible, well-managed, and sustainable for all Alaskans and visitors.

Benefits of Joining Our Team:

Working in Alaska State Parks Field Operations provides the opportunity to contribute directly to the stewardship and management of some of Alaska’s most iconic public lands. Employees play a meaningful role in protecting natural and cultural resources while ensuring safe, high-quality outdoor recreation opportunities for residents and visitors. Team members gain valuable experience in public land management, leadership, and collaboration with local communities, partner agencies, and stakeholders across the state. The position offers opportunities for professional growth, training, and career advancement within the Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation and the Department of Natural Resources. Employees also benefit from the rewards of public service, working with a dedicated team committed to protecting Alaska’s parks and maintaining access to outdoor recreation for future generations.

The Working Environment You Can Expect:

This position is based in Juneau, Alaska, a coastal capital city known for its access to world-class outdoor recreation, vibrant community, and proximity to many Southeast Alaska State Park units. The work environment includes a combination of office-based planning and administrative duties with regular travel throughout the Southeast Region, including communities such as Sitka, Haines, and Ketchikan. The position requires periodic field visits by vehicle, boat, or small aircraft to inspect park facilities, meet with staff and partners, and oversee operations in remote park locations.

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

Self-Management: Sets well-defined and realistic personal goals; displays a high level of initiative, effort, and commitment towards completing assignments in a timely manner; works with minimal supervision; is motivated to achieve; demonstrates responsible behavior.

Supervision: Plans, distributes, and monitors work assignments; sets task priorities; evaluates work performance and provides feedback to others on their performance; ensures that staff are appropriately selected, utilized, and developed, and that they are treated in a fair and equitable manner. Assignments include the authority and responsibility to recommend or independently take action to employ (i.e., appoint, transfer, promote), discipline or discharge, or adjudicate grievances of direct reports.

Public Planning: Knowledge of functions, principles, methods, and techniques of public planning, including those related to community planning, outdoor recreation planning, and natural resource management, such as demand forecasting, environmental impact analysis, financial forecasting, and land use planning and zoning.

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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

Possess a valid driver’s license.

AND

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.

Human Capital Management:

Builds and manages workforce based on organizational goals, budget considerations, and staffing needs. Ensures that employees are appropriately recruited, selected, appraised, and rewarded; takes action to address performance problems. Manages a multi-sector workforce and a variety of work situations.

Parks and Recreation Management:

Knowledge of the principles, practices, and theories of parks and recreation management related to preserving, enhancing, maintaining, and protecting natural, historical, and cultural resources within park lands while considering the safety and welfare of park visitors.

Partnering:

Develops networks and builds alliances; collaborates across boundaries to build strategic relationships and achieve common goals.

Planning and Evaluating:

Organizes work, sets priorities, and determines resource requirements; determines short- or long-term goals and strategies to achieve them; coordinates with other organizations or parts of the organization to accomplish goals; monitors progress and evaluates outcomes.

Equivalent to those typically gained by:

Any combination of progressively responsible professional experience managing a region and/or unit’s budget, administering programs, and/or prioritizing and allocating funds; progressively responsible professional experience in government policy and/or planning; experience supervising staff with varied responsibilities and priorities; and/or post-secondary education in a natural or physical science, outdoor studies, management, and/or