Procurement Specialist 3

Job Description

This Individual Position is Exempt from the Hiring Freeze. Qualified Applicants are Encouraged To Apply.

Welcome to the Department of Health!

We’d be delighted to have you join our team.

If you envision yourself in this role and are ready to start an exciting career with us, apply today!

This position is open to current State of Alaska employees only.

Please check the definition below to determine if you qualify.

What you will be doing:

As a Procurement Specialist 3, you will play a key role in managing and administering complex, high-impact procurement activities for the Department of Health. You’ll drive key processes such as commodity purchases, professional service contracts, alternate procurements, exemptions, and intergovernmental agreements, ensuring every action aligns with state laws, regulations, and policies.

This position includes supervisory responsibilities, guiding and supporting a team of three procurement specialists through assigning and reviewing work, providing hands-on coaching, and conducting performance evaluations. Your leadership will elevate team performance and strengthen procurement services across the department.

This is an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful impact, with your expertise and energy helping shape the division’s success and enhance the health programs that support Alaskans statewide.

Our organization, mission, and culture:

The Division of Departmental Support Services (DSS) provides essential administrative, financial, and operational support that enables the Department of Health to deliver programs and services effectively across Alaska. Our mission is rooted in accountability, collaboration, and service excellence, with the processes that support the health and well-being of Alaskans. As a Procurement Specialist 3, your role is critical to this success by securing goods and professional or non-professional services that keep vital programs running efficiently and in compliance with state and federal requirements. In addition to leading and supporting a team of procurement staff to foster professional growth and ensure high-quality and timely services

The benefits of joining our team:

You’ll be part of a collaborative, mission-driven team that values innovation, integrity, and professional growth. Expect a workplace where your contributions are recognized, and your professional development is encouraged. Your work will have a direct impact on improving health outcomes for Alaskans by ensuring resources are available where they are needed most.

The working environment you can expect:

This position will be based in Anchorage and provides a professional office setting with access to modern tools and technology. You will work in a fast-paced environment that emphasizes teamwork, problem-solving, and continuous improvement.

Who we are looking for:

The ideal candidate will possess some or all of the following position-specific competencies in addition to the minimum qualifications listed below:

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.

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.

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.

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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 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.

Please ensure your application (through work history, training, education, licenses, certifications, etc.) supports/demonstrates that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class.  Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in

Contracting/Procurement/Property Control:

Knowledge of various types of contracts, techniques, or requirements for contracting or procurement, contract negotiation and administration; procedures for routine and non-routine purchases; practices and methods used for property control activities, including acquisition, storage, accounting, and controlled property excess.

Compliance:

Knowledge of procedures for assessing, evaluating, and monitoring programs or projects for compliance with Federal laws, regulations, and guidance.

Technical Competence:

Uses knowledge that is acquired through formal training or extensive on-the-job experience to perform one's job; works with, understands, and evaluates technical information related to the job; advises others on technical issues.

Writing:

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

Equivalent to those typically gained by:

Any combination of preparatory post-secondary education and/or professional level experience in business administration, logistics, supply chain management, project management, or a related field performing property control, purchasing, contract administration, writing or approving solicitations, explaining contracting requirements, developing or approving product specifications or, developing or approving a scope of work for professional services.

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 i