# Procurement Specialist 5 — Environmental Conservation · Alaska Jobs [← The Board](https://alaskajobs.org/) · [State & local government jobs](https://alaskajobs.org/jobs/government) # Procurement Specialist 5 Environmental Conservation - **Location** — Multiple Locations, AK - **PCN** — 187131 - **Salary** — $3,623.20 - $3,804.00 Biweekly (Range 21) - **Type** — Full Time - **Open to** — Department Employees Only - **Bargaining unit** — Supervisory - **Timing** — Year-round - **Posted** — 2026-10-07 - **Closes** — 2026-10-14 - **Source** — Workplace Alaska (State of Alaska) (synced) Job Description THIS RECRUITMENT IS FOR DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION EMPLOYEES ONLY This position is being recruited for in Anchorage, Soldotna, Wasilla, Fairbanks, or Juneau. Pay will be determined based on location of selected individual. Anchorage, Soldotna, Wasilla salary: $3,623.20 Fairbanks salary: $3,732.00 Juneau salary: $3,804.00 What you will be doing: In this role you will lead and manage construction related procurement activities for the Village Safe Water Program (VSW), including formal and informal procurements, professional services agreements, contract awards, and contract management, while ensuring procurement actions comply with state and federal requirements, department policies, the Village Safe Water Act, and the State Procurement Code. This position supervises procurement staff, provides guidance on procurement strategy, and serves as a key resource for complex contracting questions, disputes, and negotiations. You will work closely with project teams and executive leadership to support consistent, timely, and well-documented procurement actions for water infrastructure projects. Our organization, mission, and culture: At the Division of Administrative Services, we value customer service, accountability, excellence, and integrity and seek a candidate with similar values to support the Department and Division’s goals. In your role, you will have a direct impact on improving water and sanitation needs in Alaska. The benefits of joining our team: There are many benefits to joining the Division of Administrative Services team including a positive work environment, telework options, ample training opportunities, and dedicated professional staff. This position is housed within the Division’s Facilities Support section as assigned specifically to the Village Safe Water program. We value each member’s contribution and work collaboratively to implement forward thinking strategies to support the Department’s mission to protect public health and the environment. The working environment you can expect: The physical location of this position will be in either Juneau, Anchorage, Fairbanks, Wasilla, or Soldotna, with telework options available for those who qualify. The work environment is friendly, professional, and collaborative, with regular interaction with colleagues, outside agencies, and the public. We are looking for a candidate that has experience in the following areas: 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. 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 to accept recommendations, cooperate, or change their behavior; works with others towards an agreement; negotiates to find mutually acceptable solutions. Managing Human Resources: Plans, distributes, coordinates, and monitors work assignments of others; 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. Technical Credibility: Understands and appropriately applies principles, procedures, requirements, regulations, and policies related to specialized expertise. Special Notice: Level 3 Procurement Certification from the State of Alaska, Office of Procurement and Property Management is required for this position. Certification upon hire is preferred or must be obtained within 3 months of hire. 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, as opposed to 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. 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. 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 to accept recommendations, cooperate, or change their behavior; works with others towards an agreement; negotiates to find mutually acceptable solutions. Managing Human Resources: Plans, distributes, coordinates, and monitors work assignments of others; 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. Technical Credibility: Understands and appropriately applies principles, procedures, requirements, regulations, and policies related to specialized expertise. Equivalent to those typically gained by: Any combination of preparatory post-secondary education and/or progressively responsible 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 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 [Apply at the source ↗](https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/alaska/jobs/5509173/procurement-specialist-5-pcn-187131) ## 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. 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