Research Analyst 4 - Section Chief, Office of History & Archaeology

Job Description

The Department of Natural Resources, Division of

Parks & Outdoor Recreation, Office of History and Archaeology,

is recruiting for a

Section Chief (Research Analyst 4) in Anchorage.

This position is open to Department of Natural Resources employees only

Only permanent State employees currently working for or laid off from the recruiting department's classified service may apply.

What You Will Be Doing:

Serve as the Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer and provide leadership and direction for Alaska’s state and federal historic preservation programs.

Direct and oversee programs for identifying, evaluating, documenting, and protecting Alaska’s historic and archaeological resources, including National Register and Section 106 activities.

Provide executive-level analysis and advice on historic preservation policies, regulations, legislation, planning, and complex resource management issues.

Manage program budgets, grants, contracts, agreements, and financial activities, ensuring compliance with state and federal requirements.

Provide leadership and technical guidance for state historic parks and cultural resource programs, supervise staff, and represent the Office of History & Archaeology (OHA) with government agencies, tribes, communities, consultants, and the public.

Mission and Values/Culture:

The Office of History and Archaeology (OHA) is Alaska's primary office with expertise in historic preservation, dedicated to preserving and interpreting Alaska's past, and serves as Alaska's State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. OHA administers programs authorized by both the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 and the Alaska Historic Preservation Act of 1971. The office works with local governments, the public, and educational and not-for-profit organizations to identify, preserve, protect, and interpret the state's cultural, historic, and archaeological resources, ensuring that our heritage is passed on to future generations.

Benefits of Joining Our Team:

Opportunity to work with a group of dedicated professionals committed to supporting your meaningful contributions. The position helps to shape historic preservation policy, offers insight into federal-state cultural resource programs, and assists local communities in preserving Alaska’s historic and culturally significant places. While the position requires full-time presence at OHA, work schedules may be flexible, especially during episodes of inclement weather.

The Working Environment You Can Expect:

OHA is an open office environment where the incumbent has access to desk space and a personal computer and participates in weekly in-person and virtual meetings. Fieldwork includes traveling to cities, towns, communities, and remote locations throughout Alaska to conduct field investigations, document historic properties, and prepare reports, including historic structure reports and documentation for National Register of Historic Places nominations. The position may involve being present at construction sites, which entails exposure to high levels of noise and working around moving machinery and mechanical parts.

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

Administration and Management: Knowledge of planning, coordination, and execution of business functions, resource allocation, and production.

History and Archaeology: Knowledge of historical events and their causes, indicators, and impact on particular civilizations and cultures, and of preservation and archival techniques.

Budget Administration: Knowledge of the principles and practices of budget administration and analysis, including preparing, justifying, reporting on, and executing the budget; and the relationships among program, budget, accounting, and reporting systems.

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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 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

Analysis and Assessment:

Uses information technology in accessing, collecting, analyzing, maintaining, and disseminating data and information.

Problem Solving:

Identifies and analyzes problems; weighs relevance and accuracy of information; generates and evaluates alternative solutions; makes recommendations.

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.

Accountability:

Holds self and others accountable for measurable high-quality, timely, and cost-effective results. Determines objectives, sets priorities, and delegates work. Accepts responsibility for own actions and decisions. Complies with established control systems and rules.

Leadership:

Influences, motivates, and challenges others; adapts leadership styles to a variety of situations.

equivalent to those typically gained by:

Education and/or progressively responsible professional experience which included investigative research or statistical analysis.

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.

“Progressively responsible” means indicating growth and/or advancement in complexity, difficulty, or level of responsibility.

“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.

Additional Required Information

At the time of the interview

,

please bring the following materials. Failure to do so may result in loss of consideration. Required documents include:

Cover Letter (see instructions below).

Resume.

Three professional references, including a former employer.

Transcripts, if relied upon to meet minimum qualifications.

Writing sample where you served as sole author or major contributor.

Driver's license.

SPECIAL NOTICES

Requires statewide travel; some may not have commercial accommodation

Public engagement, along with virtual and in-p