Natural Resource Specialist 1 (Pcn 10-N22017)

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The State of Alaska, Department of Natural Resources (DNR), Division of Mining, Land & Water (DMLW) is seeking to fill a professional level Natural Resource Specialist (NRS) 1 long-term non-permanent position in the Southeast Regional Lands Office in Juneau. This position is part of a team that manages state land in the Southeast Region.

While the team is primarily responsible for adjudicating permits, they also manage general state land, which includes addressing trespass, general use of state land, and access-related issues. The Southeast Regional Lands Office is a strong, cohesive, and positive team. If you are a Natural Resource professional looking to be on such a team, this is the opportunity for you!

This position is a long-term, non-permanent position, but offers the opportunity to obtain experience for future permanent positions.

Mission and Culture

The DMLW mission is "to provide for the appropriate use and management of Alaska's state-owned land and water, aiming toward maximum use consistent with the public interest." The Regional Lands Sections supports this mission by issuing land use authorizations that allow for responsible development and use of state land. This position plays a key role in the DMLW mission by adjudicating authorizations for the use of state land, primarily permits. This position has a direct impact on facilitating land use and development for the economic health of the State and its citizens while also balancing the stewardship role inherent in managing public lands in trust for the public.

The Southeast Region Lands Office is made up of a group of dedicated professionals committed to serving the public and managing the land and resources. The work environment is focused on understanding and learning. The team is supportive of one another, and we work towards collaborative and creative solutions to work challenges.

Core Responsibilities

The Long-Term Non-Permanent (LTNP) employee will assist in adjudicating applications to use state land, primarily permits, and provide support for senior-level adjudicators and managers. This position will focus on the Division backlog project. For this effort in the Southeast Region, the backlog consists mostly of legacy permit, lease, and easement applications.

• Continue ongoing inventory of backlog files to identify issues, categorize for adjudication, contact applicants for more information, and develop priorities for adjudication.

• Adjudication involves land research, conducting agency reviews and public notices, writing decisions, working with applicants to provide deliverables, and issuing final decisions.

• Assist with casefile tracking and reporting.

• Adjudicate land use authorizations with an emphasis on adjudicating backlog, and legacy permit applications.

• Assist with the adjudication of other authorizations as needed.

• Conduct field work to obtain data necessary for creating location diagrams.

• Use GIS to create location diagrams for authorizations.

Benefits of Joining Our Team

The Southeast Region Lands Office offers meaningful work in a friendly and supportive environment, training and professional development opportunities, and a flexible work environment. While this position is not permanent, it does offer the opportunity to obtain the knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully apply for future permanent positions.

The Working Environment You Can Expect

The position is located on the fourth floor at 400 Willoughby in Downtown Juneau. The location offers free surface or covered parking and provides easy access to all that downtown Juneau has to offer.

 The daily work environment for DMLW Southeast Regional Office is collaborative, supportive, and teamwork-oriented. Hybrid telework schedules are an option for this position.

The knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies needed to be successful in this position include:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to write clear, concise, legally defensible decision documents.

• Ability to draft professional emails and provide superb customer service both in-person and over the phone.

• Experience interpreting and applying statutes, regulations, policies, and land management plans for the purpose of determining their applicability for proposed uses of state land.

• Research abilities, including reading, interpreting, and applying information from land records, plats and maps, legal documents, and policies and procedures.

• Ability to work independently, take initiative, manage multiple tasks, achieve deadlines, and exercise sound judgment under general supervision.

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.

• 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.

• Reading: Understands and interprets written material, including technical material, rules, regulations, instructions, reports, charts, graphs, or tables; applies what is learned from written material to specific situations.

• 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 from an accredited college and/or 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.

"Qualified" means is assessed to credibly possess the competencies needed to learn the job in a reasonable period.

"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.

"Typically gained by" means the prevalent, usual method of gaining the competencies expected for entry into the job.

Special Note:

For purposes of the minimum qualifications, natural resource management is defined as the management of the land, water, mineral, forest, oil, gas, agricultural, archaeological, natural and cultural history, park, and related surface and subsurface resources. Experience or education in natural resource management means involvement in the above resources exclusively.

Those with experience or education in managing these resources may specialize in different management functions (for example, planning, regulation, research or title). All of this experience is applicable to the natural resource management definition. Some positions may require education in a particular area of natural resource management or specific technical knowledge and training gained through specialized education or progressively greater responsibilities at the lower levels of the series.

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THIS RECRUITMENT IS FOR ALASKA RESIDENTS ONLY

This recruitment is open to Alaska Residents only. Applicants must meet Alaska Residency Requirements to be considered for employment at this time.

If selected for an interview, the applicant must provide the following:

• A copy of any documents necessary to show proof of meeting the minimum qualifications of this position. This includes a copy of your college transcripts if you are using education to meet the position's minimum qualifications.
• A copy of your last two performance evaluations (if you are a current or former State of Alaska employee), or two letters or similar performance assessments from former supervisors (if you are not a current or former State of Alaska employee or if performance evaluations are unavailable).
• A list of three professional references with current contact information, one of which must be from a current or former supervisor.

Application Notice

You can ONLY apply for this position through the Workplace Alaska website or a hardcopy application. Instructions on how to apply with Workplace Alaska may be found on the Workplace Alaska "How to Apply" page.

Your application must be submitted by 5:00 p.m. Alaska Standard Time on the closing date.

Supplemental Questions

A cover letter is NOT required for this position. This recruitment utilizes a supplemental questionnaire as part of the application process.

The questions may be a mix of written, yes/no, multiple-choice, and select-all-that-apply. Your responses will allow you to tell us about your experience and/or education. Your complete application, including supplemental questions, will be used to determine which applicants will advance to the interview phase of the recruitment and selection process.

Education

If post-secondary education is required to meet the minimum qualifications, you must fill out the Education section of the application. If you have not obtained a degree, please indicate the units completed. Copies of transcripts are required to verify educational credentials if used to meet the minimum qualifications for a position.

Special Instructions for Foreign Education

Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the minimum qualifications listed above. If utilizing this education, you must show that the education credentials have been submitted to a private organization that specializes in the interpretation of foreign educational credentials and that such education has been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education programs; or an accredited U.S. post-secondary institution reports the other institution as one whose transcript is given full value, or full value is given in subject areas applicable to the curricula at the post-secondary institution. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.

Work Experience

If using work experience not already documented in your application, also provide the employer's name, job title, employment dates, and whether full or part-time. Applications will be reviewed to determine whether the responses are supported and minimum qualifications are clearly met. If they are not, the applicant may not advance to the recruitment interview and selection phase.

Note: Attaching a resume is not an alternative to filling out the application entirely. Noting, "see resume" or any similar response on any portion of your application may lead to a determination that your application is incomplete and removal from consideration for this job posting.

Bargaining Unit

If you are a current state employee, please mark the union you are a member of at the time of application. Do not complete this question if you are not a current state employee.

EEO Statement

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For specific information about this position, please get in touch with the hiring manager at the following:

Name: Kaitlyn Raffier

Title: Southeast Regional Manager

Phone: (907) 465-3406

Email: Kaitlyn.raffier@alaska.gov