Criminal Justice Information Services Administrator 2 (Bureau Chief PCN 124611)

State of Alaska; Anchorage (AK); On-site; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

State of Alaska, Department of Public Safety, is seeking a Bureau Chief for Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) in Anchorage. The role provides statewide leadership, vision, and strategic direction within the Division of Statewide Services.

The Bureau Chief will oversee essential programs, manage contracts and federal grants, mentor staff, and collaborate with partner agencies to advance public safety data sharing while ensuring compliance with state and federal requirements.

Qualifications

• Experience leading state-level programs and initiatives.
• Strong strategic planning and vision for data management.
• Familiar with public safety data systems and compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Provide statewide leadership for CJIS program and set strategic direction.
• Oversee essential programs including sex offender registry, criminal history repository, licensing initiatives, and records management.
• Mentor staff, manage contracts and federal grants, ensure financial compliance.
• Collaborate with partner agencies to advance public safety data sharing.

Skills

Leadership

Program oversight

Fiscal management

Collaboration

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in public administration or related field

Job description

Criminal Justice Information Services Administrator 2 (Bureau Chief PCN 124611) in Anchorage, AK

Are you passionate about public safety and data management? If so, please consider joining the Division of Statewide Services in the Department of Public Safety! We are seeking a new Bureau Chief to lead the Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Program. The Bureau Chief provides statewide leadership, vision, and strategic direction within the Division of Statewide Services.

Key Responsibilities:

• Program Oversight: Manage essential programs including the sex offender registry, criminal history repository, statewide licensing initiatives, and the department’s records management unit.
• Leadership: Mentor, support, and provide direction to our amazing team and represent Alaska on national boards and committees.
• Fiscal Management: Oversee contracts and federal grants to ensure financial stability and compliance with state and federal requirements.
• Collaboration: Work closely with partner agencies to promote and facilitate public safety data sharing initiatives.

Job Description

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

Are you passionate about public safety and data management? If so, please consider joining the Division of Statewide Services in the Department of Public Safety! We are seeking a new Bureau Chief to lead the Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Program. The Bureau Chief provides statewide leadership, vision, and strategic direction within the Division of Statewide Services.

Key Responsibilities:

• Program Oversight: Manage essential programs including the sex offender registry, criminal history repository, statewide licensing initiatives, and the department’s records management unit.
• Leadership: Mentor, support, and provide direction to our amazing team and represent Alaska on national boards and committees.
• Fiscal Management: Oversee contracts and federal grants to ensure financial stability and compliance with state and federal requirements.
• Collaboration: Work closely with partner agencies to promote and facilitate public safety data sharing initiatives.

OUR ORGANIZATION, MISSION, AND CULTURE:

The Department of Public Safety’s mission is protecting life, property, and Alaska’s natural resources and providing critical support to communities across Alaska to ensure all Alaskans have access to public safety services. The Division of Statewide Services, one of seven divisions in the department, supports this mission by maintaining the integrity, security, and efficiency of Alaska’s criminal history record, fingerprint identification, and justice information systems supporting law enforcement and the broader criminal justice community.

By overseeing these essential systems, this high-impact leadership position advances public safety, ensures compliance with state and federal laws, and enables effective data sharing, policy development, and operational excellence in alignment with the department’s mission. We support an environment focused on teamwork and collaboration to achieve results, leveraging intellectual curiosity and a spirit of continuous improvement.

THE BENEFITS OF JOINING OUR TEAM:

This position oversees multiple sections that provide statewide support through subordinate managers. In this position you will gain experience and further develop your career in these key areas:

• Statewide Impact:Help shape public safety policies and systems that directly support law enforcement, employers, licensing agencies, and public safety across Alaska.
• Professional Growth: Utilize and further develop your leadership, program management, and fiscal management skills by overseeing complex initiatives using data-driven decision making to enhance program effectiveness.
• Collaborative Environment: Work closely with a dedicated team and collaborate with local, state, and federal partners to advance public safety policies and initiatives.

THE WORKING CONDITIONS YOU CAN EXPECT:

This position is based at the Department of Public Safety (DPS) Headquarters, located at 5700 East Tudor Road in East Anchorage. The facility offers ample on-site parking and is directly served by public transportation. Scenic paved trails and views of the Chugach Mountains surround the building.

You will work closely with the Deputy Bureau and other members of the management team who all work at the same location as well as with partner organizations both within and outside Alaska. Quarterly out-of-state travel is required to attend national conferences representing Alaska.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

• Personnel Development:Knowledge of human resource concepts, principles, and practices related to determining workload projections and current and future competency gaps to align staffing with organizational goals.
• Performance Measurement:Has knowledge of the principles and methods for evaluating program or organizational performance using metrics and outcomes, goal setting, and performance review and improvement.
• Financial Administration:Develop and administer large operational budgets with multiple funding sources, allocate resources strategically, and ensure fiscal stewardship aligned with performance objectives and public accountability expectations.

The Department of Public Safety strives to preserve the peace, enforce the law, prevent and detect crime, and protect life and property. All positions support or carry out the Department's mission. If our mission interests you and this position embodies your strengths, please consider joining our team.

More information about the Department of P ublic Safety can be found on our website: http://dps.alaska.gov/

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:

• Compliance: Knowledge of procedures for assessing, evaluating, and monitoring programs or projects for compliance with Federal laws, regulations, and guidance.
• Decisiveness: Makes well-informed, effective, and timely decisions, even when data are limited or solutions produce unpleasant consequences; perceives the impact and implications of decisions.
• Flexibility: Is open to change and new information; adapts behavior or work methods in response to new information, changing conditions, or unexpected obstacles; effectively deals with uncertainty.
• Internal Controls: Knowledge of the principles, methods, and techniques for establishing internal control activities (for example, authorizations, verifications, reconciliations), monitoring their use, and evaluating their performance (for example, identification of material weaknesses or significant deficiencies).
• Leadership: Influences, motivates, and challenges others; adapts leadership styles to a variety of situations.
• Vision: Takes a long‑term view and builds a shared vision with others; acts as a catalyst for organizational change. Influences others to translate vision into action.

Equivalent to those typically gained by: Any combination of training and/or education in criminal justice, justice programs, political science, planning, business or public administration, business management, computer science, or a closely related field; and/or progressively responsible professional experience, which includes lead and/or supervisory experience in law, law enforcement or adjudication, corrections, criminal justice planning, adult or juvenile justice, and/or crime prevention.

Special Note: As part of the examination process, an extensive background investigation, including a criminal record check and fingerprinting for conviction of felony crimes or serious misdemeanors will be performed.

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.

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

COVER LETTER:

A cover letter is NOT required for this position. Your complete application will be used to determine which applicants will advance to the interview phase of the recruitment and selection process.

SPECIAL NOTES ABOUT THE POSITION

• Requires periodic travel outside the State.
• Requires use of the Alaska Public Safety Information Network (ASPIN), which includes passing a background investigation and fingerprint based criminal history record check.
• CJIS security clearance is required

AT TIME OF INTERVIEW:

• A copy of academic transcripts (unofficial are acceptable but must include the institution name/URL on documents provided) if required to meet minimum qualifications.
• A copy of your two (2) most recent performance evaluations; if unavailable, two (2) professional letters of reference may be substituted.
• A list of three (3) professional references including daytime telephone numbers and email address; at least two (2) of these must be for a current or former supervisor.

BACKGROUND CHECK:

This position requires the incumbent to submit to a fingerprint based criminal history background check. Due to the sensitive nature of this position, and required access to APSIN, an applicant with criminal convictions will not move forward in the selection process.

CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT

The successful candidate will be required to read, understand, and agree to via signature, an agreement of confidentiality concerning the work commonly encountered within the Department of Public Safety to qualify for this position.

EDUCATION:

To verify education is being used to meet and/or support the required minimum qualifications/competencies, you must fill in the Education section of the application. If you have not obtained a degree, please indicate the number of units completed. Copies of transcripts are required to verify educational credentials used to meet or support the minimum qualifications/competencies for a position and are required with each application. (Unofficial is okay; please ensure the institution/URL name is listed on the transcripts). Transcripts can be attached at the time of application or provided at the time of interview; if not, transcripts will be required before employment.

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR FOREIGN EDUCATION:

Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the above requirements, if applicable. If utilizing this education you must show that the education credentials have been submitted to a private organization that specializes in 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. state university 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 state university. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Applications will be reviewed to determine if minimum qualifications are met. Therefore, all work experiences the applicant is using to meet minimum qualifications for this position must be documented in the application package. Please include the employer’s name, your job title, dates of employment, and whether the employment was full or part‑time. Applicants who submit packages that do not provide sufficient information to demonstrate minimum qualifications are met may not advance in the selection process.

NOTE: Attaching a