Natural Resource Specialist 1/2/3 (PCN 10-1713)

State of Alaska; Fairbanks (AK); On-site; USD 54,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

State of Alaska is seeking a Natural Resource Specialist 1–3 to work in Anchorage as part of the Realty Services Section. The role involves reviewing land titles, BLM decisions, and title documents to ensure the State's land portfolio meets entitlement requirements.

The team emphasizes accuracy, collaboration, and commitment to timelines, with flexibility for part-time telework and reliable customer service to stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Analytical Thinking/Problem-Solving: apply logical, systematic analysis to problems.
• Oral Communication: convey information clearly to audiences, including technical or sensitive topics.
• Reading: interpret technical material, rules, and reports and apply them to situations.
• Writing: produce concise, well-structured written material and reports.

Responsibilities

• Review land title histories to ensure lands are free of contamination, trespass, or other concerns.
• Review BLM decisions and actions to protect public and State rights.
• Review land title documents for accuracy and enter into public records.
• Prepare detailed, well-researched documents addressing complex land ownership questions and make defensible recommendations.

Skills

Analytical Thinking

Oral Communication

Reading

Writing

Education

Education in natural resource management

Job description

Natural Resource Specialist 1/2/3 (PCN 10-1713) in Anchorage, AK | GovernmentJobs.com page has loaded.

The Department of Natural Resources, Division of Mining, Land & Water, is recruiting for a Natural Resource Specialist 1/2/3 Flex in Anchorage.

This position is open to Alaska Residents only.

The Realty Services Section, Statehood Entitlement Team, is seeking someone to join our 7-person team that is responsible for acquiring new lands from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to fulfill the State's land entitlement under the Alaska Statehood Act. In this position, you will be:

• Review land title (land use history) to ensure lands are free of contamination, trespass, or other concerns and will add value to the State's portfolio of public lands.
• Review BLM decisions and other actions to protect both the public's and State's rights.
• Review land title documents for accuracy and ensure title documents are entered into the public record.
• Prepare detailed and well-researched documents addressing complex land ownership questions, make recommendations, and make legally defensible decisions on the acquisition or relinquishment of land selections.

Mission and Values/Culture

The Statehood Entitlement Team ensures the State receives clear title, free of encumbrances, to the highest-quality, highest-value lands from the federal government to complete Alaska’s entitlement. This position requires outside-the-box thinking, the ability to balance multiple competing interests and needs, and the persistence to stick with projects that require multiple years to complete. Our Team values accuracy, responsibility, tenacity, collaboration, mentoring, meeting deadlines, and providing excellent customer service.

Benefits of Joining Our Team

This position is part of a team uniquely tasked with determining which lands will be conveyed to the State to complete its entitlement. This is an opportunity to play an active role in building the State’s land base through the statehood land grants. We strive to ensure that the remaining entitlement lands are of the highest value and quality. The Realty Section is a dynamic, positive learning environment that supports teamwork and collaboration, but also requires and supports autonomous work that fits staff needs. Career advancement is available through the Natural Resource Specialist series within the Department of Natural Resources.

The Working Environment You Can Expect

Realty Services is an excellent environment for those seeking a work-life balance. Parking is provided, and secure bike storage is available for pedal commuters. The daily work environment is quiet and consists of research-based desk work, with opportunities to collaborate within and outside the section. The Realty Team is friendly, cooperative, and supportive. Our section supports flexible hours or the option of an alternate work week, and the position is potentially eligible for part-time telework.

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

• Critical Thinking: Uses logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Attention to Detail: Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.
• 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.

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

Natural Resource Specialist 1 – Starting Salary $2059.50

Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in:

• Analytical Thinking/Problem-Solving: using a logical, systematic, sequential approach to address problems or opportunities or manage a situation by drawing on one’s knowledge and experience 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.

Natural Resource Specialist 2 – Starting Salary $2365.50

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.
• 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.
• Legal, Government, and Jurisprudence: Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, legal practices and documents, Government regulations, Executive orders, agency rules, Government organization and functions, and the democratic political process.
• 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.
• 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 in a natural resource field (such as forestry, geology, agronomy, and hydrology), public administration, planning, economics, cartography, or a closely related field and/or professional-level experience in natural resource management.

Natural Resource Specialist 3 – Starting Salary $2725.50

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.
• 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.
• Environmental Science:Knowledge of the interdisciplinary concepts, principles, theories, and methods of investigating the natural and physical environment, including examination of ecology, biology, physics, chemistry, plant science, zoology, mineralogy, oceanography, limnology, soil science, geology and physical geography, atmospheric, and other related sciences in the protection and improvement of the environment and its resources.
• Legal, Government, and Jurisprudence: Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, legal practices and documents, Government regulations, Executive orders, agency rules, Government organization and functions, and the democratic political process.
• 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 in a natural resource field such as forestry, geology, agronomy, and hydrology, law, public administration, planning, economics, or a closely related field and/or progressively responsible professional 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.
• 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 in complexity, difficulty, or level of responsibility.
• Qualified - means 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, online, self-study, and on-the-job), from accredited and unaccredited sources, and programs of long duration (such as a post-secondary degree) and short duration (such as a seminar).
• 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.

Driver’s License Requirement

A driver’s license is desired but not required.

EEO STATEMENT

The State of Alaska complies with Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Individuals with disabilities who require accommodation, auxiliary aids or services, or alternative communication formats should call 1-800-587-0430 or [phone] in Juneau or TTY: Alaska Relay 711 or 1-800-770-8973 or correspond with the Division of Personnel & Labor Relations at P.O. Box 110201, Juneau, AK 99811-0201. The State of Alaska is an equal opportunity employer.

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Employer State of Alaska

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Juneau, Alaska, 99811

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