Natural Resource Specialist 3

State of Alaska; Fairbanks (AK); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid telework model

Flexible work schedules

Career advancement

Land management training

Job summary

The State of Alaska is seeking two Natural Resource Specialist 3 professionals in Fairbanks to evaluate permit requests for state land uses and to authorize easements for long-term needs. You will prepare decisions documenting your reasoning and may travel for fieldwork.

Qualified applicants will possess competencies in analytical thinking, decision-making, environmental science, and knowledge of laws and procedures. A hybrid work model and opportunities for career advancement are offered.

Qualifications

• Analytical thinking and problem solving in natural resource issues.
• Sound decision-making under uncertainty with organizational impact.
• Knowledge of environmental science principles and methods.
• Understanding laws, regulations, and government processes.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate permit requests for uses of state land and authorize easements for long-term needs.
• Prepare and communicate findings in administrative decisions.
• Occasional fieldwork travels across Alaska including remote locations.

Skills

Analytical Thinking/Problem Solving

Decision-Making

Environmental Science

Legal, Government, and Jurisprudence

Writing

Education

Natural resource education/degree

Job description

Natural Resource Specialist 3 (PCN 10-1347 & 10-1912) | Workplace Alaska page has loaded.

The Department of Natural Resources, Division of Mining, Land & Water, is recruiting two Natural Resource Specialist 3s in Fairbanks.

This position is open to Alaska Residents only.

These positions are on the DMLW Northern Region Permits and Easements Team. The team primarily evaluates permit requests for uses of state land and authorizes easements for a variety of long-term needs. Cases assigned to you will be novel, complex, and controversial, requiring innovative and creative solutions. Your findings will be documented in administrative decisions communicating how you came to your conclusions

Mission and Values/Culture:

The position offers a rewarding opportunity to help manage state-owned land within a creative and supportive team. This position plays a key role in achieving our mission by evaluating requests to use state land and determining whether the use is appropriate and whether any modifications to the requested activity are required for the project to move forward.

Benefits of Joining Our Team:

The DMLW offers meaningful work improving the lives of Alaskans every day! Our team provides a friendly and supportive environment, a hybrid telework model, flexible work schedules, autonomy, opportunities for career advancement, and extensive land management training.

The Working Environment You Can Expect:

The Fairbanks office is situated on a charming, wooded campus along the Chena River, near many amenities. As a Natural Resource Specialist 3, you will balance individual and collaborative efforts to ensure decisions are well considered. Occasional, short-duration fieldwork opportunities are available. This often includes travel along the major interior road systems along the Parks, Steese, Richardson, Elliott, Dalton, and Alaska Highway corridors, but can also, more rarely, include travel to remote locations via small plane, ATV, snowmachine, or boat.

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

• Compliance Inspection: Knowledge of the guidelines, regulations, and procedures associated with compliance inquiries, including application of compliance rules and criteria and ability to make appropriate decisions and issue citations, fines, or orders.
• Research: Knowledge of the scientific principles, methods, and processes used to conduct a systematic and objective inquiry; including study design, collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; and the reporting of results.
• Oral Communication: Makes clear and convincing oral presentations. Listens effectively; clarifies information as needed.

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 instead of specific tasks and are only used 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:

• 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 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.

Additional Required Information

** Please read the information below carefully. **

At the time of the interview, please ensure that you provide the following materials. Failure to do so may result in loss of consideration. Required documents include:

• A copy of your last two performance appraisals (if you are a current or former State of Alaska employee), or two letters or evaluations from former supervisors (if you are not a current or former State of Alaska employee or if performance appraisals are not available)
• A list of three professional references with current contact information, one of which must be from a current or former supervisor.
• A copy of a professional writing sample you authored (e.g., decisional document, technical paper, or report)

SPECIAL NOTICES

• This position requires some field work to conduct site inspections to verify authorization compliance or assist other DNR personnel with compliance inspections or site monitoring. This may involve travel to remote areas via small plane, helicopter, ATV, snowmachine, or boat.
• This position may participate in field inspections to assess land use impacts of various authorizations, as well as inspect existing authorizations for compliance. Inspections are conducted in both summer and winter conditions.

Driver’s License Requirement

Applicants must possess a valid driver's license. Proof of licensure is required before reporting for duty.

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.

Contact Information

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Employer State of Alaska

Address PO Box 110201
Juneau, Alaska, 99811

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