Natural Resource Specialist 3

Holland America-Princess (Holland America Dawson City Inn); Fairbanks (AK); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Holland America-Princess (Holland America Dawson City Inn) in Fairbanks is seeking a Natural Resource Specialist 3 to evaluate permit requests for state land and authorize long-term easements. You will document findings in administrative decisions with clear rationale and work within a collaborative team to ensure responsible land use and project progress.

The role requires competencies in analysis, decision-making, environmental science knowledge, and regulatory understanding, with

Qualifications

• Analytical thinking and problem solving across natural resource scenarios.
• Ability to make sound, well-informed decisions under uncertainty.
• Knowledge of environmental science principles and methods.
• Familiarity with laws, regulations, and government procedures relevant to natural resources.
• Strong writing skills for clear, concise administrative decisions.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate permit requests for uses of state land and authorize easements.
• Prepare and communicate findings in formal administrative decisions.
• Collaborate with team to ensure compliant land use decisions and project advancement.

Skills

Analytical Thinking

Decision Making

Environmental Science

Legal Knowledge

Writing

Education

Natural Resource degree or equivalent

Job description

Job Description

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.

Please check our

residency definition

to determine if you qualify.

What You Will Be Doing:

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.

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