Park Superintendent

State of Alaska; Alaska; Presencial; USD 90.000 - 130.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

State of Alaska, Department of Natural Resources, Division of Parks & Outdoor Recreation, seeks a Park Superintendent to oversee Alaska State Parks in the Mat-Su Region. The role includes managing Nancy Lake, Independence Mine, and Denali State Park units, directing staff, budgets, and field operations.

This Alaska Residents‑only position requires coordinating with agencies, public stakeholders, and partners to protect resources while enabling safe, high‑quality outdoor recreation.

Formación

• Competency descriptions cover Administration and Management, Human Capital Management, Parks and Recreation Management, Partnering, Planning and Evaluating.

Responsabilidades

• Oversee management and operation of Alaska State Parks within the Mat-Su Region, including multiple units.
• Supervise regional staff, manage budgets and maintenance projects, and coordinate with agencies and partners.
• Assist division leadership with planning, reporting, and long‑term regional decision making.

Conocimientos

Self-Management

Supervision

Public Planning

Driver's license

Descripción del empleo

Park Superintendent (PCN 10-5025)

The Department of Natural Resources, Division of Parks & Outdoor Recreation, is recruiting for a Park Superintendent in Finger Lake.

This position is open to Alaska Residents only.

The Mat-Su Region Superintendent oversees the management and operation of Alaska State Parks within the Matanuska-Susitna Region, including major units such as Nancy Lake State Recreation Area, Independence Mine State Historical Park, and Denali State Park. The position supervises regional staff and ensures safe, efficient park operations while managing budgets, personnel actions, and maintenance and development projects across multiple park units. The superintendent works with state and local agencies, partner organizations, and the public to address park access, land management, and recreation issues while implementing park management plans and policies. The position evaluates natural and cultural resource conditions and develops strategies to protect resources while supporting public recreation opportunities. This role also advises division leadership on regional issues, prepares reports and recommendations, and helps guide long‑term planning and decision‑making for the Alaska State Parks system in the Mat‑Su region.

Mission and Values/Culture:

The Alaska Department of Natural Resources (DNR) manages Alaska’s natural resources for the maximum benefit of Alaska's people, ensuring responsible stewardship for current and future generations. Within DNR, the Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation (DPOR) protects and manages Alaska’s state parks while providing high-quality outdoor recreation opportunities and preserving natural, cultural, and historic resources. The Field Operations section carries out this mission by maintaining park facilities, protecting park resources, ensuring visitor safety, and delivering consistent services across Alaska’s diverse and often remote park units. Our culture emphasizes public service, stewardship of public lands, teamwork, professionalism, and accountability in the management of Alaska’s state park system. Staff work collaboratively with communities, partner agencies, and stakeholders to ensure parks remain accessible, well‑managed, and sustainable for all Alaskans and visitors.

Benefits of Joining Our Team:

Working in Alaska State Parks Field Operations provides the opportunity to contribute directly to the stewardship and management of some of Alaska’s most iconic public lands. Employees play a meaningful role in protecting natural and cultural resources while ensuring safe, high‑quality outdoor recreation opportunities for residents and visitors. Team members gain valuable experience in public land management, leadership, and collaboration with local communities, partner agencies, and stakeholders across the state. The position offers opportunities for professional growth, training, and career advancement within the Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation and the Department of Natural Resources. Employees also benefit from the rewards of public service, working with a dedicated team committed to protecting Alaska’s parks and maintaining access to outdoor recreation for future generations.

The Working Environment You Can Expect:

This position is based in the Matanuska‑Susitna Valley, a rapidly growing region known for its strong communities, expansive outdoor recreation opportunities, and close proximity to Anchorage and Denali. The work environment includes a combination of office‑based administrative and planning work along with regular field visits to Alaska State Park units throughout the region, including sites such as Hatcher Pass, Nancy Lake, and the Susitna Basin. The position requires periodic vehicle travel and occasional off‑site meetings to inspect park facilities, coordinate with staff and partners, and support park operations across the Mat‑Su Region.

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

• Self‑Management: Sets well‑defined and realistic personal goals; displays a high level of initiative, effort, and commitment towards completing assignments in a timely manner; works with minimal supervision; is motivated to achieve; demonstrates responsible behavior.
• Supervision: Plans, distributes, and monitors work assignments; sets task priorities; evaluates work performance and provides feedback to others on their performance; ensures that staff are appropriately selected, utilized, and developed, and that they are treated fairly and equitably. Assignments include the authority and responsibility to recommend or independently take action to employ (i.e., appoint, transfer, promote), discipline or discharge, or adjudicate grievances of direct reports.
• Public Planning: Knowledge of functions, principles, methods, and techniques of public planning, including those related to community planning, outdoor recreation planning, and natural resource management, such as demand forecasting, environmental impact analysis, financial forecasting, and land use planning and zoning.

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.

Possess a valid driver’s license.

• Administration and Management: Knowledge of planning, coordination, and execution of business functions, resource allocation, and production.
• Human Capital Management: Builds and manages workforce based on organizational goals, budget considerations, and staffing needs. Ensures that employees are appropriately recruited, selected, appraised, and rewarded; takes action to address performance problems. Manages a multi‑sector workforce and a variety of work situations.
• Parks and Recreation Management: Knowledge of the principles, practices, and theories of parks and recreation management related to preserving, enhancing, maintaining, and protecting natural, historical, and cultural resources within park lands while considering the safety and welfare of park visitors.
• Partnering: Develops networks and builds alliances; collaborates across boundaries to build strategic relationships and achieve common goals.
• Planning and Evaluating: Organizes work, sets priorities, and determines resource requirements; determines short‑ or long‑term goals and strategies to achieve them; coordinates with other organizations or parts of the organization to accomplish goals; monitors progress and evaluates outcomes.

Equivalent to those typically gained by: Any combination of progressively responsible professional experience managing a region and/or unit’s budget, administering programs, and/or prioritizing and allocating funds; progressively responsible professional experience in government policy and/or planning; experience supervising staff with varied responsibilities and priorities; and/or post‑secondary education in a natural or physical science, outdoor studies, management, and/or business administration.

Definitions:

“Competencies” means a combination of interrelated knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors that enable a person to act effectively in a job or situation.

“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.

Special Note: Travel to remote locations by small plane or boat may be required. Positions may have access to arms and ammunition; in those cases, applicants will be subject to criminal background check that includes fingerprinting.

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:

• Valid driver’s license
• Three professional references.

SPECIAL NOTICES

• Requires frequent travel within the Region. Valid Driver´s License (AS 28).
• Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Security Awareness Clearance training shall be required within six months of initial assignment, and biennially thereafter. Park superintendents will have access to firearms and must be able to discuss CJIS information with law enforcement staff in the region. Park superintendents need to review and/or be aware of cases for natural resource infractions, commercial use suspensions, or facility damage. They are therefore required to pass all mandatory background checks, including but not limited to, providing fingerprints for an FBI Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) security clearance background check, and a criminal history background check.

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 yet obtained a degree, please indicate the units you have 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 at foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the minimum qualifications listed above. If using this education to meet minimum qualification requirements, you must demonstrate that the credentials have been submitted to a private organization specializing in interpreting foreign educational credentials and that such education has been deemed at least equivalent to that gained in standard U.S. education programs. Alternatively, an accredited U.S. post‑secondary institution must report that the other institution’s transcript is given full value or that full value is recognized in relevant subject areas aligned with the post‑secondary institution’s curricula. It is your responsibility to provide this 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 whether the minimum qualifications are met. If they are not, the applicant may not advance to the recruitment interview and selection phase.

Note: Attaching a resume does not substitute for completing the application in full. 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.

Driver’s License Requirement

Applicants must possess a valid driver’s license. Proof of licensure will be required prior to reporting to duty.

Firearms

This position requires the use or possession of a firearm or ammunition. In accordance with the federal Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act of 1997 (PL 104-208), if you have been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence, you may not hold this position.

“Misdemeanor crime of domestic violence” is an offense that is (1) a misdemeanor under Federal or state law and (2) has, as an element, the use or attempted use of physical force or the threatened use of a deadly weapon, committed by a current or former spouse, parent, or guardian of the victim, by a person with whom the victim shares a child in common, by a person who is co‑habiting with or has co‑habited with the victim as a spouse, parent, or guardian, or by a person similarly situated to a spouse, parent, or guardian of the victim.

If you have ever been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence, do NOT apply for this position.

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.

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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Matthew Wedeking

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