Payroll Supervisor

Transportation and Public Facilities; Anchorage, Juneau (AK, AK); On-site; USD 62,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Transportation and Public Facilities in Alaska is seeking a Payroll Supervisor to lead and grow a major payroll operation. You will mentor staff, promote collaboration, and ensure accurate, compliant payroll processing in a large state agency.

The role supports Anchorage or Juneau assignments, offering a dynamic, service-focused culture and opportunities to improve processes and customer service for a broad employee base across Alaska.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support payroll staff responsible for one of the State’s largest and most complex payroll operations while helping create an environment where employees feel valued, supported, and empowered to grow.
• Mentor and develop staff, promote collaboration and knowledge sharing, and help build a workplace culture focused on engagement, accountability, and retention.
• Oversee payroll operations to ensure compliance with applicable rules and regulations, resolve complex payroll and personnel issues, and serve as a trusted resource to managers and employees.
• Monitor workloads, identify opportunities for process improvement, and help ensure payroll services are delivered accurately, timely, and with a strong customer-service focus.

Job description

Job Description

Come join the State of Alaska!

This job class uses Competency Based minimum qualifications (MQs). Please read the Competency Based MQ instructions below to learn more.

ATTENTION ALASKA RESIDENTS!

The Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (DOT&PF)

Program Management and Administration

is looking for a Payroll Supervisor to help us

Keep Alaska Moving!

Pay is based on the

location

of the selected applicant; salaries will be discussed at the time of the interview.

Anchorage: $2712.00/bi-weekly

Juneau: $2848.00/bi-weekly

What you will be doing:

If you enjoy leading people, fostering a positive team culture, and making a direct impact, this position may be for you. As the Payroll Supervisor, you will lead and support payroll staff responsible for one of the State’s largest and most complex payroll operations while helping create an environment where employees feel valued, supported, and empowered to grow.

In this role, you will mentor and develop staff, promote collaboration and knowledge sharing, and help build a workplace culture focused on engagement, accountability, and retention. You will oversee payroll operations to ensure compliance with applicable rules and regulations, resolve complex payroll and personnel issues, and serve as a trusted resource to managers and employees. You will also monitor workloads, identify opportunities for process improvement, and help ensure payroll services are delivered accurately, timely, and with a strong customer-service focus.

Our organization, mission, and culture:

DOT&PF’s mission is to “Keep Alaska Moving” and our HR vision is "We will work to serve the department by being a trusted resource, strategic partner, leader, and innovator in the delivery of human resource services."

This is an exceptional opportunity for a payroll professional who enjoys solving complex payroll, leave, and compensation challenges and thrives in maintaining accuracy and compliance within a highly specialized, non-integrated payroll system.

The benefits of joining our team:

You will join a collaborative and experienced HR team that values professionalism, innovation, and continuous improvement. This position offers a unique opportunity to help build the future of payroll services within DOT&PF as the department expands its payroll operations and develops long-term payroll capacity, expertise, and service delivery.

The work performed in this position has a direct impact on employees throughout Alaska and provides an opportunity to contribute to lasting organizational success. The State of Alaska also offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits package, flexible work options, and a strong retirement system.

The State of Alaska has a generous benefits package and an excellent retirement plan. Please see here for more information: https://doa.alaska.gov/dop/workplace/benefits/.

The DOT&PF core values are integrity, excellence, respect, and safety. We support an environment focused on teamwork and collaboration to achieve results. We succeed in achieving our transportation mission through building credibility with our customers, stakeholders, and the public.

The working environment you can expect:

This position may be filled in Anchorage or Juneau.

You will join a team navigating an exciting period of growth and transformation as DOT&PF expands its payroll operations, providing opportunities to collaborate with staff and leaders across the department while helping shape the future of payroll services.

Who we are looking for:

Accountability:

Holds self and others accountable for measurable high-quality, timely, and cost-effective results. Determines objectives, sets priorities, and delegates work. Accepts responsibility for own actions and decisions. Complies with established control systems and rules.

Customer Service:

Anticipates and meets the needs of both internal and external customers. Delivers high-quality products and services; is committed to continuous improvement.

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.

To view the general description and example of duties for positions please go to the following link:

https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/Alaska/

classspecs

Minimum Qualifications

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, as opposed to 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.)

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.

Oral and Written 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 and written presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.

Personnel and Human Resources:

Knowledge of hiring, classification, benefits, labor relations, negotiation, and Federal, state, and local employment regulations.

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 in a fair and equitable manner. 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.

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.

Equivalent to those typically gained by:

Any combination of preparatory post-secondary education and/or progressively responsible experience in payroll services, human resource management, business administration, supporting management in running an organization/enterprise or supporting professionals working in human resources (such as recruitment, payroll, classification and compensation, employee and labor-management relations, employer provided benefit programs, employment law compliance, or employee training).

Special Note:

“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.

“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