Recorder Manager

Natural Resources; Anchorage (AK); On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Biweekly pay

12 holidays

Paid vacation days

Health insurance

Retirement benefits

Leadership training

Team-oriented culture

Job summary

Alaska Department of Natural Resources in Anchorage seeks a Recorder Manager to lead the Recorder's Office, ensuring accurate recording and efficient operations. You will guide staff, address recording and archival challenges, and implement solutions that improve workflows and public access to records.

In this role, you will manage financial processes, collaborate with state and federal agencies, and drive innovations to modernize systems while preserving Alaska's permanent public record for

Qualifications

• Analytical thinking to address problems and opportunities.
• Compliance with state/federal laws and guidance.
• Creative and innovative in designing new programs or processes.
• Clear decision making with action orientation.
• Understanding and managing program budgets and procurement.

Responsibilities

• Oversee daily operations of the Anchorage Recorder's Office and staff.
• Assist with recording/archival issues and implement process improvements.
• Manage financial processes, reports, and fee allocations.
• Collaborate with internal/external stakeholders to resolve issues.
• Identify opportunities to modernize systems and improve workflows.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Leadership

Compliance

Creativity & innovation

Decision making

Financial management

Influencing/negotiating

Job description

Job Description

The Department of Natural Resources, Support Services Division

is recruiting for a

Recorder Manager to be located in Anchorage

This position is open to Department of Natural Resources employees only

Only permanent State employees currently working for or laid off from the recruiting department's classified service may apply.

What You Will Be Doing:

Oversee and support daily operations of the Anchorage and Fairbanks Recorder's Offices and staff, ensuring consistent compliance with state regulations, internal processes and policies, and supportive leadership to the team.

Assist and problem-solve with recording and archival issues, develop solutions, and implement process improvements that enhance efficiency and accuracy.

Manage financial processes, including preparing financial reports, allocating eRecording fees, and assisting staff with receipting as needed.

Collaborate with internal stakeholders, external agencies, and the public to resolve issues, streamline workflows, and support organizational goals.

Foster an innovative and collaborative work environment, including identifying opportunities to modernize systems and processes.

Mission and Values/Culture:

The Recorder’s Office is a positive, technology-driven environment dedicated to recording and preserving Alaska's permanent public record. As a Recorder Manager, you will lead highly skilled, knowledgeable staff committed to accuracy, accessibility, and excellence in public service. Our team values innovation and creativity, continually seeking enhancements that improve workflows, modernize systems, and expand public access to Alaska’s recorded documents. We collaborate daily with State and Federal agencies, businesses of all sizes, and the general public to ensure documents are recorded in a timely and precise manner, supporting transparency and contributing to a strong Alaskan economy. In this role, you will help uphold our mission, cultivate a supportive and forward-thinking workplace, and guide efforts that protect and strengthen Alaska’s public record for generations to come.

Benefits of Joining Our Team:

• Leadership opportunity with the State of Alaska and the Department of Natural Resources.
• Biweekly paycheck, 12 paid holidays, paid vacation days, consistent weekday schedule.
• Health insurance and retirement benefits.
• Training and professional leadership development for career growth.
• A friendly, encouraging, and team-oriented culture that values innovation, collaboration, and service to Alaska’s public.

The Working Environment You Can Expect:

Located on the first floor of the Atwood Building in downtown Anchorage. Within walking distance of restaurants, shopping, and free covered parking. The Recorder Manager has a comfortable and spacious office area.

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

Customer Service:

Works with clients and customers (that is, any individuals who use or receive the services or products that your work unit produces, including the general public, individuals who work in the agency, other agencies, or organizations outside the Government) to assess their needs, provide information or assistance, resolve their problems, or satisfy their expectations; knows about available products and services; is committed to providing quality products and services.

Customer Service:

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

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, and 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.

Compliance:

Knowledge of procedures for assessing, evaluating, and monitoring programs or projects for compliance with State and federal laws, regulations, and guidance.

Creativity and Innovation:

Develops new insights into situations; questions conventional approaches; encourages new ideas and innovations; designs and implements new or cutting-edge programs/processes.

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.

Financial Management:

Understands the organization's financial processes. Prepares, justifies, and administers the program budget. Oversees procurement and contracting to achieve desired results. Monitors expenditures and uses cost-benefit thinking to set priorities.

Influencing/Negotiating:

Persuades others; builds consensus through give and take; gains cooperation from others to obtain information and accomplish goals.

equivalent to those typically gained by:

Progressively responsible experience that includes responsibility in working with documents concerning ownership and encumbrances on property, such as deeds, liens, mortgages, promissory notes, financing statements, plats, or surveys.

AND

Lead and/or supervisory experience.

Special Notes:

“Training” and “education” 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 long-duration (such as a post-secondary degree) and short-duration (such as a seminar) programs.

“Progressively responsible” means indicating growth and/or advancement in complexity, difficulty, or level of responsibility.

Education

If post-secondary