Administrative Officer 2 (PCN 056017)

State of Alaska•Sitka, AK

2d•Onsite

About The Position

This position operates with a high degree of independence to lead and strengthen administrative operations at Mt. Edgecumbe High School, ensuring compliance with State of Alaska requirements in budgeting, procurement, personnel, and resource management. The incumbent oversees and performs a wide range of administrative functions, supervises staff, enforces accountability across operational systems, and serves as a key advisor to the Director by proactively managing workflows, resolving issues, and maintaining continuity of operations. In addition, the position contributes to a positive residential and school environment by supporting culturally grounded programs, maintaining accurate records, and promoting practices that enhance student well-being, cultural engagement, and overall residential life at MEHS.

Requirements

Administration and Management: Knowledge of planning, coordination, and execution of business functions, resource allocation, and production.
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.
Budget Administration: Knowledge of the principles and practices of budget administration and analysis; including preparing, justifying, reporting on, and executing the budget; and the relationships among program, budget, accounting, and reporting systems.
Financial Management: Prepares, justifies, and/or administers the budget for program areas; plans, administers, and monitors expenditures to ensure cost-effective support of programs and policies; assesses financial condition of an organization.
Organizational Awareness: Knows the organization's mission and functions, and how its social, political, and technological systems work and operates effectively within them; this includes the programs, policies, procedures, rules, and regulations of the organization.
Any combination of preparatory post-secondary education and/or progressively responsible experience providing administrative support to a business or organization, business administration, public administration, finance, banking, accounting, industrial relations, marketing, human resource management, logistics and supply chain management, or a similar business field.

Nice To Haves

Approachability: Is easy to meet and communicate with, accessible, and friendly. Is a good listener and builds rapport with leadership, peers, and clients. Is warm, pleasant, and gracious; sensitive to and patient with the interpersonal anxieties of others; spends the extra effort to put others at ease.
Integrity: Contributes to maintaining the integrity of the organization; displays high standards of ethical conduct and understands the impact of violating these standards on an organization, self, and others; is trustworthy.
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.

Responsibilities

Lead and strengthen administrative operations at Mt. Edgecumbe High School.
Ensure compliance with State of Alaska requirements in budgeting, procurement, personnel, and resource management.
Oversee and perform a wide range of administrative functions.
Supervise staff.
Enforce accountability across operational systems.
Serve as a key advisor to the Director by proactively managing workflows, resolving issues, and maintaining continuity of operations.
Support culturally grounded programs.
Maintain accurate records.
Promote practices that enhance student well-being, cultural engagement, and overall residential life at MEHS.