Loan/Collection Officer 3 (PCN 089069)

State of Alaska • Anchorage or Juneau, AK

8d • Onsite

About The Position

The Division of Investments is seeking an exceptional and results driven Loan Officer 3 (PCN 08-9069) to provide leadership and supervision for our Anchorage lending team. This position requires a strong leader with the vision, initiative, and expertise to effectively guide staff, oversee lending operations, and ensure the successful administration of loans across all our nine (9) revolving loan programs. In this role, you will provide leadership and supervision over some of the most specialized and strategically significant loan programs in the state, programs that directly support industries central to Alaska’s economy, identity, and long-term resilience. This position requires a professional with demonstrated leadership and supervisory experience, a proven ability to guide and develop staff while managing complex lending operations, and strong financial judgment. The ideal candidate will possess a strong commitment to public service excellence, accountability, and sound decision making. For the right individual, this opportunity offers significant leadership responsibility, high visibility, and the ability to make a lasting impact on industries vital to the State of Alaska. If you are a leader who thrives on meaningful impact, embraces accountability, and is driven by work that strengthens communities across Alaska, this is the opportunity you’ll want to compete for.

The Division of Investments has an unwavering commitment to exceptional customer service and is exemplified through proactive engagement with our valued customers. By fostering positive experiences and forging personal connections, we strengthen relationships within our community and across the state. The Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development’s mission is to promote a healthy economy, strong communities, and protect consumers in Alaska. The mission of the Division of Investments is to promote economic development in Alaska through direct state lending in industries and areas of the state that are under served or to fulfill a public policy goal.

The Division of Investments, Where Purpose Meets Power Step into a leadership role where your guidance, decisions, and team development directly influence Alaska’s economic strength. As a Loan Officer 3, you will lead with purpose, provide direction, mentorship, and oversight that will elevate staff performance and uphold the divisions program integrity. Your lending expertise will amplify this impact, ensuring that every loan you evaluate and every decision you shape supports the people, businesses, and industries that keep Alaska thriving. At the Division of Investments, lending leadership has real, statewide impact. The expertise you bring to credit analysis, loan structuring, and program oversight helps fishermen’s small commercial fishing businesses as well as other small businesses start and grow with confidence. You’re not just managing a loan, you’re shaping opportunities, empowering communities, and ensuring that Alaska’s public lending programs remain strong, accessible, and responsibly administered. Your work fuels economic resilience. Your judgment builds trust. Your leadership helps Alaskans succeed.

Our division is collaborative, service-oriented environment where reliability matters because Alaskans depend on it. Where professionalism and organization aren’t just skills, they’re commitments to integrity and public service. Where your contributions ripple across one of the most unique economies in the world, from remote rural communities to busy urban hubs. If you’re ready to work with a dedicated team, and make every job count toward something bigger, this is your opportunity.

Requirements

• Knowledge of the principles, practices and techniques of lending and/or debt collection, perfected lien, and security instruments. This includes knowledge of applicable court procedures, processes, and actions.
• 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. Comply with established control systems and rules. 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.
• Knows the organization's mission and functions, and how its social, political, and technological systems work and operate effectively within them; this includes the programs, policies, procedures, rules, and regulations of the organization.
• Plans, distributes, and monitors work assignments; sets task priorities; evaluates work performance and provide feedback to others on their performance; ensures that staff are appropriately selected, utilized, and developed, and treated in a fair and equitable manner. Assignments include 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.
• Influences, motivates, and challenges others; adapts leadership styles to a variety of situations.
• 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.
• Shows understanding, friendliness, courtesy, tact, empathy, concern, and politeness to others; develops and maintains effective relationships with others; may include effectively dealing with individuals who are difficult, hostile, or distressed; relates well to people from varied backgrounds and different situations; is sensitive to cultural diversity, race, gender , disabilities, and other individual differences.
• 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.
• Knowledge of the principles, practices and techniques of lending and/or debt collection, perfected lien, and security instruments. This includes knowledge of applicable court procedures, processes, and actions.
• Takes responsibility for employees’ performance by setting and communicating expectations and goals that are specific and measurable, tracking progress against the goals, supporting employees’ efforts to achieve job goals (by providing resources, removing obstacles, acting as a buffer, etc.), ensuring feedback, and addressing performance problems and issues promptly.
• Any combination of preparatory post-secondary education and/or progressively responsible experience in lending, collections, banking, real estate (law, sales, management, appraising, assessing), title insurance or a closely related industry.
• Three (3) current professional references, two (2) of which have had supervisory responsibility over you , along with their current day-time phone numbers and email addresses.
• If using education for purposes to meet the minimum qualifications, please include your university transcripts.
• As this position is responsible for correspondence with variety of state, private and federal agencies, for legal documents relating to loans, we require two (2) writing samples at the time of interview.

Nice To Haves

• Some positions may require experience specific to lending or collection of defaulted loans and/or in a specific program area such as agricultural loans, fisheries loans, or real estate investments.
• Some positions may require travel to rural areas in small conveyances.

Responsibilities

• Provide guidance and support and ensure that all loan activities are conducted professionally and ethically.
• Oversee the performance and work of subordinate staff, ensuring adherence to all relevant statutes, regulations, policies, procedures, and industry standards.
• Exercise full supervisory authority by assigning incoming loan applications and requests according to staff authority levels, competencies, and training needs.
• Directly manage workload distribution, resource allocation, and staff scheduling to maintain efficient operations.
• Provide ongoing coaching, formal training, and corrective action when loan decisions or staff performance do not meet division standards, ensuring compliance and continuous improvement across the team.
• Provide excellent customer service to internal and external visitors, prospective, past and present borrowers, board members.
• Provide subordinates with performance measures, standards, and objectives; prepare timely evaluations based on established criteria.
• Travel to both urban and rural communities to promote the division’s loan programs.
• Provide information and assistance with loan applications, making presentations to individuals and interested parties, and inspecting properties and business operations that have received division funding.

Benefits

• The State of Alaska complies with Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Individuals with disabilities, who require accommodation, auxiliary aides or services, or alternative communication formats, please call 1-800-587-4095 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed