Natural Resource Manager 1 (PCN 10-1696)

State of Alaska • Juneau, AK

8h • Onsite

About The Position

The Department of Natural Resources, Division of Mining, Land & Water, is recruiting for a Natural Resource Manager 1 in Juneau. This position will manage a team of professionals who prepare decisions for public and private applicants that result in the authorization of land uses in Southeast Alaska. While the team primarily adjudicates permits and material sale contracts, they also manage general state land. The Division of Mining, Land and Water (DMLW), within the Department of Natural Resources (DNR), has a mission to provide for the appropriate use and management of Alaska's state-owned land and water, aiming toward maximum use consistent with the public interest. The Southeast Regional Office (SERO) Lands Section supports this mission by facilitating the use and development of state lands and ensuring the public's right to access Alaska state lands and resources. The work environment is focused on understanding and learning. The team supports one another, and we work toward collaborative, creative solutions to work challenges.

Requirements

• 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.
• Administration and Management: Knowledge of planning, coordination, and execution of business functions, resource allocation, and production.
• 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.
• Influencing/Negotiating: Persuades others; builds consensus through give and take; gains cooperation from others to obtain information and accomplish goals.
• Education in a natural resource field, law, public administration, planning or economics and/or progressively responsible professional experience in natural resource management.
• Competencies in Accountability, Administration and Management, Decision Making, and Influencing/Negotiating.
• Possess the minimum required competencies for the job class.

Nice To Haves

• Collaborative and positive team leader with strong interpersonal and management skills.
• Interest in public land management.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Manages and organizes information, including identifying needs, gathering, organizing, and maintaining information, determining its importance and accuracy, and communicating it through a variety of methods.
• Makes clear and convincing oral and written presentations.
• Listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.
• Prepares decisions for public and private applicants that result in the authorization of land uses in Southeast Alaska.
• Adjudicates permits and material sale contracts.
• Manages general state land.

Benefits

• Travel opportunities to Southeast Region communities.
• Opportunity to contribute to and influence sound public land-use decision-making, management, and policy development.
• Support Alaska's economic growth.
• Opportunity to learn new programs within DMLW alongside natural resource professionals.
• Opportunities to lead.

What This Job Offers

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