Program Coordinator 2 (02-3003)

State of Alaska•Anchorage, AK

9d•Hybrid

About The Position

The recruitment is exempt from the hiring freeze (Administrative Order 358) This recruitment is open to Alaska Residents only. Applicants must meet Alaska Residency Requirements in order to be considered for employment at this time. You will be responsible for maintaining various support programs enabling essential public safety communications systems serving state, local, federal and Department of Defense first responders. This includes developing and maintaining budget documentation for planned, projected, and executed programs and projects. You will also oversee administrative support staff functions and procurement activities supporting the time-sensitive work of the engineering and operations teams as they operate and maintain our $200-plus million public safety communications systems. The position supports many of the state and local 9-1-1 dispatch centers’ radio equipment enabling mission critical communications to first responders as they answer calls for help. Your work will support multiple teams working to ensure reliable emergency communications services through a system comprised of over 150 communication sites enabling emergency and day-to-day services to state, local, Department of Defense and federal agencies as they carry out their missions to the public. Those sites often include microwave communications, high availability network routers, primary and emergency power, shelters and towers all supporting land mobile radio and other customer equipment and services. You will have the opportunity to improve upon our system to increase operational efficiency, capability and reliability. The position is charged to provide vital support services to our teams as we seek innovations and initiatives to advance the mission of the customers and, to implement processes and programs to achieve efficiencies and cost savings.

Requirements

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.
Planning and Evaluating: Organizes work, sets priorities, and determines resource requirements; determines short- or long-term goals and strategies to achieve them; coordinates with other organizations or parts of the organization to accomplish goals; monitors progress and evaluates outcomes.
Manages and Organizes Information: Identifies a need; gathers, organizes, and maintains information; determines its importance and accuracy, and communicates it by a variety of methods.
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.
Compliance: Knowledge of procedures for assessing, evaluating, and monitoring programs or projects for compliance with Federal laws, regulations, and guidance.
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.
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.
Training from an accredited college or university in any field and/or progressively responsible professional experience developing, planning, coordinating, and implementing a program, project, business, organization, or major components of a program, including having administrative authority over the program/project funding, staff, and/or overall operations.

Responsibilities

Developing and maintaining budget documentation for planned, projected, and executed programs and projects.
Overseeing administrative support staff functions and procurement activities.
Improving upon the system to increase operational efficiency, capability and reliability.
Providing vital support services to teams as they seek innovations and initiatives to advance the mission of the customers.
Implementing processes and programs to achieve efficiencies and cost savings.