Land Surveyors Manager jobs in Ketchikan, AK

The Program Support Section is seeking a team member to fill an important position in our Governmental Coordination Unit within the Division of Mining, Land, and Water. If you thrive in a dynamic work environment where we strive to ensure the interests of our state are maintained, please consider applying for this position. 
 
We are looking for a team member who is eager to learn, has strong research and analytical skills, has a background in federal laws, regulations, and policies pertinent to Alaska, and can build and maintain positive working relationships with our internal and external team members.
 
The Program Support Section within the Division of Mining, Land & Water has an opening for a Natural Resource Specialist 3 position where you will work independently and as a member of a small, committed team of resource professionals to ensure that Alaska’s interests are preserved and provisions unique to Alaska in federal law are upheld. In this position, you will have an opportunity to work on a diversity of issues that directly impact our division, department, and the people we serve in Alaska.
 
Mission and Culture
The DNR mission is to “Develop, conserve and maximize the use of Alaska's natural resources consistent with the public interest.” The DMLW mission is 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.” Our section values team members who work to uphold these missions through their work on behalf of Alaskans who depend on our state and federal lands for access, subsistence, recreation, mining, hunting, and fishing, among many other uses and activities. This position ensures that our public lands and waters remain available for all to use and that Alaska’s voice is heard through federal planning, policy, and rulemaking.
 
Core Responsibilities 
Independently or as a member of a team, the incumbent to this position reviews plans, policies, and other rulemaking documents produced by the four federal land management agencies in Alaska, develops our agency position, and comments on those actions. Typical federal projects reviewed include relatively small environmental assessments, policy or procedural changes, or very complex multi-year planning projects for millions of acres of federally owned lands as part of an environmental impact statement. The incumbent routinely coordinates with internal agency staff to gather input and information used to determine the division’s position, which is reflected in agency comments on federal actions involving the provisions of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA). Our team members routinely meet with the State ANILCA Coordinator and representatives from several state agencies to develop the State’s overall input on actions affecting our public lands. Our team also works on special projects assigned by our division and department leadership. 
 
Benefits of Joining Our Team
This position offers an opportunity to work on a variety of issues of importance to the Division, Department, and State at a scale that few positions ever experience. While small, the impact of our unit is large and offers the opportunity to work with almost every other section, office, program, or unit in our division, staff from other departments, and federal natural resource professionals. Our work will shape the management of the state’s natural resources for years to come and benefit many Alaskans. We offer flexible work schedules that foster a work/life balance.
 
The Working Environment You Can Expect
Our offices are located in downtown Anchorage on the tenth floor of the Robert B. Atwood Building. The Atwood Building is located within easy walking distance to many downtown amenities, including the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail and Ship Creek – where you can fish for Chinook and Coho salmon before or after work or even on your lunch break if the tide is right.
 
On any given day, you may interact with one or more resource managers from federal land management agencies, subject matter experts from within our division, or attorneys from the Department of Law related to natural resource management issues or briefing division or department leadership on resource or policy issues. Our staff regularly communicates with our department counterparts on ANILCA-related issues, particularly when refining state comments on federal actions. While we are primarily an office-based team, we do travel to various areas of the state, both urban and rural, to participate in interdisciplinary team meetings and public meetings related to the work we do. Occasionally, our staff will engage in field activities such as rafting, overflights, ORV and snowmachine use, and camping.
 
We are looking for someone with the following competencies.

• Ability to Work Independently and Collaboratively: Ability to independently initiate concurrent review of one or more simple to complex resource related documents and coordinate with agency professionals in the development of our agency position and division comments. This includes the demonstrated ability to foster and maintain collaborative working relationships with state and federal resource professionals.
• Position Specific Knowledge: Working knowledge of salient state and federal laws, regulations, and policies that shape land and resource management in Alaska; including: ANILCA, Federal Land Management and Policy Act, National Environmental Policy Act, Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, Wilderness Act, Alaska Statutes, Alaska Administrative Code, and wilderness and wild and scenic rivers policies to name a few.
• Analytical Skills: Able to analyze federal documents, policies, procedures, and actions to identify pertinent issues that affect Alaska-specific provisions of laws, regulations, policies, or actions and identify potential paths to resolve them.
• Problem-Solving and Decision-Making: Demonstrates a broad repertoire of ways to think about, understand, and creatively address complex and controversial resource management issues.
• Skilled Communicator: Ability to effectively communicate through verbal and written correspondence and skilled in active listening to understand different perspectives to resolve conflicts and find solutions to complex issues. 

Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in:

• 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.
• 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.
• Environmental Science: Knowledge of the interdisciplinary concepts, principles, theories, and methods of investigating the natural and physical environment, including examination of ecology, biology, physics, chemistry, plant science, zoology, mineralogy, oceanography, limnology, soil science, geology and physical geography, atmospheric, and other related sciences in the protection and improvement of the environment and its resources.
• Legal, Government, and Jurisprudence: 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.
• Writing: Recognizes or uses correct English grammar, punctuation, and spelling; communicates information (for example, facts, ideas, or messages) in a succinct and organized manner; produces written information, which may include technical material, that is appropriate for the intended audience.

equivalent to those typically gained by:

Education in a natural resource field such as forestry, geology, agronomy, and hydrology, law, public administration, planning, economics, or a closely related field and/or progressively responsible professional experience in natural resource management.

Definitions:

“Competencies” means a combination of interrelated knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors that enable a person to act effectively in a job or situation.

“Professional experience” means work that is creative, analytical, evaluative, and interpretive; requires a range and depth of specialized knowledge of the profession's principles, concepts, theories, and practices; and is performed with the power or right to decide or act according to one's own judgment.

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

“Qualified” means is assessed to credibly possess the competencies needed to learn the job in a reasonable period.

“Training” and “education” in this guidance are synonyms for the process of acquiring knowledge and skills through instruction. It includes instruction through formal and informal methods (such as classroom, on-line, 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.

“Typically gained by” means the prevalent, usual method of gaining the competencies expected for entry into the job.

Special Note:

For purposes of the minimum qualifications, natural resource management is defined as the management of the land, water, mineral, forest, oil, gas, agricultural, archaeological, natural and cultural history, park, and related surface and subsurface resources. Experience or education in natural resource management means involvement in the above resources exclusively. Those with experience or education in managing these resources may specialize in different management functions (for example, planning, regulation, research or title). All of this experience is applicable to the natural resource management definition. Some positions may require education in a particular area of natural resource management or specific technical knowledge and training gained through specialized education or progressively greater responsibilities at the lower levels of the series.

• Cover letter.
• Transcripts, if using education to meet minimum qualifications.
• A resume with complete job history, including the names and current telephone numbers of previous employers with current contact information.

• Three professional references (with current telephone numbers) that can be contacted regarding your job qualifications, at least two of which must be a current or former supervisor.
• Copies of your two (2) most recent performance evaluations or letters of recommendation from your current supervisor if performance evaluations are unavailable.

• This position requires travel to urban and remote areas of the state on an as-needed basis. This may include various modes of transportation, such as large and small commercial aircraft, boats, all-terrain vehicles, or automobiles. Some overland hiking or walking may be involved.

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