Administrative Officer 1 (02-9500)

Full Job Description

This position is open to Alaska Residents only. Please check our residency definition to determine if you qualify.

RECRUITMENT EXPANSION NOTICE

The scope of recruitment for this vacancy has been expanded to allow for a larger applicant pool. If you have already applied for this position there is no need to reapply.

What You Will Be Doing

The Administrative Officer 1 (AO1) leads the Administrative and Finance Services (AFS) section within the Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV). This position is responsible for supervising staff, managing administrative operations, and ensuring compliance with state policies and financial procedures.

Key Responsibilities:

• Personnel Management: Oversees AFS staff, manages workloads, approves leave, handles recruitment, and serves as HR liaison for policies and employee issues.
• Administration of Processes & Structure: Establishes delegation, maintains SOPs, manages position descriptions, oversees procurement and administrative processes, and ensures compliance with policies and security standards.
• Administration of Programs & Budgets: Manages Bulk Records and Self-Insurer programs, property tracking, financial approvals, and assists with budget analysis and contract recommendations.
• Grant Management: Oversees DMV grant administration, ensures timely federal reporting, monitors compliance, and educates management on grant requirements.
• Warehouse Management: Directs warehouse operations including procurement, inventory control, and order fulfillment to ensure timely and accurate distribution of supplies and equipment.

The AO1 role requires strong leadership, analytical thinking, and organizational skills to provide efficient and effective administrative support for DMV operations statewide.

Our Organization, Mission, and Culture

ABILITY: We improve the lives of Alaskans through accurately and efficiently permitting, licensing, and reinstating drivers, titling assets, and promoting overall safe operation of drivers and vehicles in communities throughout the last frontier.

CUSTOMER FOCUSED: We navigate the path to “yes” by engaging with an empathetic mindset, adaptive interpersonal skills and a variety of intuitive processes to fully support the needs of our diverse communities.

PASSIONATE PEOPLE: We have a positive attitude, the ability to learn and grow, are self-motivated, service oriented, inquisitive, observant, and demonstrate accountability and teamwork.

EXPERTISE: SME is Me! We are a solutions-oriented organization of subject matter experts that provide accurate and efficient service to our communities.

CHAMPIONS OF CHANGE: We embrace revolutionary innovations to boldly advance DMV solutions into the future.

The Benefits of Joining Our Team

Perks of working for the Administrative and Finance Services (AFS) Team?

You would have the benefits of spending your days working at the University Center in midtown Anchorage surrounded by some of the best restaurants in town!

Located 0.4 miles from the highest grossing independent pizza restaurant in the United States, The Moose’s Tooth, ensures that you will never go hungry!

If you’re not a pizza person New Sagaya is across the street which houses some of the best soups & sandwiches in town!

If you would prefer to spend your lunches enjoying the scenery and getting some steps in, Cuddy Family Midtown Park is 0.5 miles away and a great place to spend your lunchtime.

The Working Environment You Can Expect

The AFS team is a great group of individuals that care about numbers and enjoy a busy workflow. We work collaboratively to accomplish the goals and tasks assigned to our team.

Here at the DMV we also work hard at having a positive atmosphere for our employees to flourish.

The AFS teams is nestled in a quiet area of the University Center DMV, where you will have a small office that is easily accessible to the staff and the Admin Officer 2, as well as open access to other staff and senior management.

Requirements

Competency Based Minimum Qualifications Instructions

This job class uses competency based minimum qualifications.

Please ensure your application (through work history, volunteer experience (duties summary), training, education, licenses, certifications, etc.) supports how you have gained the knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors (competencies) and that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class.

Competency Description

The competency description(s) listed below have been designed to promote a common understanding of the essential elements of the job class.

They highlight the more general and customary knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), tasks, and behaviors used to describe the competency.

They typically list expectations, as opposed to specific tasks, and are to be used only as parameters and guidelines.

A competency’s description is not intended to exclusively define every KSA, task, and behavior needed to successfully meet the competency, but rather to provide the manager/agency with a broad reference of options as to how an applicant can meet the job expectation.

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

• 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.
• 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.
• Oral and Written Communication: Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral and written presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.

Equivalent to those typically gained by:

Any combination of preparatory post-secondary education and/or 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.

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

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

“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.

Qualifications

Please read the below information carefully. This applies to your application submission.

THIS RECRUITMENT IS FOR ALASKA RESIDENTS ONLY

Please be sure to check our residency definition to determine if you qualify.

EDUCATION If post-secondary education is required to meet the minimum qualifications, you must fill in the Education section of the application.

If you have not obtained a degree, please indicate the number of units completed.

Copies of transcripts are required to verify educational credentials if used to meet the minimum qualifications for a position.

Transcripts can be attached at the time of application or within 48 hours of the close of this recruitment to the contact person listed below.

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR FOREIGN EDUCATION Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the above requirements, if applicable.

If utilizing this education you must show that the education credentials have been submitted to a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign educational credentials and that such education has been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S.

education programs; or an accredited U.S.

state university reports the other institution as one whose transcript is given full value, or full value is given in subject areas applicable to the curricula at the state university.

It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.

WORK EXPERIENCE If using work experience not already documented in your application, also provide the employer’s name, your job title, dates of employment, and whether full-or part-time.

Applications will be reviewed to determine if the responses are supported and minimum qualifications are clearly met.

If they are not, the applicant may not advance to the interview and selection phase of the recruitment.

NOTE: Attaching a resume or curriculum vitae is not an alternative to filling out the application in its entirety.

Noting "see resume or CV" or any similar response on any portion of your application may lead to a determination your application is incomplete and removal from consideration for this job posting.

APPLICATION NOTICE You can ONLY apply for this position through the Workplace Alaska website or via hardcopy application.

If you accessed this recruitment bulletin through a job search portal such as AlaskaJobs or any other database, you MUST use a Workplace Alaska online or hardcopy application to successfully apply.

Instructions on how to apply with Workplace Alaska may be found on the Workplace Alaska "How to Apply" webpage, found here: http://doa.alaska.gov/dop/workplace/help/

EEO STATEMENT

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 1-800-587-0430 or (907) 465-4095 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. The State of Alaska is an equal opportunity employer.

NOTICE

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WORKPLACE ALASKA APPLICATION QUESTIONS & ASSISTANCE

Questions regarding application submission or system operation errors should be directed to the Workplace Alaska hotline at 1-800-587-0430 (toll free) or (907) 465-4095 if you are located in the Juneau area. Requests for information may also be emailed to recruitment.services@alaska.gov.

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Additional Information

Mekayla Ruiz

Administrative Officer 2

Phone: 907-217-3989

Mekayla.ruiz@alaska.gov