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Administrative Officer 2 (PCN-060673)

State of Alaska

Health

Fresh

Location

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From $3,244.80

per week

Closes

April 14, 2026

Job Description

Summary

This job involves leading a small team to handle the behind-the-scenes tasks that keep a health department division running smoothly, such as managing budgets, payroll, hiring, and office operations.

It's perfect for someone with experience in office management who enjoys supervising people and ensuring everything complies with rules.

You'll work in a supportive environment in downtown Juneau, Alaska, with options for some remote work after probation.

Key Requirements

  • Experience supervising a team, including planning work, evaluating performance, and handling hiring or discipline
  • Strong skills in financial management, such as budgeting, payroll review, journal entries, and tracking agreements
  • Knowledge of procurement, property management, and personnel support functions
  • Ability to develop and maintain policies, procedures, and support staff training
  • Commitment to excellent customer service for internal and external needs
  • Residency in Alaska (required for eligibility)
  • Practical leadership in operational activities to support division goals

Full Job Description


This Individual Position is Exempt from the Hiring Freeze. Qualified Applicants are Encouraged To Apply.


Welcome to the Department of Health!

We’d be delighted to have you join our team.

If you envision yourself in this role and are ready to start an exciting career with us, apply today!


This position is open to Alaskan Residents only.
Please check out the residency definition to determine if you qualify.

Please check out the

What You Will Be Doing:

Help manage the core administrative functions that keep our division operating effectively.
This position provides steady, practical leadership across financial, personnel, and operational activities that support the division’s daily work.

Key Responsibilities:
Supervise the Administrative Services team (3 direct reports) which provide accounting, procurement, property management, and personnel support functions.

Manage personal services financial coding; review payroll reports; prepare adjusting journal entries; and develop budget projections to inform fiscal planning.

Track and oversee Reimbursable Services Agreements (RSAs), ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely processing.

Support staff development through training opportunities and workplace improvement efforts.

Maintain division policies and procedures and coordinate office space planning and reconfigurations.

Mission and Values/Culture:
Our mission is simple and powerful: to advance the health, well-being, and independence of Alaskans. You will transform our mission into reality by leading the people and processes that keep vital programs running. From managing personnel, accounting, and payroll to overseeing procurement, your leadership ensures Alaskans receive the services they depend on.

Benefits of Joining Our Team:
You’ll join a collaborative team that values clear communication, thoughtful input, and practical innovation. It’s a work environment where your contributions are acknowledged, professional growth is supported, and you have opportunities to build your career.After successfully completing the probationary period, employees are eligible for a hybrid work schedule, with the option to work remotely up to two days per week.

The Working Environment You Can Expect:
We are centrally located in beautiful downtown Juneau, close to shopping, dining, hiking trails, and the waterfront. This position has a private office with a view and is located on the 1st floor of the Alaska Office Building.

Who We Are Looking For:

Supervision: 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.

Assignments include the 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.

  • Customer Service: Anticipates and meets the needs of both internal and external customers. Delivers high-quality products and services; is committed to continuous improvement.
  • 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.
  • To view the general description and example of duties for this job class, please go to the following link and search for [Administrative Officer 2]: https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/Alaska/classspecs

    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 instead of 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 meet the competency successfully 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.
    • Budget Administration: Knowledge of the principles and practices of budget administration and analysis; including preparing, justifying, reporting on, and executing the budget; and the relationships among program, budget, accounting, and reporting systems.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    Equivalent to those typically gained by:

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

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

    Qualifications

    At the time of the interview, please provide the following:
    1. Three (3) professional references whom we may contact by phone, one (1) of whom must be your current or most recent supervisor, if not already provided in the application.
    2. Current performance evaluation, if available.
    3. A copy of academic transcripts (unofficial is okay; please ensure that the institution name/URL is listed on the transcripts) is used to support that you meet the minimum qualification competencies.


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

    SUPPLEMENTAL QUESTIONS

    For your application to be evaluated, you must answer the Supplemental Questions.


    The State of Alaska uses four proficiency levels to measure and describe an applicant’s level of competence in applying certain behaviors, knowledge, skills, and abilities to accomplish a specific task.

    The four proficiency levels are Mastery, Fluency, Literacy, and Discovery. You must rate your proficiency level for each competency listed in the supplemental questions.


    EDUCATION
    To verify education is being used to meet and/or support the required minimum qualifications/competencies, 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 used to meet or support the minimum qualifications/competencies for a position and are required with each application (Unofficial is okay; please ensure the institution/URL name is listed on the transcripts) Transcripts can be attached at the time of application or provided at the time of interview; if not, transcripts will be required before employment.


    SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR FOREIGN EDUCATION
    If education is completed in a foreign college or university, it 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 the 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. The omission of the required documentation listed will result in an incomplete application, and you will not receive further consideration.


    WORK EXPERIENCE

    When using work experience not documented in your application, please provide the employer's name, job title, employment dates, and whether you worked full-time or part-time Applications will be reviewed to determine if the responses are supported and if minimum qualifications are met Work experience needed to meet the minimum qualifications must be documented in the application If the application does not support minimum qualifications, the applicant may not advance to the interview and selection phase of the recruitment A resume will not be used to determine that minimum qualifications have been met for the position you are applying for.

    If you have currently or previously been appointed to a flexibly staffed position, please ensure your work experience within a flexibly staffed position indicates the actual dates employed at each level Ensure your time and any subsequent flex promotion(s) are documented as a separate position This is required as minimum qualifications require experience at a particular level in which the lower level may not be considered If this information is not accurately reflected in your application, this may cause the processing of your application for consideration to be delayed.

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

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

    The State of Alaska does not provide VISA Employer sponsorships.

    MULTIPLE VACANCIESThis recruitment may be used for more than one (1) vacancy.

    The applicant pool acquired during this recruitment may be used for future vacancies for up to ninety (90) days after this recruitment closes.

    Interested applicants are encouraged to apply to each recruitment notice to ensure consideration for all vacancies.APPLICATION NOTICEYou can ONLY apply for this position through the Workplace Alaska website or via a hard copy application.

    If you accessed this recruitment bulletin through a job search portal such as AlaskaJobs or another database, you MUST use a Workplace Alaska online or hard-copy application to apply successfully.

    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/.NOTICEQuestions regarding the application process can be directed to the Workplace Alaska hotline at 800-587-0430 (toll-free) or (907) 465- 4095.

    If you choose to be contacted by email, please ensure that your email address is correct on your application and that your spam filter will permit emails from the 'governmentjobs.com' domain.

    For information on allowing emails from the 'governmentjobs.com' domains, visit the Lost Password Help page at https://www.governmentjobs.com/OnlineApplication/User/ResetPassword.EEO STATEMENTThe State of Alaska complies with Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

    Individuals with disabilities who require accommodations, auxiliary aids, 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.

    The State of Alaska is an equal-opportunity employer.WORKPLACE ALASKA APPLICATION QUESTIONS & ASSISTANCEQuestions 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 in the Juneau area.

    Requests for information may also be emailed to recruitment.services@alaska.gov.For assistance with applying for a password, please visit https://www.governmentjobs.com/OnlineApplication/User/ResetPassword.

    Additional Information

    For specific information about the position, feel free to contact the hiring manager at:
    Name/Title: Shawna Libby/ Administrative Operations Manager 2
    Phone: 907-465-4636
    Email: shawna.libby@alaska.gov

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