Human Resource Consultant 1 (PCN 100313)

Full Job Description

Welcome to the Department of Revenue!

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!

What You Will Be Doing:

As a Human Resource Consultant 1, you will provide essential human resource (HR) services to the Department of Revenue (DOR).

Your role includes managing talent acquisition by guiding hiring managers, posting positions, and ensuring compliance with regulations.

You will lead strategic recruitment outreach to build strong candidate networks and attract top talent.

Additionally, you’ll facilitate training sessions on performance evaluations and recruitment while supporting supervisors and employees in setting meaningful goals.

Finally, you will provide HR guidance on policies, best practices, and manage department-wide telework agreements.

Our Mission, Values, and Culture:

The DOR’s Administrative Services Division provides essential support in budgeting, HR, procurement, and more; focusing on customer service, cost-efficiency, and continuous improvement.

Our culture emphasizes integrity, collaboration, and continuous learning while promoting excellence and ethical leadership.Benefits of Joining Our Team:

This is your chance to join a dynamic team that supports not just one, but two major State of Alaska departments—the Department of Revenue and the Department of Law.

If you’re looking for variety, challenge, and the opportunity to build strong relationships across agencies, this role offers all that and more.

Unlike many HR positions, this role gives you the unique ability to broaden your professional impact by serving two departments with diverse missions and workforces. You’ll gain hands-on experience with a wide range of HR practices, collaborate with multiple leadership teams, and become a trusted resource for managers and employees alike. This is an opportunity to grow your expertise, expand your network, and make a meaningful difference across state.

The Working Environment You Can Expect:

We maintain a lighthearted and fun atmosphere, encouraging collaboration and mutual support among team members. This position offers a unique blend of professional growth and a positive, enjoyable workplace. This position will report to one of the locations outlined below:

• Juneau: Our main office is located on the 11th floor of the State Office Building, offering spectacular views of Gastineau Channel and easy access to downtown amenities. Covered parking is available in the building garage, and additional parking options are nearby.

Anchorage: The Atwood Building is in the heart of downtown Anchorage. Here, you’ll enjoy a modern workspace surrounded by vibrant city life with coffee shops and restaurants.

The Atwood Building provides convenient access to public transportation and parking is available, making your commute easier.

Who We Are Looking For:
We are interested in candidates who possess some or all of the following position specific competencies:
• Attention to Detail: Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.
• Self-Management: Sets well-defined and realistic personal goals; displays a high level of initiative, effort, and commitment towards completing assignments in a timely manner; works with minimal supervision; is motivated to achieve; demonstrates responsible behavior.
• Workforce Planning: Knowledge of HR concepts, principles, and practices related to determining workload projections and current and future competency gaps to align human capital with organizational goals.
  
If you can imagine yourself in this role, we encourage you to apply!

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:


• 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.
• Interpersonal Skills: Shows understanding, friendliness, courtesy, tact, empathy, concern, and politeness to others; develops and maintains effective relationships with others; may include effectively dealing with individuals who are difficult, hostile, or distressed; relates well to people from varied backgrounds and different situations; is sensitive to cultural diversity, race, gender, disabilities, and other individual differences.
• Oral 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 presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.
• Reasoning: Identifies rules, principles, or relationships that explain facts, data, or other information; analyzes information and makes correct inferences or draws accurate conclusions.
• Writing: Recognizes or uses correct English grammar, punctuation, and spelling; communicates information (for example, facts, ideas, or messages) in a brief, clear, and organized manner; produces written information, which may include technical material, that is appropriate for the intended audience.

Equivalent to those typically gained by:
Training in human resource management, business administration, or organizational leadership or experience supporting management in running an organization/enterprise or supporting professionals working in human resources (such as recruitment, payroll, classification and compensation, employee and labor-management relations, employer provided benefit programs, employment law compliance, or employee training).

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

“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.

Qualifications

At time of interview, applicants are required to submit (if not already attached to your application):

1. Three (3) professional references with current contact information.
2. A copy of your last two (2) performance evaluations. Supervisory letters of reference may be substituted if evaluation is not available.
Please read the below information 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 (SOA) uses four levels of proficiency to measure and describe an applicant's level of competence in applying certain behaviors, knowledge, skills, and abilities to accomplish a specific task. The proficiency levels are Mastery, Fluency, Literacy, and Discovery. You will need to rate your proficiency for each competency listed in the supplemental questions.



WORK EXPERIENCEIf 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.EEO STATEMENTThe 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.

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Requests for information may also be emailed to: recruitment.services@alaska.gov

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Additional Information

For specific information in reference to the position please contact the hiring manager at:




Amanda Ryals, Administrative Officer 1

Email: amanda.ryals@alaska.gov

Phone Number: (907)465-4034