Summary

This job involves working as a resilience planner to help rural Alaska communities, especially Native villages, prepare for climate risks and natural hazards through community outreach, planning documents, and collaboration with agencies.

You'll create engagement materials, review reports, and develop protection plans to build community strength and self-governance.

It's ideal for someone passionate about environmental issues, rural development, and teamwork in a flexible, travel-involved role.

Key Requirements

Experience in community engagement and outreach, particularly with rural or Alaska Native communities
Skills in developing educational materials like handouts and graphics for public use
Ability to review assessments, reports, and plans, and provide improvement recommendations
Knowledge of risk communication and resilience planning for natural hazards and climate change
Proficiency in creating and improving infrastructure protection plans
Strong communication skills for working with state, federal, and local stakeholders
Adaptability to changing environments and interest in grant-funded projects

Full Job Description

This is a full-time, permanent position located at one of DCRA's offices in Bethel, Dillingham, Kotzebue, Nome, Anchorage, Fairbanks, or Juneau.

What you will be doing:
This position serves as the Resilience Planner for the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC), Center for Environmentally Threatened Communities, Community Climate Risk Assessment Program (RAP).

This position helps the RAP achieve its goals by supporting and carrying out community engagement; developing community engagement materials (handouts, graphics, etc.); developing community engagement processes; reviewing existing assessments and reports and providing recommendations for improvement; co-developing risk communication standards for maps, reports, and community engagement processes; reviewing and continually improving the Infrastructure Protection Plan template; completing Infrastructure Protection Plans for communities served by the RAP; and supporting communications with state and federal agencies as needed.

This position is funded through a subaward DCRA received from ANTHC through the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s National Coastal Resilience Fund.

Our organization, mission and culture:
The Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development assists the people, villages, cities and businesses of Alaska with a focus on outcomes, an efficient use of Alaska’s abundant resources, and putting individual Alaskans before bureaucracy.

The Division of Community and Regional Affairs (DCRA) promotes strong communities and healthy economies by providing information, technical assistance, financial assistance, and other capacity building resources to communities.

This position supports DCRA's mission of supporting maximum local self-governance by helping communities increase their resilience to natural hazards. Resilience is the foundation that enables communities to exercise autonomy, protect democratic processes (self-determination), and chart their own futures.

The benefits of joining our team:
You will be joining a team of passionate employees who demonstrate a high level of initiative, excellent interpersonal skills, ability to adapt to a changing environment, and an interest in working with rural Alaska communities. There are periodic opportunities for a permanent position and advancement within the division.

This position provides the selected candidate an unparalleled opportunity to build their resume in the area of community natural hazard risk reduction and resilience planning. The grant that funds this position offers:

Travel opportunities to communities throughout rural Alaska,
Collaboration with a broad network of state, federal, and local stakeholders, and
Attendance at key conferences and events relating to community resilience, including the Alaska Tribal Conference on Environmental Management, the Alaska Forum on the Environment, the Bureau of Indian Affairs Providers Conference, and the National Adaptation Conference.

Where you will be working:
Depending on the location of the incumbent, the primary workplace for this position will be located near one of DCRA's offices, including the DCRA office on the 16th floor of the Atwood building in downtown Anchorage, the State Office Building in downtown Juneau, the DCRA office in Fairbanks, or DCRA's regional offices in Bethel, Dillingham, Kotzebue, or Nome. Free covered parking is available in Anchorage and Juneau. Hybrid teleworking is available, and the division offers flexible work weeks. You will be part of a dynamic team of professionals who enjoy working with the rural Alaska communities they serve and who provide guidance, technical assistance, training, and resources to help communities improve resilience, sustainability, and overcome barriers to growth and development.

The successful candidate will have some or all of the following knowledge, skills and abilities (KSA's): In the duties section of your work experience(s), please highlight how you meet the KSA's listed below. The information listed may help determine moving forward to the interview phase of the recruitment.

Experience with or demonstrated understanding of natural hazard risk reduction, community planning, and land use implementation as related to erosion, flooding, and permafrost degradation.
Experience working with remote, rural Alaska communities.
Experience working with a team of multi-disciplinary members, collaborating on information, work responsibilities and team products.
Experience communicating technical and scientific reports into plain language, so it is easily understood by lay people.
Experience communicating information to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information.
Experience working with ArcGIS Pro (not required, but some experience is desired).
Experience communicating across cultures and to small communities.
Experience organizing and facilitating meetings with Alaska communities ranging from small rural communities to regional gatherings.
Experience developing community planning documents.
Demonstrated experience identifying, developing, and implementing priorities and initiatives for programs.

Special Notice:
This position may travel to rural Alaska communities. Some travel may involve non-commercial sleeping arrangements (i.e. city hall or schools) and traveling by small planes. Annual out-of-state travel opportunities include attendance at the National Adaptation Forum. Local conference attendance includes the Alaska Tribal Conference on Environmental Management, the Alaska Forum on the Environment, and others.

Requirements

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

Accountability: Holds self and others accountable for measurable high-quality, timely, and cost effective results. Determines objectives, sets priorities, and delegates work.

Accepts responsibility for own actions and decisions. Complies with established control systems and rules.

External Awareness: Identifies and understands economic, political, and social trends that affect the organization.

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.

Teaches Others: Helps others learn; identifies training needs; provides constructive reinforcement; coaches others on how to perform tasks; acts as a mentor.

Technical Competence: Uses knowledge that is acquired through formal training or extensive on-the-job experience to perform one's job; works with, understands, and evaluates technical information related to the job; advises others on technical issues.

Equivalent to those typically gained by:Any combination of preparatory post-secondary education and/or progressively responsible experience in accounting, budget administration, financial services, social services, public administration, legal or paralegal services, grant development, and/orproviding administrative support to a business, organization, or program.

Special Note:Special note: Some positions require frequent travel to rural communities in Alaska, some of which have no commercial accommodations and requires the incumbent to sleep in city hall or in a school.

In addition, travel to these rural communities may be via small planes and other conveyances.

“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 If you are selected to advance to the interview phase of the recruitment process, you must provide the following at the time of the interview (if not already attached to your application):The initial interview may be by phone or in person.

Three (3) references with current contact information - two (2) of which need to be former supervisors.

Last three (3) performance evaluations (if available).

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 must be attached at the time the application is submitted.

Work Experience:
If using work experience in order to meet the minimum qualifications of the position and it is not already documented in your application, also provide the employer 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.

Multiple Vacancies:
This 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.

Notice:
Questions 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 your email address is correct on your application and that the spam filter will permit email from the ‘govermentjobs.com’ domains. For information on allowing emails from the ‘governmentjobs.com’ domains, visit the Lost Password Help page located at
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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.

Salary Information:

$2833.50 biweekly, salary schedule 200; Anchorage
$2918.25 biweekly, salary schedule 203; Fairbanks
$2975.25 biweekly, salary schedule 205; Juneau
$3822.00 biweekly, salary schedule 237; Dillingham/Nome
$4250.50 biweekly, salary schedule 250; Bethel
$4533.75 biweekly, salary schedule 260; Kotzebue

Additional Information

If you have questions regarding Workplace Alaska, the application process and/or problems being able to submit your application or attachments online, please call the Workplace Alaska hotline at 800-587-0430 (toll free) or (907) 465- 4095. If you choose to be contacted by email, please ensure your email address is correct on your application and that the spam filter will permit email from the 'govermentjobs.com' domains.

For information on allowing emails from the 'governmentjobs.com' domains, visit the Lost Password Help page located at https://www.governmentjobs.com/OnlineApplication/User/ResetPassword

If you have specific questions regarding the position, please contact the hiring manager directly:

Hiring manager: Sally Cox, Local Government Specialist 5
Phone number: (907) 269-4588
Email address: sally.cox@alaska.gov

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