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School Finance Specialist 2 (Land Manager - PCN 051716)
State of Alaska
Education & Early Development
Location
Alaska, 99811
Salary
From $2,778
per week
Type
Full Time
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Job Description
Summary
This role involves managing land used by Alaska's school districts, handling paperwork for property transfers and leases, and overseeing state-funded projects for building and maintaining schools.
It also includes reviewing funding requests, tracking expenses, and advising school districts on rules and costs.
A good fit would be someone detail-oriented with experience in finance, real estate, or project management who enjoys working with government regulations and supporting education.
Key Requirements
- Alaska residency required
- Experience in title research and preparing conveyance documents
- Knowledge of managing leases and resolving land-related issues
- Skills in administering school construction and maintenance grants, including reviewing agreements and payment requests
- Ability to track expenditures, evaluate eligible costs, and oversee project closeouts
- Familiarity with statutes, regulations, and allowable expenses for public funding
- Strong communication skills for stakeholder coordination, public notices, and reporting to leadership and the Legislature
Full Job Description
This position is open to Alaskan Residents only.
Welcome to the Department of Education & Early Development (DEED)!
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:
The Department of Education & Early Development (DEED) is seeking a School Finance Specialist II to support Alaska’s school construction and major maintenance programs and to manage state-owned land used by school districts.
This position conducts title research, prepares conveyance documents, manages DEED-owned leases, resolves land-related issues, and coordinates required public notices and stakeholder communication.
The position also administers state-funded school construction and major maintenance projects by preparing and reviewing project agreements, evaluating district submittals and payment requests, determining eligible costs, tracking expenditures, and overseeing grant closeout.
The position supports the annual Capital Improvement Project (CIP) process by reviewing applications, extracting and organizing project data, and preparing materials for statewide prioritization.
Additional responsibilities include advising districts on statutes, regulations, and allowable expenses and preparing reports for department leadership and the Legislature.
Our Mission, Values, and Culture:
DEED is committed to providing information, resources, and leadership to schools, districts, parents, and the public in order to support an excellent education for every student every day. Staff at DEED are engaged in meaningful professional work in support of Alaska's most valuable resource – its children.
Benefits of Joining Our Team:
The tight-knit team works collaboratively to provide support, resources, and leadership to districts in the area of school capital projects and capital funding. Additionally, the position offers the opportunity for teleworking and flexible scheduling to promote work-life balance.
The Working Environment You Can Expect:
This position is located on the 9th floor of the State Office Building in beautiful downtown Juneau, offering parking and easy access to restaurants, coffee shops, and shopping. Our team is highly focused with exceptional attention to detail. The collaborative work environment provides opportunities for creative and innovative work and learning new skills. Working in the office is required, especially during the probationary period. However, teleworking may be considered for suitable applicants after initial training has been successfully completed.
Who We Are Looking For:
We are interested in candidates who possess some or all of the following position specific competencies:
- Computer Skills: Uses computers, software applications, databases, and automated systems to accomplish work.
- 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.
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- Accounting: Knowledge of traditional accounting practices including accrual, obligations, and costs methods.
- Compliance: Knowledge of procedures for assessing, evaluating, and monitoring programs or projects for compliance with Federal laws, regulations, and guidance.
- Manages and Organizes Information: Identifies a need; gathers, organizes, and maintains information; determines its importance and accuracy, and communicates it by a variety of methods.
- Reasoning: Identifies rules, principles, or relationships that explain facts, data, or other information; analyzes information and makes correct inferences or draws accurate conclusions.
- 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.
Any combination of preparatory post-secondary education and/or progressively responsible experience in business, administration, accounting, education, grants administration or a related 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 application, please provide the following:- Please provide a cover letter to describe how you possess the position-specific competencies and how your skills will be of particular benefit to the position. We request your cover letter be no more than two to three paragraphs and limited to one page.
At time of interview, applicants are required to submit (if not already attached to your application):
- Three (3) professional references with current contact information.
Please read the below information carefully. This applies to your application submission.
COVER LETTER
A cover letter is required as part of your application. In your cover letter, please describe how you possess the position specific competencies listed in the “Who We Are Looking For” section and how your skills will be of particular benefit to the position. We request your cover letter be no more than two to three paragraphs and limited to one page.
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.
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 in the Juneau area.
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:
Michael Butikofer, Technical Engineer I/Architect 1
Email: michael.butikofer@alaska.gov
Phone Number: (907)465-6906
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