Park Technician 1
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Job Summary
- Job Description
The Department of Natural Resources Division of Parks & Outdoor Recreationis recruiting for a Park Technician 1 in Sitka.
This position is open to Alaska Residents only.
Please check ourresidency definition to determine if you qualify.
What You Will Be Doing:
- Maintain and improve park facilities and trails by performing routine repairs building and grounds maintenance vegetation clearing inspections and janitorial services to ensure safe clean and functional recreation areas.
- Lead and facilitate the Alaska Conservation Corps and Volunteers In Parks programs including recruitment hiring training and assigning daily tasks.
- Provide visitor services educational outreach and interpretive programming to park visitors and the local community.
- Operate and care for state equipment including trucks ATVs boats snow machines and power tools.
- Perform administrative tasks that support field operations including grant writing timekeeping purchasing filing and report writing.
Mission and Values/Culture:
The Alaska Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation is committed to providing outdoor recreation opportunities while conserving and interpreting Alaskas natural cultural and historic resources for the benefit of present and future generations. The Division works to ensure that Alaskas parks remain accessible safe and well-managed balancing public use with long-term stewardship. By promoting responsible recreation protecting significant landscapes and cultural sites and fostering public understanding of Alaskas lands and waters DPOR strengthens public appreciation and respect for these shared resources. This careful balance between access and conservation ensures that Alaskas state parks continue to serve the public interest and remain resilient and sustainable over time.
Benefits of Joining Our Team:
- You will play a hands-on role in stewarding some of Alaskas most iconic landscapes making a visible difference in the safety and quality of state park facilities.
- The work offers variety every dayranging from trail projects to visitor support to field operationskeeping the job active engaging and meaningful.
- Youll gain valuable skills in equipment operation maintenance natural resource stewardship and leadership while working alongside dedicated park professionals.
- Our team culture emphasizes collaboration problem-solving and pride in serving the public and protecting park resources.
- As a State of Alaska employee youll enjoy reliable benefits opportunities for advancement and meaningful work that supports outdoor recreation across the state.
The Working Environment You Can Expect:
This position is based at Halibut Point State Recreation Site in Sitka Alaska. Situated on Baranof Island Sitka is one of Alaskas oldest communities offering a rich blend of Alaska Native culture and Russian-American history. Surrounded by mountains and forests this scenic coastal community offers a small-town feel essential amenities and abundant outdoor recreation opportunities. The role is field-oriented with daily work involving operating vehicles and equipment maintaining outdoor trails and facilities interacting with visitors and leading the volunteer and Alaska Conservation Corps programs in all weather conditions. Travel often by boat snowmachine ATV or small plane is an expected part of this position with periodic overnight stays in remote park sites or other Southeast Alaska communities.
We are looking for a candidate who possesses the following position-specific competencies.- Managing Human Resources:Plans distributes coordinates and monitors work assignments of others; 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.
- Building and Construction: Knowledge of materials methods and the tools to construct objects structures and buildings.
- Mechanics: Knowledge of machines and tools including their design use benefits repair operation and maintenance.
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- Minimum Qualifications
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 rather than specific tasks and are used only as parameters and guidelines. A competencys 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 for how an applicant can meet the job expectation.Minimum Qualifications
Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in:- Accountability: Accepts responsibility for own actions and decisions and demonstrates commitment to accomplish work in an ethical efficient and cost-effective manner.
- 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 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.
- Problem Solving: Identifies and analyzes problems; weighs relevance and accuracy of information; generates and evaluates alternative solutions; makes recommendations.
- 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.
Equivalent to those typically gained by:
Any combination of preparatory post-secondary education and/or experiencein the operations of natural resource management or outdoor recreation providing assistance information and services to customers tourists or the general public that included some clerical/administrative/technical tasks; and/or leading instructing individuals in outdoors adventure activities.
Definitions:
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.
Special Note:Positions in this class require possessing a valid drivers license.
Some positions may require evening and/or weekend to remote locations by small plane or boat may be required.
Positions in this job class have access and may be required to carry a firearm for wildlife protection. If this requirement is present it will be stated in the position description and vacancy announcement.- Additional Required Information
** Please read the information below carefully. **
At the time of the interviewplease ensure that you provide the following materials. Failure to do so may result in loss of consideration. Required documents include:- Valid Drivers License
- Three professional references
- Last three performance evaluations
- First Aid/CPR certification
SPECIAL NOTICES
- Overnight travel to remote locations or other communities by small plane or boat may be required.
- Positions in this job class have access to and may be required to carry a firearm for wildlife protection.
- Weekend and/or evening work may be required.
Application Notice
Supplemental Questions
For your application to be evaluated you must answer the Supplemental Questions. The State of Alaska (SOA) uses four proficiency levels to measure and describe an applicants competence in applying specific 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
If post-secondary education is required to meet the minimum qualifications you must fill out the Education section of the application. If you have not yet obtained a degree please indicate the units you have completed. Copies of transcripts are required to verify educational credentials if used to meet the minimum qualifications for a position.
Special Instructions for Foreign Education
Education completed at foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the minimum qualifications listed above. If using this education to meet minimum qualification requirements you must demonstrate that the credentials have been submitted to a private organization specializing in interpreting foreign educational credentials and that such education has been deemed at least equivalent to that gained in standard U.S. education programs. Alternatively an accredited U.S. post-secondary institution must report that the other institutions transcript is given full value or that full value is recognized in relevant subject areas aligned with the post-secondary institutions curricula. It is your responsibility to provide this evidence when applying.
Work Experience
If using work experience not already documented in your application also provide the employers name job title employment dates and whether full or part-time. Applications will be reviewed to determine whether the responses are supported and whether the minimum qualifications are met. If they are not the applicant may not advance to the recruitment interview and selection phase.
Note: Attaching a resume does not substitute for completing the application in full. Noting see resume 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.
Bargaining Unit
If you are acurrent state employee please indicate the union to which you belong at the time of application. Do not complete this question if you are not a current state employee.
Drivers License Requirement
Applicants must possess a valid drivers license. Proof of licensure will be required prior to reporting to duty.
Firearms
This position requires the use or possession of a firearm or accordance with the federal Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act of 1997 (PL 104-208) if you have been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence you may not hold this position.
A misdemeanor crime of domestic violence is an offense that is (1) a misdemeanor under Federal or state law and (2) has as an element the use or attempted use of physical force or the threatened use of a deadly weapon committed by a current or former spouse parent or guardian of the victim by a person with whom the victim shares a child in common by a person who is cohabiting with or has cohabited with the victim as a spouse parent or guardian or by a person similarly situated to a spouse parent or guardian of the victim.
Please ensure your application (through work history training education licenses certifications etc.) supports/demonstrates that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class.
EEO STATEMENT
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For specific information about this position please get in touch with the hiring manager at the following:
Brad GaraskyPark Superintendent Southeast Region
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