Natural Resource Specialist ; Pcn

What You Will Be Doing

The primary responsibilities of this position are adjudicating and issuing authorizations, including temporary land-use permits, leases, easements, temporary water-use authorizations, lease amendments, material sale contracts, lease renewals, and lease terminations. This position must coordinate with agency and industry representatives and timely complete lease administration tasks, including conducting land status reviews, participating in agency reviews, adjudicating releases of interests and transfers of interest, and updating the Land Administration System and the Revenue and Billing System.

The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) mission is to develop, conserve, and maximize the use of Alaska's natural resources consistent with the public interest. The State Pipeline Coordinator's Section (SPCS) provides regulatory oversight of common‑carrier and contract‑carrier transportation pipelines, including the Trans‑Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS), authorized under Alaska Statute 38.35, the Right‑of‑Way Leasing Act. This position is responsible for coordinating with agency and industry representatives while adjudicating and issuing authorizations for pipeline projects.

The Right‑of‑Way (ROW) program is comprised of a small team of five to six other people who work collaboratively to provide excellent customer service, accurate research, efficient permitting, and who manage land for pipelines using state lands and resources. The ROW program team works with other SPCS staff in the compliance, engineering, special projects programs, and agency liaisons, as well as coordinating with representatives from industry and other agencies.

The ROW program also provides training, flexible work schedules, teleworking, and career advancement opportunities.

The position is in the Atwood Building in downtown Anchorage and will include an individual working space, with core office hours from 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM (Monday – Friday). The office duties include but are not limited to: gathering and analyzing technical information for writing documents such as DNR decisions; coordinating with agency and industry representatives; using and interpreting laws and regulations, surveys, and plats;

and using a variety of computer software. The work will require occasional travel to field locations on the highway system or in remote Alaska, such as the North Slope, on a year‑round basis to observe active pipeline and material site activities.

We are looking for a candidate who possesses the following position‑specific competencies.

• Adaptability
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  Adjusts planned work by gathering relevant information and applying critical thinking to address multiple demands and competing priorities in a changing environment.
• Attention to Detail
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  Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.

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 only used as parameters and guidelines.

• Analytical Thinking/Problem Solving
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  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.
• Decision‑Making
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  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.
• Environmental Science
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  Knowledge of the interdisciplinary concepts, principles, theories, and methods of investigating the natural and physical environment, including examination of ecology, biology, physics, chemistry, plant science, zoology, mineralogy, oceanography, limnology, soil science, geology and physical geography, atmospheric, and…