Deputy Fire Marshall

Deputy Fire Marshal

The recruitment is exempt from the hiring freeze (Administrative Order 358)

This recruitment is open to Alaska Residents only. Alaska Residency Requirements must be met to be considered for employment at this time.

• Leading a statewide program that directly protects Alaskans by preventing loss of life and property through fire and life safety enforcement.
• Guiding, developing, and mentoring Deputy Fire Marshals; shaping how fire code enforcement and investigations are conducted statewide.
• Responding to high-impact fire investigations, including major incidents, fatal fires, and cases involving significant public or criminal concerns.
• Collaborating daily with fire departments, law enforcement, federal agencies, engineers, architects, and community members.
• Making decisions that carry meaningful, immediate outcomes for community safety, enforcement, and program direction.

The Division of Fire and Life Safety's mission is to prevent the loss of life and property from fire and explosion. This role advances that mission by enforcing fire codes, conducting fire and life safety inspections, and performing fire investigations across the state. Through their professional oversight and dedication to community safety, Deputy Fire Marshals uphold the Division's values and significantly enhance its overall effectiveness.

Our team offers structured opportunities for professional growth, advanced training within a mission-focused public safety environment. This role provides the opportunity to directly serve Alaska's communities by preventing the loss of life and property from fires and explosions. Joining our team means contributing to meaningful, high-impact public service.

The working conditions you can expect:

This position is located at the Anchorage office and plays a key role in supporting statewide fire and life safety operations. The work includes office leadership and oversight of fire inspections and investigations, with some travel throughout Alaska to support communities and ensure effective service delivery.

What we are looking for:

• Leadership - Influences, motivates, and challenges others; adapts leadership styles to a variety of situations.
• Supervision – Plans, distributes, and monitors work assignments; sets task priorities; 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.
• Technical Expertise – Effectively applies technical knowledge to solve a range of problems; develops technical solutions to new or highly complex problems that cannot be solved using existing methods or approaches; is sought out as an expert to provide advice or solutions in the technical area.
• 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.
• 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.
• Program and Process Management – Ability to plan, organize, and oversee complex statewide programs, ensuring quality control, compliance, and continuous improvement.

Minimum qualifications:

• One year of experience conducting fire and life safety inspections and fire investigations. This is met by service as a Deputy Fire Marshal 2 with the State of Alaska, or the equivalent with another employer.
• Personal History:
  Citizen of the United States of America, possession of high school diploma recognized by a state, diploma from a home school program recognized or certified by a state or by a local school district within a state as having met the state's graduation requirements, or has passed a General Education Development (GED) test.
• 21 years of age or older at the time of…