Administrative Operations Manager 2 Anchorage or Juneau (PCN 060621)

Job Description

This job class uses Competency Based minimum qualifications (MQs). Please read the Competency Based MQ instructions below to learn more.

The Department of Family and Community Services, Office of Children’s Services is recruiting for full-time Administrative Operations Manager 2 in Anchorage or Juneau, Alaska. This position is open to Alaska Residents Only.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Responsible for direction, oversight, and setting statewide policy, controls, and procedures for the OCS administrative, budgetary, and financial functions.
• Part of the division’s senior management team which makes recommendations on goals and policies, regulations, short- and long-range planning, and efficient management of resources.
• Provide ongoing professional financial and administrative support and consultative services to all OCS central and regional offices.
• Cook up responses to legislative inquiries and work with the division’s legislative liaison to prepare fiscal notes.
• Serve on department-wide committees and workgroups related to the development of cross-divisional administrative and programmatic projects.

Mission and Values/Culture

The Mission of the Office of Children’s Services is: Ensuring the safety, permanency, and well-being of children by strengthening families, engaging communities, and partnering with Tribes.

The Office of Children's Services is dedicated to a diverse and inclusive workforce where safety and wellbeing are paramount. Employees all contribute to building a culture where everyone is valued, treated equitably, and treated respectfully.

Benefits of Joining Our Team

• The Office of Children's Services is committed to an organizational culture that values each team member.
• We are committed to building and sustaining a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment.
• We celebrate and value the diversity of our employees, partners, and families we serve.
• Your first twelve months in the agency are probationary and considered a training period, with formal virtual training and on-the-job training with your supervisor and with other colleagues.
• Full-time benefits of this position include but are not limited to: Insurance Benefits; Retirement Benefits; Paid Leave; and twelve paid holidays per year.

Minimum Qualifications

• Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in:
• Administration and Management: Knowledge of planning, cooperation, and execution of business functions, resource allocation, and production.
• Decisiveness: Makes well-informed, effective, and timely decisions, even when data are limited or solutions produce unpleasant consequences; perceives the impact and implications of decisions.
• Developing Others: Develops the ability of others to perform and contribute to the organization by providing ongoing feedback and by providing opportunities to learn through formal and informal methods.
• Financial Management: Prepares, justifies, and/or administers the budget for program areas; plans, administers, and monitors expenditures to ensure cost-effective support of programs and policies; assesses financial condition of an organization.
• Partnering: Develops networks and builds alliances; collaborates across boundaries to build strategic relationships and achieve common goals.
• Strategic Thinking: Formulates objectives and priorities and implements plans consistent with the long-term interests of the organization in a global environment. Capitalizes on opportunities and manages risks.

Equivalent to Those Typically Gained by

• Any combination of preparatory post-secondary education and/or progressively responsible professional level experience providing administrative support to a business or organization, business administration, public administration, finance, banking, accounting, industrial relations, marketing, human resource management, logistics and supply chain management, or a similar business field.