What You Will Be Doing:
As part of the Talent Acquisition (TA) Team, your primary role will be to manage recruitment efforts of positions within the Department of Family and Community Services (DFCS). You will function as a hiring manager, working to streamline recruitment processes, enhance candidate experiences, and cultivate a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects our core values. You will be able to ensure a seamless onboarding experience for new employees, and represent the department at recruitment events.

Talent Acquisition Specialists function as full-time hiring managers performing the following recruitment functions:

• Creating Job Postings (like the one you’re reading!) to attract the right candidates
• Screening Applications (like the one you hopefully submit!) to advance the most qualified candidates to interviews
• Setting up and interviewing with those awesome candidates to determine who is the best fit for the role
• Submitting requests for hire and making someone’s day by offering them their dream job!
• Coordinating first day logistics for new staff members joining the Department, including arranging computer access and required paperwork
• Hosting Onboarding presentations to teach new employees all about their benefits, what it’s like to work for our Department, and be a State employee in general.

We work closely with the Recruitment Services Team and our Human Resource Business Partners on a variety of Human Resources functions.

Our Organization, Mission, and Culture:
The Department of Family and Community Services’ mission is to provide support, safety, and personal well-being for vulnerable Alaskans.

We are person-centered and accomplish our mission through a vision of service first. We RAISE the bar and lift up those with whom we work and for whom we care, through our Core Values: Respect *We value everyone and treat all people with kindness, dignity, and professionalism.
Accountability *We are each responsible for our words, our actions, our results, and our contributions to the team.
Integrity *We build trust by means of responsible actions, honest relationships, and following through.
Service *We are helpful and positively contribute to the success and welfare of others.
Excellence *We inspire and motivate each other to achieve the highest quality results and strive for continual improvement.

Benefits of Joining Our Team:
Our team fosters a culture that values positivity, creativity, and consistent learning and growth. We offer meaningful work that impacts communities throughout Alaska.

We believe in enhancing the lives of our staff by promoting professional development, including robust initial and ongoing training. We encourage employee wellness through the use of personal leave, flexible schedules, and a friendly, supportive environment.

As a State of Alaska employer, we offer competitive wages, generous medical, vision, and dental benefits, personal leave, 12 paid holidays per year, and great retirement benefits!

Working Environment You Can Expect:
We are located at the Frontier Building in Midtown Anchorage in a newly remodeled office, designed to foster collaboration and team synergy. We often see spectacular sunrises with great lighting and open windows that show off the beauty of Alaska’s mountains around us.

As the Talent Acquisition Supervisor, you’ll have the benefit of a spacious office to make your own, giving you a comfortable space to lead and innovate.

While telework is not typically an option, we believe in flexibility and work-life balance. Our team enjoys the benefits of flexible schedules, including alternate workweeks and flexible use of personal leave.

Who We Are Looking For:
Our ideal candidate is an innovative, strategic professional who is excited to rethink traditional HR approaches with knowledge, skills, and abilities in the following desired competencies:

• Analytical Thinking / Problem Solving: 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.
• Leadership: Influences, motivates, and challenges others; adapts leadership styles to a variety of situations.
• Integrity: Contributes to maintaining the integrity of the organization; displays high standards of ethical conduct and understands the impact of violating these standards on an organization, self, and others; is trustworthy.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Influence: Asserts own ideas and persuades others, gaining support and commitment from others; mobilizes people to act, using creative approaches to motivate others to meet organization goals.
• Personnel and Human Resources: Knowledge of hiring, classification, benefits, labor relations, negotiation, and State and federal employment regulations.
• Problem Solving: Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of information; uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives, and to make recommendations.

Equivalent to those typically gained by:
“Competencies” means a combination of interrelated knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors that enable a person to act effectively in a job or situation.

“Professional experience” means work that is creative, analytical, evaluative, and interpretive; requires a range and depth of specialized knowledge of the profession's principles, concepts, theories, and practices; and is performed with the power or right to decide or act according to one's own judgment.

“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.

“Typically gained by” means the prevalent, usual method of gaining the competencies expected for entry into the job.

Additional Required Information

At time of interview applicant is requested to submit:

• Three (3) professional references with current contact information if not provided on your application.
• A copy of academic transcripts, to verify post-secondary education used to meet the minimum qualifications. (Unofficial transcripts are accepted provided the institutions name is listed).

Contact Information

Name: Kiley Dwyer, Human Resource Business Partner
Phone: (907) 334-2549
Email: Kiley.Dwyer@alaska.gov

The following information describes typical benefits available to employees of the State of Alaska. Actual benefits received may differ by bargaining unit or branch of government, position type, or be prorated for other than full time work.

For a quick breakdown of the insurance, health, and retirement benefits available for State Employees you can view an orientation video from Division of Retirement and Benefits. (Please note this video is specifically designed for new State Employees.)

Insurance Benefits

• Health insurance, which includes employer contributions toward medical/vision/dental
  • The following employee groups are under Alaska Care Benefits administered by the State: See https://drb.alaska.gov/help/plans.html for additional information.
    • AVTEC
    • Confidential
    • Correctional Officers
    • Marine Engineers
    • Mt. Edgecumbe Teachers
    • Supervisory
    • Unlicensed Vessel Personnel/Inland Boatman's Union
    • Exempt employees (not covered by collective bargaining)
  • The following employee groups are covered by Union health trusts. Contact the appropriate Union for additional information.
    • General Government
    • Labor, Trades and Crafts
    • Public Safety Employees Association
    • Masters, Mates & Pilots
• Employer paid Basic Life insurance with additional coverage available (amount depends on Bargaining Unit)

• Group-based insurance premiums for
  • Term life (employee, spouse or qualified same sex partner, and dependents)
  • Long-term and short-term disability
  • Accidental Death and Dismemberment
  • Long-term care (self and eligible family members)
  • Supplemental Survivor Benefits
• Employee-funded flexible spending accounts for tax savings on eligible health care or dependent care expenses

Retirement Benefits

• Membership in the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS)/Teachers' Retirement System (TRS)
• Matching employer contribution into a defined contribution program (new employees)
• Employer contribution into a defined benefit or defined contribution program (current employees)
• Contributions to the Alaska Supplemental Annuity Plan in lieu of contributions to Social Security
• Option to enroll in the Alaska Deferred Compensation Program
• Note: The Defined Contribution Plan, Supplemental Annuity Plan and Deferred Compensation Program offer a variety of investment options

Paid Leave & Other Benefits

• Personal leave with an accrual rate increase based on time served
• Twelve (12) paid holidays a year