Human Resource Consultant 4 (PCN 124301) Salary $3,360.80 Biweekly Location Juneau, AK Job Type Full Time Job Number 52776 Department Commerce, Community, and Economic Development Division Administrative Services Opening Date 02/13/2026 Closing Date 2/23/2026 5:00 PM Alaska Division Administrative Services Position Open To Alaska Residents Only Bargaining Unit Confidential Unit Range 20
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Are you a data-driven HR professional who thrives on solving complex challenges and shaping organizational culture? Do you enjoy empowering leaders and teams through strategic workforce planning and performance development? Are you ready to lead change and drive innovation in human capital management?
As the Human Resource Business Partner (HRBP) for the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development (DCCED), you will serve as the primary HR professional and strategic advisor to department leadership. You'll lead initiatives in workforce planning, employee engagement, performance development, and change management. This role is dynamic and influential, balancing tactical HR expertise with long-term strategic direction to enhance workforce performance and readiness.
The benefits of joining our team:
• Be a key driver of strategic HR initiatives that impact nearly 600 employees across diverse programs. • Enjoy a flexible work environment with opportunities for professional growth and leadership development. • Collaborate with a supportive team committed to excellence in public service. • Influence department-wide change through data-informed decision-making and creative problem-solving. • Make a meaningful impact on Alaska's communities by supporting the people who serve them.
Where you will be working:
Located on the 9th floor of the State Office Building in Juneau, our modern workspace has a collaborative atmosphere and expansive views of the Gastineau Channel. The HRBP will engage with leadership, supervisors, and staff across the department, with occasional travel for training and strategic planning.
We are looking for someone who can shift priorities on demand, works well with a diverse group of individuals, has creative problem-solving skills while remaining flexible and approachable and has the following competencies:
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.
Creative Thinking: Uses imagination to develop new insights into situations and applies new solutions to problems; designs new methods where established methods and procedures are not suitable or are unavailable.
Workforce Planning: Knowledge of HR concepts, principles, and practices related to determining workload projections and current and future competency gaps to align human capital with organizational goals.
Minimum Qualifications
Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in:
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.
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.
Organizational Awareness: Knows the organizations mission and functions, and how its social, political, and technological systems work and operates effectively within them; this includes the programs, policies, procedures, rules, and regulations of the organization.
Personnel and Human Resources: Knowledge of hiring, classification, benefits, labor relations, negotiation, and State and federal employment regulations.
Planning and Evaluating: Organizes work, sets priorities, and determines resource requirements; determines short- or long-term goals and strategies to achieve them; coordinates with other organizations or parts of the organization to accomplish goals; monitors progress and evaluates outcomes.
Vision: Understands where the organization is headed and how to make a contribution; takes a long-term view and recognizes opportunities to help the organization accomplish its objectives or move toward the vision.
Equivalent to those typically gained by:
Training in human resource management, business administration, or organizational leadership and progressively responsible professional experience in human resources (such as recruitment, payroll, classification and compensation, employee and labor-management relations, employer provided benefit programs, employment law compliance, or employee training).
Competencies Professional Experience Progressively Responsible Training Education
Competencies Competencies mean 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 professions principles, concepts, theories, and practices; and is performed with the power or right to decide or act according to ones own judgment.
Progressively responsible means indicating growth and/or advancement in complexity, difficulty, or level of responsibility.
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
Our organization, mission, and culture:
DCCED fosters economic growth and community development across Alaska. As part of the Division of Administrative Services, the HRBP plays a critical role in aligning people strategies with the department's mission, cultivating a culture of innovation, accountability, and collaboration.
Please note:
When submitting your application, please attach a professional writing sample that is no longer than 2 pages. The writing sample can be an email, letter, presentation, or other applicable written communication example.
Not attaching a writing sample may result in not moving forward to the interview phase of the recruitment.
If selected for interview, bring copies of your last three (3) performance evaluations, as well as three (3) professional references who have had supervisory authority over you.
This position may require occasional (1 time per year) travel within the state.
Education:
If post-secondary education is required to meet the minimum qualifications, you must fill in the Education section of the application. If you have not obtained a degree, please indicate the number of units completed. Copies of transcripts are required to verify educational credentials if used to meet the minimum qualifications for a position. Transcripts must be attached at the time the application is submitted.
Work Experience:
If using work experience in order to meet the minimum qualifications of the position and it is not already documented in your application, also provide the employer name, your job title, dates of employment, and whether full-or part-time.
Applications will be reviewed to determine if the responses are supported and minimum qualifications are clearly met. If they are not, the applicant may not advance to the interview and selection phase of the recruitment.
EEO Statement:
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If you have specific questions regarding the position, please contact the hiring manager directly: Hannah Lager, Administrative Services Director
Email address: Hannah.Lager@alaska.gov
Careers with the State of Alaska offer many benefits. 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 AlaskaCare 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 Boatmans 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)
Optional Insurance Benefits
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