ATTENTION ALL ALASKA RESIDENTS!

The Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (DOT&PF) Central Design and Engineering Services is looking for a flexibly staffed Right-of-Way Agent 2/3 to help us Keep Alaska Moving!

What you will be doing:

The Department of Transportation and Public Facilities is seeking a highly motivated individual to fill a permanent Right-of-Way Agent position in Anchorage. As a Right-of-Way Agent, you will be part of a team of seven that acquires real property for state transportation road and airport projects in Southcentral and Western Alaska. You will valuate market value of lands and negotiate to acquire easement and fee interest in said lands, relocate affected households and businesses to include calculating relocation benefits according to the Uniform Relocation Act and administer and manage contracts for acquisition and relocation activities by private contractors.

Our organization, mission, and culture:

State highways and airports are the arteries of Alaska's economy. Our transportation systems are also vital to providing Alaskans with healthy, safe and desirable communities. Your work in right-of-way will support these values and will serve the broader good by keeping Alaska moving through service and infrastructure.

The benefits of joining our team:

At the Central Region Right of Way Section, you will be joined by employees who demonstrate a high level of initiative, excellent interpersonal skills, abilities to adapt to changing priorities, and an interest to improve the Alaska transportation system as a team. You will also have the opportunity to build knowledge of land title through on-the-job experience. The Department offers competitive career advancement through the Right of Way agent series.

The working environment you can expect:

The position has a private semi-private cubical with windows facing northwest and views of Mt. Susitna at the Central Region Headquarters building on Lake Hood (4111 Aviation Dr.), off International Airport Road in Anchorage. Office hours are flexible, work schedules that allow for short work weeks, teleworking in accordance with established policies.

Who we are looking for:

Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with the core competencies of:

Real Estate: Knowledge of real estate principles, practices, markets, values and conducting and interpreting public records, title reports and right of way mapping or asbuilts.

Compliance: Knowledge of procedures for assessing, evaluating, and monitoring programs or projects for compliance with State and federal laws, regulations specific to the Uniform Relocation Act, and guidance specific to properties acquired with federal dollars.

Interpersonal Skills: Treats others with courtesy, sensitivity, and respect. Considers and responds appropriately to the needs and feelings of different people, private or public entities in different situations.

Written and Oral 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 written or oral presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.

Teamwork: Encourages and facilitates cooperation, pride, trust, and group identity; fosters commitment and team spirit; works with others to achieve goals.

Right of Way Agent 2

Any experience that provides the applicant with competencies in:

• Arithmetic: Performs computations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division correctly using whole numbers, fractions, decimals, and percentages.
• Compliance: Knowledge of procedures for assessing, evaluating, and monitoring programs or projects for compliance with State and federal laws, regulations, and guidance.
• Geography: Knowledge of geographical locations, and city, borough, state federal governments; their relationships and characteristics.
• Interpersonal Skills: Treats others with courtesy, sensitivity, and respect. Considers and responds appropriately to the needs and feelings of different people in different situations.
• Reading: Understands and interprets written material, including technical material, rules, regulations, instructions, reports, charts, graphs, or tables; applies what is learned from written material to specific situations.
• Real Estate: Knowledge of real estate principles, practices, markets, and values.
• Standards: Knowledge of standards that either are compliant with or derived from established standards or guidelines.

equivalent to those typically gained by:
Professional experience as an agent for public, personal, or commercial real property transactions, or in surveying or engineering in any of the following: searching, analyzing, and evaluating real property titles; preparing legal land descriptions; appraising real property; acquiring, managing, or disposing of public, personal, or commercial real estate; providing relocation assistance to displaced persons; or drafting of land use permits or agreements.

Right of Way Agent 3

Any experience that provides the applicant with competencies in:

• Analytical Thinking/Problem Solving: Uses a logical, systematic, and 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.
• Geography: Knowledge of geographical locations, and city, borough, state federal governments; their relationships and characteristics.
• 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.
• Negotiation: Works with others towards an agreement that may involve exchanging specific resources or resolving differences.
• Real Estate: Knowledge of real estate principles, practices, markets, and values.
• Standards: Knowledge of standards that either are compliant with or derived from established standards or guidelines.

equivalent to those typically gained by:
Professional experience in the acquisition, management, or disposal of public or commercial real property that included conducting or overseeing title examining, surveying, engineering, appraisals, negotiations with buyer or seller for acquisition or relocation, performing eminent domain actions; or managing property in the preparation of land use permits, agreements, easements, and acquisition and disposition documents.

“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.

**NOTE: PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY**

LEGAL EMPLOYMENT
The State’s online recruitment system, Workplace Alaska, requires applicants to certify that they have a legal right to accept employment in the United States. It is the responsibility of the employee to maintain the appropriate documentation to accept or continue legal employment. The State of Alaska does not function in the role as an employer sponsor.

FLEXIBLY STAFFED
This position is flexibly staffed. This vacancy may be filled at either the Right-of-Way Agent 2 or Right-of-Way Agent 3 level depending on the applicant's training and/or experience. Please respond to all of the minimum qualification questions. If filled at a lower level, incumbent will have the opportunity to advance to the next level upon management's assessment that the incumbent is performing adequately and has successfully completed the training plan and meets the minimum qualifications of the higher level.

NOTE: A cover letter is not required for this position. Your complete application, including supplemental questions, will be used to determine which applicants will advance to the interview phase of the recruitment and selection process. Please ensure that your Applicant Profile is up to date and it provides sufficient information to demonstrate that you meet the Minimum Qualifications for the position.

DOCUMENTS REQUIRED AT TIME OF INTERVIEW (unless already attached to your Workplace Alaska application)

• A complete job history/resume showing all previous employment, including employer contacts (name, address, and telephone numbers, dates of employment, and any breaks in employment. Please be specific about what duties you performed in your previous roles that are relevant to this position.
• Three professional references, at least one from a current or former supervisor with current telephone numbers and email addresses.
• Two writing samples which you were the primary or sole author of, no longer than 5 page each.
• Copies of your last two performance evaluations. If unavailable, a reference letter from a supervisor may be substituted for a performance evaluation.
• Applicants invited for a telephonic (Microsoft Teams or Webex) interview may be requested to test the connection prior to the interview date/time.

DRIVER’S LICENSE REQUIREMENT Applicants must possess a valid driver's license. Proof of licensure will be required prior to reporting to duty.

RECRUITMENT SCOPE

THIS RECRUITMENT IS FOR ALASKA RESIDENTS ONLY
Please be sure to check our residency definition to determine if you qualify.

WORK EXPERIENCE
When using work experience not already documented in your application, please provide the employer's 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. Work experience needed to meet the minimum qualifications must be documented in the application. If the application does not support minimum qualifications, the applicant may not advance to the interview and selection phase of the recruitment. A resume will not be used to determine that minimum qualifications have been met for the position in which you are applying.

If you are currently or previously been appointed to a flexibly staffed position, please ensure your work experience within a flexibly staffed position indicates the actual dates employed at each level. Ensure your time and any subsequent flex promotion(s) are documented as a separate position. This is required as there are minimum qualifications that require experience at a particular level in which the lower level may not be considered. If this information is not accurately reflected in your application this may cause the processing of your application for consideration to be delayed.

NOTE: Attaching a resume or curriculum vitae is not an alternative to filling out the application in its entirety. Noting "see resume or CV" or any similar response on any portion of your application may lead to a determination your application is incomplete and removal from consideration for this job posting.

SUPPLEMENTAL QUESTIONS
This recruitment utilizes a supplemental questionnaire as part of the application process. These questions may be a mix of written, multiple choice, and select all that apply questions. The answers you provide to the questions will be an opportunity for you to tell us about your experience and/or education. The answers will be used to determine which applicants will advance to the interview phase of the recruitment and selection process; please be as thorough and accurate as you can.

EDUCATION
If post-secondary education is required or is used as a substitution to meet the minimum qualifications, it is required to complete the Education section of your Profile. If you have not obtained a degree, please indicate the number of credit hours earned in the Units Completed field. Copies of transcripts will be required at time of interview but may also be attached to the application.

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR FOREIGN EDUCATION
Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the above requirements, if applicable. If utilizing this education you must show that the education credentials have been submitted to a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign educational credentials and that such education has been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education programs; or an accredited U.S. state university reports the other institution as one whose transcript is given full value, or full value is given in subject areas applicable to the curricula at the state university. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.

RECRUITMENT NOTICE
This recruitment may be used for more than one (1) vacancy. The applicant pool acquired during this recruitment may be used for future vacancies for up to ninety (90) days after this recruitment closes. Interested applicants are encouraged to apply to each recruitment notice to ensure consideration for all vacancies.

EEO STATEMENT
The State of Alaska complies with Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Individuals with disabilities, who require accommodation, auxiliary aides or services, or alternative communication formats, please call 1-800-587-0430 or (907) 465-4095 in Juneau or TTY: Alaska Relay 711 or 1-800-770-8973 or correspond with the Division of Personnel & Labor Relations at: P.O. Box 110201, Juneau, AK 99811-0201. The State of Alaska is an equal opportunity employer.

APPLICATION NOTICE
You can ONLY apply for this position through the Workplace Alaska website or via hard-copy application. If you accessed this recruitment bulletin through a job search portal such as AlaskaJobs or any other database, you MUST use a Workplace Alaska online or hard-copy application to successfully apply. Instructions on how to apply with Workplace Alaska may be found on the Workplace Alaska "How to Apply" webpage, found here: http://doa.alaska.gov/dop/workplace/help/

• Health insurance, which includes employer contributions toward medical/vision/dental
  • The following employee groups are under AlaskaCare Benefits administered by the State: See http://doa.alaska.gov/drb/programs/index.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

• 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

• Personal leave with an accrual rate increase based on time served
• Eleven paid holidays a year
• Gym discounts at participating fitness providers in multiple locations throughout the state.