Payroll Services Assistant Manager (PCN 20-1029)

Effective July 1 2026 the wage for this position increased 4%. The wage listed in this job posting reflects the increase.

The Department of Corrections Division of Administrative Services is recruitingfor a Payroll Services Assistant Manager position located in Juneau Alaska.

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What You Will Be Doing:

This position provides strategic training oversight and direction for the Department of Corrections payroll services acting as the departments primary subject matter expert on complex payroll matters. The position establishes payroll policies training manuals/materials and standards ensures consistent statewide application of laws and collective bargaining agreements and provides final review mentoring and guidance on complex payroll issues grievances and compliance matters.

Our Mission Values and Culture:

The Division of Administrative Services provides essential centralized services and oversight to the operations of the Department in support of its mission to provide secure confinement reformative programs and a process of supervised community integration of releasing offenders to enhance the safety of our communities.

Benefits of Joining Our Team:

By joining the Division of Administrative Services you will be an integral member of a team of professionals committed to the safety of all Alaskans. We embrace the values of integrity accountability and continuous improvement and take pride in doing our part for the Department.

The Working Environment You Can Expect:

Our central offices are located in beautiful Juneau-Douglas with ample parking and a short walk to Sandy Beach and the Robert Atwood Bldg in downtown Anchorage. The work environment is collaborative and customer service oriented with our Team working as a tight knit group that values each others contributions in a team environment which interfaces daily with a variety of people including members of the public field offices other managers directors and within the Division of Administrative Services.

Who We Are Looking For:

We are interested in candidates who possess some or all of the following position specific competencies:

• Leadership: Influences motivates and challenges others; adapts leadership styles to a variety of situations.
• Team Building: Inspires and fosters team commitment spirit pride and trust. Facilitates cooperation and motivates team members to accomplish group goals.
• Teaching Others: Helps others learn through formal or informal methods; identifies training needs; provides constructive feedback; coaches others on how to perform tasks; acts as a mentor.

Competency Based Minimum Qualifications Instructions

This job class uses competency based minimum qualifications. Please ensure your application(through work history volunteer experience (duties summary) training education licenses certifications etc.) supports how you have gained the knowledge skills abilities and behaviors (competencies) and that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class.

Competency Description

The competency description(s) listed below have been designed to promote a common understanding of the essential elements of the job class. They highlight the more general and customary knowledge skills abilities (KSAs) tasks and behaviors used to describe the competency. They typically list expectations as opposed to specific tasks and are to be used only as parameters and guidelines. A competencys description is not intended to exclusively define every KSA task and behavior needed to successfully meet the competency but rather to provide the manager/agency with a broad reference of options as to how an applicant can meet the job expectation.

• Analytical Thinking/Problem Solving: uses a logical systematic sequential approach to address problems or opportunities or manage a situation by drawing on ones knowledge and experience base and calling on other references and resources as necessary.
• 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.
• Managing Human Resources: Plans distributes coordinates and monitors work assignments of others; 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.
• 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.
• Reasoning: Identifies rules principles or relationships that explain facts data or other information; analyzes information and makes correct inferences or draws accurate conclusions.
• Technical Credibility: Understands and appropriately applies principles procedures requirements regulations and policies related to specialized expertise.

REQUIRED DOCUMENTS

If selected for an interview the applicant must provide the following:

• Last two performance evaluations (if within the last 5 years)
• Three professional references if no performance evaluations are available.

LEGAL EMPLOYMENT

The States 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.

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 can be attached at the time of application or provided at the time of interview.

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR FOREIGN EDUCATION

Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the minimum qualifications listed above. If utilizing this education you must show that the education credentials have been submitted to a private organization that specializes in the 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. post-secondary institution 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 post-secondary institution. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.

WORK EXPERIENCE

If using work experience 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.

CRIMINAL HISTORY CHECKS/APSIN/ACOMS

Please be aware this position requires the use of the Alaska Public Safety Information Network (APSIN). A security clearance issued by the Department of Public Safety (DPS) is necessary to use APSIN. DPS will deny security clearance for any applicant who has been convicted of a felony or misdemeanor in this state or another jurisdiction or who may be a fugitive from justice. Additionally security clearance will be withdrawn if DPS discovers that material information was falsified or omitted at the time of the initial application for security clearance.

FINGERPRINT NOTICE

All Department of Corrections employees are required to be fingerprinted. The successful candidate must pass a criminal history check.

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- or 465-4095 in Juneau or (TTY) 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.

WORKPLACE ALASKA APPLICATION QUESTIONS & ASSISTANCE

Questions regarding application submission or system operation errors should be directed to the Workplace Alaska hotline at 1- (toll free) or if you are located in the Juneau area. Requests for information may also be emailed to .

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Brandi Billings
Deputy Director Department of Corrections Division of Administrative Services