Salary: $2,697.00 Biweekly
Location : Juneau, AK
Job Type: Full Time
Job Number: 50273
Department: Labor & Workforce Development
Division: Employment and Training Services
Opening Date: 04/24/2025
Closing Date: 5/9/2025 5:00 PM Alaska
Division: Employment and Training Services
Position Open To: Alaska Residents Only
Bargaining Unit: General Government
Range: 18
Job Description ATTENTION ALASKA RESIDENTS.The Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Division of Employment and Training Services, is recruiting for an
Employment Security Analyst 3 located in Juneau.
No Cover Letter Required.This position is in the General Government Unit (GGU) at a Range 18.What You Will Be Doing: You will be working with a team in the Employment and Training Technical Unit (ETTU) to ensure excellence in Alaska's delivery of employment and training services described in the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) and other statewide programs, with a primary focus on federal reporting, creating reports and queries, analyzing data, and troubleshooting issues in the AlaskaJobs software application to provide support to statewide field staff users, program coordinators and management.
You will have opportunities to build and use skills in a variety of software including AlaskaJobs, MS Office Suite, SharePoint Online, and other various web and non-web-based applications.
Imagine the rewards you will feel as you are applying your investigative and analytical abilities by conducting research, analyzing interesting data, and discovering new information on the division's many programs all to support your fellow Alaskans in their endeavors for a better lifestyle through meaningful employment.
Our Mission, Values, and Culture: The Division of Employment and Training Services (DETS) works with business and industry to build a trained and prepared workforce by providing labor exchange, employment and training services, and unemployment insurance to Alaskans and Alaskan employers, thereby advancing opportunities for employment and economic stability for communities in Alaska.
The ETTU oversees and coordinates many employment and training programs and ensures compliance with state and federal directives. Your work as an Employment Security Analyst will pave the path for many Alaskans to train for better job opportunities and for Alaskan employers and job seekers to connect successfully.
The ETTU provides the primary and highest level of technical support and troubleshooting for the Workforce Development and Workforce Services programs in the areas of project/program management, compliance, planning, analysis, training, service delivery, corrective action, and evaluation of program improvements.
Benefits of Joining Our Team: Working as an Employment Security Analyst in employment and training programs will give you the opportunity to delve into and absorb the complexities of program requirements and communicate with a wide range of professionals including Data Processing, job center and other state staff, and program stakeholders, and build your skills as an AlaskaJobs technical support expert. Outstanding work at this level looks great on your resume and positions you for advancement with the state and other organizations.
Your contribution to this team will be integral to helping statewide staff to support program participants while balancing performance and data management.
We provide a competitive benefit package and job stability.
The Working Environment You Can Expect: This position is housed at the ETTU office in the Juneau Labor Building, which enjoys sweeping channel views, ample free parking, and proximity to downtown walking, coffee, dining, and shopping opportunities.
The environment is professional and respectful, but camaraderie and frequent laughter are also encouraged and appreciated; the work is fast-paced, ever-changing, and challenging, performed both independently and as part of a high-level team and many team members create lifelong friendships while working in the ETTU.
This position may require travel within or out of the state annually or semi-annually.
Who We Are Looking For: We are interested in candidates who possess some or all of the following position specific competencies:
- Research: Ability to research, analyze and interpret, and explain legislative, regulatory, and other program requirements and data.
- Computer Skills: Uses computers, software applications, databases, and automated systems to accomplish work.
- Adaptability: Adjusts planned work by gathering relevant information and applying critical thinking to address multiple demands and competing priorities in a changing environment.
To view the general description and example of duties for the position, please go to the following link:Minimum Qualifications 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 competency's 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.
Minimum Qualifications: Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with the competencies in:
- Accountability: Accepts responsibility for own actions and decisions and demonstrates commitment to accomplish work in an ethical, efficient, and cost-effective manner.
- Organizational Awareness: Knows the organization's 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.
- Problem Solving: Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of information; uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives, and to make recommendations.
- Reasoning: Identifies rules, principles, or relationships that explain facts, data, or other information; analyzes information and makes correct inferences or draws accurate conclusions.
- Technical Competence: Uses knowledge that is acquired through formal training or extensive on-the-job experience to perform one's job; works with, understands, and evaluates technical information related to the job; advises others on technical issues.
Equivalent to those typically gained by:
Any combination of progressively responsible experience in any employment or eligibility services; conducting research and analysis; applying laws, rules, policies, and procedures; performing technical editing/and or developing standards, methods, policies and procedures; monitoring program activities and take corrective action when necessary; making eligibility determinations; calculating costs, refunds, taxes, or benefits; providing written explanations, summaries, reports, or correspondence; and/or locating and inputting information into data systems such as reservation, ticketing, or application systems.
Special Note: "Competencies" means a combination of interrelated knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors that enable a person to act effectively in a job or situation.
"Typically gained by" means the prevalent, usual method of gaining the competencies expected for entry into the job.
"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.
"Progressively responsible" means indicating growth and/or advancement in complexity, difficulty, or level of responsibility.
Additional Required Information PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS & INFORMATION CAREFULLY THIS RECRUITMENT IS FOR ALASKA RESIDENTS ONLY This recruitment is open to Alaska Residents only. Applicants must meet in order to be considered for employment at this time.
SUPPLEMENTAL QUESTIONS For your application to be evaluated you
must answer the Supplemental Questions.
The State of Alaska (SOA) uses four levels of proficiency to measure and describe an applicant's level of competence in applying certain behaviors, knowledge, skills, and abilities to accomplish a specific task. The four proficiency levels are: Mastery, Fluency, Literacy, and Discovery . click apply for full job details