Human Resource Consultant 2 (20-1025 / 18-7431)

Human Resource Consultant

This position is open to Alaska residents only. Please check our residency definition to determine if you qualify.

What You Will Be Doing

As part of the Employee Relations (ER) team, you will provide professional human resource guidance and support to assigned client agency(s). Independently manage an engaging and ever evolving caseload, ranging from informal consultations on performance improvement to handling progressive discipline, conducting investigations and processing complaints.

Our Organization, Mission, and Culture

The mission of the Division of Personnel (DOP) is to provide policy, consultative guidance and direct human resource services to State of Alaska Executive Branch agencies. In alignment with DOP mission to provide direct human resource services to the Executive Branch, the Employee Relations Program is a centralized resource offering expertise and tools empowering State of Alaska employees to prevent and resolve personnel issues. When the need arises, we handle personnel matters in a manner that enables a culture of accountability and respect. We build partnerships to seek holistic solutions that deliver both operational and proactive results.

The Benefits of Joining Our Team

This position offers the opportunity to work with a dedicated group of Human Resource professionals. We are a friendly, supportive office that is committed to client-focused human resource services. Working in Employee Relations as a Human Resource Consultant is both meaningful and dynamic, offering the chance to make a genuine impact on workplace culture. Once fully trained, your day may involve coaching employees and supervisors, writing reports and responding in writing to complex HR situations, investigating complaints, helping management document performance concerns, and consulting with your team on next steps within a case.

The Working Environment You Can Expect

The Employee Relations Program offices are located either in the Atwood Building in Downtown Anchorage or the State Office Building located in Juneau. Both offices are secure spaces with open concept work spaces and great views. In Anchorage, you have a view of downtown, Turnagain Arm, and the Anchorage Bowl. From Juneau, you are able to see the Gastineau Channel.

Minimum Qualifications

This job class uses competency based minimum qualifications. Please ensure your application (through work history, volunteer experience, 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.

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 : Training in human resource management, business administration, or organizational leadership and 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) or business administration.

Additional Required Information

Please read the below information carefully. This applies to your application submission.

This recruitment is for Alaska residents only

Please be sure to check our residency definition to determine if you qualify.

BACKGROUND CHECK The selected applicant may need to successfully complete background clearance to view and handle personnel matters for employees that work in law enforcement / criminal justice environments.

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.

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.

WORK EXPERIENCE If using work experience not already documented in your application, also 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.

NOTE : Attaching a resume or curriculum vitae is not an alternative to filling out the application in its entirety.

APPLICATION NOTICE You can ONLY apply for this position through the Workplace Alaska website or via hardcopy application.

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.

NOTICE

If you choose to be contacted by email, please ensure your email address is correct on your application and that the spam filter will permit email from the 'govermentjobs.com' domains. For information on allowing emails from the 'governmentjobs.com' domains, visit the Lost Password Help page located at https : / / www.governmentjobs.com / OnlineApplication / User / ResetPassword.

WORKPLACE ALASKA APPLICATION QUESTIONS & ASSISTANCE

Questions regarding application submission or system operation errors should be directed to the Workplace Alaska hotline at 1-800-587-0430 (toll free) or (907) 465-4095 if you are located in the Juneau area. Requests for information may also be emailed to recruitment.services@alaska.gov. For applicant password assistance please visit : https : / / www.governmentjobs.com / OnlineApplication / User / ResetPassword.

Contact Information

Cathy Robinson

Employee Relations Program Manager

Phone : 907-375-7701

cathy.robinson@alaska.gov