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The Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development, Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing, is recruiting for a Publications Specialist 2 located in Juneau! 
What you will be doing:  

Working in this position, you will primarily assist the publications team and other division staff with the updating and implementation of new program forms. This position works regularly with a variety of proprietary software such as Adobe, Microsoft Office, Screen Presso and other programs to accomplish this work and provides a great opportunity to develop and hone your professional publication skills.

This position works in a small team of four to ensure that the division's publication needs are met.

Our organization, mission, and culture:  
The mission of the Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing is to ensure that competent, professional and regulated commercial services are available to Alaska consumers.

Our work will be guided and informed by our beliefs and commitments to: 

  • Respect - we respect people, value diversity and are committed to equality;
  • Participation - we value and recognize the contributions of our staff;
  • Quality - we strive for excellence through focus and attention to detail; and
  • Openness - we are committed to a culture of teamwork and a willingness to think outside of the box.

The benefits of joining our team:  
We foster personal growth, independent work and judgement. Our office offers a fun, team oriented atmosphere with a strong emphasis on providing excellent customer service.

This position is located on the 9th floor of the State Office Building in beautiful downtown Juneau. For the right candidate we are willing to hire in Anchorage where the incumbent would work from the Atwood building.  Our daily working environment is challenging and extremely busy with a high volume of internal customer contact. Our staff is highly focused with exceptional attention to detail.

This position offers paid leave accrual, a competitive health, vision, and dental plan as well as a retirement plan. After a probationary period telework is an option.  

The working environment you can expect:  

The office workstations have new furniture and ergonomic lifting desktops.  After a training period the successful candidate would have the opportunity to telework if they chose.  

Positions with the State of Alaska offer paid leave accrual, paid holiday leave, a comprehensive retirement plan, and a competitive health, vision, and dental plan.

We are looking for the following core competencies:  

  • Accountability: Holds self and others accountable for measurable high-quality, timely, and cost-effective results. Determines objectives and sets priorities. Accepts responsibility for own actions and decisions. Complies with established control systems and rules. 
  • 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. 
  • Customer/Quality Focus: Anticipates, monitors, and meets the needs of customers and responds to them in an effective, appropriate manner. Demonstrates commitment to identifying customers’ apparent and underlying needs and continually seeks to provide the highest quality service and product to all customers. 
  • 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. 
  • Creative Thinking: Uses imagination to develop new insights into situations and applies innovative solutions to problems; designs new methods where established methods and procedures are inapplicable or are unavailable.

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.