Job Description

Posting number: 54984

Department: Health

Division: Public Assistance

Job classification: Care Facility Licensing Surveyor 4

Posting type: Open & Promotional

Categories: Community Services, Health Services, Social Services, Miscellaneous, Human Services, Customer Service, Community and Social Services

This Individual Position is Exempt from the Hiring Freeze. Qualified Applicants are Encouraged To Apply.

Welcome to the Department of Health.

We’d be delighted to have you join our team.

If you envision yourself in this role and are ready to start an exciting career with us, apply today.

What you will be doing:
In this position, you will be responsible for supervising a team of Care Facility Licensing Surveyors who maintain a statewide workload of licensed childcare facilities, including conducting on-site inspections and investigations to determine compliance with the State of Alaska Child Care Licensing Statutes, Regulations, and Policies and Procedures. You will apply knowledge of Child Care Licensing requirements to providers, partner agency members, and the general public.

Additionally, you will be responsible for reviewing, approving, and issuing Reports of Inspection, Reports of Investigation, Notices of Violation, Enforcement Actions, and ensuring the child care facility is in full compliance before the issuance of a Child Care License.

This Postion Requires Occasional Travel within the State of Alaska.

Our organization, mission, and culture:
The Division of Public Assistance is committed to promoting self-sufficiency and providing basic living expenses to Alaskans in need. At the Division of Public Assistance, we work for the common good of, and earn the respect of, the clients, families, and communities we serve.

We honor cultural, geographic, and economic diversity and seek community involvement in our decisions and service delivery.

The benefits of joining our team:
The Division of Public Assistance is devoted to developing and sustaining a quality workforce by providing staff training and encouraging career advancement within the agency. You will have the opportunity to develop skills and build knowledge and competencies to assist you in your future career goals. We believe in your career growth and advancement opportunities within our division.

We provide a competitive benefit package, flexible work schedules, and job stability.

The working environment you can expect:
This position is located in the Anchorage Child Care Program Office at the Frontier Building. Located in midtown Anchorage, Alaska.

You will work with other well-trained staff who support our agency mission and values, and in an environment of mutual respect and trust where management believes staff are the agency’s most valuable resource and encouraged to participate in decisions affecting their work.

Who we are looking for:
The ideal candidate will possess some or all of the following position-specific competencies in addition to the minimum qualifications listed below:

• Accountability: Holds self and others accountable for measurable high-quality, timely, and cost-effective results. Determines objectives, sets priorities, and delegates work. Accepts responsibility for own actions and decisions. Complies with established control systems and rules.

• Compliance: Knowledge of procedures for assessing, evaluating, and monitoring programs or projects for compliance with State and federal laws, regulations, and guidance.

• Managing Performance: Takes responsibility for employees’ performance by setting and communicating expectations and goals that are specific and measurable, tracking progress against the goals, supporting employees’ efforts to achieve job goals (by providing resources, removing obstacles, acting as a buffer, etc.), ensuring feedback, and addressing performance problems and issues promptly.

Special Notice

• Position requires occasional travel throughout the State and rural communities by vehicle, commercial and small aircraft, or ferry.
• A valid and current Alaskan Driver's License is required at the time of appointment.

To view the general description and example of duties for this job class, please go to the following link and search for Care Facility Licensing Surveyor 4https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/Alaska/classspecs

Examples of duties

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 rather than 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.

Please ensure your application (through work history, training, education, licenses, certifications, etc.) supports/demonstrates that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class.

Minimum Qualifications
Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in:

• Developing Others: Develops the ability of others to perform and contribute to the organization by providing ongoing feedback and by providing opportunities to learn through formal and informal methods.
• Influencing/Negotiating: Persuades others; builds consensus through give and take; gains cooperation from others to obtain information and accomplish goals.
• Stakeholder Management: Knowledge of the concepts, practices, and techniques used to identify, engage, influence, and monitor relationships with individuals and groups connected to a work effort, including those actively involved, those who exert influence over the process and its results, and those who have a vested interest in the outcome (positive or negative).
• Standards: Knowledge of standards that either are compliant with or derived from established standards or guidelines.
• Technical Credibility: Understands and appropriately applies principles, procedures, requirements, regulations, and policies related to specialized expertise.

Equivalent to those typically gained by:
Training or education in social services, education, health care, mental health, juvenile justice, or a closely related field; and/or progressively responsible professional experience providing licensing and consultative services to child and adult residential care facilities, foster home, child day care facilities and child placement agencies; or providing social casework such as, but not limited to, adoption, foster home care, child protection, and individual or family counseling; investigations or similar case management; and/or performing probation-related work.

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.
“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.

Qualifications

At the time of the interview, please provide the following:

1. Three (3) professional references, whom we may contact by phone are required. One (1) of these references must be your current or most recent supervisor, if not already provided in the application.
2. Current performance evaluation, if available.
3. A copy of academic transcripts (unofficial is okay; please ensure that the institution name/URL is listed on the transcripts) is used to support that you meet the minimum qualifications/competencies, if not already provided in the application.

SUPPLEMENTAL QUESTIONS
For your application to be evaluated, you must answer the Supplemental Questions.
The State of Alaska uses four proficiency levels to measure and describe an applicant's competence in applying specific behaviors, knowledge, skills, and abilities to accomplish a specific task. The four proficiency levels are Mastery, Fluency, Literacy, and Discovery. You must rate your proficiency level for each competency listed in the supplemental questions.

If you have 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 minimum qualifications 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. Noting "see resume or CV" or any similar response on any portion of your application may lead to a determination that your application is incomplete and removal from consideration for this job posting.

The State of Alaska does not provide VISA Employer sponsorships.

Supplemental information