Salary: $3,623.20 Biweekly
Location : Anchorage, AK
Job Type: Full Time
Job Number: 55319
Department: Health
Opening Date: 09/14/2026
Closing Date: 9/24/2026 5:00 PM Alaska
Division: Senior & Disabilities Services
Position Open To: Alaska Residents Only
Bargaining Unit: Supervisory
Range: 21

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

This position is open to Alaskan Residents only.

Please check out theto determine if you qualify.

What you will be doing:
In this role, you will assume day-to-day management of Council activities and oversee project and planning activities in accordance with federal and state requirements, as well as annual amendments and reporting (inclusive of the DD Act 5-Year Plan, current grants, programs, and initiatives). You will supervise up to 6 other professional employees and perform other duties as assigned by the Executive Director. This role represents the Council on disability issues, facilitates stakeholder communication and advocacy with state agencies and policymakers through public forums, education, and meetings.

Our organization, mission, and culture:

The Council's Mission is: "Creating change that improves the lives of Alaskans with disabilities". The Council is authorized by the federal Developmental Disabilities Act to empower individuals with developmental disabilities and their families to help shape policies that impact them. The Council addresses identified needs through advocacy, systems change, and capacity-building efforts that promote self-determination, integration, and inclusion.
Your work facilitates the Council mission by conducting outreach, providing training and technical assistance, removing barriers, developing coalitions, encouraging citizen participation, and keeping policymakers informed about disability issues.

The benefits of joining our team:
The benefits of working for the Governor's Council include:

1. Meaningful work facilitating advocacy and systemic change that improves the lives of people with disabilities
2. Integrated environments where staff, self-advocates, family members, community partners, and state agency representatives all work together;
3. Opportunities to create and implement new strategies for implementing the Council's priorities;
4. A variety of tasks and responsibilities and opportunities to learn new subject areas.

The Council welcomes and supports self-starters who want to advance and increase their expertise and responsibility.

The working environment you can expect:
The Council office is on the northeast corner of the 12th floor of the Atwood Building; Program staff have individual offices with views of Cook Inlet, the Chugach Mountains, and Town Square. All staff can choose a hybrid telework schedule if they qualify and are expected to travel to Juneau at least once per year for our annual legislative fly-in (usually in February).

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:

• Problem Solving: Independently identifies and analyzes problems; weighs relevance and accuracy of information; generates and evaluates alternative solutions; makes recommendations and initiates discussion of best practices.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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).
• Leadership: Influences, motivates, and challenges others; adapts leadership styles to a variety of situations.

Special Notice:

• This position may travel to rural and urban locations statewide to gather information, conduct public awareness campaigns, make presentations, and carry out training activities 1-3x per year.
• This position may travel out of the state for conferences, training, and presentations, 1x per year.

To view the general description and example of duties for this job class, please go to the following link and search for Health and Social Services Planner 3: https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/Alaska/classspecs
Minimum Qualifications

A Bachelor's degree from an accredited college in health planning, health sciences, social sciences, behavioral sciences, public health administration, public or business administration, or a closely related field;
AND EITHER
Three years of professional planning experience in health or social services;
OR
Three years of professional experience in the administration, management, or development of a public health, health, or social services program.
Additional Required Information

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 verify that you meet the minimum qualifications.

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

EDUCATION
To verify education is being used to meet and/or support the required minimum qualifications/competencies, 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 used to meet or support the minimum qualifications/competencies for a position and are required with each application (Unofficial is okay; please ensure the institution/URL name is listed on the transcripts) Transcripts can be attached at the time of application or provided at the time of interview; if not, transcripts will be required before employment.

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR FOREIGN EDUCATION
If education is completed in a foreign college or university, it 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 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. state university 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 state university. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying. The omission of the required documentation listed will result in an incomplete application, and you will not receive further consideration.

WORK EXPERIENCE

When using work experience not documented in your application, please provide the employer's name, job title, employment dates, and whether you worked full-time or part-time. Applications will be reviewed to determine if the responses are supported and if minimum qualifications are met. Work experience needed to meet the minimum qualifications must be documented in the application. If the application does not support minimum qualifications, the applicant may not advance to the interview and selection phase of the recruitment. A resume will not be used to determine that minimum qualifications have been met for the position you are applying for.
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.
MULTIPLE VACANCIES
This recruitment may be used for more than one (1) vacancy. The applicant pool acquired during this recruitment may be used for future vacancies for up to ninety (90) days after this recruitment closes. Interested applicants are encouraged to apply to each recruitment notice to ensure consideration for all vacancies.

APPLICATION NOTICE
You can ONLY apply for this position through the Workplace Alaska website or via a hard copy application. If you accessed this recruitment bulletin through a job search portal such as AlaskaJobs or another database, you MUST use a Workplace Alaska online or hard-copy application to apply successfully. Instructions on how to apply with Workplace Alaska may be found on the Workplace Alaska "How to Apply" webpage, found here:

NOTICE
Questions regarding the application process can be directed to the Workplace Alaska hotline at 800-587-0430 (toll-free) or (907) 465- 4095. If you choose to be contacted by email, please ensure that your email address is correct on your application and that your spam filter will permit emails from the 'governmentjobs.com' domain. For information on allowing emails from the 'governmentjobs.com' domains, visit the Lost Password Help page at:

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Contact Information
For specific information in reference to the position, feel free to contact the hiring manager at:

Chelsea Burke/Executive Director, Governor's Council on Disabilities

Phone: (907) 419-7543

Email:
Careers with the State of Alaska offer MANY benefits

The following information describes typical benefits available to employees of the State of Alaska. Actual benefits received may differ by bargaining unit or branch of government, position type, or be prorated for other than full time work.

For a quick breakdown of the insurance, health, and retirement benefits available for State Employees you can view an (Please note this video is specifically designed for new State Employees.)

Insurance Benefits

• Health insurance, which includes employer contributions toward medical/vision/dental
  • The following employee groups are under AlaskaCare Benefits administered by the State: See for additional information.
    • AVTEC
    • Confidential
    • Correctional Officers
    • Marine Engineers
    • Mt. Edgecumbe Teachers
    • Supervisory
    • Unlicensed Vessel Personnel/Inland Boatman's Union
    • Exempt employees (not covered by collective bargaining)
  • The following employee groups are covered by Union health trusts. Contact the appropriate Union for additional information.
    • General Government
    • Labor, Trades and Crafts
    • Public Safety Employees Association
    • Masters, Mates & Pilots
• Employer paid Basic Life insurance with additional coverage available (amount depends on Bargaining Unit)

Optional Insurance Benefits

• Group-based insurance premiums for
  • Term life (employee, spouse or qualified same sex partner, and dependents)
  • Long-term and short-term disability
  • Accidental Death and Dismemberment
  • Long-term care (self and eligible family members)
  • Supplemental Survivor Benefits