Park Superintendent (PCN 10-5058)

Salary: $3,472.00 Biweekly
Location : Juneau, AK
Job Type: Full Time
Job Number: 53199
Department: Natural Resources
Division: Parks & Outdoor Recreation
Opening Date: 10/09/2026
Closing Date: 10/19/2026 5:00 PM Alaska
Position Open To: Alaska Residents Only
Bargaining Unit: Supervisory
Range: 20

Job Description
The Department of Natural Resources, Division of Parks & Outdoor Recreation, is recruiting for a Park Superintendent in Juneau.
This position is open to Alaska Residents only.

Please check our to determine if you qualify.
What You Will Be Doing:

This position manages the operations of Alaska State Park units across the Southeast Region, including major communities such as Juneau, Sitka, Ketchikan, and Haines. The incumbent supervises field staff, seasonal employees, and volunteers while directing maintenance, enforcement, and resource management activities to ensure safe facilities and protection of natural and cultural resources. The position oversees regional budgets, contracts, and revenue programs, ensuring park operations are conducted efficiently and within authorized funding levels. The superintendent works closely with local communities, partner agencies, and stakeholders to address land management issues, permits, and park development projects. The position also implements park management plans and policies while resolving complex operational, environmental, and public use challenges across the region.
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 DescriptionThe 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 instead of specific tasks and are only used as parameters and guidelines. A competency's description is not intended to exclusively define every KSA, task, and behavior needed to meet the competency successfully, but rather to provide the manager/agency with a broad reference of options for how an applicant can meet the job expectation.
Minimum Qualifications
Possess a valid driver's license.
AND
Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in:

• Administration and Management: Knowledge of planning, coordination, and execution of business functions, resource allocation, and production.
• Human Capital Management: Builds and manages workforce based on organizational goals, budget considerations, and staffing needs. Ensures that employees are appropriately recruited, selected, appraised, and rewarded; takes action to address performance problems. Manages a multi-sector workforce and a variety of work situations.
• Parks and Recreation Management: Knowledge of the principles, practices, and theories of parks and recreation management related to preserving, enhancing, maintaining, and protecting natural, historical, and cultural resources within park lands while considering the safety and welfare of park visitors.
• Partnering: Develops networks and builds alliances; collaborates across boundaries to build strategic relationships and achieve common goals.
• 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.

Equivalent to those typically gained by:

Any combination of progressively responsible professional experience managing a region and/or unit's budget, administering programs, and/or prioritizing and allocating funds; progressively responsible professional experience in government policy and/or planning; experience supervising staff with varied responsibilities and priorities; and/or post-secondary education in a natural or physical science, outdoor studies, management, and/or business administration.

Definitions:
"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.

"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.

Special Note:
Travel to remote locations by small plane or boat may be required. Positions may have access to arms and ammunition; in those cases, applicants will be subject to criminal background check that includes fingerprinting.
Additional Required Information
** Please read the information below carefully. **

At the time of the interview, please ensure that you provide the following materials. Failure to do so may result in loss of consideration. Required documents include:

• Valid driver's license.
• Three professional references.

SPECIAL NOTICES

• Requires frequent travel within the Region.
• Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Security Awareness Clearance training shall be required within six months of initial assignment, and biennially thereafter. Park Superintendents will have access to firearms and must be able to discuss CJIS information with law enforcement staff in the region. Park superintendents need to review and/or be aware of cases of natural resource infractions, commercial use suspensions, or facility damage. They are therefore required to pass all mandatory background checks, including, but not limited to, providing fingerprints for an FBI Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) security clearance background check and a criminal history background check.

Application Notice

You can ONLY apply for this position through the Workplace Alaska website or by submitting a paper application. Instructions for applying are available on the Workplace Alaska webpage. Your application must be received by 5:00 p.m. Alaska Standard Time on the closing date.
Supplemental Questions

For your application to be evaluated, you must answer the Supplemental Questions. The State of Alaska (SOA) 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.
Education

If post-secondary education is required to meet the minimum qualifications, you must fill out the Education section of the application. If you have not yet obtained a degree, please indicate the units you have 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 at foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the minimum qualifications listed above. If using this education to meet minimum qualification requirements, you must demonstrate that the credentials have been submitted to a private organization specializing in interpreting foreign educational credentials and that such education has been deemed at least equivalent to that gained in standard U.S. education programs. Alternatively, an accredited U.S. post-secondary institution must report that the other institution's transcript is given full value or that full value is recognized in relevant subject areas aligned with the post-secondary institution's curricula. It is your responsibility to provide this evidence when applying.
Work Experience

If using work experience not already documented in your application, also provide the employer's name, job title, employment dates, and whether full or part-time. Applications will be reviewed to determine whether the responses are supported and whether the minimum qualifications are met. If they are not, the applicant may not advance to the recruitment interview and selection phase.
Note: Attaching a resume does not substitute for completing the application in full. Noting, "see resume" 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.
Bargaining Unit

If you are a current state employee, please indicate the union to which you belong at the time of application. Do not complete this question if you are not a current state employee.
Driver's License Requirement

Applicants must possess a valid driver's license. Proof of licensure will be required prior to reporting to duty.
Firearms

This position requires the use or possession of a firearm or ammunition. In accordance with the federal Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act of 1997 (PL 104-208), if you have been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence, you may not hold this position.
A "misdemeanor crime of domestic violence" is an offense that is (1) a misdemeanor under Federal or state law and (2) has, as an element, th