Public Guardian 1/2/3 (02-1743)

Salary: $41.59 Hourly
Location : Palmer, AK
Job Type: Full Time
Remote Employment: Flexible/Hybrid
Job Number: 55969
Department: Administration
Division: Office of Public Advocacy
Opening Date: 11/04/2026
Closing Date: 11/19/2026 5:00 PM Alaska
Position Open To: Alaska Residents Only
Bargaining Unit: General Government
Range: 16/18/20

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

While this position is flexibly staffed, applicants will only be considered for the Public Guardian 3 level.

What You Will Be Doing

Public Guardian 3 represents the advanced level of public guardianship. These roles manage complex dockets of 60 or more clients, requiring sophisticated review of financial documents and the effective handling of multifaceted issues involving client trusts, assets, public and private entitlements, housing, medical and mental health needs, and other personal matters. Public Guardians at this level provide training and mentorship to Public Guardian 1 and 2 staff through the formalized Public Guardian training program and help prepare staff for the CGC/NGA certification exam. Public Guardian 3 staff also collaborate with local, state, and federal agencies to ensure clients obtain and maintain the benefits and services to which they are entitled.

As a Public Guardian 3, you will:

• Provide job training and guidance to journey-level public guardians in caseload management, financial oversight, property management, housing coordination, court reporting, and client visitation.
• Buy and sell property on behalf of clients or their trusts.
• Manage complex financial cases to ensure clients qualify for necessary public entitlements.
• Provide surrogate or substitute decision-making regarding clients' mental health care, vocational training and education, residential placement, selection of service providers, and protection of legal and human rights.
• Supervise and have journey-level public guardians shadow you on specific case assignments.
• Train journey-level staff on national guardian standards in preparation for the national certification exam.
• Maintain regular contact with clients through home visits, directed home visitation, correspondence, telephone communication, and office appointments. This includes ongoing collaboration with case managers, care coordinators, home administrators, and other service providers, as well as coordination with local, state, and federal agencies to manage complex cases.
• Establish and run Medicaid Qualifying Trusts. Act as trustee for assigned cases with or need trusts.
• Manage a complex statewide caseload, primarily based in Anchorage but extending to other regions as needed. Caseloads typically include 60 or more clients and require ongoing assessment, oversight, and coordination to ensure effective care.
• Participate in, and at times coordinate scheduled treatment and case planning meetings, often involving local, state, and national agencies.

The Working Environment You Can Expect

The Public Guardian unit is located in downtown Anchorage. The office is located on the first floor of the 5th Avenue Building. We offer free parking and are within walking distance of many great restaurants, coffee shops and the courthouse. Telework is available with supervisor permission. Requires travel to visit clients and meetings on a regular basis within the State.

Who We Are Looking For

We are interested in candidates who possess some or all of the following position specific competencies:

• Advocacy: Organizes and leads advocacy efforts with local, state, and federal government entities and elected officials that support the mission of an agency.
• 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.
• Self-Management: Sets well-defined and realistic personal goals; displays a high level of initiative, effort, and commitment towards completing assignments in a timely manner; works with minimal supervision; is motivated to achieve; demonstrates responsible behavior

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 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, as opposed to 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.

Current certification or eligibility for certification as a registered or master guardian from a nationally recognized organization
AND
Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in

• Integrity/Honesty: Contributes to maintaining the integrity of the organization; displays high standards of ethical conduct and understands the impact of violating these standards on an organization, self, and others; is trustworthy.
• 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. Has experience effectively dealing with children, adults, or persons with a mental illness, developmental disability, traumatic brain injury, age-related dementia, or other form of disability.
• Oral Communication: Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.
• Technical Competence: Uses knowledge that is acquired through formal training or extensive on-the-job experience to perform one's job; works with, understands, and evaluates technical information related to the job; advises others on technical issues.
• Team Building: Inspires and fosters team commitment, spirit, pride, and trust. Facilitates cooperation and motivates team members to accomplish group goals.

Equivalent to those typically gained by:
Educational coursework or training in a social science, behavioral science, guidance or counseling, or a closely related field and/or progressively responsible professional experience such as coordinating or providing social or legal services information or referrals to the public; coordinating or facilitating child, adult, family, or group case management, licensing, or probationary services; providing care or services to delinquent or incapacitated persons.

Special Note:
As a condition of employment, the successful candidate must:

1. Pass a criminal history record information check (AS 08.26.070)
2. Applicants applying for PG 2 positions must either hold a current certification as a registered guardian from a nationally recognized organization at time of appointment or obtain a nationally recognized certification within one year of the date of hire (AS 13.26.740).
3. Applicants applying for PG 3 OR PG 4 positions must hold a current certification as a registered guardian from a nationally recognized organization at time of appointment (AS 13.26.740).

"Competencies" means a combination of interrelated knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors that enable a person to act effectively in a job or situation.

"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.

"Progressively responsible" means indicating growth and/or advancement in complexity, difficulty, or level of responsibility.

"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.

"Typically gained by" means the prevalent, usual method of gaining the competencies expected for entry into the job.
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 to determine if you qualify.

At time of interview, please be prepared to provide:

• A writing sample as this position must correspond with many different stakeholders and public entitlement agencies.
• Certificate of certification from Center for Guardianship Certification.

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. Transcripts can be attached at the time of application or within 48 hours of the close of this recruitment to the contact person listed below.
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; 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.
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. If they are not, the applicant may not advance to the interview and selection phase of the recruitment.

NOTE: Attaching a resume or curriculum vitae is not an alternative to filling out the application in its entirety. Noting "see resume or CV" or any similar response on any portion of your application may lead to a determination your application is incomplete and removal from consideration for this job posting.
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