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Human Resource Consultant 2 (20-1025 / 18-7431) in Anchorage or Juneau, AK | GovernmentJobs.com

This listing closes on 11/10/2025 at 5:00 PM Alaska.

What You Will Be Doing

As part of the Employee Relations (ER) team, you will provide professional human resource guidance and support to assigned client agency(s). Independently manage an engaging and ever evolving caseload, ranging from informal consultations on performance improvement to handling progressive discipline, conducting investigations and processing complaints.

Our Organization, Mission, and Culture

The mission of the Division of Personnel (DOP) is to provide policy, consultative guidance and direct human resource services to State of Alaska Executive Branch agencies. In alignment with the DOP mission, the Employee Relations Program is a centralized resource offering expertise and tools empowering State of Alaska employees to prevent and resolve personnel issues. When the need arises, we handle personnel matters in a manner that enables a culture of accountability and respect. We build partnerships to seek holistic solutions that deliver both operational and proactive results.

The Benefits of Joining Our Team

This position offers the opportunity to work with a dedicated group of Human Resource professionals. We are a friendly, supportive office that is committed to client‑focused human resource services. Working in Employee Relations as a Human Resource Consultant is both meaningful and dynamic, offering the chance to make a genuine impact on workplace culture. Once fully trained, your day may involve coaching employees and supervisors, writing reports and responding in writing to complex HR situations, investigating complaints, helping management document performance concerns, and consulting with your team on next steps within a case.

The Working Environment You Can Expect

The Employee Relations Program offices are located in the Atwood Building in Downtown Anchorage or the State Office Building in Juneau. Both offices are secure spaces with open‑concept work spaces and great views. In Anchorage, you have a view of downtown, Turnagain Arm, and the Anchorage Bowl. From Juneau, you are able to see the Gastineau Channel.

Minimum Qualifications – Competency Based

• Accountability: Accepts responsibility for own actions and decisions and demonstrates commitment to accomplish work in an ethical, efficient, and cost‑effective manner.
• 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.
• 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.
• Influence: Asserts own ideas and persuades others, gaining support and commitment from others; mobilizes people to act, using creative approaches to motivate others to meet organization goals.
• Personnel and Human Resources: Knowledge of hiring, classification, benefits, labor relations, negotiation, and State and federal employment regulations.
• Problem Solving: Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of information; uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives, and to make recommendations.

Equivalents to those typically gained by: training in human resource management, business administration, or organizational leadership and professional experience in human resources (such as recruitment, payroll, classification and compensation, employee and labor‑management relations, employer‑provided benefit programs, employment law compliance, or employee training) or business administration.

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 residency definition to determine if you qualify.

BACKGROUND CHECK

The selected applicant may need to successfully complete background clearance to view and handle personnel matters for employees that work in law enforcement/criminal justice environments (example: CJIS access).

ESSENTIAL APPLICATION INFORMATION

EDUCATION – If post‑secondary education is required to meet the minimum qualifications, please list your degree or number of units completed and attach transcripts if required. Foreign education must be evaluated for equivalency by a recognized credential evaluation service.

WORK EXPERIENCE – Provide employer name, job title, dates of employment and whether the position was full‑time or part‑time. Work experience that is not already documented in your application should be clearly stated.

APPLICATION NOTICE – You can ONLY apply for this position through the Workplace Alaska website or via hardcopy application. If you accessed this recruitment bulletin through any other database, you MUST use a Workplace Alaska online or hardcopy application to apply. Instructions are available at

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 may contact the Division of Personnel & Labor Relations at 1‑800‑587‑0430 (or 907‑465‑4095) or reach out via email at ...@alaska.gov. The State of Alaska is an equal opportunity employer.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Cathy Robinson

Employee Relations Program Manager

Phone: 907‑375‑7701

Email: ...@alaska.gov

Statewide toll‑free: (800) 587‑0430; (907) 465‑4095