Office Assistant

The recruitment is exempt from the hiring freeze (Administrative Order 358).

Applicants must meet the Alaska Residency Requirement. This recruitment is open to Alaska Residents only.

As an Office Assistant 3, you will perform a wide range of clerical duties in support of the Alaska State Troopers for C Detachment's Kotzebue Post. Your work will provide the Sergeant and Troopers with support in judicial services, case management, payroll, evidence management, and general clerical functions. You will acquire a broad working knowledge of the Division of Alaska State Troopers, preparing you for future promotional opportunities.

The Department of Public Safety (DPS) strives to preserve the peace, enforce the law, prevent and detect crime, and protect life and property. As a member of DPS, you will help ensure this mission is met by providing direct support to law‑enforcement activities.

As part of one of the nation’s most unique law‑enforcement agencies, you will work within a team that embraces core values of loyalty, integrity, courage, compassion, leadership, and accountability while serving rural Alaska. This role offers a foundation for growth in multiple functional areas.

This position is located and works full‑time at the Alaska State Trooper post in Anchorage, Nome, or Kotzebue. The work environment is friendly, team‑oriented, and productive.

• Excellent customer service skills, demonstrating professional and friendly communication with a wide range of situations and demographics.
• Strong written, verbal, and detail‑oriented communication skills able to convey complex information.
• Attention to detail while working under pressure in a fast‑paced environment to accurately enter data into multiple systems, review documents, process and route court paperwork, and handle payments.
• Experience and skill with Microsoft Office applications, especially Excel, Word, and Outlook.
• Time‑management skills and the ability to adapt to changing priorities from several sources while working independently with minimal supervision.

• High school diploma or the equivalent.
• One year of experience that includes clerical tasks such as performing reception duties, answering routine questions on services or products, retrieving information from electronic or hard copy files, recording expenditures and receipts, or typing routine correspondence.

• Education from an accredited college may substitute for six months of the required experience (3 semester hours or 4 quarter hours equal one month of experience; 150 hours of vocational education equal one month of experience).

"High school diploma equivalent" means one of the following:

• A G.E.D.;
• Completion of any basic adult education course equivalent to 480 class hours (16 weeks at 30 course hours per week);
• Acceptance in full standing by an accredited college or university;
• Highest grade of school completed plus 12 years of paid or volunteer experience that totals 12 years and includes basic clerical tasks such as greeting clients, answering phones, typing, filing, sorting mail, entering data, receiving payments, making change, or maintaining logs.

Some positions in this class may require the incumbent to operate motor vehicles, in which case a regular driver’s license and age 18 or older are required. Some positions may require skill in typing; recruitment and selection may include this requirement.

This position requires the use or possession of a firearm or ammunition. According to the federal Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act of 1997, applicants convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence may not hold this position. If you have ever been convicted of such a crime, do NOT apply.

The incumbent must submit to a fingerprint‑based criminal history background check. Due to the sensitive nature of this position and required access to APSIN, an applicant with criminal convictions will not move forward in the selection process.

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