Posting number: 54705
Department: Revenue
Division: Tax Division
Job classification: Assistant Chief, Revenue Economic Research
Posting type: Open
Categories: Management, Executive Management, Economic Development, Tax Administration, Research, Statistics/Mathematics
SummaryCome join the State of Alaska!
This job class uses Competency Based minimum qualifications (MQs). Please read the Competency Based MQ instructions below to learn more.
The Department of Revenue, Tax Division is recruiting for an Assistant Chief Economist in Anchorage or Juneau!
This position is open to Alaska Residents only. Please check our residency definition to determine if you qualify.
Pay will be determined based on location of the selected individual.What You Will Be Doing:
- Provide senior leadership and direction for the Economic Research Group by supervising professional economists and commercial analysts, overseeing analytical operations in Anchorage or Juneau, and serving as the delegated authority for the Chief Economist when required.
- Lead the design, development, and review of complex quantitative economic, fiscal, and commercial models, including petroleum production tax models, statewide non-petroleum revenue models, macroeconomic analysis tools, scenario forecasting, and probabilistic models, through rigorous application of advanced data management principles.
- Apply expert-level petroleum engineering knowledge to guide and review oil and gas fiscal analyses, natural gas commercialization assessments, project evaluations, and production tax modeling to ensure accuracy, defensibility, and alignment with Alaska’s petroleum fiscal system.
- Represent the Department before the Legislature, Governor’s Office, executive leadership, and industry stakeholders by preparing testimony, delivering technical briefings, and communicating complex results clearly through strong stakeholder management practices.
- Oversee major non-petroleum revenue and commercial analyses, including income, excise, and consumption taxes, and resource sector evaluations, and integrate findings into statewide revenue forecasts, policy analyses, fiscal notes, and executive decision support.
- We have a strong preference for a candidate who can immediately step into a senior review role, provide accurate, error-free analysis under tight time frames, and serve as the final authority on the quality, clarity, and defensibility of the Division’s most critical fiscal and commercial work products with minimal direction.
Mission and Values/Culture:
The Department of Revenue’s mission is to collect, administer, and invest funds for public purposes that benefit Alaskans. The Tax Division supports that mission by ensuring fair tax administration and providing accurate economic and revenue insights. As Assistant Chief Economist, you help drive this work by leading analysis and forecasting that directly supports sound fiscal decisions for the state. We value analytical thinking, integrity, collaboration, curiosity, innovation, and a commitment to objective, high-quality work. Our culture is supportive, mission-driven, and focused on producing meaningful analysis that informs Alaska’s financial future.
Benefits of Joining Our Team:
Joining the Tax Division as Assistant Chief Economist offers the rare opportunity to lead high-impact economic and revenue analysis that shapes Alaska’s fiscal future and informs statewide decision-making at the highest level. The State of Alaska provides a comprehensive benefits package that includes strong retirement options, generous PTO, and medical, dental, vision, and life insurance coverage to support your overall well-being.
The Working Environment You Can Expect:
This position will be based the State Office Building in Juneau, or in the Atwood Building in Anchorage. After your initial training, the option of hybrid telework may be explored to further support productivity and a strong work-life balance.
Who We Are Looking For:
We are interested in candidates who possess some or all of the following position specific competencies:
- Petroleum Engineering: Knowledge of the concepts, principles, theories, and methods related to the exploration, development, extraction, recovery, processing, and conservation of fluid minerals, geothermal resources, organic compounds, or natural gas resources.
- Data Management: Knowledge of the principles, procedures, and tools of data management, such as modeling techniques, data backup, data recovery, data dictionaries, data warehousing, data mining, data archiving, data disposal, and data standardization processes.
- 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).
To view the general description and example of duties for the position please go to the following link: https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/Alaska/classspecs
If you can imagine yourself in this role, we encourage you to apply!
Examples of dutiesCompetency Based Minimum Qualifications
This job class uses competency based minimum qualifications. 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.
Please ensure your application (through work history, training, education, licenses, certifications, etc.) supports/demonstrates you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class.
Any combination of education, training, and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in
- Economics and Accounting: Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, tax law and practices, the financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.
- Manages Human Resources: Plans, distributes, and monitors work assignments; evaluates work performance and provides feedback to others on their performance.
- Organizational Awareness: Knows the organization's mission and functions, and how its social, political, and technological systems work and operates effectively within them; this includes the programs, policies, procedures, rules, and regulations of the organization.
- Financial Analysis: Knowledge of the principles, methods, and techniques of financial analysis, forecasting, and modeling to interpret quantitative and qualitative data; includes data modeling, earned value management, and evaluating key financial indicators, trends, and historical data.
- Technical Expertise: Effectively applies technical knowledge to solve a range of problems; develops technical solutions to new or highly complex problems that cannot be solved using existing methods or approaches; is sought out as an expert to provide advice or solutions in the technical area.
Equivalent to those typically gained by:
Any combination of post-secondary education and/or advanced professional experience in economics, accounting, public or business administration, petroleum engineering, industrial engineering or closely related field in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of economic data with an emphasis in the progressively responsible application of energy economics, petroleum economics, natural resources economics, tax analysis, dynamic economic modeling, or supervision of an economics or research team.
Special Note:
“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.
“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, on-the-job, and military training), from accredited and unaccredited sources, and long-duration (such as a post-secondary degree, apprenticeships, and trade or vocational schools) andshort-duration (such as a seminar, professional development, and micro-credentials i.e., computer science, human resources, project management) programs.
“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.
Qualifications
**PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY**
DISCLOSURE OF PRIOR STATE EMPLOYMENT
All employment with the State of Alaska, including but not limited to full-time, part-time, seasonal, temporary, on-call, etc. positions must be disclosed in your application. Failure to provide this information may result in the disqualification of your application.
REQUIRED OF ALL APPLICANTS
At the time of the interview, please ensure that you provide the following materials:
- Copies of all performance evaluations received for the last two years. If performance evaluations are not available, you may substitute a written statement explaining why they were not available, or two letters of professional reference.
- Copy of transcripts, if using education to meet minimum qualifications
SUPPLEMENTAL QUESTIONS
For your application to be evaluated you must answer the Supplemental Questions. The State of Alaska (SOA) uses four levels of proficiency to measure and describe an applicant's level of competence in applying certain behaviors, knowledge, skills, and abilities to accomplish a specific task. The proficiency levels are Mastery, Fluency, Literacy, and Discovery. You will need to rate your proficiency for each competency listed in the supplemental questions.
BACKGROUND CHECK
The Alaska Public Safety Information Network (APSIN) is utilized in this position. A background check and fingerprinting will be required. The incumbent will be required to obtain APSIN access, which will be done through the office.
BARGAINING UNIT
If you are a current state employee, please mark the union you are a member of at the time of application.
EDUCATION
If post-secondary education is required to meet the minimum qualifications, you must fill in the Education section of the application. Copies of transcripts are required to verify educational credentials and must be attached to your application upon submission. Unofficial transcripts are acceptable, provided they include the URL and institution name.
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
If using work experience not already documented in your application, also provide the employer 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. 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.
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: http://doa.alaska.gov/dop/workplace/help/
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 https://www.governmentjobs.com/OnlineApplication/User/ResetPassword.
EEO STATEMENT
The State of Alaska complies with Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Individuals with disabilities who require accommodations, auxiliary aids, or services, or alternative communication formats, please call 1-800-587-4095 in Juneau or TTY: Alaska Relay 711 or 1-800-770-8973 or correspond with the Division of Personnel & Labor Relations at P.O. Box 110201, Juneau, AK 99811-0201. The State of Alaska is an equal-opportunity employer.
WORKPLACE ALASKA APPLICATION QUESTIONS & ASSISTANCE
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For specific information in reference to the position please contact the hiring manager at:
Dan Stickel, Chief Economist
Email: dan.stickel@alaska.gov
Phone Number: 907-465-3279
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