DPS Payroll Services Supervisor

Payroll Services Supervisor

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

This recruitment is open to Alaska Residents only. Applicants must meet Alaska Residency Requirements in order to be considered for employment at this time.

The salary is dependent upon the location of hire: Anchorage = $2,608.00 Bi-weekly Juneau = $2,738.40 Bi-weekly

What You Will Be Doing

As DPS's new Payroll Services Supervisor, you will take on a central leadership role, working closely with the HR Business Partner and Division of Administrative Services management while overseeing all payroll functions for the agency. This position supervises a small team of four HR Technicians, ensuring accurate and timely processing of payroll actions, timesheets, and other cyclical tasks. The team is located between Anchorage and Juneau will focus on agency-specific needs while maintaining compliance with state laws, collective bargaining agreements, and regulations affecting both covered and non-covered employees.

In this hands-on supervisory role, you will lead, coach, and develop your team while fostering a healthy, sustainable workplace culture that supports work-life balance. You will act as the agency's primary payroll certifier, maintaining strong internal controls and data integrity, and handling complex payroll tasks while training staff to grow their capabilities. Additionally, you will collaborate with the HRBP and Department of Administration to provide policy guidance and technical expertise, particularly as the State's subject matter expert on payroll processes.

Our Organization, Mission, and Culture

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 would be instrumental in ensuring this mission is met by providing direct support of law enforcement activities.

The Division of Administrative Services provides management assistance to the DPS Commissioner and administrative support to all divisions in the department.

The Benefits of Joining Our Team

As a member of one of the most unique law enforcement agencies in the nation, you will be part of a team that embraces the core values of loyalty, integrity, courage, compassion, leadership, and accountability as they serve Alaska. As supervisor of the DPS Payroll Team, you will be leading the full range of payroll and time accounting tasks for the department and will have full support from the DPS Human Resource Business Partner. This position is critical to assist the department with guidance and recommendations for all things payroll and timekeeping. You will be working with a phenomenal team of professionals, both civilian and commissioned. The work we do is fast paced, challenging, and fulfilling as we work towards the common goal to promote public safety and support law enforcement efforts to protect and enforce the laws of the states.

The Working Conditions You Can Expect

This position is located at the Department of Public Safety building in either Anchorage or Juneau. The daily work environment consists of a small team of task-driven individuals. The incumbent will work closely with team members to support the mission. Some travel will be required to fulfill job duties. Work outside of normal business hours may be needed on occasion. After a successful training period, this position may be eligible for a hybrid telework arrangement.

What We Are Looking For

Please outline each competency below in your application:

• Leadership: Influences, motivates, and challenges others; adapts leadership styles to a variety of situations.
• Personnel and Human Resources: Knowledge of hiring, classification, benefits, labor relations, negotiation, and Federal, state, and local employment regulations.
• Administration and Management: Knowledge of planning, coordination, and execution of business functions, resource allocation, and production.
• Accountability: Holds self and others accountable for measurable high-quality, timely, and cost effective results. Determines objectives, sets priorities, and delegates work. Accepts responsibility for own actions and decisions. Complies with established control systems and rules.

Minimum Qualifications

Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in:

• Analytical Thinking/Problem Solving: Uses a logical, systematic, sequential approach to address problems or opportunities or manage a situation by drawing on one's knowledge and experience base and calling on other references and resources as necessary.
• Oral and Written 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 and written presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.
• Personnel and Human Resources: Knowledge of hiring, classification, benefits, labor relations, negotiation, and Federal, state, and local employment regulations.
• Supervision: Plans, distributes, and monitors work assignments; sets task priorities; evaluates work performance and provides feedback to others on their performance; ensures that staff are appropriately selected, utilized, and developed, and that they are treated in a fair and equitable manner. Assignments include the authority and responsibility to recommend or independently take action to employ (i.e., appoint, transfer, promote), discipline or discharge, or adjudicate grievances of direct reports.
• 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.

Equivalent to those typically gained by: Any combination of preparatory post-secondary education and/or progressively responsible experience in payroll services, human resource management, business administration, supporting management in running an organization/enterprise or supporting professionals working 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).

Additional Required Information

A cover letter is NOT required for this position. Your complete application will be used to determine which applicants will advance to the interview phase of the recruitment and selection process.

At time of interview: Copies of the two (2) most recent performance evaluations

Special Note: The State of Alaska is realigning payroll services by decentralizing payroll functions for seven (7) departments, including the Department of Corrections. The incumbent of this position will be initially appointed in the Department of Administration, Division of Finance and may initially be physically located within the Department of Administration. The position will transfer effective July 1, 2026.

Background Check: This position requires the incumbent to 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.

Confidentiality Agreement: The successful candidate will be required to read, understand, and agree to via signature, an agreement of confidentiality concerning the work commonly encountered within the Department of Public Safety to qualify for this position.

Education: To verify education is being used to meet and/or support the required minimum qualifications/competencies, 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 used to meet or support the minimum qualifications/competencies for a position and are required with each application. (Unofficial is okay; please ensure the institution/URL name is listed on the transcripts). Transcripts can be attached at the time of application or provided at the time of interview; if not, transcripts will be required before employment.

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: Applications will be reviewed to determine if minimum qualifications are met. Therefore, all work experiences the applicant is using to meet minimum qualifications for this position must be documented in the application package. Please include the employer's name, your job title, dates of employment, and whether the employment was full or part-time. Applicants who submit packages that do not provide sufficient information to demonstrate minimum qualifications are met may not advance in the selection process.

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.

Multiple Vacancies: This recruitment