About the Department of Natural Resources (DNR):

The Indiana Department of Natural Resources protects, enhances, preserves, and wisely uses natural, cultural, and recreational resources for the benefit of Indiana’s citizens through professional leadership, management, and education.

Role Overview:

This position requires the ability to effectively balance support of the agency’s mission with the enforcement of administrative laws and policies. Successful candidates are critical thinkers who can adapt quickly to a variety of topics and provide clear, accurate verbal and written guidance in response to a high volume of daily correspondence in a timely, professional, and customer-focused manner.

A Day in the Life:
The essential functions of this role are as follows:

• Supervise subordinate personnel including hiring, determining workload, and authorizing assignments, training, monitoring, and evaluating performance, and initiating corrective or disciplinary action.
• Coordinate with internal staff and other agency personnel on procurement processes, such as specification writing and bidding.
• Assist the Director with developing and coordinating plans and policies, resources, and mission as well as goals, vision and expectations of agency or program.
• Provide guidance to internal operating divisions and the external public regarding applicable laws and rules.
• Review and evaluate organizational effectiveness, goal determination, and strategic planning, etc., makes recommendations for improvement.
• Provide the agency’s Public Access Counselor with appropriate documentation for responses to procurement-related public records requests.
• Recruit, select, onboard, and train employees to ensure role responsibilities and expectations are clearly understood while providing opportunities to continue professional development.
• Set expectation, measure progress, provide ongoing feedback, and evaluate the performance of employees. Ensure work adheres to quality standards, deadlines, and proper procedures.

The job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Other duties, responsibilities and activities may change or be assigned at any time.

This position is exempt from overtime compensation for additional work hours which may be required to complete essential functions or other assigned work. Exempt employees may work more than 75 hours in a pay period without additional compensation and must report a minimum of 75 hours per pay period of work hours and/or paid leave taken to receive their base biweekly salary.

Salary: $75,010/year