Archive Specialist Family
Career series with 1 positions
In New Jersey, Archive Specialist (photographic Records) is filled through the competitive process: candidates take a civil service exam and are hired off a ranked list, not picked at will.
Qualifying turns on 2 years of relevant experience.
Archive Specialist is a single-title classification family: Archive Specialist (photographic Records) is the only position in it. Archive Specialist is closely related to Physician Specialist and Program Specialist.
Specializations
Positions in This Family
What the Archive Specialist family covers
In New Jersey's classification plan, Archive Specialist stands alone. The family holds one title code rather than a graded series. Every title in it is a local title, used by the counties, municipalities, authorities and boards that have adopted civil service under Title 11A rather than by state departments.
Office support is where New Jersey's classification plan is at its most granular. Typing, transcription, stenography, records, reception and general clerical duties each became their own series, and each series then split into state and local versions, which is why the catalog holds so many near-identical clerical codes. For applicants this granularity is mostly good news: it means a lot of separate eligible lists, most of them asking for a high school diploma and no experience, and it makes clerical work the most common way people enter the system and then transfer sideways.
What each title does
The published specification opens with this definition of the work.
- Archive Specialist (photographic Records): Under direction, collects, maintains, and makes recommendations regarding the classification and preservation of photographs of historic…
Getting in: the stated requirements
None of the specifications in this family names a degree requirement, which places these titles among the New Jersey positions open to applicants without formal higher education. Experience requirements sit at 2 years wherever they are stated.
On how the jobs are filled: 1 is competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination.
How the pay is set
No state salary schedule applies here, because these are local titles. Pay is set by each adopting county, municipality or authority under its own ordinance or negotiated agreement, so two employers using the same title code can pay very differently. How local civil service pay works.
Where these jobs exist
Nothing in this family is hired by a state department. These are local codes, which means the employer is a county, municipality, authority, library, fire district or school district that chose to come under Title 11A. Roughly a quarter of New Jersey's municipalities did. In the rest, the same job exists but the hiring is done outside the civil service system entirely, so the title code will never appear in a posting. Check a specific employer before you plan around one of these titles, or read how local civil service works.
Related titles elsewhere in the plan
Nearby in the plan, ranked by how distinctive the shared terms are rather than by how many words happen to match.
- Legal Specialist (state jurisdiction)
- Grants Specialist ($87,507 to $128,719, state jurisdiction)
- Legal Specialist 1 ($83,582 to $122,832, state jurisdiction) — in the Legal Specialist family
- Binding Specialist 1 (local jurisdiction) — in the Binding Specialist family
- Paralegal Specialist (local jurisdiction)
- Fire Code Specialist ($87,507 to $128,719, state jurisdiction)
Common questions about Archive Specialist jobs
How many separate Archive Specialist classifications does New Jersey have?
The Archive Specialist family holds 1 title code. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
How much is an Archive Specialist paid?
No state salary schedule figure is published for the titles in this family, which is normal for local classifications. Local civil service employers set their own pay by ordinance or negotiated agreement, so the rate depends on which county, municipality or authority is hiring.
Is there a civil service test for Archive Specialist?
Yes for most of the family. 1 of the 1 title are in the competitive division, which means appointment comes from an eligible list built by an open competitive or promotional examination.
What are the requirements to become an Archive Specialist?
No degree requirement is parsed from the specifications in this family, which puts these titles among the New Jersey civil service jobs reachable without formal higher education. Experience of 2 years is named where a requirement is stated.