Community Service Aide/clerk Family
Career series with 1 positions across 1 levels
New Jersey classifies Community Service Aide/Clerk 2 as non-competitive, which skips the exam-and-list step and turns on whether you meet the minimum requirements.
Qualifying turns on 1 year of relevant experience.
Community Service Aide/Clerk is a single-title classification family: Community Service Aide/Clerk 2 is the only position in it. Community Service Aide/Clerk commonly advances into Food Service Worker (10 - and Customer Service Information Specialist.
Positions in This Family
- COMMUNITY SERVICE AIDE/CLERK 2 (07632)
What the Community Service Aide/Clerk family covers
Community Service Aide/Clerk is a single-title family in the New Jersey civil service classification plan: one title code, with no numbered rungs above or below it. 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.
Case-carrying titles are the largest civilian block in New Jersey government outside clerical work. They run through the Department of Children and Families, Human Services, county welfare and social services boards, and the guardianship and child support programs. The families are usually built as clean numbered ladders because caseload complexity is what separates one rung from the next, not a change of profession. A social work degree is common at the professional levels, though many of the specialist and technician titles admit experience instead.
Two jobs in one title
Community Service Aide/Clerk is a consolidated title: one position carrying the duties of Community Service Aide and Clerk at once, held by a single employee expected to do both. Small New Jersey employers use these when one function will not fill a whole position, so the Commission classifies the combined job rather than forcing it into one box or the other.
Separately, Clerk is its own family of 17 title codes across 4 levels. This consolidation holds 1 code, which is the usual pattern, since a consolidated title is normally created for the one jurisdiction that asked for it. Read the component specifications alongside this one, because the requirements of both halves apply.
What each title does
The published specification opens with this definition of the work.
- Community Service Aide/Clerk 2: Under supervision, performs a variety of routine field and office work involved in community-oriented programs such as housing…
Requirements across the family
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 1 year wherever they are stated.
On how the jobs are filled: 1 is non-competitive, appointed on proof of the stated qualifications rather than by 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
These are local titles, so the hiring employers are New Jersey's counties, municipalities, authorities, library boards, school districts and fire districts that have adopted civil service under Title 11A. Not every New Jersey employer has. A town that never adopted the system hires however it chooses and never posts against these codes at all, which is why checking the employer before checking the title saves time. Look up whether an employer is a civil service jurisdiction, or read how local civil service differs from state.
Related titles elsewhere in the plan
Other classifications built on the same terms as Community Service Aide/Clerk. Worth checking if this family has no current opening.
- Clerk 1/Community Service Aide (local jurisdiction)
- Community Service Aide (local jurisdiction)
- Community Service Aide (local jurisdiction)
- Community Service Worker (local jurisdiction)
- Community Service Officer 3 ($58,222 to $84,763, state jurisdiction) — in the Community Service Officer family
- Senior Community Service Aide (local jurisdiction)
Common questions about Community Service Aide/Clerk jobs
How many Community Service Aide/Clerk titles are there in New Jersey civil service?
The Community Service Aide/Clerk family holds 1 title code. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
What does a Community Service Aide/Clerk earn in New Jersey?
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.
Do you need to take an exam to become a Community Service Aide/Clerk?
Not for the non-competitive titles in this family, of which there are 1. A non-competitive appointment is made on proof that you meet the stated requirements, without a competitive examination, though the position is still in the classified service with its own protections.
What qualifications does a Community Service Aide/Clerk need?
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 1 year is named where a requirement is stated.