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Education: Program Development Specialist Family

Career series with 16 positions across 3 levels

Education: Program Development Specialist groups 16 related titles into a 3-level career ladder.

Entry is typically through Education Program Development Specialist 2, advancing through the ladder toward Education Program Development Specialist 3. Pay across the family spans $79,844 to $148,187, around the 78th percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 832 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Education.

Education: Program Development Specialist commonly advances into Program Specialist and Hazardous Site Mitigation Specialist.

16
Positions
3
Career Levels
6
Specializations
Salary Range: $79,844 - $148,187/year

Specializations

10 Months Agriculture Nutrition School Facilities Design & Construction School Facilities Design And Construction Special Education

Positions in This Family

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What the Education: Program Development Specialist family covers

New Jersey classifies Education: Program Development Specialist as a 3-level series holding 16 separate title codes. Every title in it is a state title, so the employer is a state department, commission or authority rather than a county or municipality.

Analyst and planner titles are where New Jersey puts the work of deciding rather than delivering: land use, capital programming, rate setting, program evaluation and policy research. Many exist at the local level because municipal and county planning boards were early adopters of civil service, so the family may hold only local codes even when the same work happens at the state under a different name. The qualification pattern is consistent, a bachelor's degree at entry with experience substituting upward, and the ladders are usually clean numbered progressions.

The ladder, ordered by pay

Sorted by pay instead of by title number, the Education: Program Development Specialist family stacks up as follows. Note that the numbers in these titles do not run in pay order. In this family a lower number sits higher on the ladder, which is a New Jersey convention that catches people out when they read a title list top to bottom.

Showing the 12 best paid of 16 titles with published salary data.

The distance from the bottom of Education: Program Development Specialist 2 10 Months to the top of Education Program Development Specialist 3 Special Education is $68,343, an increase of about 86% over the entry minimum.

What each title does

The specifications themselves are the clearest guide to what separates these titles. Here is how each one opens.

Showing 8 of 16 published definitions in this family. The full list of titles is below.

Getting in: the stated requirements

Across the 16 titles we have parsed, the education requirements read as a master's degree on 16 of them. Stated experience runs from 3 years at the lowest rung to 5 at the highest, which is the main thing separating one level from the next.

On how the jobs are filled: 3 are competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination and 13 are non-competitive, appointed on proof of the stated qualifications rather than by examination.

Who actually employs these titles

State payroll records show 832 people working under 15 of this family's titles, spread across 10 agencies. Education alone accounts for about 85% of them.

  • Education — 705 employees
  • Civil Service Commission — 41 employees
  • Juvenile Justice Commission — 25 employees
  • Children and Families — 17 employees
  • Health and Senior Services — 13 employees
  • State — 9 employees

Those are the 6 largest of 10 agencies employing this family.

Median actual pay varies across the family, from $99,717 for Education Program Development Specialist 1 up to $143,176 for Education Program Development Specialist 3 Special Education. Those are medians of what people are really paid, not schedule minimums and maximums.

State payroll only, deduplicated by payroll title; local employers file separately, so a family with local codes looks smaller here than it is. How this is counted.

How the pay is set

Titles in this family are paid on the A-P-R-S salary schedule. See every step in that schedule. Bargaining is handled by CWA. Union contracts and rights are collected here.

Where these jobs exist

These are state titles, hired by New Jersey departments, commissions and boards through the Civil Service Commission's announcement and eligible list process rather than by an ordinary job posting. How state hiring works, and which agencies employ what.

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.

Families next to this one

New Jersey's classification plan links families by shared terminology and by the routes people actually take between them. These sit closest to Education: Program Development Specialist.

Common questions about Education: Program Development Specialist jobs

How many Education: Program Development Specialist titles are there in New Jersey civil service?

The Education: Program Development Specialist family holds 16 title codes arranged across 3 levels. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.

What does an Education: Program Development Specialist earn in New Jersey?

Published salary data for this family runs from $79,844 at the bottom of Education: Program Development Specialist 2 10 Months to $148,187 at the top of Education Program Development Specialist 3 Special Education. Those are schedule figures. Where the title appears on the state payroll, actual median pay is listed on the page above.

Do you need to take an exam to become an Education: Program Development Specialist?

Not for the non-competitive titles in this family, of which there are 13. 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 an Education: Program Development Specialist need?

The most common education requirement in this family is a master's degree, named on 16 of the 16 titles. Stated experience ranges from 3 to 5 years depending on the rung. Read the individual specification for the exact wording, including any experience substitution.

Which agencies employ Education: Program Development Specialist staff?

State payroll records show 832 people in this family across 10 agencies, with Education the largest at 705. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.

Is Education: Program Development Specialist 1 higher or lower than Education: Program Development Specialist 3?

In this family the lower number is the more senior title. New Jersey's level numbering does not run in pay order, and reading the titles by number alone will give you the ladder upside down. The list above is sorted by what each title actually pays.