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Education: Program Specialist Family

Career series with 6 positions across 3 levels

Education: Program Specialist groups 6 related titles into a 3-level career ladder.

Entry is typically through Education: Program Specialist 3, advancing through the ladder toward Education Program Specialist 1. Pay across the family spans $83,582 to $148,187, around the 78th percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 50 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at State.

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

6
Positions
3
Career Levels
1
Specializations
Salary Range: $83,582 - $148,187/year

Specializations

Council On The Arts

Positions in This Family

What the Education: Program Specialist family covers

Education: Program Specialist covers 6 title codes arranged into 3 levels of responsibility. Every title in it is a state title, so the employer is a state department, commission or authority rather than a county or municipality.

Public school teachers in New Jersey are not civil service, so the education titles in this system are the ones that sit outside a classroom: instructors in correctional and developmental facilities, curriculum and program development staff, and the education specialists at the Department of Education. Library titles are different again. County and municipal libraries are among the local employers that adopted civil service in their own right, which is why librarian and library assistant series carry local codes and appear in the local jurisdiction directory.

The ladder, ordered by pay

The Education: Program Specialist rungs, listed from the best paid down. 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.

The distance from the bottom of Education: Program Specialist 3 to the top of Education: Program Specialist 1 Council on the Arts is $64,605, an increase of about 77% over the entry minimum.

What each title does

Reading the definitions side by side is the quickest way to see what changes as you move through the family.

Requirements across the family

Across the 6 titles we have parsed, the education requirements read as a master's degree on 5 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: 5 are competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination and 1 is unclassified, which means appointment at the employer's discretion and salary set individually.

Who actually employs these titles

State payroll records show 50 people working under 6 of this family's titles, spread across 5 agencies. State alone accounts for about 56% of them.

  • State — 28 employees
  • Corrections — 14 employees
  • Juvenile Justice Commission — 4 employees
  • Children and Families — 2 employees
  • Health and Senior Services — 2 employees

Median actual pay varies across the family, from $94,028 for Education: Program Specialist 3 up to $124,745 for Education: Program Specialist 1 Council on the Arts. 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

Other classifications built on the same terms as Education: Program Specialist. Worth checking if this family has no current opening.

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 Specialist.

Common questions about Education: Program Specialist jobs

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

The Education: Program Specialist family holds 6 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 Specialist earn in New Jersey?

Published salary data for this family runs from $83,582 at the bottom of Education: Program Specialist 3 to $148,187 at the top of Education: Program Specialist 1 Council on the Arts. 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 Specialist?

Yes for most of the family. 5 of the 6 titles are in the competitive division, which means appointment comes from an eligible list built by an open competitive or promotional examination.

What qualifications does an Education: Program Specialist need?

The most common education requirement in this family is a master's degree, named on 5 of the 6 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 Specialist staff?

State payroll records show 50 people in this family across 5 agencies, with State the largest at 28. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.

Is Education: Program Specialist 1 higher or lower than Education: Program 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.