Radio Dispatcher/keyboarding Clerk Family
Career series with 1 positions across 1 levels
Radio Dispatcher/Keyboarding Clerk 2 is a non-competitive local-government civil service title, so there is no ranked exam. You qualify by meeting the stated education and experience.
The one gate is 1 year of relevant experience.
Radio Dispatcher/Keyboarding Clerk is a single-title classification family: Radio Dispatcher/Keyboarding Clerk 2 is the only position in it. Radio Dispatcher/Keyboarding Clerk commonly advances into Clerk and Clerk Stenographer.
Positions in This Family
What the Radio Dispatcher/Keyboarding Clerk family covers
Radio Dispatcher/Keyboarding 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.
Sworn and investigative titles sit apart from the rest of civil service. They carry their own salary schedules, their own unions and, in most cases, an academy requirement and a medical and psychological screen on top of the exam. Rank is handled by moving between titles rather than by moving up a range, so the ladder here is a sequence of separate classifications. New Jersey also runs a large civilian investigative service alongside the sworn forces, and those titles follow ordinary competitive rules even though the work overlaps.
Two jobs in one title
Radio Dispatcher/Keyboarding Clerk is a consolidated title: one position carrying the duties of Radio Dispatcher and Keyboarding 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, Keyboarding Clerk is its own family of 8 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.
- Radio Dispatcher/Keyboarding Clerk 2: Under supervision during an assigned tour of duty, records telephone communications and receives and relays radio messages to various…
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 Radio Dispatcher/Keyboarding Clerk. Worth checking if this family has no current opening.
- Radio Dispatcher (local jurisdiction)
- Radio Dispatcher (local jurisdiction)
- Senior Radio Dispatcher (local jurisdiction)
- Radio Dispatcher, Typing (both state and local jurisdiction)
- Supervising Radio Dispatcher (local jurisdiction)
- Radio Dispatcher/Security Guard (both state and local jurisdiction)
Common questions about Radio Dispatcher/Keyboarding Clerk jobs
How many Radio Dispatcher/Keyboarding Clerk titles are there in New Jersey civil service?
The Radio Dispatcher/Keyboarding Clerk family holds 1 title code. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
What does a Radio Dispatcher/Keyboarding 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 Radio Dispatcher/Keyboarding 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 Radio Dispatcher/Keyboarding 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.