DIRECTOR OFFICE OF PLANNING
Career Family: DIRECTOR
Director Office of Planning is an unclassified role, so it is appointed at the discretion of the hiring authority and does not carry the usual exam-and-tenure track.
Qualifying takes a master's degree and 5 years of relevant experience. Its salary schedule (frozen at an older rate) lists $71,879 to $100,638, though managerial and exempt titles like this are usually paid individually rather than on the step schedule.
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Director Office of Planning is used at one independent authority, New Jersey Transit Corporation.
Independent authorities
| Employer | Employees |
|---|---|
| New Jersey Transit Corporation | 1 |
State payroll and independent authority payroll are separate systems and are never merged. See data sources.
Official job specification
The text below is the official specification published by the New Jersey Civil Service Commission. The plain-language summary and analysis above are derived from it by NJ Civil Service Navigator. Source: the official specification page at NJ CSC.
Definition
Under the direction of the Director, Division of Mental Health and Hospitals, plans, develops and implements a continuing community-based mental health planning process; serves as the Chief planning officer for the Division of Mental Health and Hospitals; consolidates and centralizes all divisional planning requirements mandated under State and Federal legislation; updates the State Plan for Mental Health Services; does other related duties.
Examples of work
- Develops and upholds goals, objectives, and strategies for all divisional mental health services.
- Recommends and prepares for executive management new legislation and changes to the legislation.
- Develops State standards for county reception (prescreening) services; directs the formulation of county plans to provide such services; develops a fiscal plan to implement such services.
- Supervises the work operations and/or functional programs and has responsibility for effectively recommending the hiring, firing, promoting and/or disciplining of employees.
- Coordinates the planning process of a community mental health center as established in the S.P. for Mental Health Services, as mandated by the Special Health Revenue Act (P.L. 94-63).
- May develop CMHC inventory, need survey, standards, and specialized services to select target groups as these relate to the entire spectrum of the Mental Health Delivery System.
- Coordinates community care programs.
- Coordinates the regulatory functions of the health system agencies, especially the review and approval authority of the HSA's overall applications for federal assistance under P.L. 94-63.
- Assists County mental health administrators in the preparation of annual county plans.
- Assists State and County psychiatric hospitals in the preparation of long range facility utilization plans as mandated by the Health Care Administration Board under N.J.S.A. 26:2H-12.
- Maintains close liaison with organizational units in areas concerning administrative policies, procedures and rules and regulations pertaining to the department's activities.
- Prepares and directs the preparation of official correspondence and detailed reports containing findings, recommendations, and conclusions.
- Directs the establishment of essential records and files.
- Will be required to learn to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and information systems used by the agency, office, or related units.
Education
Graduation from an accredited college or university with a Master's degree in Social Work, Sociology, Public Administration, City and Regional Planning, or other related field in the social or behavorial sciences.
Experience
Five (5) years of planning experience in the fields of Health and/or Welfare.
License
Appointee will be required to possess a driver's license valid in New Jersey only if the operation of a vehicle, rather than employee mobility, is necessary to perform the essential duties of the position.
Knowledge, skills and abilities
- Knowledge of the program planning methods.
- Knowledge of State and Federal laws, rules, and regulations relating to Mental Health
- Knowledge of planning process as it relates to departmental rules, regulations, and procedures
- Knowledge of management principles and techniques
- Knowledge of the methods used to gather and analyze data
- Ability to organize and execute designated planning projects
- Ability to identify and analyze planning problems
- Ability to analyze, and interpret basic law and regulations and apply them to specific situations
- Ability to supervise the activities of staff
- Ability to provide professional advice and guidance on planning matters
- Ability to speak with officials and groups and explain planning projects
- Ability to prepare correspondence in the course of official duties
- Ability to prepare clear, technically sound, accurate, and informative planning reports, studies, and surveys containing findings, conclusions, and recommendations.
- Ability to oversee the maintenance of records, reports, maps, plans, and files.
- Ability to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and information systems used by the agency, office, or related units.
- Ability to read, write, speak, understand, and communicate in English sufficiently to perform duties of this position. American Sign Language or Braille may also be considered as acceptable forms of communication.
- Persons with mental or physical disabilities are eligible as long as they can perform essential functions of the job after reasonable accommodation is made to their known limitations. If the accommodation cannot be made because it would cause the employer undue hardship, such persons may not be eligible.
- CODES: 32/M32 - MCK 12/24/05
Note
The examples of work for this title are for illustrative purposes only. A particular position using this title may not perform all duties listed in this job specification. Conversely, all duties performed on the job may not be listed.