DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL TRANSPORTATION SERVICES
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Director of Special Transportation Services is non-competitive, meaning the state checks your education and experience against the spec instead of ranking you on a test.
What it takes is 5 years of relevant experience.
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Director of Special Transportation Services is a local service title. It is filled by the counties, municipalities, authorities and other employers that have adopted civil service under Title 11A, not by State departments. Those employers set pay by ordinance or contract rather than from a State salary schedule, which is why most local titles carry no salary range here.
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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 direction, coordinates non-emergency transportation services for various governmental and private, non-profit agencies within a local jurisdiction responsible for providing free fare multi-purpose transportation for qualifying elderly, handicapped, or other residents of the jurisdiction; does other related duties and typing as required.
Examples of work
- Oversees non-emergency transportation services provided to qualifying residents of the jurisdiction.
- Coordinates non-public, non-emergency transportation services under contract for various governmental agencies and/or private non-profit agencies.
- Monitors transportation routes and the assignment and use of vehicles.
- Identifies agencies and clients in need of transportation services; negotiates service contracts and/ or prepares service proposals.
- Evaluates effectiveness of transportation services.
- Establishes and maintains cooperative working relationships with those interested or involved in the work of the program.
- Prepares and supervises the preparation of financial, statistical and other reports.
- Prepares the budget and identifies funding sources for grant applications.
- Maintains 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.
Experience
Five (5) years of supervisory experience in the operation or planning of transportation services including the preparation of routes and schedules for a public or non- public usage.
License
Appointees will be required to possess a driver's license valid in NJ only if the operation of a vehicle, rather than employee mobility, is necessary to perform essential duties of the position.
Knowledge, skills and abilities
- Knowledge of the problems encountered in the coordination of non-emergency transportation services.
- Knowledge of the special transportation needs of the client population served.
- Knowledge of the methods used to coordinate transportation services.
- Ability to coordinate a non-emergency transportation program.
- Ability to evaluate transportation services, and identify and correct problems.
- Ability to prepare reports.
- Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with those interested or involved in the work of the program.
- Ability to direct the establishment and maintenance of necessary records 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: LG - MCK 5/29/03
- This job specification is for local government use only.
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.