SUPERVISOR 1, STATE BUREAU OF IDENTIFICATION
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New Jersey treats Supervisor 1, State Bureau of Identification as a competitive-class job, so the gate is an examination and the ranked list it produces rather than a direct offer.
The FY 2027 range lands between $58,222 and $84,763, and state payroll currently lists 7 people in the title, most of them at Law and Public Safety.
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Supervisor 1, State Bureau of Identification appears on the State payroll at one department, Department of Law & Public Safety.
State departments
| Employer | Employees |
|---|---|
| Department of Law & Public Safety | 7 |
State payroll and independent authority payroll are separate systems and are never merged. See data sources.
Pay ladder: Supervisor series
- Supervisor 1 Mvc — $69,668 – $101,951
- Supervisor 2 Mvc — $79,844 – $117,228
Its top salary lands around the 24th percentile of all NJ civil service titles that publish a range.
Rungs are ordered by FY 2027 pay. NJ level numbers are not always sequential, so ordering follows salary rather than the title number.
Who employs this title
State payroll records show 7 people working under this title. The median actual salary is $79,333. The agencies employing the most are:
- Law and Public Safety (7)
Counts from NJ YourMoney agency payroll. See statewide workforce analytics.
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 supervision of a Supervisor 2, State Bureau of Identification, unit head, or other higher level supervisor in the State Bureau of Identification, Division of State Police, Department of Law and Public Safety, supervises a functional unit responsible for the data entry, correction, retrieval and/or modification of documents and information related to criminal histories, fingerprint cards, and other records used by federal, state and local law enforcement agencies; implements and monitors security measures mandated by federal regulations; supervises staff and work activities; prepares and signs official performance evaluations for subordinate staff; does related work as required.
Examples of work
- Directly supervises unit staff and activities.
- Assists in organizing the clerical function of all documents received in the unit, for correct information prior to coding and computer input.
- Responsible for informing federal agencies and New Jersey contributors of any problems being experienced regarding the identification of individuals with respect to descriptive data or fingerprint impressions, and takes necessary action to implement the correction of the error condition.
- Develops effective work procedures for the unit.
- Supervises and maintains the operational efficiency of the unit in order to provide an effective workflow between the unit and other units in the State Bureau of Identification.
- Keeps superiors informed of any operational or security problems experienced by unit personnel.
- Implements security measures in the unit with established legislative, judicial, and department guidelines specified in State and federal law.
- Trains or supervises the training of new employees in unit procedures and functions.
- Coordinates and may provide instruction in advanced identification courses conducted by the Division of State Police for county and municipal police and other authorized personnel.
- Creates and maintains unit records, reports and files.
- Requisitions, records, stores and supervises the proper use of equipment and supplies.
- Prepares reports containing findings, conclusions and recommendations.
- Supervises the verification of information.
- Supervises the troubleshooting activities of system malfunctions.
- Provides directions concerning the security, purging and/or destruction of source documents and other confidential records.
- Maintains liaison with other units regarding operations within the Bureau.
- Supervises the operations and/or functional programs and has responsibility for effectively recommending the hiring, firing, promoting, demoting and/or discipline of employees.
- Supervises the maintenance and security of confidential and essential records and files maintained by the unit.
- Assigns work to technical and clerical personnel involved in collection, verification, collation, and dissemination of information pertaining to criminal documents and criminal history records.
- May testify in court.
- Responsible for the resolution of questions posed by State, county and local agencies regarding New Jersey Statutes.
- Prepares correspondence in the course of official duties.
- 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
If assigned to the Biometric Identification Unit, appointees will be required to have successfully completed a course of training in the Henry System with extensions interfaced with an Automated Fingerprint Information System (AFIS) workstation operations in Fingerprint Classification and Identification practices.
If assigned to the Biometric Identification Unit, appointees will be required to have successfully completed the courses and training requirements necessary to instruct others on the usage of the Fully Integrated Fingerprint Identification System (FIFIS) Live Scan workstation operations for fingerprint classification.
Experience
Four years (4) years of experience in the classification, processing, filing, modification, correction and/or research of records, criminal histories, and other documents used by state, local and federal law enforcement agencies.
License
Appointees 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 essential duties of the position.
Knowledge, skills and abilities
- Knowledge of modern office methods, procedures, and equipment.
- Knowledge of filing equipment, procedures, and techniques, and their adaptation to the work of the unit.
- Knowledge of procedures used in filing, updating, searching, recording, and related functions pertaining to computerized database options of information system(s).
- Knowledge of programs and functions of the records and identification section after a period of training.
- Knowledge of employee performance evaluation procedures.
- Knowledge of established procedures for purging documents and information from the Division of State Police, State Bureau of Identifications after a period of training.
- Knowledge of all functions and methods of criminal justice reporting procedures including police departments, courts and corrections, and able to interpret information contained items such as fingerprint cards and court disposition documents.
- Knowledge of data reduction in order to oversee modification and correction of complex criminal histories and court disposition reporting documents.
- Knowledge of the techniques used to determine the classification of fingerprints, particularly those elements in which the pattern makes the determinations difficult.
- Knowledge of the security and scope of records and files to be retained in the Division of State Police Master Files and the network database depositories.
- Ability to supervise a group of clerical employees in the accurate compilation and maintenance of statistical reports.
- Ability to interpret and apply knowledge of rules and regulations, standards, policies, and procedures of the State Bureau of Identification, Division of State Police, pertaining to fingerprints and records and their application to specific cases.
- Ability to recognize and correct security violations as outlined in Federal Regulations Governing Judicial Administration and state rules and regulations.
- Ability to plan and adapt clerical procedures to meet the specific requirements of the various units in the State Bureau of Identification.
- Ability to assign, train, and supervise the work performance of unit clerical employees.
- Ability to supervise assigned staff and plan, organize, and implement projects within the unit.
- Ability to assist in supervising the processing of fingerprint submissions, copying abstracts of fingerprint records, checking Criminal History Response Summaries made to requests for information, recording of the disposition of current cases, and the filing of Federal Bureau of Investigation replies, including Criminal History Record Requests.
- Ability to prepare and supervise the preparation of reports and other communications and correspondence.
- Ability to supervise the establishment and maintenance of essential records, reports, and files.
- Ability to analyze large scale specialized file problems and help develop appropriate work methods for the unit to meet specific requirements.
- Ability to assign, instruct, train, and supervise the workload of unit employees engaged in preparing, filing, searching, and retrieving computerized/manual records.
- Ability to provide criminal history data and records to authorized agencies as provided by established legislative, judicial and state authorized guidelines.
- Ability to see that agency procedures and regulations pertaining to the release of record information are observed.
- Ability to prepare correspondence in the course of official duties.
- Ability to acquire specific and detailed knowledge of rules and regulations, standards, policies, and procedures of the agency pertaining to records and their application to specific cases so as to be able to recognize and correct security violations as outlined in federal regulations governing judicial administration and state rules and regulations.
- Ability to prepare clear, technically sound, accurate, and informative reports.
- Ability to keep accurate and complete records of documents received, input, and pending.
- Ability to assist in the training of new staff members in all phases of data entry, modification, correction, and review of system output.
- Ability to analyze large scale specialized files problems, organize assigned supervisory and technical work, and help develop appropriate work methods for the unit.
- Ability to assign, instruct, train, and supervise the work of unit employees engaged in preparing, indexing, filing, searching, and retrieving extensive criminal records.
- Ability to follow division procedures and regulations.
- Ability to prepare clear, technically sound, accurate, and informative reports.
- Ability to supervise the establishment, security and maintenance of essential and confidential records and files.
- Ability to testify in courts of law as a State witness.
- Ability to learn, utilize and instruct others to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and computer information systems and software applications used by the agency, office or related units.
- Ability to read, write, speak, understand, and communicate in English sufficiently to perform the 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 with or without reasonable accommodation. If the accommodation cannot be made because it would cause the employer undue hardship, such persons may not be eligible.
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.