ASSISTANT INSURANCE COMMISSIONER

Code: 55003 State Unclassified Range: M98 (FY 2027) Work week NL: FLSA exemptOvertime table (4A:3, Appx. A)

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.

Examples of work

• Works with other Assistant Commissioners and the Deputy Commissioner as part of a Department policy planning and management team for the purpose of developing and implementing overall Departmental policies and programs particularly where there is a need to integrate complementary initiatives between the various functional areas of the Commissioner's Office and to ensure consistent policy administration, the resolution of conflicts between and among divisions or to establish cooperation between the various programmatic activities of the Department.
• Establishes and maintains communications with the relevant professional, civil, trade, citizen and technical and historic institutions and organizations in both the public and private sector.
• Acts as principal advisor to the Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner and all elements of the Department of Insurance on all matters related to the enhancement and management of the State's insurance and real estate statutory responsibilities.
• Directs, manages and coordinates inter-divisional and inter-departmental programs related to the management of assigned Divisions.
• When so designated, acts as the Commissioner of Insurance in the absence from the State of the Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner.
• Directs the preparation of Department operating budgets and revenues for assigned programmatic areas. Reviews and approves for submission to the Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner all budgetary items relating to assigned Divisions.
• Shall, as directed, represent the Commissioner on various boards and councils as required by statute or regulation.
• Undertakes, in cooperation with appropriate Division Directors, the planning and development of a program to improve the operations of assigned Divisions of the Department of Insurance in order to accomplish Departmental goals and to ensure compliance with approved Department policies.
• In cooperation with the appropriate Division Directors establishes goals, standards of performance Objectives and measures of achievement for assigned areas of the Department. Works with Division Directors to establish programs and policies to achieve delineated goals.
• Provides executive guidance to coordinate and assure interactions between complementary program elements.
• Develops and maintains a management information system to direct progress in achieving goals and objectives.
• Supervises the work operations and/or functional programs and has responsibility for effectively recommending the hiring, firing, promoting, demoting and/or disciplining of employees.
• Cooperates with other Deputy/Assistant Commissioners to ensure orderly and efficient handling of both long-term and emergency matters directly involving the Commissioner's Office.
• Provides executive guidance within a program to study, evaluate and serve New Jersey insurance needs as they relate to standards, enforcement and solving problems.
• Serves as the Commissioner's appointee on various Commissions and councils.
• Prepares and delivers presentations, speeches and testimony before lay and professional groups to disseminate insurance information as well as present the policies and programs of the Department of Insurance.
• Prepares and directs the preparation of extensive correspondence in the course of official duties.
• Directs the establishment and maintenance of essential records and files.
• May be required to learn to utilise various types of electronic and/or manual recording and information systems used by the agency, office or related units.
• <b>REQUIREMENTS
• EDUCATION </b>
• Graduation from an accredited college with a Bachelor's degree.

Experience

Eight years of administrative experience in insurance programs; four years of which shall have included managerial experience.

Applicants who do not possess the required education may substitute experience as indicated above on a year for year basis.

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

• Ability to acquire thorough knowledge of the laws of New Jersey and regulations, policies and procedures of the Department of Insurance.
• Ability to analyze and interpret Federal and State laws, rules and regulations pertaining to those program areas under his/her management.
• Ability to establish program goals and objectives and devise procedures and techniques for obtaining them.
• Ability to direct the Statewide program of consumer protection, and management of the insurance laws of the State of New Jersey, establishing contracts and regulations.
• Ability to communicate with, and establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with representatives of Federal, State and local governments as well as professional groups, societies and others interested in issues, problems, etc. relative to assigned areas.
• Ability to give talks before professional and lay groups, government officials and leaders.
• Ability to prepare clear, sound, accurate and informative statistical, financial and other related reports containing findings, conclusions and recommendations.
• Thorough knowledge of modern public administration and management procedures and their utilization in directing the major activities of insurance programs.
• Thorough knowledge of executive decision making in accord with rules, regulations, policies and procedures of the Department to ensure maximum program operating efficiency and potential is realized.
• Thorough knowledge of organizational structures and functions of governments of local, State and Federal law enforcement and judicial policies and practices.
• Ability to learn 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, or 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 the 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.
• Code: X98- SPEC-28-B-JWWPC 3-18-86