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TRAVEL COORDINATOR DEPARTMENT OF LAW & PUBLIC SAFETY

Code: 56311 State Competitive Range: R18 (FY2027)
Salary: $58,222.22 - $84,763.22/year FY2027 schedule (last updated 2026-05-08)

In New Jersey, Travel Coordinator Department of Law & Public Safety is filled through the competitive process: candidates take a civil service exam and are hired off a ranked list, not picked at will.

Qualifying turns on 4 years of relevant experience. The FY2027 range lands between $58,222 and $84,763, and state payroll lists a single employee in the title, at Law and Public Safety.

How to apply

  • Exam

    This is an application to sit an exam and be placed on an eligible list for this title, not an application for a specific job. A $35 application fee applies to Non-Public-Safety announcements issued on or after 2026-02-01. There may be no current vacancy behind it, and the list it produces may not be certified for months or years.

  • Exam

    Open to permanent employees in the competitive division who hold a qualifying lower title in the same unit. A $35 application fee applies to Non-Public-Safety announcements issued on or after 2026-02-01. Like the open competitive exam, this places you on a list; it is not itself a job offer.

  • Agency posting

    Department of Law & Public Safety posts its own vacancies directly, often before (or instead of) any civil service exam announcement. Provisional appointment against a posted vacancy is how most people are actually hired into this kind of title.

Who employs this title

State payroll records show 1 person working under this title. The median actual salary is $81,897. The agencies employing the most are:

  • Law and Public Safety (1)

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.

Definition

Under general direction of a supervisory official in the Department of Law and Public Safety, is responsible for initiating, reviewing, and processing all travel documents and informant fees, confirming all travel arrangements and carrier ticketing, and maintains the investigative fund of the division; does related work as required.

Examples of work

  • Supervises the work involved in reviewing and checking travel advance requests, travel vouchers, and informant fee requests for accuracy, proper authorization, and adherence to current policies and procedures.
  • Makes complex determinations regarding travel arrangements, developing and utilizing existing rules, regulations, and policies to ensure proper dispersal of investigative fund monies.
  • Initiates and confirms all travel arrangements both national and international to ensure that lodging, meals, transportation, and related costs are kept to an absolute minimum and adhere to current policies and practices.
  • Is responsible for preparing airline tickets inhouse for commercial flights of investigators.
  • Maintains investigative fund checking account for audits to ensure travel fund is operating without allocated funding.
  • Supervises the checking of the accuracy and propriety of bills, statements, vouchers, certificates, receipts, extensions, and reimbursements supporting travel.
  • Plans, organizes, and assigns the work of the organizational unit and evaluates employee performance and conduct, enabling the effective recommendation of the hiring, firing, promoting, and disciplining of subordinates.
  • Organizes varied clerical auditing and accounting work and develops suitable procedures for the clerical auditing and accounting work involved with the travel unit.
  • Performs typing duties which does not require skill or speed and which is of a nature reasonable to be expected in a business office.
  • Operates varied types of common office machines where speed is not a primary requirement.
  • Drafts correspondence pertaining to travel policies for the Fiscal Officer which involve routine replies.
  • Prepares summaries and reports based on the operation of the unit involving travel to justify expenditures.
  • Maintains essential records and files.
  • Will be required to learn to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and computerized information systems used by the agency, office, or related units.

Experience

Four (4) years of experience making travel arrangements to include: booking or issuing airline tickets, making hotel reservations, arranging car rentals, or mileage and other reimbursement processing, preparing, reviewing, and verifying varied types of fiscal or statistical records.

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 planning travel, booking airlines, making hotel reservations, and arranging car rentals.
  • Knowledge of modern business office methods, procedures, and routines.
  • Knowledge of procedures used in maintaining fiscal records and in checking of various financial documents.
  • Knowledge of procedures involving travel issued by the Department of Treasury after a period of training.
  • Knowledge of policies, and procedures utilized by the division concerning informant fees and travel requirements.
  • Ability to analyze clerical, auditing, and accounting problems, organize assigned supervisory and other work, and develop effective work methods.
  • Ability to supervise employees.
  • Ability to examine and check financial statements, reports, and travel documents for accuracy, completeness, and conformance with current regulations.
  • Ability to make and check arithmetic calculations.
  • Ability to maintain a checking account.
  • Ability to maintain a travel log.
  • Ability to prepare fiscal and/or statistical reports.
  • 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.