ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES, LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY
As an unclassified state title, Assistant Director, Administrative Services, Law and Public Safety is filled by appointment, and its published pay band is more of a guide than a fixed grade.
A master's degree is the listed credential, and extra years on the job can be traded for it. Its salary schedule (frozen at an older rate) lists $83,210 to $116,477, though managerial and exempt titles like this are usually paid individually rather than on the step schedule, and state payroll lists a single employee in the title, at Law and Public Safety.
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Assistant Director, Administrative Services, Law and Public Safety appears on the State payroll at one department, Department of Law & Public Safety.
State departments
| Employer | Employees |
|---|---|
| Department of Law & Public Safety | 1 |
State payroll and independent authority payroll are separate systems and are never merged. See data sources.
Who employs this title
State payroll records show 1 person working under this title. The median actual salary is $161,000. 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. Source: the official specification page at NJ CSC.
Examples of work
- Formulates policy recommendations for the Director related to existing, new and established legislation, regulations and governmental procedures impacting on divisional administration designed to attain Division objectives.
- Acts as fiscal and management consultant to the Director, keeping him/her informed of changes in needs assessment, resource allocation, and spending plans; represents the Division before governing bodies in all fiscal matters.
- Plans and incorporates the work programs of the Division in the areas of Fiscal, Personnel, Operations, Planning and Systems Development, and Central Services into a system of administration designed to achieve short and long term organizational goals.
- Reviews and coordinates qualitative and quantitative evaluations and implements recommendations in order to monitor and increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the Division.
- Manages the work operations responsible for the development of accurate and comprehensive project management planning, control and reporting systems for all existing and proposed projects in terms of needs assessment, operational analysis and procedures review.
- Supervises the work programs involved in all budget preparation, fiscal reports, budget interpretation, fund accounting, administrative accounting and analysis of operating financial data in order to maximize resources and insure compliance with State and Federal fiscal guidelines and rules.
- Administratively directs the work of the Personnel Unit, including recruitment, selection and placement, classification and compensation, affirmative action, labor and employee relations, payroll, manpower planning and staff training and maintenance of
- Personnel records, systems in order to effectively utilize personnel in the most productive manner.
- Manages the work operations and/or functional programs and has responsibility for employee evaluations and for effectively recommending the hiring, firing, promoting, demoting and/or disciplining of employees
- Administratively implements with Office of Telecommunications Information Systems the purchase, installation, staffing requirements, and ongoing operation of Data processing System within the Division, in order to achieve maximum utilization of data processing services and attain long range division goals of automation.
- Administratively directs the operational analysis and review, determination of resource allocation and prioritizing goals based on the criteria of insuring legal effective operational procedures. Implements administrative action in areas of establishing or changing programs based on the reports received from this Bureau.
- Plans, organizes and administers the work programs organized to provide the division with general support services including shipping and receiving, mail, printing, vehicles, forms control, lease compliance and space allocations, and related office service functions.
- May 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.
- <b>REQUIREMENTS
- EDUCATION</b>
- Graduation from an accredited college with a Bachelor's degree.
Experience
Six years of experience in administrative work involving personnel, fiscal and administrative activities in al large public or private agency; three years of which shall have been in a supervisory capacity.
Applicants who do not possess the required education may substitute indicated experience on a year for year basis.
A Master's degree in management, public, personnel or business administration, data processing, computer programming, accounting, statistics, or other demonstrably relevant field may be substituted for one year of the indicated experience in a non-supervisory capacity.
License
Appointee will be required to possess a driver's license valid in New Jersey only if the rather than employee mobility, is necessary to perform the essential duties of the position.
<b>SPECIAL NOTE: </b>
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.