SENIOR BOARDING HOME EVALUATOR, FACILITIES
New Jersey treats Senior Boarding Home Evaluator, Facilities as a competitive-class job, so the gate is an examination and the ranked list it produces rather than a direct offer.
Eligibility comes down to 5 years of relevant experience. The FY2027 range lands between $65,374 and $95,570, and state payroll lists a single employee in the title, at Community Affairs.
How to apply
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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.
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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.
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Agency posting
Department of Community Affairs 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 $86,503. The agencies employing the most are:
- Community Affairs (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.
Examples of work
- Plans, assigns and coordinates the work of a team of facility evaluators engaged in the enforcement of the regulations governing rooming and boarding homes which establishes minimum standards for protecting the health, safety and welfare of the residents of these facilities.
- Assists evaluators in interpreting and applying the provisions of the regulations in relation to assigned evaluation duties.
- Reviews the work of assigned facility evaluators to ensure that major alterations which have been ordered are done in accordance with accepted minimum standards established by the Regulations.
- Reviews the work of assigned facility evaluators to ensure that adequate technical standards and rates of evaluation are being maintained.
- Performs inspections, especially those of a complex and serious nature to ensure the life, safety and welfare of facility residents.
- Coordinates the issuance of violation orders and the subsequent reevaluations of facilities to ensure corrections have been made and recommends appropriate enforcement action to be taken where violations have not been abated.
- Implements procedures for vacating of premises where licenses have been denied, suspended or revoked.
- Inspects rooming and boarding homes which have been identified by facility evaluators as containing possible imminent hazards to the health, safety or welfare of the occupants; makes appropriate recommendations as to the advisability of the issuance of orders of imminent hazard.
- Assigns facility evaluators to emergency relocation teams to assist in enforcement and relocation activities dealing with displaced residents of facilities found to be imminent hazards.
- Coordinates background investigation of operators and owners of boarding homes.
- Identifies and recommends areas in which team members require new or additional training which will ensure the maintenance of adequate standards of evaluation.
- Makes recommendations as to the seriousness of violation and length of time to be allowed for corrections.
- Prepares clear, technically sound, accurate and informative reports of evaluations and other matters containing findings, conclusions and recommendations.
- Maintains cooperative working relationships with local police and fire departments, local housing authorities, inspectors and others interested in or concerned with the physical evaluations of rooming and boarding homes.
- Gives testimony in court and at hearings and acts a witness for the State.
- Supervises subpoena service to compel attendance at hearings for non-compliance of regulations.
- Supervises the maintenance of essential evaluation records and reports.
- 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.
Experience
Five years of experience in evaluating the structural condition of housing or health care facilities for safety and habitability according to established codes.
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 provisions of the Rooming and Boarding House Act of 1979 and its practical application.
- Wide knowledge of the functions of various legal documents and public records relative to real estate transactions such as deeds, easements and contracts.
- Wide knowledge of the qualities, limitations and proper use of modern building construction materials.
- Wide knowledge of methods and techniques utilized in testing fire alarm and signal systems.
- Ability to acquire thorough knowledge of health and safety standards applicable to rooming and boarding homes including modern mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire safety and structural requirements.
- Considerable knowledge of construction and building maintenance practices, time requirements and work required to abate specific violations of the regulations.
- Ability to acquire considerable knowledge of state and federal laws, rules and regulations as they apply to public and private boarding homes.
- Ability to work effectively with associates, evaluators, supervisory officers, clerical employees and with those persons interested in or concerned with the enforcement of the law relating to rooming and boarding homes.
- Ability to assign and instruct facility evaluators and others and coordinate team work assignments.
- Ability to recognize actual and potential health and safety hazards and to call these to the attention of the proper persons and prepare detailed reports thereon.
- Ability to recognize deficiencies in the physical aspects of the building and identify and describes violations to be corrected.
- Ability to analyze data gathered from the on-site evaluations and make recommendations to issue, renew, revoke or suspend licenses or to levy fines.
- Ability to provide advice, assistance and direction to the facility evaluators.
- Ability to give advice to owners/operators and to establish a good working relationship so that the rooming and boarding homes can meet the standards of the Rooming and Boarding House Act of 1979.
- Ability to prepare correspondence in the course of official duties.
- Ability to comprehend, analyze and interpret basic laws, regulations, standards, policies and apply them to specific situations.
- Ability to act as a witness for the State at hearings and court proceedings and to give testimony under oath.
- Ability to make field investigations throughout the State and to maintain cooperative working relationships with local communities and agencies.
- Ability to prepare clear, technically sound, accurate and informative reports containing findings, conclusions and recommendations.
- 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.