PROJECT COORDINATOR - COMPUTER PLANNING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS HIGHER EDUCATION ADMINISTRATIVE
In the unclassified service, Project Coordinator - Computer Planning and Information Systems Higher Education Administrative is appointed rather than examined for, and its pay is often negotiated case by case.
Qualifying turns on 2 years of relevant experience. The FY 2027 range lands between $95,955 and $141,386.
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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 general supervision of the Director of the Tice Office Management Systems, has responsibility for the initiation, coordination, and implementation of certain computer based administrative and educational systems in the higher education community in New Jersey.
Examples of work
- Assists in the development and coordination of cooperative efforts as a means of providing increased computer services to students, faculty, researchers, and administrators in all of the colleges.
- Assists in the development of techniques for the accumulation of information to enrich the coordinating and governance responsibilities of the Board and Department of Higher Education.
- Assists in the Departmental master planning activities by providing staff support in the evaluation and projection of long-term information systems and processes to support certain academic computing and administrative computing functions. Assists in the preparation of general computer hardware and soft-ware plans in the higher education community.
- Assists in the initiation of specific plans for the development of computer hardware and software budgets and related long-range financial and configuration plans. By coordinating with the academic program offices and other administrative offices as required, assists in the planning for computers and information systems in the institutions. Oversees, where appropriate, the specific implementation of projects as assigned.
- Assists in the promotion of cooperative ventures among New Jersey institutions of higher education in the field of data processing, information systems and management systems. Specific cooperative ventures will include overview and coordinating responsibilities relating to the fundamental information processing systems at the colleges and as these systems relate through the New Jersey Educational computing Network. Additional cooperative ventures will include the negotiation of the State/NJEO Annual contract and required support functions appropriate to that activity.
- Conduct special studies and analyses as assigned by the Chancellor, the Vice chancellor, and the Director of the Office of Management Systems.
- Supervises the work operations and/or functional programs and has responsibility for effectively recommending the hiring, firing, promoting, demoting and/or disciplining of employees.
- Performs the above and other duties as mutually agreed to through the execution of periodic work plans specifying in detail work description, the activities to be performed, milestone estimates, and the resource budget. Such duties to include:
- Negotiate the State/NJECN Annual Contract.
- Establish structures for monitoring performance under the Annual Contract.
- Obtain statistical data about NJECN utilization and performance.
- Review the computer budgets of the institutions and make recommendations about computer support level.
- Maintain liaison relationship with the Bureau of Data Processing Management, the Budget Bureau, and the Purchase Bureau on matters relating to contract development and administration.
- Maintain the Office of Management Systems Budget.
- Maintain the installed computer inventory at the colleges in New Jersey.
- Represent the Department on task forces and committees.
Education
Possess the Baccalaureate degree in any of the disciplines of computer science, engineering, or the management sciences.
Experience
Five (5) years' experience in administrative, staff or consultancy capacity in higher education with at least two years of specific experience in computer or computer related functions.
Knowledge, skills and abilities
- Demonstrate knowledge of information systems and computer technology and be familiar with institutional research nomenclatures and techniques.
- Demonstrate knowledge of contemporary organization and administrative patterns in post- secondary education.
- Experience in programming languages, JCL and systems analysis techniques is highly desirable.
- Communicate effectively -- both orally and written. Motivate others to the completion of mutually agreed to or assigned tasks.
- Represent the Department of higher Education in a professional manner.
- Advocate the goals, mission and objectives of the Board of Higher Education.
- Be free of physical limitations related to the general requirements for the position.
- Ability to read, write, speak and understand English sufficiently to perform the duties of this position.
- Good health and freedom from disabling physical and mental defects which would impair the proper performance of the required duties or which might endanger the health and safety of oneself or others.