Administrative Programs Officer III

Positions in this job family are assigned responsibilities involving professional level work in managing, coordinating or directing a major phase of a comprehensive or specialized operating program, providing staff services in various management areas, direction of a major operating division, program, unit, or functional area, or similar responsibilities.  This may include serving as an operating program manager assigned administrative, staff, or program responsibilities, coordination, promotion, and improvement of programs, providing services in the areas of formulating agency policies or operating procedures, preparing agency budgets, fiscal management, human resources administration, physical plant operations, or other management functions, supervising specialized agency services, performing highly technical managerial or administrative support duties for executive level positions, or directing and coordinating volunteer or educational programs, and other comparable responsibilities.

Positions not clearly identified by another job family, but having responsibilities involving directing, managing, or coordinating various agency functions or programs, may also be included in this job family.

The Administrative Programs Officer job family consists of four levels of work, which are distinguished by the depth, and breadth of accountability and the level of responsibility assigned for providing direction and leadership in administering assigned programs or activities.

Level III:   
At this level employees are assigned responsibilities involving the direction or management of a major program, division, unit or function, which is large in size and scope.  Responsibilities include program development, direction, planning, and evaluation and organizing and coordinating program services and activities.  Incumbents will be given administrative freedom to plan, develop, and organize all phases of the work necessary for its completion within broad program guidelines.

Level III:     
Education and Experience requirements at this level consist of a bachelor's degree and four years of professional experience in business or public administration, including one year in a supervisory or administration capacity; or an equivalent combination of education and experience, substituting one year of technical administrative* or professional experience in business or public administration for each year of the required education.  One year of technical administrative* experience may be applied for one year only of the required experience.

*Technical administrative experience would include highly complex clerical work gained under the direct supervision of a professional supervisor or manager.

NOTE:  No substitution will be allowed for the required professional experience in a supervisory or administrative capacity.

The Department of Public Safety has been authorized to utilize a Selective Qualification when interviewing applicants for this position. 

"Applicants must have two years of professional experience in planning and implementing programs, including agency policies, goals, and regulations."