Dotd Program Specialist 5

Section 70 - Toll Operations

70/50641653/PRGSP5/05.16.24-LH

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• Resumes WILL NOT be accepted in lieu of completed education and experience sections on your application. Applications may be rejected if incomplete.*

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For further information about this vacancy contact:

Scott Rundell

Statewide Program Manager 2

225-379-1752

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

A baccalaureate degree plus three years of professional level experience in accounting; administrative services; architecture; budgeting; economics; engineering; geography; human resources; information technology; landscape architecture; loss prevention; management analysis; policy planning; purchasing; risk analysis; project management for transportation/public works structures; in the development and implementation of a safety program to include safety education, teaching, training, facility inspection and/or accident investigation; or in the development, implementation, administration of a transportation program such as: urban/regional planning, compliance, program management or facility management in one of the following types of programs or systems: aviation, rail, marine or public transportation.

SUBSTITUTIONS:

Six years of full-time work experience in any field may be substituted for the required baccalaureate degree.

Candidates without a baccalaureate degree may combine work experience and college credit to substitute for the baccalaureate degree as follows:

A maximum of 120 semester hours may be combined with experience to substitute for the baccalaureate degree.
30 to 59 semester hours credit will substitute for one year of experience towards the baccalaureate degree.

60 to 89 semester hours credit will substitute for two years of experience towards the baccalaureate degree.

90 to 119 semester hours credit will substitute for three years of experience towards the baccalaureate degree.

120 or more semester hours credit will substitute for four years of experience towards the baccalaureate degree.

College credit earned without obtaining a baccalaureate degree may be substituted for a maximum of four years full-time work experience towards the baccalaureate degree. Candidates with 120 or more semester hours of credit, but without a degree, must also have at least two years of full-time work experience to substitute for the baccalaureate degree.

Paraprofessional experience in technical areas at a governmental highway/transportation agency will substitute for the professional level experience in the development, implementation, administration of a transportation program, on the basis of one year of paraprofessional level experience will substitute for six months of the professional level experience, for a maximum of three years.

NOTE:

Paraprofessional experience in technical areas at a governmental highway/transportation agency is defined as substantial duties performed at a public (State/Federal) transportation organization in practical or mechanical training in a highly technical engineering specialty; complex interpretation, selection, adaption and application of engineering guidelines/principles; and/or technical consultation in a highly technical engineering specialty or program function, at a pay level equivalent to or higher than the state classified TS 311.

NOTE:

Any college hours or degree must be from an accredited college or university.

FUNCTION OF WORK:

To serve as a program/project manager over a program specific to DOTD.

LEVEL OF WORK:

Program Manager.

SUPERVISION RECEIVED:

Broad from higher-level personnel.

SUPERVISION EXERCISED:

May provide functional supervision over one or multiple DOTD Program Specialists, in conjunction with the management of assigned program/project.

LOCATION OF WORK:

Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD); may be used statewide as deemed appropriate by the Department of Civil Service.

JOB DISTINCTIONS:

Differs from DOTD Program Specialist 4 by the presence of program/project management responsibility for a specific DOTD program.

Differs from DOTD Program Supervisor by the absence of supervisory responsibilities.

EXAMPLES BELOW ARE A BRIEF SAMPLE OF COMMON DUTIES ASSOCIATED WITH THIS JOB TITLE. NOT ALL POSSIBLE TASKS ARE INCLUDED.

Any level of this series may involve multiple, professional-level administrative functions, such as loss prevention/risk management, compliance/civil rights programs, change management, quality control and improvement, aviation, intermodal transportation, flood insurance coordination and management, and emergency operations.

Functions as the sole manager of a program or project specific to DOTD; evaluates the effectiveness of the assigned program areas; recommends and implements necessary changes.