Chief Clerk - Grade 20

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Positions

This title exists within Various New York State Agencies and has approximately 10 positions statewide.

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Job Duties

As a Chief Clerk, you would supervise a very large staff of more than 50 clerical employees engaged in processing, recording, maintaining, and reviewing state forms, documents, licenses, and other official papers. In agencies having data processing operations, you might supervise data entry and quality control activities. In agencies having optical imaging systems, you may supervise staff involved in electronic indexing, document entry, and retrieval utilizing PCs while ensuring quality and quantity standards.

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Summary of Minimum Qualifications

Please note: qualifications for this position may be subject to change. If substitutions for education and/or experience are allowed, this information would be available on the announcement.

You must take and pass a Civil Service examination to be considered for this position.  

For qualified employees of New York State on or before the date of the examination, you must be a qualified employee of New York State and have had three months of permanent competitive or 55-b/55-c service in a clerical title allocated to Grade 16 or higher, or as a Head Mail and Supply Clerk, SG-15; or Head Stores Clerk, SG-15.

For informational purposes only, click on the examination number(s) listed below to see the current or previous examination(s) that are used to fill this title.

36-600

Please note: qualifications for this position may be subject to change. Job postings on StateJobsNY will contain the most up-to-date qualifications.

How to Apply

When this examination is scheduled to be held, the announcement can be found on the Department of Civil Service, Examination Announcements web page. If you do not see an examination currently scheduled please check back on a monthly basis or sign up for email notification so that you will automatically be notified when new examinations are being offered.

Mobility Options

Career mobility is not just limited to the titles in the Career Ladder, above. Additional movement may be achieved through transfers opportunities or other examinations.

For additional information or clarification of transfer determinations, current State employees should contact the Career Mobility Office at (518) 485-6199 or (800) 553-1322.

You can also visit ELMS Online to view established open-competitive, promotion, and transition eligible lists.

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