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State Program Examiner 4

Grade 64

New York State has approximately 23 positions* in this title statewide. You may view a breakdown of positions by county. This position exists in Comptroller, Office of. View links to all New York State agencies including agencies that have this title. For more information, New York State employees can contact the Career Mobility Office at (518) 485-6199 or (800) 553-1322. If you are not a current New York State employee, you can use the Department of Civil Service Web site to explore possible employment opportunities.

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Career Ladder

A listing of titles that are most commonly used as steps for upward mobility for this title series. The salary schedule for this career ladder is also available.

  1. State Program Examiner Trainee 1

    Similar to Grade 14

  2. State Program Examiner Trainee 2

    Similar to Grade 16

  3. State Program Examiner 1

    Grade 18

  4. State Program Examiner 2

    Grade 23

  5. State Program Examiner 3

    Grade 27

  6. State Program Examiner 4

    Grade 64

Summary of Job Description

The State Program Examiner 4 develops annual audit plans for assigned agencies and authorities; keeps abreast of ongoing and emerging issues that can influence risk in assigned agencies or programs and that may require a future audit; manages the scheduling of audits; develops a multi-year strategic plan for the assigned agencies to document issues and provide a basis for annual audit activities; manages overall team development in an assigned work area; visits audit sites to interact with audit teams and evaluates audit activities; reviews findings of ongoing audits and coordinates findings and recommendations to ensure that they are consistent and uniform; develops audit techniques, and develops and recommends policies; maintains contact with agency liaisons and executives at assigned agencies; may lead opening and closing conferences; approves all draft and final audit reports in assigned area and may issue certain audit reports that do not require higher level review; develops and evaluates State Program Examiner 3 positions;  reviews the evaluations for the field staff; plans and leads audit seminars and training programs; participates and leads research, special projects, quality assurance, and audit planning activities.

View the classification standard for this title, on the Classification and Compensation webpage.

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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 in order to be considered for this position.

On or before the date of the examination, the candidate must be a qualified employee of the New York State Office of the State Comptroller and have had three months of permanent competitive or 55-b/55-c service as a State Program Examiner 3 or a Data Processing Fiscal Systems Auditor 4.

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.

38-002

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 announcement notification by email so that you will automatically be notified when new examinations are being offered.

Career Mobility

Career mobility is not just limited to the titles in the Career Ladder, above. Additional movement may be achieved through other examinations, additional education and/or work experience or transfer opportunities. For additional information or clarification of transfer determinations, current State employees should contact the Career Mobility Office. Visit ELMS Online to view established open-competitive, promotion, and transition eligible lists. If you are not a current New York State employee, see Employment Opportunities with New York State and find out how to become a New York State employee.

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