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Head Stores Clerk

Grade 15

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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. Office Assnt 1 Stores/Mail

    Grade 06

  2. Office Assnt 2 Stores/Mail

    Grade 09

  3. Stores & Mail Operations Supervisor

    Grade 12

  4. Head Mail & Supply Clerk

    Grade 15

  5. Head Stores Clerk

    Grade 15

  6. Chief Mail & Supply Clerk

    Grade 21

Summary of Job Description

As a Head Stores Clerk, you would supervise a staff of subordinate clerical and other storehouse employees, possibly including facility inmates or clients assigned to the stores operation, in the receipt, storage and issuance of a wide variety of goods including perishables and volatile material. Head Stores Clerks are responsible for the storehouse operations of a large centralized storehouse which serves several institutions.

There is no classification standard available at this time for this title. For additional information regarding other titles this will bring you to the NYS Title and Salary Plan. If there is a classification standard available there will be a link under the column labeled STD NO. If no link is available there is no classification standard available at this time for that title.

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.

For qualified employees of New York State on or before the date of the written test, 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, secretarial, or paraprofessional title allocated to Grade 12 or higher, or as a Principal Clerk Collection, SG-11.

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.

36-589

How to Apply

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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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