Area Office Dir - Grade 63

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Salary Information for Area Office Dir
Title Grade Hiring Rate/yr Job Rate/yr
Area Office Dir 63 $115,283 $145,682

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Job Duties

As an Area Office Director, you would manage a major program or group of programs in a regional office and perform administrative responsibilities in support of those programs. You would supervise staff; coordinate, plan, and evaluate program activities and goals; plan, staff, and direct surveys and investigative activities of health care providers; teach surveillance and investigative techniques which include employing effective problem solving skills; evaluate materials and reports prepared by staff; develop effective working relationships with health care providers; complete annual internal controls, make decisions concerning providers using available data and reports to ensure compliance with State and federal laws, rules, and regulations; and coordinate and participate, as applicable, with surveillance investigations, and enforcement proceedings, including serving as an expert witness at such proceedings.

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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.

For employees of New York State, on or before the date of the examination, you must be a qualified employee of the Department of Health and have had permanent competitive, non-competitive NY HELPS, or 55-b/55-c service as either:

1. three months as a Consultant Nurse (Community Nursing & Home Health Services), Consultant Nurse (Hospital Nursing Services Administration), Health Care Surveyor 4 (Nursing), Health Systems Specialist 4, or Investigative Specialist 3 (Professional Conduct);

Or

2. one year as a Community Nursing Services Consultant (Home Health Services), Health Care Surveyor 3 (Nursing), Health Systems Specialist 3, Health Systems Specialist 3 (Emergency Medical Care), Hospital Nursing Services Consultant, Investigative Specialist 2 (Professional Conduct), Pharmacy Consultant, Principal Sanitarian, Regional Medical Care Administrator, Senior Nutrition Services Consultant, or Standards Compliance Analyst 2.

Only the title or titles listed are qualifying.

If you have received a permanent appointment to a qualifying title listed and served provisionally in that title immediately preceding your permanent appointment, such provisional service may be counted towards meeting the time in title required for this examination.

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.

31-239020(New Window)

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