Delaware County Civil Service Exam Notice for BOCES Program Coordinator

DELAWARE COUNTY PERSONNEL OFFICE ANNOUNCES 

OPEN COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR 

PROGRAM COORDINATOR (BOCES) 

EXAM #69366 

Date Issued Date of Examination Last Filing Date April 10, 2023 June 10, 2023 May 5, 2023 

NOTICE: ONLY APPLICATIONS SUBMITTED TO THE DELAWARE COUNTY PERSONNEL OFFICE WILL BE CONSIDERED  FOR THIS EXAMINATION. 

SOCIAL DISTANCING GUIDELINES WILL BE FOLLOWED 

EXAMINATION FEE: A fee of $15.00 is required for each separately numbered examination for which you apply. The required fee MUST  accompany your application and be in our office by 4:30pm on the last filing date or you will not be approved to take the examination. Send or  deliver your certified check or money order payable to the Delaware County Personnel Office. Write the examination number(s) on your check or  money order. ****PERSONAL CHECKS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.**** No refund of fees will be allowed whether or not you meet the  minimum qualifications. You are urged to compare your qualifications carefully with the requirements for admission and file only for those  examinations for which you are clearly qualified. 

EXAMINATION FEE WAIVER: A waiver of examination fee will be allowed if you are unemployed and primarily responsible for the support  of a household. In addition, a waiver of examination fee will be allowed if you are determined eligible for Medicaid, or receiving Supplemental  Security Income payments, or Public Assistance (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families/Family Assistance or Safety Net Assistance) or are  certified Job Training Partnership Act/Workforce Investment Act eligible through a State or local social service agency. All claims for  examination fee waiver are subject to verification. If you can verify eligibility for examination fee waiver, complete a ARequest for  Examination Fee Waiver and Certification@ form and submit it with your application by the Last Filing Date as listed on the  Examination Announcement. ARequest for Examination Fee Waiver and Certification@ forms may be obtained in the Personnel Office or  online at www.delcony.us. Click on “departments,” and then “personnel.” Waivers will not be considered if filed after the last filing date. 

LOCATION OF POSITION: DCMO BOCES, Norwich, NY 13815 

SALARY: $35.00 - $45.00/hour 

DUTIES: The work involves responsibility for planning, coordinating, and implementing specialized programs to provide services to the public  or a designated group of the public as defined by the goals and priorities of the programs. The responsibilities of the position may include, but are  not limited to, research analysis, development, coordination, and management; community relations and networking, educational promotion,  media development, program outreach, funding, budget forecasting, and planning; tracking and targeting populations, statistics, and training of  staff, etc. Independence and initiative are exercised by the employees in this class, within the guidelines of the policies and procedures established. Work is performed under general supervision. Supervision may be exercised over support staff. Does related work as required. 

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: 

A. Graduation from a college or university with a bachelor’s degree in a business management, business administration, sports management,  communications, or education field and three years’ experience or its parttime equivalent in planning, implementing, organizing, overseeing, or  administering school- related programs. 

NOTE: Completion of a master’s degree in education, business management, business administration, sports management, public administration,  or a closely related field may be substituted for one year of work experience. 

NOTE: Your degree must have been awarded by a college or university accredited by a regional, national, or specialized agency recognized as an  accrediting agency by the U.S. Department of Education/U.S. Secretary of Education. If your degree was awarded by an educational institution  outside the United States and its territories, you must provide independent verification of equivalency. A list of acceptable companies who  provide this service can be found on the Internet at http://www.cs.ny.gov/jobseeker/degrees.cfm. You must pay the required evaluation fee. NOTE: A valid New York State driver’s license is required at time of appointment and must be maintained during employment. 

Candidates claiming college credits MUST submit a copy of their official transcript(s). 

RESUMES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR YOUR APPLICATION BUT WILL BE ACCEPTED only AS AN  ADDITION TO YOUR APPLICATION. 

NOTE: Unless otherwise specified, all required experience must be full-time paid or its part-time paid equivalent. You are responsible for submitting an  accurate, adequate and clear description of your experience. Omissions or vagueness will NOT be interpreted in your favor. Applicants for  examination must meet all minimum qualifications on or before the examination date with no tolerances allowed. If an applicant lacks the required experience  or has not completed all required training at the time he/she submits an application, but is serving in a qualifying position or will complete all required course  work by the date of the examination, he/she may be approved conditionally to take an examination pending verification of successful completion of all  experience and training requirements. 

There are no residency requirements for this exam, however, preference in appointment may be given to legal residents of Delaware County, or the school  districts, towns, villages, special districts, or Delaware County departments where the vacancies occur. 

The New York State Department of Civil Service has not prepared a test guide for this examination. However, candidates may find information in  the publication 'General Guide to Written Tests' helpful in preparing for this test. This publication is available on line at:  https://www.cs.ny.gov/testing/testguides.cfm. Candidates who wish a copy of the Guide should call or write the Delaware County Personnel  Office, One Courthouse Square, Suite #2, Delhi, New York 13753 (607-832-5678) or access our web site at www.delcony.us. Click on  “departments,” and then “personnel.”  

Scopes / Subjects of examination: A test designed to evaluate knowledge, skills and /or abilities in the following areas. Preparing written material: These questions test for the ability to present information clearly and accurately, and to organize paragraphs  logically and comprehensibly. For some questions, you will be given information in two or three sentences followed by four restatements of the  information. You must then choose the best version. For other questions, you will be given paragraphs with their sentences out of order. You must  then choose, from four suggestions, the best order for the sentences.

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Understanding and interpreting written material: These questions test for the ability to understand and interpret written material. You will be  presented with brief reading passages and will be asked questions about the passages. You should base your answers to the questions only on  what is presented in the passages and not on what you may happen to know about the topic.  

Educating and interacting with others: These questions test for the ability to interact effectively with individuals or groups to educate or  inform them about topics of concern, to publicize or clarify agency programs or policies, to obtain information through interviews and other  methods, and to represent one's agency or program in a manner consistent with good public relations practices. Questions may also cover  interacting with others in cooperative efforts of public outreach or service.  

NOTICE TO CANDIDATES: CALCULATORS ARE ALLOWED. You are permitted to use quiet, hand-held, solar/battery powered  calculators. Calculators with typewriter keyboards, Spell Checkers, Personal Digital Assistants, Address Books, Language Translators,  Dictionaries or any similar devices are prohibited. You may not bring books or other reference materials other than what has been mentioned  above. 

This examination is announced and will be rated in accordance with Section 23-2 of the Civil Service Law. The provisions of the New York  State Civil Service Law, Rules and Regulations dealing with the rating of examinations will apply to this examination. 

Applications for examination can be obtained from the Delaware County Personnel Office, One Courthouse Square, Suite #2, Delhi, New York  13753 or online at www.delcony.us. Click on “departments,” and then “personnel.” ALL RELEVANT INFORMATION MUST BE  CONTAINED IN YOUR APPLICATION. RESUMES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR YOUR APPLICATION  BUT WILL BE ACCEPTED ONLY AS AN ADDITION TO YOUR APPLICATION. A separate application must be filed for EACH examination for which you apply. Applications must contain the correct examination title and/or number in order to be considered. The Delaware  County Personnel Office reserves the right to accept or to reject applications/fees submitted/postmarked after the last announced filing date. The  Delaware County Personnel Office is NOT responsible for lost or misdirected mail. 

CROSS-FILING: APPLYING FOR CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS IN MULTIPLE JURISDICTIONS WHEN EXAMINATIONS  ARE SCHEDULED ON SAME DATE: If you have applied for other Civil Service examinations for employment with N.Y. State or other local  governments, YOU must make arrangements to take all the examinations at one test site. If you are taking a state exam you must sit at a State  site. If you have applied for an examination, in another County, City or State, which is scheduled to be given the same date as this exam, you must  write our office and the Civil Service office in the other County/City or State and make arrangements to take both exams at either our test site or  theirs. You must make these arrangements with our office no later than the last filing date indicated on this announcement. You must  advise our office in writing, by the last filing date contained in this announcement where you intend to take this exam. Please note that  State exams cannot be given at our test site.  

APPLICATION DEADLINE POLICY: All completed applications along with application fees or proofs of waiver must be submitted to the  Delaware County Personnel Department by 4:30pm on the date of last file as listed on the Examination announcement. Applications received via  U.S. Mail will be accepted only if received on or before the last file date. Applications that are received after the Application Deadline and are not  received in the Personnel Department by the last file date will not be accepted.  

REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS, SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS, ALTERNATE TEST DATES, MILITARY PERSONNEL: If you require reasonable accommodations as a disabled person, or special testing arrangements as one in need of religious accommodation, or are  an alternate test date candidate (in accordance with Alternate Test Date Policy), or an active member of the military away from the area on the  scheduled test date, clearly indicate this fact on the application. All such requests must be supported by appropriate documentation. If you are  unable to take this examination due to an emergency situation, and you wish an alternate test date, you MUST call the Delaware County Personnel  Office, with your request, by noon of the Monday following the test date. 

***Religious Accommodation***Most written tests are held on Saturdays. If you cannot take the test on the announced test date due to a conflict  with religious observance or practice, check the box under ASpecial Arrangements.@ We will make arrangements for you to take the test on a  different date (usually the following Monday). 

***Handicapped Persons:***If special arrangements for testing are required, please indicate this on your application. ***Active Duty Military Personnel:***Pursuant to Section 243b of the Military Law, applicants who are unable to take this exam on the regular  exam date because of active military duty may be eligible to take a special military makeup examination. If you are on active military duty and  unable to take this exam on the regularly scheduled exam date, please indicate this on your application. You will then be sent additional  information regarding a military makeup exam. 

***Veterans or Disabled Veterans:*** Who are eligible for additional credit must submit an application for veteran=s credit with their  application for examination or at any time between the dates of their application for examination and the date of the establishment of the resulting  eligible list. Applications for veteran=s credit are available from this office. Veteran=s credits can only be added to a passing score. Effective  January 1, 1998, the State Constitution was amended to permit a candidate currently in the armed forces to apply for and be conditionally  granted veteran=s credit in examinations. Any candidate who applies for such credit must provide proof of military status to receive the conditional  credit. No credit may be granted after the establishment of the list. It’s the responsibility of the candidate to provide appropriate proof, as  defined in Section 85 of the Civil Service Law, and that the candidate received an honorable discharge or was released under honorable conditions  in order to be certified at a score including veteran=s credits. 

***Children of Firefighters and Police Officers Killed in the Line of Duty***In conformance with section 85-a of the Civil Service Law,  children of firefighters and police officers killed in the line of duty shall be entitled to receive an additional ten points in a competitive examination  for original appointment in the same municipality in which his or her parent has served. If you are qualified to participate in this examination and  are a child of a firefighter or police officer killed in the line of duty in this municipality, please inform this office of this matter when you submit  your application for examination. A candidate claiming such credit has a minimum of two months from the application deadline to provide the  necessary documentation to verify additional credit eligibility. However, no credit may be added after the eligible list has been established. 

DELAWARE COUNTY IS AN EQUAL DELAWARE COUNTY PERSONNEL OFFICE EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER CARRARA KNOETGEN, PERSONNEL OFFICER 

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