BUSINESS ADMINISTRATOR

Job Requisition ID: 43408 
Opening Date:  01/13/2025

Closing Date/Time: 01/27/2025

Agency: Department of Human Services
Class Title: PUBLIC SERVICE ADMINISTRATOR - 37015 
Skill Option: General Administration/Business Marketing/Labor/Personnel 
Bilingual Option: None 

Salary: Anticipated Salary: $8,440 - $9,604 per month ($101,280 - $115,248 per year)
Job Type: Salaried
Category: Full Time 
County: Lake
Number of Vacancies: 1
Plan/BU: None

 

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Posting Identification Number  43408

 

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Position Overview

The Division of Developmental Disabilities is seeking to hire an energetic, detail oriented individual to serve as the Business Administrator for the Kiley Developmental Center located in Waukegan, Illinois. Critical thinking skills and the ability to organize and coordinate multiple areas are a must. Experience in budgets, audits, purchasing, policy development and safety standards are necessary in the fast-paced environment. The Kiley Developmental Center serves individuals with developmental disabilities who have severe medical and/or behavioral needs.

Essential Functions

• Serves as Business Administrator for the Kiley Developmental Center.

• Utilizing the state’s computerized accounting system, establishes appropriation allotments, and approves expenditures.

• Serves as full-line supervisor.

• Monitors the Center’s payroll and timekeeping operations which includes establishing goals, objectives, policies, and procedures.

• Serves as a continuing member of the Ann M. Kiley Center’s Executive Counsel and functions on a regular basis as Administrator on Duty.

• Reviews the Facility’s Security reports and incidents.

• Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.

Minimum Qualifications

• ​​​​​Requires knowledge, skill, and mental development equivalent to completion of four (4) years of college.

• Requires three (3) years of progressively responsible administrative experience in a public or business organization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Two (2) years of professional experience managing a budget, including designing and developing budget reports for a public or private organization. 

• Two (2) years of professional experience maintaining financial operations for a public or private organization.  

• Three (3) years of professional experience utilizing automated accounting systems and financial spreadsheets. 

• Two (2) years of professional experience communicating with both internal and external stakeholders in oral or written form ensuring detailed and critical analysis of work performed including writing complex objectives and justifications for contract establishments. 

• Two (2) years of profes