Chief Business Officer

Position Title: Senior Public Service Administrator, Opt 2

Agency:  Department of Natural Resources 
Closing Date/Time:  06/14/2024 
Salary:  Anticipated Starting Salary $9,000-$10,900/month; Full Salary $8,486-$14,668/month 
Job Type:  Salaried 
County:  Sangamon 
Number of Vacancies:  1 
Plan/BU:  None 

 

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Essential Functions

1. Directs and coordinates the Office of Business Management within the policy guidelines approved by the Director.

• Organizes plans and develops policies procedures and guidelines for the Office as related to the statutory responsibilities objectives goals and policies of DNR.
• Monitors to ensure compliance with state laws and regulations.
• Consults and advises the Director and Deputy Director on all matters of policy and procedures relating to the Office and the Department.

2. Directs the preparation of the Office budget possessing resource committal authority.

• Approves methods of expenditure control.
• Monitors State and Federal cooperative programs in a consistent manner with audit procedures.
• Monitors all budget fiscal voucher and purchasing procedures.

3. Serves as official agency spokesperson on behalf of the Director and the Department to all internal and external entities including the Governor's Office the legislature the Office of Fiscal Management vendors contractors public private and federal officials on agency -specific business issues independently possessing substantial authority to negotiate and bind the agency to contractual agreements and operational agreements for agency -specific contractual needs deferring to the Director on issues of potentially substantial impact; possesses independent authority to commit and reallocate Office of Business Management resources to enhance efficiency of services provided given the complexity and magnitude of new initiatives; serves as spokesperson before the legislative committees and other interest groups to promote understanding and to interpret the position of the Agency regarding legislative and operational proposals affecting the management of all agency -specific contracts.

4. Reviews and manages federal grants; monitors to ensure compliance with federal financial standards as set forth in OMB circulars A-102 and -87; develops and implements policies and procedures to update the grants system.

5. Reviews and oversees the maintenance of vacancy lists and preparation of vacancy fill request forms. Reviews staffing plans, programmed hires and payrolls to ensure personnel are properly funded.

6. Administers activities of DNR Office of Business Management staff

• assigns work
• establishes individual and program objectives
• prepares performance evaluations on staff and provides feedback on performance
• establishes and implements corrective action plans
• imposes discipline
• adjusts grievances

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

Minimum Qualifications

1. Requires knowledge skill and mental development equivalent to completion of a bachelor's degree in business or public administration or accounting.
2. Requires prior experience equivalent to four years of progressively responsible administrative experience in a public or business organization.

Preferred Qualifications

1. Two (2) years of knowledge of the principles of accounting and/or budgeting and laws, rules and regulations relating to state or non-state accounting systems and procedures.
2. Two (2) years of knowledge of the maintenance of financial records and the preparation and analysis of financial statements.
3. Two (2) years of extensive knowledge of statistics and economics as they relate to department financial operations.
4. Two (2) years of extensive knowledge of the operation of the department in order to successfully apply policies and procedures to the recording and auditing of their accounts.
5. Two (2) years of extensive knowledge of computer capabilities, usage and computer equipment.
6. Two (2) years of experience interpreting departmental policies and procedures.
7. Two (2) years of experience applying and adapting financial principles to difficult and complex work problems.
8. Two (2) years of experience establishing and maintaining successful working relationships with other employees and the public.

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