Employee Services Trainee (Non-Competitive)

Job Description

New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development

**Notice of Job Vacancy**

**Posting #: 2024-336** **Issue Date: 09/16/2024** **Closing Date: 11/16/2024**

**Title:** Employee Services Trainee

(Non-Competitive) **Range/Title Code:** P95/64790 **Salary:** $49,738.97 – $51,987.70

**Location:** Department of Labor and

Workforce Development, Division of

**Unit Scope:** Statewide Public/Private Employer Accounts – Collections, **Workweek:** **35** **# Vacancies:** 8

Status, Legal and Office Audits – All

positions are located in Trenton

**Job Description**

The Department of Labor and Workforce Development (DOL) provides many benefits to employees to acknowledge and value

their contribution. Statewide benefits include health insurance, pension, Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)/Health Savings

Accounts (HSA), life insurance, deferred compensation and more. The DOL also provides tuition reimbursement (after nine months

of employment), a higher education program, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) and Temporary Expanded PSLF

(TEPSLF) Programs, and employee training. The DOL also provides options for participation in the Telework, Alternate Workweek

or Flextime Programs pursuant to the Department’s policy.

Under the direction of a Principal Examiner in the Division of Employer Accounts, contact employers and/or their representative

by correspondence and telephone to explain their rights and responsibilities under the provision of the New Jersey Unemployment

Compensation Law, and rules and regulations of the department.

**Civil Service Commission Requirements (Education/Experience/Licenses)**

**NOTE**: Applicants must meet one of the following or a combination of both experience and education. Thirty (30) semester hour

credits are equal to one (1) year of relevant experience.

Four (4) years of professional experience in the examination of records and reports involved in the determination, establishment,

and/or verification of tax liability of employers.

**NOTE**: Please refer to the Advancement section located at the bottom of this title specification for a comprehensive list of approved

journeyman titles connected to this trainee title. Experience must be related to the journeyman title associated with the position.

**OR**

Possession of a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.

**NOTE**: “Professional experience” refers to work that is analytical, evaluative, and interpretive; requires a range of basic knowledge

of the profession’s concepts and practices; and is performed with the authority to act and make accurate and informed decisions.

HR-96 (12/19)

**EDUCATION:** Graduation from an accredited college or university with a Bachelor’s degree. **Applicants must submit a copy**

**of your final official transcripts, which indicates the date your degree was conferred, and the type of degree awarded**.

**Failure to submit final official transcripts with your resume may result in your ineligibility.**

**RESUME NOTE:** Eligibility determinations will be based only upon information presented on the resume along with other

supporting documents. Applicants who possess a degree from a college or university outside the United States must provide an

evaluation of the transcripts from a recognized evaluation service at the time of submission. Failure to do so may result in your

ineligibility.

**LICENSE:** Appointees will be required to possess a driver’s license valid in New Jersey only if the operation of a vehicle, rather

than employee mobility, is necessary to perform the essential duties of the position.

**ADVANCEMENT:** Appointees who successfully complete the 12-month training period will be eligible for advancement to the

title: **Examiner Unemployment Tax (Title Code: 56192)** in accordance with Civil Service Commission procedures. The inability

of an employee in a trainee title to attain a level of performance warranting advancement shall be considered cause for separation.

**COUNTY PREFERENCE FORM NOTE:** Applicants must complete the County Preference Form. Failure to return the

completed County Preference Form may result in your inability to be considered for the County of your choice.

**LICENSE:** Appointees will be required to possess a driver’s license valid in New Jersey only if the operation of a vehicle, rather

than employee mobility, is necessary to perform the essential duties of the position.

**VETERANS PREFERENCE:** Are you a veteran? If so, proof of your NJ Veterans Preference is required at application. Please

provide a copy of you New Jersey Civil Service Commission NOTIFICATION OF VETERANS STATUS along with your cover

letter and resume. For information on how to apply for Veterans Preference in the State of NJ, please visit the Civil Service

Commission.

**SAME APPLICANTS:**If you are applying under the NJ “SAME” program, your supporting documents (Schedule A or B letter),

must be submitted along with your resume by the closing date indicated above. For more information on the SAME Program visit

their Website at: https://nj.gov/csc/same/overview/index.shtml , email: SAME@csc.nj.gov , or call CSC at (833) 691-0404.

**TO APPLY for this Position**

If you qualify, **please submit a letter of interest, college transcripts, and your** **resume** **(including the best contact number**

**and email address)** to email address listed below. Your submission **must** be received by the closing date and include the job

posting number.

**EMAIL:**

Human Capital Strategies

Recruitment Unit

**LWDJobPostings@dol.nj.gov**

* **Subject line must specify complete job posting number.**
* Newly hired employees must agree to a thorough background check that may include fingerprinting.
* Any appointments made from postings which involve movement between unit scopes, may result in a forfeiture of rights to

any promotional list in a former

unit scope.

* As of September 2010, in accordance with N.J.S.A. 52:14-7, the “New Jersey First Act,” all new employees must reside in

the State of New Jersey, unless exempted under the law. If you do not live in New Jersey, you have one year after you begin

employment to relocate your residence to New Jersey, or to secure an exemption.* Work Authorization: Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States according to the Department of Homeland

Security, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services regulations. NJDOL does not provide sponsorship or accept

student OPT/CPT programs, F1 or H1B work authorization visas.

The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

**New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development**

**County Preference Form**

**Name:**

**Posting Number:**

**Title:**

Please check the county (or counties) of preference for the above position and return this form with your

cover letter and resume. **Please only check those counties where you will accept employment, if offered. A**

**failure to accept employment when offered in a county you indicated, will remove you from consideration**

**for all counties**. ***(There is no guarantee that you will be employed in that County if selected for the position.)***

Atlantic Gloucester Ocean
Bergen Hudson Passaic
Burlington Hunterdon Salem
Camden Mercer Somerset
Cape May Middlesex Sussex
Cumberland Monmouth Union
Essex Morris Warren

Failure to return the completed County Preference Form with your cover letter and resume may result in your

inability to be considered for the County of your choice.

New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development

**PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS DISCLOSURE STATEMENT**

In accordance with the Uniform Ethics Code adopted by the NJ State Ethics Commission and the State Policy

Prohibiting Discrimination in the Workplace, the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development

(NJ DOL) requires the disclosure of all relatives, consensual personal relationships, and cohabitants. No NJ DOL

employee may supervise or exercise any authority with regard to personnel actions involving their relative, anyone

with whom there is a consensual personal relationship, or anyone with whom they cohabit.

**Relative** means an individual’s spouse/domestic partner/civil union partner1 or the individual or spouse’s/domestic

partner’s/civil union partner’s parent, child, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, cousin, grandparent,

grandchild, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, stepparent, stepchild, stepbrother, stepsister, half-brother or half-sister,

whether the relative is related to the individual or the individual’s spouse/domestic partner/civil union partner by

blood, marriage or adoption.

**Consensual personal relationship** means marriage, engagement, dating or other ongoing romantic or sexual

relationships.

**Cohabitant** means non-related persons who share a household under circumstances where there is financial

interdependence.

The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development requires the disclosure of all relatives and

consensual personal relationships to be promptly reported directly to the Division of Human Capital Strategies (HCS)

* Director’s Office. Confidentiality shall be maintained to the extent possible and practicable. This information may

be shared with NJ DOL’s Equal Employment Opportunity Office and/or the NJ DOL Ethics Office as deemed

necessary. Upon receiving notice of the relationship, HCS may address any situation as necessary in consultation with

the EEO Office and/or the Ethics Officer. This may include, but is not limited to, the changing of reporting

relationships or transferring any of the employees involved. Failure to provide notification to HCS may result in

discipline up to and including termination and the denial of legal representation and indemnification by the State in

the event that a lawsuit is filed having a connection with a personal relationship. Employees are under a continuing

obligation to promptly report personal relationships that develop during the course of their employment.

I **DO NOT** have a relative or a consensual personal relationship, as defined above, with anyone working for the

New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development.

I **DO** have a relative or a consensual personal relationship, as defined above, with anyone working for the New

Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development identified as follows:

Name Relationship Division and Work Location

**Do you need more space for disclosure?** Yes No **If YES, continue writing on the back of this form.**

I certify that the information on this form to the best of my knowledge and belief is true, complete and accurate. I

understand that any misleading or incorrect information, willful misstatement, or omission of a material fact, may

be just cause for disciplinary action up to and including termination. I understand my obligation to promptly report

personal relationships that develop during the course of my employment.

Applicant/Employee’s Name (Print) ______________________________________

Applicant/Employee’s Signature Date

1 Domestic Partner as defined in NJSA 26:8A-1 et. seq. and Civil Union status as defined in NJSA 37:1-28 et. seq.