Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree. Four years of administrative experience to include supervisory experience are required. Additional administrative experience may substitute for the required college education on a year for year basis.

This is advanced and responsible professional work with supervisory responsibility managing a county-wide program or a major program or function in a county department or agency.

Employees in this class are responsible for managing the planning, research, design, development and evaluation of a county-wide or major departmental program or function. Some incumbents in the class perform advanced and responsible administrative work of comparable scope in a specialized staff capacity. Incumbents are typically located at the division head level or as full assistants to deputy or department director. Employees are typically engaged in formulating, developing, implementing, conducting, supervising and monitoring programs, procedures, and operational initiatives; formulating departmental policies and procedures; and establishing organizational goals and performance measures. Work differs from that found in the Special Projects Administrator 1 classification in that incumbents are responsible for directing the implementation or a county-wide program or implementing a departmental program without established guidelines. General direction is received from an administrative superior who evaluates work for adherence to departmental policies and attainment of desired goals and objectives through personal conferences and review of reports of operations