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NY HELP Yes

Agency Transportation, Department of

Title Minority Business Specialist 1

Occupational Category Other Professional Careers

Salary Grade 18

Bargaining Unit PS&T - Professional, Scientific, and Technical (PEF)

Salary Range From $66951 to $85138 Annually

Employment Type Full-Time

Appointment Type Permanent

Jurisdictional Class Non-competitive Class

Travel Percentage 25%

Workweek Mon-Fri

Hours Per Week 37.5

Workday

From 8 AM

To 4 PM

Flextime allowed? No

Mandatory overtime? No

Compressed workweek allowed? No

Telecommuting allowed? Yes

County Queens

Street Address Office of Construction

47-40 21st Street

City Long Island City

State NY

Zip Code 11101

Duties Description The incumbent of this position will be responsible for assuring contractors, subcontractors, consultants, public and private not-for-profit organizations, Minority/Women owned businesses, Service-Disabled Veteran Owned and disadvantaged businesses doing business with the Department of Transportation and its sub-recipients comply with Federal and State Equal Opportunity statutes, rules, regulations, policies, and Executive Orders governing businesses receiving public funds for goods and services. The selected candidate will also be responsible for assuring Equal Employment Opportunity Compliance.The incumbent will• Provide technical assistance to Department staff, consultants, and contractors to achieve or maintain contractual compliance.• Prepare regular reports of program activities for the agency and other State and Federal agencies.• Conduct site visits to ensure contractual compliance.• Monitor contract activity and progress to ensure contractual compliance.• Meet with contractors to discuss and negotiate solutions regarding steps needed to effect program compliance.• Perform In-Depth Federal Compliance Reviews.• Goal Assessment for D/M/WBE/SDVOB and Pre-Letting and Post-Award Waivers.• Establish preliminary D/M/W/SDVOB project specific goals by analyzing sub-contractible opportunities by using Goal calculator, certification directories, historical data, and drafting waivers.• Oversee the participation of minority, women-owned, and service- disabled veteran-owned businesses in receiving contracts from publicly funded programs or projects.• Monitor the compliance of publicly funded project with mandates requiring the participation of Disadvantaged/minority/women-owned, and service-disabled veteran-owned businesses.Additional duties will be discussed at the time of the interview.Responsibilities may include serving a role within the Incident Command System to support the department’s response to regional and statewide emergency situations.

Minimum Qualifications Six years of experience in the field of contract compliance, human rights, affirmative action, or minority, women owned, or service-disabled veteran-owned business enterprise, including: planning, developing, implementing, and reviewing programs dealing with minority, women-owned, or service-disabled veteran-owned business enterprise, human rights, affirmative action, minority business program coordination, affirmative action compliance review, or labor relations directly relating to affirmative action; or experience in the development and administration of programs designed to facilitate minority community access to employment or business opportunities in the public or private sector.Substitution:• An Associate’s degree in in business, marketing, economics, public administration may substitute for two years of experience.• A Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, economics, public administration, or public policy may substitute for four years of the experience.• A Master’s degree in business, marketing, economics, public administration, or public policy may substitute for five years of experience.

Additional Comments *For the duration of the NY HELPS Program, this title may be filled via a non-competitive appointment, which means no examination is required but all candidates must meet the minimum qualifications of the title for which they apply.At a future date, it is expected employees hired under NY HELPS will have their non-competitive employment status converted to competitive status, without having to compete in an examination. Employees will then be afforded with all of the same rights and privileges of competitive class employees of New York State. While serving permanently in an NY HELPS title, employees may take part in any promotion examination for which they are qualified.***Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.***_______________________________________The New York State Department of Transportation is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Women, minority group members, disabled persons and Veterans are encouraged to apply. Upon request, reasonable accommodations will be provided for the disabled.________________________________________In compliance with Public Law 99-603, candidates selected for appointment must provide an original document to prove their citizenship and/or legal right to work in the United States.

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Name [email protected]

Telephone

Fax 718-482-4592

Email Address [email protected]

Address

Street NYS Department of Transportation

47-40 21st Street, Room 840

City Long Island City

State NY

Zip Code 11101

Notes on Applying Qualified candidates should submit a letter of interest and a current resume, titled by last name, with the Notice Number R11-25-58 and last name in the subject line and referenced in the letter of interest no later than October 18, 2025, to [email protected]***PLEASE INCLUDE R11-25-58 IN THE SUBJECT LINE***