This series is distinguished from other professional series, e.g., Administrative Analyst and Management Services Officer, by an emphasis on student affairs program planning and implementation as opposed to generalized staff analysis or managerial support functions. Typically the assignments require expertise in specific functional student affairs areas that is not broadly applicable to other assignments. Such activities as record-keeping, budgeting, purchasing, employee supervision, or processing information that requires minimal program involvement, are not intrinsically programmatic activities. Under general direction incumbents have full functional responsibility for planning, directing, controlling, and evaluating major campus-wide student affairs programs.
Incumbents act with a high degree of autonomy in program areas with major impact on the campus.
Incumbents typically supervise other Student Affairs Officers and report directly to incumbents in the University Management Program. Under direction incumbents supervise multi-function programs of limited scope or have full programmatic responsibility for complex single function activities. Incumbents may act as principal assistants to higher level Student Affairs Officers or Management personnel, typically with authority to make commitments and decisions regarding policies and regulations. Under general supervision incumbents perform advanced operational professional assignments in one or more areas of functional responsibility described in the series concept. Work at this level is characterized by a work leader assignment or by independence in maintaining a broad range of working relationships with students, staff personnel, academic personnel, officials of external agencies and the general public in order to interpret, explain and implement University policies and procedures relevant to campus student affairs, programs and activities.