STATE OF
HUMAN RESOURCES
CLASSIFICATION: ADMINISTRATOR OF RACING AND CHARITABLE GAMING
Class Code: 0075-35 Date Established: 04-10-09
Occupational Code: 7-1-2 Date of Last Revision:
BASIC PURPOSE: To administer the business of regulating and
enforcing all pari-mutuel and charitable gaming in the state with
responsibility for revenue, issuing licenses, promulgating rules, preparing and
implementing budgets, developing revenue streams and reporting same to
legislature with recommendations for legislative changes.
CHARACTERISTIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
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Evaluates,
develops, and implements all aspects of the agency to ensure compliance with
all the laws, rules, and regulations promulgated by the state covering all
legalized pari-mutuel and charitable gambling.
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Mediates
constituent complaints and concerns relative to gambling and issues against
licenses.
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Appears before
legislature to support agency budget, present revenue forecasts, request legislation
germane to the agency, and to review status of gambling and industry trends.
·
Oversees and
administers all gambling licenses, revenue collections, fines, rulings,
investigations, and litigations.
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Serves as a
group leader in statewide and industry-wide policy development.
·
Sets goals,
standards and benchmarks.
·
Interprets
complex federal and state tax codes, and interprets legislative intent.
·
Works with
other senior state officials to insure joint interagency investigations and
projects are conducted professionally and efficiently.
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Serves as the
official agency representative in meeting with civic, fraternal and community
groups.
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DISTINGUISHING FACTORS:
Skill: Requires skill in evaluating, planning, or
integrating analysis of data to formulate current and long-range solutions,
strategies, or policies of a specialized or technical nature.
Knowledge: Requires expertise in a highly specialized,
technical, or professional discipline to manage or create policy at a
systemwide administrative level.
Impact: Requires overall administrative
responsibility for achieving agency objectives by directing all aspects of
operations management. Errors at this
level result in disruption of systemwide programs and services as well as
long-term adverse impact on agency image and the future success of
organizational operations.
Supervision:
Requires agency-wide administrative
supervision, including the responsibility for developing and evaluating
internal personnel policies. This level
also involves the administrative management of a program which affects more
than one agency, including overseeing the interaction of agency employees or
policies to accomplish organizational objectives and goals.
Working Conditions:
Requires performing regular job
functions in a controlled environment with minimal exposure to disagreeable job
elements and little risk of hazard to physical or mental health.
Physical Demands: Requires light work, including continuous
walking or operating simple equipment for extended periods of time as well as
occasional strenuous activities such as reaching or bending.
Communication: Requires acting as the official
representative of the agency, including explaining and defending current and
long-range goals or objectives which directly affect public policy decisions
regarding major state programs and services.
Complexity: Requires formulating the combination of
overall job functions in order to address highly diverse or novel situations
requiring new concepts and imaginative approaches to a wide range of
intellectual and practical problems.
Independent Action: Requires administrative decision-making in
authorizing and monitoring the implementation of major departmental policies
and procedures.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Education: Master’s degree from a recognized
college or university with a major study in business administration,
accounting, or public administration.
Experience: Eight years experience in a business
management field, accounting, or public administration, four years of which
must have been in a high level management position involving supervisory and
executive experience concerned with public administration or a related
field. Each additional year of approved
work experience may be substituted for one year of required formal education at
the graduate level only.
License/Certification: Able to obtain and hold a valid
driver’s license or have access to transportation for statewide travel.
RECOMMENDED WORK TRAITS: Knowledge of program administration and
evaluation. Knowledge of state and
federal laws relating to the programs within assigned area. Knowledge of the principles of supervision,
administration, systems management and community organization as applicable to
specialized program area. Ability to
prepare budgets. Ability to express
ideas clearly and concisely both orally and in writing. Ability to evaluate and analyze program
effectiveness and resource utilization.
Ability to speak before public groups and legislative committees. Ability to establish and maintain effective
working relationships with federal, state and other public officials. Must be willing to maintain appearance
appropriate to assigned duties and responsibilities as determined by the agency
appointing authority.
DISCLAIMER STATEMENT: This class specification is descriptive of
general duties and is not intended to list every specific function of this
class title.
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