Fair Hearings Specialist 1 Spanish Language (NY HELPS

Position: Fair Hearings Specialist 1 Spanish Language (NY HELPS)
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Review Vacancy

Date Posted 06/02/26

Applications Due
10/01/26

Vacancy ID217210

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NY HELPYes

Agency Temporary and Disability Assistance, Office of

Title Fair Hearings Specialist 1 Spanish Language (NY HELPS)

Occupational Category Legal

Salary Grade
14

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

Salary Range From $62088 to $68630 Annually

Employment Type

Full-Time

Appointment Type Permanent

Jurisdictional Class Competitive Class

Travel Percentage 0%

Workweek Mon-Fri

Hours Per Week 37.5

Workday

From 9 AM

To 5 PM

Flextime allowed? No

Mandatory overtime? No

Compressed workweek allowed? No

Telecommuting allowed? Yes

County Albany

Street Address Office Of Administrative Hearings

40 North Pearl Street

City Albany

StateNY

Zip Code
12243

Duties Description Duties include but are not limited to the following:

* Provides information regarding hearing procedures to State agency and local district staff, clients and their representatives, and other parties.

* Processes requests for administrative hearing records, Fair Hearings, Homebound Hearings from appellants/representatives, Intentional Program Violations Hearings, and waiver of appearance requests from local social services districts and its agents; schedules hearings; prioritizes hearings in accordance with federal and state regulations, law and court decisions; manages workflow at hearing locations; and conducts other matters regarding the administrative hearing process.

* Handles general inquiries from clients, their representatives or local agencies and makes referrals to appropriate program areas or proper agency.

* Determines continuation of aid status and good cause for adjourning and reopening hearings.

* Drafts responses to correspondence relating to the hearing process.

* Screens and processes emergency hearings.

* Retrieves, analyzes and/or updates information from the Fair Hearing Information System, Welfare Management System, Automated Child Care Information System, New York City Work Accountability and You, State Supplemental Program, Client Notification System, eMedNY, and other relevant systems.

* Identifies governmental entity or agent taking adverse action against clients and ensures all relevant parties are notified about a hearing request. This includes identifying the appropriate local district location, managed care organization, or State entity.

* Fields compliance complaints, referring more complicated cases to appropriate supervisor.

* Gathers statistical data and prepares reports.

* Assists supervisor in preparing written procedures.

Minimum Qualifications NY HELPS:
This title is part of the New York Hiring for Emergency Limited Placement Statewide program (NY HELPS). For the duration of the NY HELPS Program, candidates may be hired via a non-competitive appointment if they meet the below NY HELPS minimum qualifications.

At a future date (within one year of permanent appointment), 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 all of the same rights and privileges of competitive class employees of New York State. While serving permanently in a NY HELPS title, employees may take part in any promotion examination for which they are qualified.

NON-COMPETITIVE

QUALIFICATIONS:

Four years of paraprofessional or professional experience
* providing services to individuals in need of and/or eligible for social services programs or implementing/administering programs regulated by the New York State Office of…