Acquistions, Program Specialist II

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Acquistions, Program Specialist II

Job Title:

Program Specialist II
Agency: Health & Human Services Comm
Department: ASSET MANAGEMENT
Posting Number: 21410
Closing Date: 03/12/2027
Posting Audience: Internal and External
Occupational Category: Office and Administrative Support
Salary Range: $3,793.41-$3,793.41
Pay Frequency: Monthly
Salary Group: TEXAS-B-18
Shift: Day
Additional Shift:
Telework:
Travel: Up to 15%
Regular/Temporary: Regular
Full Time/Part Time: Full time
FLSA Exempt/Non-Exempt: Nonexempt
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Job Location City: AUSTIN
Job Location Address: 4601 W GUADALUPE ST
Other Locations: Austin
MOS Codes: 16GX,60C0,611X,612X,63G0,641X,712X,86M0,8U000,OS,OSS,PERS,YN,YNS

Program Specialist - servers in support of the various functions in Asset Management Office, Acquisitions Team. Work includes but is not limited to providing support, coordinating with other agency program areas such as purchasing, accounting and statewide property management for asset management related tasks and functions. Coordinate, train asset management statewide inventory coordinators and AMO team staff in daily functions of asset management program task completion related to job function duties.

Serve as subject matter expert for support to external program area customers. Ensures compliance with the Comptroller of Public Accounts policies and procedures for agency property management. Prepares, review and provide special reporting related to program area key measures and inventory results data, used to maintain inventory systems and ensure updates are completed accordingly. Perform asset management duties include asset tracking, tagging, inventorying and updating system asset records.

Review and provide guidance with purchase requisitions for asset related purchases in CAPPS workflow, ensuring appropriate asset coding is used. Educate and provide guidance to asset custodians in their roles and responsibility related to asset care and custodianship responsibility. Assist in the program analysis and make recommendations to management and implement approved procedural or policy changes to improve or comply with legislative changes.

Keep records current and maintain asset management program files. Works under moderate supervision, with limited latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment. Assist in other duties as needed.

• Coordinates with asset management staff, internal and external program areas to ensure completion of asset related task and functions. Communicate via email making sure reports identifying asset update and corrections are being completed by statewide inventory coordinator roles. Perform analysis to create individual training needs. Train inventory coordinator roles to navigate and make entries into inventory system related to asset updates, acquisitions and disposal methods.
  
  Provide training for multi-agency statewide annual inventory. 35%
• Reviewing workflow asset containing requisitions and purchase orders to ensure correct asset coding is in place and recommend corrections when necessary. 10%
• Analyzes internal program area asset processes, make improvement recommendations, and implement procedural or policy changes approved by management to improve operations and ensure program compliance with legislative mandates. 10%
• Prepare, review, and provide management with specialized asset management reports providing status updates of asset management program area key measures to track task completion and ensure management set program objectives and goals are being met. 10%
• Assist program management with the review, analysis and then makes recommendations to asset management on how to reduce risk associated to asset care. Recommend policies and procedures improvements and assists in implementation of approved changes. 10%
• Coordinate, perform, schedule and conduct inventory spot…