Job Analyses

  • A Job Analysis is a detailed look at a particular job or job classification. It is a process that identifies the tasks performed on the job and knowledge, skills, abilities, and personal characteristics needed to perform those tasks. One of the crucial parts of this process is to meet with Subject Matter Experts to help identify the key responsibilities, tasks, and knowledge, skills and abilities of the classification. Subject Matter Experts are incumbents, first–level supervisors or hiring managers, or employees who previously were in the classification.

  • Job analyses results in the identification and documentation of the essential functions of a job (or job classification), the specific task requirements of the job classification, and Knowledge, Skill and Abilities required to perform those tasks and essential functions. Once conducted, a job analysis can provide data for a multitude of human resources activities surrounding a given job classification, including the following:

    • Classification and pay
    • Recruitment and Selection
    • Training and Development
    • Performance appraisal
    • Disability or return–to–work accommodation
    • Human resource/workforce planning

    Job analyses are conducted to obtain accurate, current, and reliable information about jobs in order to make better employment and management decisions, to save money, to increase productivity, and to comply with federal and state laws where adverse impact is found related to prohibited discriminatory factors. Job analysis, as the foundation of selection procedures, provides employers with a means to make sound, cost–effective employment decisions. Selection procedures based on a thorough job analysis are designed to identify the best qualified candidates for a job.

  • Job Analyses were originally developed to comply with the 1978 Federal Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures. The Uniform Guidelines were developed by the Department of Labor, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Civil Service Commission, and the Department of Justice in 1978. The Uniform Guidelines established procedures for the proper validation and use of selection procedures and a framework for the proper use of selection instruments.

Completed CDFA Job Analyses are listed below.

Classification Year of Job Analysis Tasks KSAPCs
Account Clerk II 2017 Tasks KSAPCs
Accounting Administrator III 2017 Tasks KSAPCs
Acounting Analyst 2016 Tasks KSAPCs
Accounting Officer (Sup) 2015 Tasks KSAPCs
Accounting Technician 2012 Tasks KSAPCs
Agricultural Biological Technician 2015 Tasks KSAPCs
Agricultural Pest Control Specialist 2016 Tasks KSAPCs
Agricultural Pest Control Supervisor 2014 Tasks KSAPCs
Agricultural Program Supervisor I 2018 Tasks KSAPCs
Agricultural Program Supervisor II 2018 Tasks KSAPCs
Agricultural Program Supervisor III 2018 Tasks KSAPCs
Agricultural Program Supervisor IV 2018 Tasks KSAPCs
Assistant Agricultural Economist 2018 Tasks KSAPCs
Assistant Satellite Facility Supervisor 2014 Tasks KSAPCs
Associate Accounting Analyst 2016 Tasks KSAPCs
Associate Agricultural Economist 2018 Tasks KSAPCs
Associate Insect Biosystematist 2015 Tasks KSAPCs
Associate Plant Pathologist (Diagnostician) 2016 Tasks KSAPCs
Associate Seed Botanist 2017 Tasks KSAPCs
Brand Inspector 2016 Tasks KSAPCs
Building Maintenance Worker 2014 Tasks KSAPCs
Business Assistant II, DAA (Sup) 2014 Tasks KSAPCs
Feed, Fertilizer, and Livestock Drugs Inspector 2014 Tasks KSAPCs
Chief of Plant Operations I 2015 Tasks KSAPCs
Chief of Plant Operations II 2015 Tasks KSAPCs
Deputy Manager I, DAA 2014 Tasks KSAPCs
Deputy Manager II, DAA 2014 Tasks KSAPCs
Event Coordinator, DAA 2015 Tasks KSAPCs
Executive Assistant 2014 Tasks KSAPCs
Executive Secretary I 2017 Tasks KSAPCs
Exhibit Representative I 2014 Tasks KSAPCs
Exhibit Representative II 2015 Tasks KSAPCs
Exhibit Supervisor 2017 Tasks KSAPCs
Facility Marketing Representative 2014 Tasks KSAPCs
Fairground Aid, District Fair 2015 Tasks KSAPCs
Fairground Attendant, District Fair 2018 Tasks KSAPCs
Fruit and Vegetable Quality Control Inspector 2014 Tasks KSAPCs
Fruit and Vegetable Quality Control Supervisor I 2014 Tasks KSAPCs
Fruit and Vegetable Quality Control Supervisor II 2015 Tasks KSAPCs
General Auditor II 2016 Tasks KSAPCs
General Auditor III - 2017 2017 Tasks KSAPCs
Information Officer II 2017 Tasks KSAPCs
Laboratory Assistant 2016 Tasks KSAPCs
Laboratory Technician (Chemical Analysis) 2018 Tasks KSAPCs
Livestock Inspector 2016 Tasks KSAPCs
Maintenance & Operations Supervisor I 2015 Tasks KSAPCs
Maintenance & Operations Supervisor II 2015 Tasks KSAPCs
Maintenance Worker, District Fairs 2016 Tasks KSAPCs
Managing Veterinarian (Meat Inspection) 2016 Tasks KSAPCs
Measurement Standards Specialist I 2015 Tasks KSAPCs
Measurement Standards Specialist II 2015 Tasks KSAPCs
Measurement Standards Specialist III 2014 Tasks KSAPCs
Personnel Specialist 2017 Tasks KSAPCs
Pest Prevention Assistant I (Various Projects) 2015 Tasks KSAPCs
Pest Prevention Assistant II (Various Projects) 2015 Tasks KSAPCs
Pest Prevention Assistant III 2015 Tasks KSAPCs
Plant Quarantine Inspector 2016 Tasks KSAPCs
Plant Quarantine Supervisor I 2018 Tasks KSAPCs
Plant Quarantine Supervisor II 2018 Tasks KSAPCs
Principal State Metrologist 2015 Tasks KSAPCs
Program Specialist, Feed, Fertilizer, & Livestock Drugs 2016 Tasks KSAPCs
Research Program Specialist 2017 Tasks KSAPCs
Research Program Specialist II 2017 Tasks KSAPCs
Research Scientist II (Food and Drug Sciences) 2016 Tasks KSAPCs
Research Scientist Supervisor I (Veterinary Sciences) 2016 Tasks KSAPCs
Research Scientist Supervisor II (Veterinary Sciences) 2016 Tasks KSAPCs
Satellite Facility Supervisor 2015 Tasks KSAPCs
Satellite Wagering Facility Admissions Program Clerk 2015 Tasks KSAPCs
Senior Accounting Officer (Specialist) 2015 Tasks KSAPCs
Senior Accounting Officer (Supervisor) 2015 Tasks KSAPCs
Senior Agricultural Economist 2018 Tasks KSAPCs
Senior Brand Inspector 2016 Tasks KSAPCs
Senior Insect Biosystematist 2018 Tasks KSAPCs
Senior Insect Biosystematist (Specialist) 2018 Tasks KSAPCs
Senior Laboratory Assistant 2015 Tasks KSAPCs
Senior Livestock Inspector 2016 Tasks KSAPCs
Senior Maintenance Worker, District Fairs 2018 Tasks KSAPCs
Senior Plant Taxonomist 2016 Tasks KSAPCs
Special Assistant, Department of Food and Agriculture 2013 Tasks KSAPCs
Special Investigator Assistant 2016 Tasks KSAPCs
Staff Management Auditor (Specialist) SCO 2014 Tasks KSAPCs
Supervising Auditor I, Milk Marketing 2014 Tasks KSAPCs
Supervising Auditor II, Milk Marketing 2014 Tasks KSAPCs
Supervising Meat Inspector 2017 Tasks KSAPCs
Supervising Special Investigator II (non-peace officer) 2015 Tasks KSAPCs
Supervising Veterinarian (General) 2014 Tasks KSAPCs
Supervising Veterinarian, Meat Inspector 2014 Tasks KSAPCs

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