Will “Program Development Specialist” be Automated?

Core Skills & Abilities

• Confer with personnel concerned to ensure successful functioning of newly implemented systems or procedures.

• Interview personnel and conduct on-site observation to ascertain unit functions, work performed, and methods, equipment, and personnel used.

• Review forms and reports and confer with management and users about format, distribution, and purpose, identifying problems and improvements.

• Recommend purchase of storage equipment and design area layout to locate equipment in space available.

• Gather and organize information on problems or procedures.

• Plan study of work problems and procedures, such as organizational change, communications, information flow, integrated production methods, inventory control, or cost analysis.

• Develop and implement records management program for filing, protection, and retrieval of records, and assure compliance with program.

• Document findings of study and prepare recommendations for implementation of new systems, procedures, or organizational changes.

• Prepare manuals and train workers in use of new forms, reports, procedures or equipment, according to organizational policy.

• Design, evaluate, recommend, and approve changes of forms and reports.

• Analyze data gathered and develop solutions or alternative methods of proceeding.