Current openings at the New Jersey Department of Labor
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There are no open positions at this time.
There are no open positions at this time.
There are no open positions at this time.
Clerk
Issue Date: 1/16/2026
Closing Date: 1/30/2026
Jersey City
Responsibilities include:
- Perform routine, repetitive clerical work of a varied nature as a beginner at the entrance
level of employment which includes a relatively small proportion of difficult tasks - Other related duties as required
Required qualifications:
- Eligibility determinations will be based only upon information presented on the resume along with other supporting documents.
Clerk
Issue Date: 1/16/2026
Closing Date: 1/30/2026
Hackensack
Responsibilities include:
- Perform routine, repetitive clerical work of a varied nature as a beginner at the entrance
level of employment which includes a relatively small proportion of difficult tasks - Other related duties as required
Required qualifications:
- Eligibility determinations will be based only upon information presented on the resume along with other supporting documents.
Auditor Accountant Trainee
Issue Date: 1/20/2026
Closing Date: 5/20/2026
Newark, New Brunswick, and Vineland
Responsibilities include:
- Make field and office audits
- Evaluate program objectives and effectiveness
- Appraise the utilization of fiscal resources
- Keep financial records and reports
Required qualifications:
- Four (4) years of professional accounting or auditing experience, including or supplemented by twenty-one (21) semester-hour credits in professional accounting courses which may include courses in municipal or government accounting.
Employment Services Trainee
Issue Date: 1/20/2026
Closing Date: 5/20/2026
Trenton
Responsibilities include:
- Assist in analyzing legal documents and financial reports
- Assist in determining, establishing, and/or verifying the tax liability of employers
- Analyze an employer’s records and accounting transactions to determine the present reporting or financial status of an account
- Analyze less-complicated accounts to determine and initiate proper procedures for the resolution of delinquent accounts, to identify fraudulent reporting, and to establish contribution experience rates
- Assist in preparing, verifying, and/or processing forms of various types of legal documents including Certificates of Debt, Writs of Executions, Warrants of Satisfaction, Claims in Bankruptcy, Certificates of Indebtedness, Foreclosure and Condemnation Proceedings, and Criminal Complaints
Required qualifications:
- Four (4) years of professional experience in the examination of records and reports involved in the determination, establishment, and/or verification of tax liability of employers.
There are no open positions at this time.
There are no open positions at this time.
Intermittent Labor Clerk
Issue Date: 1/16/2026
Closing Date: 1/30/2026
Trenton
Responsibilities include:
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Does varied and responsible clerical work to assist in the administration of regular or special programs of the department,
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Prepare, process and pay claims for unemployment compensation,
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Assist claimants via telephone with their unemployment claims and other clerical duties as required.
Required qualifications:
- Two (2) years of clerical experience providing customer service in a public or private sector organization, involving the interpretation of rules and regulations.
There are no open positions at this time.
Software Development Specialist 1 (Java Developer)
Issue Date: 1/9/2026
Closing Date: 1/23/2026
Trenton
Responsibilities include:
- Assist in the design, development, testing, and implementation of software application systems using Java/J2EE technologies.
- Support analysis, consulting, programming, maintenance, and troubleshooting activities under the guidance of higher-level developers.
- Review and interpret use cases, business rules, and functional requirements; contribute to the preparation of design and specification documents.
- Work with program units to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- Develop and unit-test code modules; participate in integration testing activities.
- Perform related duties as assigned.
Required qualifications:
- Five (5) years of professional experience in programming, systems programming or computer analysis.
Information Technology Specialist
Issue Date: 1/9/2026
Closing Date: 1/23/2026
Trenton
Responsibilities include:
- Provide technical support to end users via phone, email, remote tools, and in-person assistance.
- Receive, triage, and resolve help desk tickets involving workstation issues, software troubleshooting, password resets, network connectivity, VPN access, printing problems, and peripheral/device support.
- Install and configure standard software, updates, patches, and workstation applications.
- Assist with setup, configuration, and troubleshooting of networked devices, including printers, scanners, and other peripherals.
- Perform basic network incident triage by identifying connectivity issues and escalating as needed.
Required qualifications:
- One (1) year of experience in at least one of the following areas: the design and preparation of programs for electronic data processing utilizing current operating systems, modification of systems software and multiprogramming technology; or the development, maintenance, or installation of application programs; or in performing technical support functions within a direct access device environment, or the development, implementation, and maintenance of multi-network, multi-user Local Area Networks (LAN), Metropolitan Area Networks (MAN), and/or Wide Area Networks (WAN) environment..
There are no open positions at this time.
There are no open positions at this time.
There are no open positions at this time.
There are no open positions at this time.
There are no open positions at this time.
Construction Code Inspector 1, BPVR
Issue Date: 1/27/2026
Closing Date: 2/24/2026
Trenton
Responsibilities include:
- Ensure that boilers, unfired pressure vessels, and refrigeration plants falling under the jurisdiction of the MIBB&PVC, are properly inspected with the intention of protecting life, health, and property
- Assure that boilers and refrigeration plants requiring licensed coverage, comply with the licensing requirements as specified under the New Jersey Administrative Code (N.J.A.C) 12:90-3.10 Duties of licensed operators, and N.J.A.C. 12:90-3.11 Duties of others involved
- Use adopted Codes and Standards as well as N.J.A.C. 12:90 to perform the needed quality inspection services that are required to ensure public safety and health, by ascertaining and verifying the mechanical integrity of boilers, pressure vessels and refrigeration plants
- Write and report violations on objects referencing the applicable Codes & Standards, and follow up corrected violations at the object’s location to ensure proper compliance
- Perform investigations of incidents/accidents that occur in the boiler, pressure vessel and refrigeration industry.
Required qualifications:
- Six (6) years of experience as a stationary engineer in the maintenance and operation of high pressure boilers, or as a boiler maker, or as an inspector for an insurance company specializing in the inspection of boilers, and licensed to do business with the state.
There are no open positions at this time.
There are no open positions at this time.
There are no open positions at this time.
Intermittent Labor Clerk
Issue Date: 1/14/2026
Closing Date: 1/28/2026
Trenton
Responsibilities include:
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Does varied and responsible clerical work to assist in the administration of regular or special programs of the department,
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Prepare, process and pay claims for unemployment compensation,
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Assist claimants via telephone with their unemployment claims and other clerical duties as required.
Required qualifications:
- Two (2) years of clerical experience providing customer service in a public or private sector organization, involving the interpretation of rules and regulations.
Employment Services Trainee
Issue Date: 1/20/2026
Closing Date: 2/3/2026
Various Locations
Responsibilities include:
- Examine and determine eligibility of claims for Unemployment Insurance based on New Jersey Unemployment Law.
- When necessary, contact employers and claimants by telephone in order to secure needed documentation to make a claim determination.
- Conduct fact-finding interviews and resolves discrepancies with claimants, employers, etc. to properly determine claims.
Required qualifications:
- Four (4) years of professional experience in the investigation, review, analysis, evaluation, and eligibility determination of claims for unemployment and/or insurance compensation in a public or private organization.
Employment Services Trainee
Issue Date: 1/29/2026
Closing Date: 2/12/2026
Various Locations throughout the State
Responsibilities include:
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The position of Employment Services Trainee is responsible for enforcing a host of Wage and Hour and Public Contracts laws such as minimum wage, overtime, child labor, earned sick leave and prevailing wage. The position requires site visits to employer establishments and worksites, entails meetings with employers or their representatives, auditing of records and documents, interviews of workers, calculations of any back wages to workers and the writing of reports documenting the findings of their investigation.
Required qualifications:
- Four (4) years of professional experience in identifying and investigating violations in a field of specific regulatory conditions, interpreting and applying these regulations and making recommendations based on findings.
There are no open positions at this time.
There are no open positions at this time.
There are no open positions at this time.
There are no open positions at this time.
There are no open positions at this time.
There are no open positions at this time.
Clerk
Issue Date: 1/16/2026
Closing Date: 1/30/2026
Jersey City
Responsibilities include:
- Perform routine, repetitive clerical work of a varied nature as a beginner at the entrance
level of employment which includes a relatively small proportion of difficult tasks - Other related duties as required
Required qualifications:
- Eligibility determinations will be based only upon information presented on the resume along with other supporting documents.
Clerk
Issue Date: 1/16/2026
Closing Date: 1/30/2026
Hackensack
Responsibilities include:
- Perform routine, repetitive clerical work of a varied nature as a beginner at the entrance
level of employment which includes a relatively small proportion of difficult tasks - Other related duties as required
Required qualifications:
- Eligibility determinations will be based only upon information presented on the resume along with other supporting documents.
Administrative Analyst 2 Information Systems
Issue Date: 1/27/2026
Closing Date: 2/10/2026
Jersey City
Responsibilities include:
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Assist in the analysis and evaluation of internal operations, business practices, methods, and techniques of the organization to determine optimal solutions and/or approaches to satisfy agency information technology (IT) business needs/initiatives.
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Assist in the evaluation of users' needs and recommends IT solutions.
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Other related duties.
Required qualifications:
- Six (6) years of professional experience in work involving the review, analysis, and evaluation of the administrative, business, and/or operational policies, procedures, practices, and processes and/or the technological requirements of an organization for the purpose of revising/enhancing existing information systems and/or developing/acquiring and implementing new IT solutions and services.
Auditor Accountant Trainee
Issue Date: 1/20/2026
Closing Date: 5/20/2026
Newark, New Brunswick, and Vineland
Responsibilities include:
- Make field and office audits
- Evaluate program objectives and effectiveness
- Appraise the utilization of fiscal resources
- Keep financial records and reports
Required qualifications:
- Four (4) years of professional accounting or auditing experience, including or supplemented by twenty-one (21) semester-hour credits in professional accounting courses which may include courses in municipal or government accounting.
Employment Services Trainee
Issue Date: 1/20/2026
Closing Date: 5/20/2026
Trenton
Responsibilities include:
- Assist in analyzing legal documents and financial reports
- Assist in determining, establishing, and/or verifying the tax liability of employers
- Analyze an employer’s records and accounting transactions to determine the present reporting or financial status of an account
- Analyze less-complicated accounts to determine and initiate proper procedures for the resolution of delinquent accounts, to identify fraudulent reporting, and to establish contribution experience rates
- Assist in preparing, verifying, and/or processing forms of various types of legal documents including Certificates of Debt, Writs of Executions, Warrants of Satisfaction, Claims in Bankruptcy, Certificates of Indebtedness, Foreclosure and Condemnation Proceedings, and Criminal Complaints
Required qualifications:
- Four (4) years of professional experience in the examination of records and reports involved in the determination, establishment, and/or verification of tax liability of employers.
There are no open positions at this time.
There are no open positions at this time.
Intermittent Labor Clerk
Issue Date: 1/16/2026
Closing Date: 1/30/2026
Trenton
Responsibilities include:
-
Does varied and responsible clerical work to assist in the administration of regular or special programs of the department,
-
Prepare, process and pay claims for unemployment compensation,
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Assist claimants via telephone with their unemployment claims and other clerical duties as required.
Required qualifications:
- Two (2) years of clerical experience providing customer service in a public or private sector organization, involving the interpretation of rules and regulations.
Chief of Investigations
Issue Date: 1/22/2026
Closing Date: 2/5/2026
Trenton
Responsibilities include:
- Ensure equal employment opportunities are being met by contractors awarded State projects
- Supervise the Contract Compliance unit by training and ensuring compliance of the Standard Operations Procedures
- Oversee and approve the weekly schedules of field visits for the investigators
- Attend pre-construction meetings with contractors to ensure understanding of their responsibilities
- Review reports submitted by contractors to ensure accuracy and timeliness
Required qualifications:
- Ten (10) years of professional office and/or professional field experience conducting investigations, collecting evidence and preparing investigative reports related to criminal, civil or regulatory matters involving fraud, misrepresentation or other acts of criminal or civil misconduct; three (3) years shall have included supervisory responsibility.
Administrative Analyst 3, Information Systems
Issue Date: 1/27/2026
Closing Date: 2/10/2026
Trenton
Responsibilities include:
- Develop and execute SQL queries to produce data extracts used for analysis, evaluation, and reporting in support of application development and maintenance.
- Analyze and document business processes, practices, and system requirements to support process improvement and system enhancements.
- Review statutory, regulatory, or policy changes and assess potential impacts to business processes and supporting information systems.
- Prepare technical and functional specifications and related documentation for use in system development, upgrades, and enhancements.
- Document and analyze system integrations, interfaces, and data exchanges to support system changes and ongoing maintenance.
Required qualifications:
- Seven (7) years of professional experience in work involving the review, analysis, and evaluation of the administrative, business, and/or operational policies, procedures, practices, and processes and/or the technological requirements of an organization for the purpose of revising/enhancing existing information systems and/or developing/acquiring and implementing new IT solutions and services.
There are no open positions at this time.
There are no open positions at this time.
Executive Assistant 4
Issue Date: 1/22/2026
Closing Date: 2/5/2026
Trenton
Responsibilities include:
- Under the Chief of Staff, possesses managerial oversight and authority across all offices/units: Chief of Staff's Office, Human Capital Strategies, Office of Equal Employment and Ethics Compliance, Administrative Services & Facilities, Communication & Marketing, Internal Audits and Office of the Healthcare Ombudsperson. Ensures statutory, contractual, and procedural obligations are met through policy development, management and operations.
- Facilitates, implements and authorizes short/long term priority objectives within the units of the Chief of Staff's Office.
- Identifies budgeting needs for the Chief of Staff's Office as well as the subordinate program areas; oversees budgeting requests; and collaborates with Finance and Accounting staff to ensure all program areas operate within set budget limitations.
- Represents the Chief of Staff, as well as NJDOL, in internal and external meetings and thoroughly reviews, communicates and follows up on matters ensuring the division and department objectives are met timely and accurately.
- Provides expertise, leadership, guidance and feedback to all team members as well as works collaboratively across other divisions with executives and senior management.
- Serves as the Chief of Staff's Office liaison to internal divisions such as Human Capital
- Strategies and Information Technology to ensure all program areas in Human Capital and IT needs are met timely and accurately.
- Provides backup support to the Offices of the Commissioner and Deputy Commissioners.
- Timeliness
Required qualifications:
- Nine (9) years of professional experience in program management with responsibility for planning, organizing, coordinating, staffing, reporting, and budgeting or in assisting an executive with program development and implementation.
There are no open positions at this time.
There are no open positions at this time.
Assistant Chief, Mechanical Inspection Bureau, Boiler and Pressure Vessel Compliance (Licensing) (Competitive)
Issue Date: 1/23/2026
Closing Date: 2/6/2026
Trenton
Responsibilities include:
- Provides supervision to Construction Code Inspectors in their daily inspection activities
- Assists the Chief Inspector on the Day-to-Day management of the Bureau
- Interprets boiler/refrigeration/pressure vessels Statutes, Rules and Regulations, Codes and Standards for insurance companies, governmental agencies and the general public
- Drafts "Advisories" related to safety and health issues and help to disseminate to the public for implementation after approval
- Develops effective work methods for the MIBB&PVC needs and ensures work assignments are completed
- Conducts settlement conferences for the resolution of penalty assessments to the stakeholders
- Oversees the day-to-day operation of the bureau inspection services
- Attends meetings of the Governors Rules Board and Examining Board
- Responds to inquiries from the public related to the program area
- Coordinates the issuance of UCC licenses by the Department of Community Affairs and their renewal of the licenses for MIBB&PV inspectors
Required qualifications:
- Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree including or supplemented by twenty-one (21) semester hour credits in mechanical, marine, industrial, or chemical engineering.
- In accordance with NJSA 34:1-38.1, applicants shall: (1) be a citizen of the State of New Jersey; (2) have held, for at least 1 year, a Class I, Grade A operating engineer's license issued by the Department of Labor and Workforce Development; and (3) EITHER: (a) possess five (5) years of experience as a boiler and pressure vessel inspector, OR (b) possess ten (10) years of experience as a Grade A (Gold Seal) or B (Red Seal) NJ licensed Operating Engineer, OR (c) have held a position equivalent to b.
NOTE: Applicants who do not possess a bachelor’s degree, but who do possess twenty-one (21) semester hour credits in the engineering disciplines identified above, may substitute additional experience on a year-for-year basis with thirty (30) semester hour credits being equal to one (1) year of experience.
Assistant Chief, Mechanical Inspection Bureau, Boiler and Pressure Vessel Compliance (Inspection) (Competitive)
Issue Date: 1/23/2026
Closing Date: 2/6/2026
Trenton
Responsibilities include:
- Provides supervision to Construction Code Inspectors in their daily inspection activities
- Assists the Chief Inspector on the Day-to-Day management of the Bureau
- Develops effective work methods for the MIBB&PVC needs and ensures work assignments are completed
- Conducts settlement conferences for the resolution of penalty assessments to the stakeholders
- Oversees the day-to-day operation of the bureau inspection services
- Attends meetings of the Governors Rules Board and Examining Board
- Drafts regulatory changes to the New Jersey Administrative Code for the Examining Board's consideration and proposes changes to Statutory provisions for the Governor's rules board acceptance
- Coordinates safety and health related matters with other State departments such as the Department of Community Affairs, and agencies such as insurance companies and owner-user agencies
- Coordinates the issuance of UCC licenses by the Department of Community Affairs and their renewal of the licenses for MIBB&PV inspectors
- Responds to inquiries from the public related to the program area
Required qualifications:
- Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree including or supplemented by twenty-one (21) semester hour credits in mechanical, marine, industrial, or chemical engineering.
- In accordance with NJSA 34:1-38.1, applicants shall: (1) be a citizen of the State of New Jersey; (2) have held, for at least 1 year, a Class I, Grade A operating engineer's license issued by the Department of Labor and Workforce Development; and (3) EITHER: (a) possess five (5) years of experience as a boiler and pressure vessel inspector, OR (b) possess ten (10) years of experience as a Grade A (Gold Seal) or B (Red Seal) NJ licensed Operating Engineer, OR (c) have held a position equivalent to b.
NOTE: Applicants who do not possess a bachelor’s degree, but who do possess twenty-one (21) semester hour credits in the engineering disciplines identified above, may substitute additional experience on a year-for-year basis with thirty (30) semester hour credits being equal to one (1) year of experience.
Construction Code Inspector 1, BPVR
Issue Date: 1/27/2026
Closing Date: 2/24/2026
Trenton
Responsibilities include:
- Ensure that boilers, unfired pressure vessels, and refrigeration plants falling under the jurisdiction of the MIBB&PVC, are properly inspected with the intention of protecting life, health, and property
- Assure that boilers and refrigeration plants requiring licensed coverage, comply with the licensing requirements as specified under the New Jersey Administrative Code (N.J.A.C) 12:90-3.10 Duties of licensed operators, and N.J.A.C. 12:90-3.11 Duties of others involved
- Use adopted Codes and Standards as well as N.J.A.C. 12:90 to perform the needed quality inspection services that are required to ensure public safety and health, by ascertaining and verifying the mechanical integrity of boilers, pressure vessels and refrigeration plants
- Write and report violations on objects referencing the applicable Codes & Standards, and follow up corrected violations at the object’s location to ensure proper compliance
- Perform investigations of incidents/accidents that occur in the boiler, pressure vessel and refrigeration industry.
Required qualifications:
- Six (6) years of experience as a stationary engineer in the maintenance and operation of high pressure boilers, or as a boiler maker, or as an inspector for an insurance company specializing in the inspection of boilers, and licensed to do business with the state.
Occupational Safety Consultant 1
Issue Date: 2/2/2026
Closing Date: 2/16/2026
Trenton
Responsibilities include:
- Conduct comprehensive occupational safety training visits for private sector employers on a wide variety of topics covered by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations
- Attend and successfully complete all required training as assigned which may require travel.
- Keep informed of all changes to the OSHA regulations as necessary to update the training materials.
- Market the services of the WDP program to maintain a steady schedule of training clientele to meet and exceed the performance expectations of the position.
- Prepare safety training materials to present to clients including employer-specific materials based on the occupational hazards associated with their industry.
- Document and maintain training records for each visit in the program’s database.
- Assist with promotional activities and supports fellow occupational safety programs in the division as necessary through outreach events.
Required qualifications:
- Six (6) years of experience in the identification, analysis and/or solution of workplace safety hazards involving the application of Federal OSHA and/or nationally recognized safety standards.
There are no open positions at this time.
There are no open positions at this time.
There are no open positions at this time.
Intermittent Labor Clerk
Issue Date: 1/14/2026
Closing Date: 1/28/2026
Trenton
Responsibilities include:
-
Does varied and responsible clerical work to assist in the administration of regular or special programs of the department,
-
Prepare, process and pay claims for unemployment compensation,
-
Assist claimants via telephone with their unemployment claims and other clerical duties as required.
Required qualifications:
- Two (2) years of clerical experience providing customer service in a public or private sector organization, involving the interpretation of rules and regulations.
Employment Services Trainee
Issue Date: 1/20/2026
Closing Date: 2/3/2026
Various Locations
Responsibilities include:
- Examine and determine eligibility of claims for Unemployment Insurance based on New Jersey Unemployment Law.
- When necessary, contact employers and claimants by telephone in order to secure needed documentation to make a claim determination.
- Conduct fact-finding interviews and resolves discrepancies with claimants, employers, etc. to properly determine claims.
Required qualifications:
- Four (4) years of professional experience in the investigation, review, analysis, evaluation, and eligibility determination of claims for unemployment and/or insurance compensation in a public or private organization.
Technical Assistant
Issue Date: 1/20/2026
Closing Date: 2/3/2026
Trenton
Responsibilities include:
- Process Wage Collection initial complaints and create case files.
- Process calendars for formal proceedings, including by not limited to issuing Summons Complaints, proceeding notices and adjournment notices to all parties ensuring accuracy.
- Respond and provide customer service to plaintiffs, defendants and their counsel via email and by phone.
- Preform other associated tasks concerning Wage Collection as needed.
Required qualifications:
- Two (2) years of experience in reviewing, verifying, authorizing, and/or providing information and assistance of a technical or fiscal nature in a public or private organization.
Employment Services Trainee
Issue Date: 1/29/2026
Closing Date: 2/12/2026
Various Locations throughout the State
Responsibilities include:
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The position of Employment Services Trainee is responsible for enforcing a host of Wage and Hour and Public Contracts laws such as minimum wage, overtime, child labor, earned sick leave and prevailing wage. The position requires site visits to employer establishments and worksites, entails meetings with employers or their representatives, auditing of records and documents, interviews of workers, calculations of any back wages to workers and the writing of reports documenting the findings of their investigation.
Required qualifications:
- Four (4) years of professional experience in identifying and investigating violations in a field of specific regulatory conditions, interpreting and applying these regulations and making recommendations based on findings.
There are no open positions at this time.
Contract Administrator 2, OTWS – WFNJ and Special Populations
Issue Date: 2/5/2026
Closing Date: 2/19/2026
Trenton
Responsibilities include:
- Under the general supervision of a supervisory official, administer and exercise review and/or approval authority over various contracts and/or grants;
- Provide technical assistance in contract and/or grant preparation, control, monitoring, amendment, and/or evaluation; as appropriate, exercises controllership and approval rights and responsibilities in the area of contract and/or grant administration;
- Process contracts for multiple divisions, projects and/or programs, may be assigned to review the work of lower level contract administration and support staff;
- Other related duties.
Required qualifications:
- Seven (7) years of professional experience involving contract/grant work, project financing, construction management, fiscal administration, social services administration, and/or budget and management operations of a government or business entity, at least one (1) year of which shall have involved responsibility for some aspect of contract/grant administration.
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