Posting number: 202301021
Department: Military & Veterans Affairs
Job classification: Veterans Service Officer
Posting type: Open
Categories: Payroll/Benefits Administration
This position assists the County Director with the administration of services pertaining to Veterans and their families. This includes working with veterans and their families to secure their rights in matters relating to their person, property and care of family under any of the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the United States, and the County of Delaware, administering the provisions related to burial of deceased service persons and their widows/widowers, furnishing markers and arranging for headstones for their graves, compiling and maintaining the Delaware County Veterans’ Grave Registration Record and providing that information to the Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, and assisting the County in cooperating with Pennsylvania’s Deputy Adjutant General in charge of Veterans’ Affairs in matters relating to Veterans and their families.
The Veterans Service Officer is responsible for assisting the Director in the day-to-day operations of the department and participating in all manner of Veteran-centric events in order to heighten awareness of the department throughout the County and the services it provides. This would include, but not be limited to the following:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this position, the employee is frequently required to walk, sit, and talk or hear. Occasionally, the employee will need to carry items and drive a vehicle. On rare occasions, the employee will need to reach above shoulders; kneel, stoop, crouch, or squat; and push items.
Delaware County is governed by a five-member County Council, which replaced the three-member Board of County Commissioners as the governing body of the County in January 1976, when the Home Rule Charter went into effect. The actually expansion of Council to five members occurred in January 1978.
Council is responsible for all legislative and administrative functions of the County government. Although Council has overall responsibility for all action of County departments, the Executive Director, a County Council appointee, is directly responsible for the operations of certain departments as outlined in the Home Rule Charter or Administrative Code, or as assigned by the Executive Director and the County Clerk. Legal guidance and representation is provided by the Solicitor.
Members of Council are elected to four-year terms at staggered two-year intervals in years when municipal elections are held, which occur in odd-numbered years. Council organizes the first Monday of each even-numbered year when the members elect one of their own to serve as Chairman and one to service as Vice Chairman. The powers and duties of Council are many and varied. The Home Rule Charter provides Council with the authority to pass ordinances, resolutions and proclamations and to provide budgets and personnel to meet the needs of the people of Delaware County as they arise.
Council is responsible for adopting a budget each calendar year. The budget includes setting personal and real estate tax rates and fees to raise the funds needed to meet the needs of the budget. To raise money for major capital projects, Council sells tax-exempt municipal bonds which are paid off at predetermined intervals over a certain number of years. Many social programs are primarily funded by federal and state grants, which are forwarded to the County government for distribution. Payroll scales and the number of employees necessary to perform County services, including judicial offices, are set by Council.
