Budget Director

COUNCIL OF SUPERIOR COURT JUDGES

Job Title:        Budget Director                                            Salary Range: $85,000-125,000

Reports to:     Executive Director                                                    

General Summary

           This is responsible professional and technical work of unusual difficulty in the development, management, and analysis of superior court budgets and expenditures. Work is performed under the general direction of the Executive Director and is reviewed through conferences and reports and from results obtained.

Essential Functions

·         Administers budget development and its execution for the superior court. Develops, prepares, and submits the annual operating budget and amended budget requests in accordance with established timelines. Prepares concise and comprehensible summaries for presentations to council and legislative committees.

·         Serves as primary contact for budget questions from legislative budget office staff, judges, and district court administrators. Develops and maintains relationships and personal credibility necessary to ensure success in this function.

·         Monitors expenditures to ensure compliance with audit guidelines and the superior court's goals and objectives. Establishes controls to ensure compliance with legal and procedural requirements.

·         Serves as primary staff to CSCJ Budget Committee and other committees, as assigned. Involves coordinating with chairpersons to schedule meetings, prepare agendas and materials, attend meetings, draft minutes, and follow through on action items.

·         Provides technical assistance to Council staff and others by advising on program financial matters such as projecting expenditures, income, and/or budget needs. Prepares concise and comprehensible memoranda as needed to explain issues clearly to others.

·         Interacts with Fiscal Director regularly to ensure the financial picture from both the budgetary and accounting perspectives coincides with the financial data shared with the Executive Committee, Executive Director, and other state government bodies.

·         Assists and advises Executive Director on broad range of financial problems. Provides recommendations on fiscal and budgetary matters.

·         Produces, analyzes, and disseminates accurate and timely financial and other management information reports. Ensures that reports are provided in concise and comprehensible formats and that information is easily accessible and useful to the intended audience.

·         Maintains knowledge of current trends and developments in the field by reading appropriate books, journals, and other literature, and attending related seminars and conferences. Applies pertinent new knowledge to performance of other job responsibilities.

·         Interacts with all levels of state government in a way that promotes respect, encourages cooperation, and contributes to excellent performance.

·         Maintains a consistent, high quality, customer-focused orientation when performing duties and providing services or products to judges, the general public, and other internal and external customers.

·         Assists Council Secretary-Treasurer with management and reconciliation of dues account.

Qualifications

     Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with major coursework in public or business administration, accounting, finance, or a closely related field and four years of cumulative state government experience in fiscal analysis work in a budget function.

Submit Resume and Salary History to meadet@cscj.org on or before Friday, September 19, 2025

Job Title:    Budget Director                Salary Range: $85,000-125,000
Reports to:    Executive Director                    

General Summary
    This is responsible professional and technical work of unusual difficulty in the development, management, and analysis of superior court budgets and expenditures. Work is performed under the general direction of the Executive Director and is reviewed through conferences and reports and from results obtained.

Essential Functions
•    Administers budget development and its execution for the superior court. Develops, prepares, and submits the annual operating budget and amended budget requests in accordance with established timelines. Prepares concise and comprehensible summaries for presentations to council and legislative committees.
•    Serves as primary contact for budget questions from legislative budget office staff, judges, and district court administrators. Develops and maintains relationships and personal credibility necessary to ensure success in this function.
•    Monitors expenditures to ensure compliance with audit guidelines and the superior court's goals and objectives. Establishes controls to ensure compliance with legal and procedural requirements. 
•    Serves as primary staff to CSCJ Budget Committee and other committees, as assigned. Involves coordinating with chairpersons to schedule meetings, prepare agendas and materials, attend meetings, draft minutes, and follow through on action items. 
•    Provides technical assistance to Council staff and others by advising on program financial matters such as projecting expenditures, income, and/or budget needs. Prepares concise and comprehensible memoranda as needed to explain issues clearly to others.
•    Interacts with Fiscal Director regularly to ensure the financial picture from both the budgetary and accounting perspectives coincides with the financial data shared with the Executive Committee, Executive Director, and other state government bodies.
•    Assists and advises Executive Director on broad range of financial problems. Provides recommendations on fiscal and budgetary matters. 
•    Produces, analyzes, and disseminates accurate and timely financial and other management information reports. Ensures that reports are provided in concise and comprehensible formats and that information is easily accessible and useful to the intended audience.
•    Maintains knowledge of current trends and developments in the field by reading appropriate books, journals, and other literature, and attending related seminars and conferences. Applies pertinent new knowledge to performance of other job responsibilities. 
•    Interacts with all levels of state government in a way that promotes respect, encourages cooperation, and contributes to excellent performance.
•    Maintains a consistent, high quality, customer-focused orientation when performing duties and providing services or products to judges, the general public, and other internal and external customers.
•    Assists Council Secretary-Treasurer with management and reconciliation of dues account.

Qualifications
    Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with major coursework in public or business administration, accounting, finance, or a closely related field and four years of cumulative state government experience in fiscal analysis work in a budget function.

Submit Resume and Salary History to meadet@cscj.org on or before Friday, September 19, 2025