Position classification under the Education System

1. Law
2. US Virgin Islands Code
3. Executive
4. Personnel Merit System, Compensation, Expenses and Miscellaneous Benefits
5. Position Classification System
6. Position classification under the Education System

• (a) Positions determined by the Director of Personnel to be under the Education System shall be placed in appropriate grades of that schedule in accordance with the following provisions:

  • Grade 1—In this grade shall be placed a position occupied by a person who has graduated from high school but has less than 30 semester units of college work or its equivalent. Grade 2—In this grade shall be placed a position occupied by a person who has graduated from high school and has 30 but less than 60 semester hours of college work or its equivalent in quarter units. Grade 3—In this grade shall be placed a position occupied by a person who has graduated from high school and has 60 but less than 90 semester hours of college work or its equivalent in quarter units. Grade 4—In this grade shall be placed a position occupied by a person who has graduated from high school and has 90 but less than 120 semester hours of college work or its equivalent in quarter units. Grade 5—In this grade shall be placed a position occupied by (1) a person who has graduated from college with a bachelor's degree; (2) a person without a college degree who, as of July 1, 1968, has completed at least 15 years of service in the public schools of the Virgin Islands; (3) a person serving as a Trade and Industry vocational teacher who has had three years of experience at the journeyman level; and (4) a person serving as an instructor in practical nursing. Grade 6—In this grade shall be placed the position occupied by (1) a person who has graduated from college with a master's degree, and (2) a person serving as a Trade and Industry vocational teacher who has three years of experience at the journeyman's level and who has graduated from college with a bachelor's degree in a related field. Grade 7—In this grade shall be placed the position of a person who has graduated from a university with a doctor's degree.

• (b) Supervisory and administrative positions in the professional education, guidance, and library services of the Department of Education shall be classified according to function and difficulty under common titles and the incumbents shall receive the pay differentials set forth in subchapter V of this chapter for such positions. The Director of Personnel after consideration of the views of the Commissioner of Education shall make final determinations with respect to the classification of these positions for pay differential purposes.

• (c) The Director of Personnel may, upon the recommendation of the Commissioner of Education, place administrative and professional employees, excluding teachers and principals, in either the General Schedule or the Education Schedule and may transfer such employees from one schedule to the other.

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