County Administrator

Job Details Salary $183,674

- $257,144

Job Function Chief Administrator (City, County, Town Manager)
Position Type Full Time County Administrator
Comal County, Texas Comal County is seeking an experienced County Administrator to help lead one of Texas’s fastest-growing counties through its next stage of growth and organizational development.

Located in the Texas Hill Country between San Antonio and Austin, Comal County has grown to approximately 209,000 residents while maintaining the community character, fiscal discipline, natural resources, and quality of life that have long distinguished the area. New Braunfels serves as the County seat, with additional communities and growth corridors around Canyon Lake, Bulverde, Spring Branch, Garden Ridge, Fair Oaks Ranch, U.S. 281, and Interstate 35.Comal

County has benefited from strong elected and professional leadership and has built a solid organizational foundation. Commissioners Court established the County Administrator position in 2024 and is now seeking an accomplished executive who can build on that foundation while helping the County look five, ten, and twenty years into the future. The County has also added an Assistant County Administrator and is expanding professional capacity in budgeting, grants, and project management.

For the right executive, this is an opportunity to make a lasting impact by helping Commissioners Court strengthen long-range planning, financial forecasting, capital strategy, organizational systems, project execution, and coordination across a complex county government.

The Position
Reporting directly to the five-member Commissioners Court, the County Administrator serves as Comal County’s chief operating and staff officer. The Administrator provides executive leadership to departments under Commissioners Court while working collaboratively across a decentralized county government that includes numerous independently elected officials. Success requires the ability to lead through credibility, relationships, persuasion, sound judgment, and professional expertise, not simply formal authority.
Comal County has nearly 1,000 full-time positions and manages a broad portfolio of operating, capital, transportation, public safety, court, health, and community responsibilities. The FY2027 proposed budget reflects approximately $213.8 million in expenditures, along with significant planned investments in jail expansion and land conservation.
Departments and functions under the County Administrator can include Engineering and Road & Bridge, Information Technology, Facilities, Emergency Management and Preparedness, Public Health, Environmental Health, Parks, Veterans Services, Public Information, Recycling, Indigent Health, and Commissioners Court coordination, among others.

Leadership Opportunity
The next County Administrator will help Commissioners Court:

• Develop a long-term roadmap connecting population growth with future infrastructure, facilities, staffing, technology, public safety, court, and service needs.

• Strengthen multi-year financial forecasting, scenario planning, capital modeling, and understanding of the long-term operating costs associated with major investments.

• Guide significant capital and infrastructure decisions, including facilities, jail capacity, roads, bond strategy, and other major public investments.

• Continue developing the County’s professional budgeting, grants, project-management, and administrative capacity.

• Strengthen organizational systems, accountability, communication, project execution, and coordination while preserving practices that have served the County well.

• Provide professional continuity as elected and appointed leadership changes over time.

• Build productive relationships across…