Assistant City Manager

The Assistant City Manager is responsible for the executive oversight for assigned departments and serves a key role in ensuring that excellent customer service and responsiveness is provided by all employees. This position functions with a high degree of autonomy and corresponding responsibility and always requires the highest ethical standards and integrity as a representative of the City’s leadership team. This is accomplished by being innovative, planning, organizing, assigning, directing, and reviewing all activities of professional personnel engaged in the administration of the City services.

Other duties include serving in the absence of the City Manager and performing all other related duties assigned by the City Manager.

The following duties are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work performed. The omission of specific duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or logically assigned to the position.

• Serves as a member of the Leadership Team. Advises the City Manager and City Council in carrying out the strategic goals and initiatives of the City.
• Guides operations of the City while serving as an Assistant City Manager.
• Develops and recommends to the City Manager and City Council program initiatives necessary to meet the goals of the respective departments and of the City in general.
• Confers with and advises department directors in the preparation and implementation of new programs.
• Manages special projects as assigned by the City Manager.
• Coordinates grant writing and reporting activities for the City.
  
  Provides direction to City departments, offices, programs, and staff regarding how to advance the assigned outcome and its associated strategies and policies, including policy and procedure revisions.
• Carries out the City Manager’s directives regarding interpretation of policies, represents the City Manager in resolving problems and conflicts that may arise in the City and helps establish good management practices.
• Actively collaborates with the City’s partners, including the Buda Economic Development Corporation, Buda Chamber of Commerce, non-profits, and businesses in the City of Buda.
• Assists with the overall preparation of the annual city budget; oversees and assists with the administration of annual budgets for reporting Department.
• Collaboratively integrates, coordinates, and recommends changes; and assists in the establishment of programs, policies, strategies and initiatives for submission to the City Council that will aid in maintaining the financial integrity and service levels of various operations of the City.
• Prepares agenda items for and gives presentations to the City Council and city boards.
• Provides leadership and direction in the development of short and long-range plans and projects of department activities.
• Develops and administers personnel and operational policies and procedures; provides training and direction necessary to increase the productivity and efficiency of personnel and functions.
• Represent the city at area and regional meetings.
• Attend professional development workshops to keep abreast of trends and developments.
• Acts as liaison for the City Council, as directed.
• Responds to inquiries regarding city activities and matters in order to resolve problems or complaints.
• Maintains an effective working relationship with the general public through community relations with various media--television, newspaper, schools, businesses, community, civic and neighborhood organizations/associations.
• Directs the development, presentation, recommendation, and implementation of the various master plans as related to the reporting department and related special projects, including coordination and communication with…