City Manager - Bixby Job Northern Kentucky USA,Government

Listing Description

Title:

City Manager

City of Bixby, Oklahoma

Employment Status:
Full-Time

Posting Date(s): 09/28/2026

Close Date:10/30/2026;
Posting may be extended depending on the number of viable candidates applying.

Supervisory Responsibility:
Extensive responsibility.

FLSA Status:
Exempt

Location:

Bixby, Oklahoma

Salary range:

Negotiable based on education and/or experience.

Benefits:

Health, dental, and vision insurance
Retirement benefits
Professional development
Education reimbursement opportunities
City owned vehicle
Supportive, community-oriented work environment.

Job Summary:

The City of Bixby, known as the “Garden Spot of Oklahoma,” is seeking an impeccable, responsible, and servant-minded leader to serve as its next City Manager. As one of the fastest-growing communities in Oklahoma, Bixby is a dynamic and thriving city with a population of approximately 32,000 residents and a workforce of more than 200 city employees.

The City Manager will lead the organization and work collaboratively with the Mayor, City Council, employees, residents, businesses, and community partners to effectively manage the City’s continued growth and development.

Bixby is home to one of the state’s finest school districts, multiple parks, attractive shopping and residential developments, and significant additional development on the horizon.

This is an opportunity for an experienced and dedicated municipal leader to help guide Bixby through continued growth while preserving the qualities that make it a desirable place to live, work, and raise a family.

The City Manager shall be the chief administrative officer and head of the administrative branch of the city government. He shall execute the laws and ordinances of the city and administer the municipal government. The City Manager shall have the special powers and duties granted by the city charter and ordinances, and shall be directly responsible to the City Council for the proper administration of those ordinances.

Minimum

Education & Experience:

The City Manager shall be appointed by the City Council solely on the basis of education and experience and without regard for political affiliation. Actual experience as City Manager or as an assistant City Manager is preferred. At the time of appointment, the City Manager need not be a resident of the city or state. The City Manager must, however, reside within the limits of the Bixby school district, or the designated fence line of the city, during the tenure of office.

The City Council may contract with the City Manager for an indefinite term. The performance of the City Manager shall be reviewed, at a minimum, on an annual basis. The hiring shall be approved by a four-fifths (4/5) vote of the council.

Essential Job Functions and Duties:

An employee in this position may perform any or all of the following duties:

1.Toensure that all laws and ordinances governing the city of Bixby are enforced.

2.Toappoint and to remove all directors or heads of departments and all subordinate officers and employees in such departments, subject to the majority approval of the council. The following department heads shall be subject to the terms of this section:
City Clerk, City Treasurer, Chief of Police, Fire Chief, Director of Public Works, and Directors of any other departments created.

3.To exercise management, leadership, control, and supervision of all departments of the city government, and to exercise all other administrative functions necessary for the administration of city government.

4.Toprepare and submit a monthly report to the council, compiled from monthly departmental status reports received by the City Manager from department heads.

5.Toattend all meetings of the council with the right to take part in discussions, but having no…