Management Development Supervisor ; Contracts Management); Chief Admin. Office); Class Code 0365

under general direction, work includes the supervising of a professional and related support staff in the performance of management of the city's centralized contract administration. Work includes developing, implementing, and administering activities of designated teams and programs to ensure goals or objectives are accomplished in accordance with prescribed priorities, time limitations, and funding conditions. Work also includes conducting research and assuming responsibility for the more difficult and complex tasks to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency pertaining to contract administration;

and related work as required.

• a bachelor's degree
  * from an accredited college or university, and four (4) years of highly responsible professional administrative experience in contract administration, purchasing, compliance, and/or financial account management.
• a master's degree
  * from an accredited college or university, and three (3) years of highly responsible professional administrative experience in contract administration, purchasing, compliance, and/or financial account management.

professional experience is defined as experience gained in a position that required a bachelor's degree upon entrance. Civil service reserves the right to determine which experience qualifies as professional experience.

* prior to appointment, the hiring agency is required to verify education claimed by the applicant to qualify for this classification. If selected for hire, applicants must provide original documents of their qualifying credentials to the hiring agency prior to their start date in this job classification. A qualifying written examination and a rating of training and experience, weighted 100%. All related previous experience will be considered for qualification purposes;

however, credit on the rating of training and experience will only be given for related experience gained within the last ten (10) years.

the examination is a written test designated to measure: basic management principles, decision-making and organizing, interpersonal skills, written communication, and mathematics.

this is an original entrance examination.

the city of new orleans is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, creed, culture, or ancestry. Requests for alternate format or accommodations should be directed to shana parker at  or tty/voice at  or .

domicile requirements are currently waived for the purpose of application. However, all new full-time employees hired into this classification on or after january 1, 2013, must be domiciled in orleans parish within 180 days of hire. Public safety employees such as commissioned law enforcement officers hired by the new orleans police department (nopd), firefighters hired by the new orleans fire department (nofd), emergency medical technicians hired by the new orleans emergency medical services (noems) and the recruits for these positions hired by these departments are excluded from this provision.

Airport employees are excluded from this provision if the actual domicile of the employee is nearer to the employee’s job site than the distance from the job site to the nearest point of orleans parish.

additional exceptions to the domicile requirement may be made on a case-by-case basis. We encourage you to apply for this position and discuss your need for a domicile exception during the interview process.

domicile requirements are currently waived for the purpose of application**. Residency requirements are waived for all sewerage and water…