Senior​/Principal Management Analyst

THE CITY OF OCEANSIDE IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.

The City of Oceanside is currently accepting applications for the position of Senior Management Analyst/Principal Management Analyst. The vacancy is in the Police Department. Prospective candidates will undergo and must successfully pass a thorough police background investigation, which may include a psychological evaluation and polygraph examination.

Senior Management Analyst: $8,103 - $10,852
Principal Management Analyst: $8,734 - $11,705

If you’re looking for a role where your work truly matters — where strategy, creativity, and analytical horsepower come together to support one of the City’s most dynamic departments — this is it. As a Senior/Principal Management Analyst, you’ll step into the engine room of the Oceanside Police Department, helping guide the financial, operational, and administrative systems that keep the organization strong, responsive, and future-ready.

This is a role for someone who enjoys solving complex puzzles, improving processes, and partnering with people across every level of the organization. You’ll work with a diverse mix of sworn officers, professional staff, city leaders, finance experts, and community partners — translating data into insight, challenges into solutions, and long‑term goals into actionable plans.

Your days will be filled with meaningful work: developing and forecasting multimillion‑dollar budgets, ensuring grants stay compliant and effective, strengthening internal controls, managing procurement and contracts, supporting personnel operations, and leading projects that streamline systems and save time. You’ll have a front‑row seat to how a major city department operates — and you’ll play a key role in shaping how it grows and adapts.

You won’t just maintain systems — you’ll improve them. You’ll guide staff, modernize processes, support leadership in critical decision‑making, and help ensure city resources are used responsibly, transparently, and strategically. If you enjoy variety, impact, collaboration, and the satisfaction of seeing your work directly improve operations, this position offers all of that — and more.

Join OPD and bring your expertise to a department that values innovation, teamwork, integrity, and service. Here, you’ll have the opportunity to make a real difference, contribute to an environment of continuous improvement, and support a mission that truly serves the community.

By joining OPD as a Senior/Principal Management Analyst, you’ll become part of an organization committed to protecting the vulnerable and serving our community.

You’ll align with core values that matter: accountability, integrity, transparency, and a dedication to public‑service excellence. Your analytical, financial, and operational leadership will help the Department deliver on its vision — a community where everyone can thrive and prosper.

You’ll also enjoy meaningful day‑to‑day work that directly supports safety, trust, and quality of life for over 175,000 residents — with opportunities to lead, innovate, and build long‑lasting systems that support staff and community alike.

If you’re someone who believes in public service, values teamwork, and wants to make a tangible difference — this role gives you a seat at the table. Join us and help shape a safer, stronger Oceanside.

Prepares extensive analytical and statistical studies and research projects; conducts and coordinates special studies or projects pertaining to organization development, work methods, finances and other organizational issues; identifies and evaluates opportunities to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of selected programs and operations; performs a variety of highly responsible and sensitive administrative staff duties; formulates recommendations and implementation plans for solutions to administrative, management and operational problems and issues;

makes written and oral reports and presentations to management; may confer with departmental and other officials on administrative problems and participates in the development of long‑range plans and programs; may assist in…