Deputy Parks Director - Park Operations & Facilities

JOIN REDMOND!

The City maintains an excellent record for public safety and includes several award-winning schools, an extensive park and trail system, and a commitment to protecting the natural environment. These attributes combined offer a highly valued quality of life for the people who live and work in Redmond.

That is why we have an exciting new opportunity for you to join us as our new Deputy Parks Director - Park Operations & Facilities.

In this role, you will be joining a Parks and Recreation Department with a vision of protecting and enhancing the community’s quality of life by delivering exceptional services. With a biennial operating budget of $45 million and a department staff of 117 full‑time and supplemental employees, Parks and Recreation embraces their mission to build community through people, parks, arts, recreation, and conservation.

As our new Deputy Director, we know you will be successful in this role because you are:

• An Inspirational Leader
  . You have a sincere appreciation for people and how they are each uniquely motivated. Your social and emotional intelligence is the foundation for designing and implementing interactive communication, training, and decision‑making processes for your team.
• A Decisive but Collaborative Partner – As a Deputy Director, you will lead strategic planning in areas that impact recreation and engagement, as well as other Parks & Recreation activities. In this role, you will quickly build rapport and trust with others because you are a poised, engaging, and concise communicator. You have a natural strength for making timely decisions and helping teams get unstuck from the details and clearing barriers for staff to move forward.
  
  Your drive, determination and self‑discipline have made you a valuable partner because you know how to take a vision and turn it into results. However, while you have always shown a strong initiative and self‑direction, your best leadership successes have been accomplished by working with and through the collaboration and engagement of people or a team.
• A Business‑Savvy Manager Who Loves to Solve Puzzles
  . Because this position requires the ability to set and re‑set financial and management priorities, we are looking for business‑savvy leaders who have demonstrated experience with running a department or organization. Since we are accountable to the community members of Redmond, we want to see how you have solved the puzzles related to the commonly assumed contradictions around balancing community needs, quality of services, and budget constraints in a rapidly changing and urbanizing community.
• A Person Who Loves People
  . The City of Redmond is committed to being a leader and fostering a socially‑just community with cultural humility. That means we are looking to see how you effectively enabled positive collaboration with diverse communities and cross‑cultural situations, ensuring genuine inclusion in policy development or decision‑making. In the end, you are a person who loves connecting people with each other, the community, and the services we provide.

• Establishes and maintains a working environment conducive to positive morale, individual style, quality, creativity, and teamwork.
• Provides direction to managers, supervisors, and senior staff members in areas such as policy, operations and planning.
• Coaches managers and supervisors to consistently use performance management techniques; ensures assigned staff correctly supervise, regularly evaluate, recognize, and discipline staff; and conducts consistent staff meetings and 1:1 check‑in meetings with direct reports.
• Recruits, selects, trains, and manages staff, handles labor relations, discipline and performance related issues.
• Monitors and enhances customer service initiatives to respond to and support an ever‑changing diverse and multi‑cultural community.
• Responds to and resolves issues of concern regarding department operations, projects or programs, and citizen complaints.
• Establishes, implements, and monitors short and long‑range business plans; manages and participates in the development and implementation of goals, policies, and priorities; and…