City Clerk

City Clerk Position

The City of Reno is seeking an experienced, organized, and highly collaborative City Clerk to oversee the functions and operations of the City Clerk's Office. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated experience developing and implementing policies and procedures, working effectively with elected officials and senior leadership, supervising staff, and managing systems that support modern City Clerk operations. The successful candidate will have a strong understanding of the Reno community, municipal government, and the scope and responsibilities of the City Clerk's role, including the duties outlined in the Reno City Charter and applicable laws and regulations.

This individual will be a trusted and service-oriented professional with sound judgment, strong communication skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage sensitive information and multiple priorities while providing accurate and professional guidance to elected officials, City staff, and the public.

Under general direction, the City Clerk, plans, organizes, provides oversight to City Clerk functions, including retaining custody of and maintaining the City's official records and history; coordinating the conduct of City Council elections; manages, supervises, and coordinates assigned activities and operations of the City Clerk's Office, including the preparation of City Council and Redevelopment Agency minutes; coordinate assigned activities with other divisions, departments, and outside agencies, including responding to requests for public records.

This is a single position class, which is appointed by the Mayor and City Council under authority of the City Charter, Reno Municipal Code, and in accordance with applicable Nevada Revised Statutes.

Competencies for Strategic Leaders depict the combination of aptitudes, behaviors, beliefs and actions that highly successful Strategic Leaders demonstrate in moving the City of Reno toward its mission to create a community that people are proud to call home.

ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT VIEWPOINT
- Views the organization's various functions as a system of interconnected and interdependent parts of a cohesive whole with cross-functional responsibilities. Remains agile and creates and responds to change; anticipates problems in advance and develops solutions. Remains cognizant of how subtle changes can impact the entire organization.

STRATEGIC FOCUS
- Recognizes that evolution/change must occur for the organization to fulfill its mission. Plans proactively rather than reactively and considers factors such as the external environment, best practices, internal organizational dynamics, and organizational goals to develop a vision for the future. Works to engage others in support of the vision. Uses appropriate data to make business decisions and sets meaningful metrics to measure success.

Aligns resources with strategic initiatives and understands the necessity of cohesion among various business units. Uses project management skills to manage goals by phasing processes, collaborating with stakeholders and implementing opportunities for improvement. Plans a course of action designed to help the City respond to an event that may or may not happen, creates a plan

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FISCAL ACCOUNTABILITY
- Plans, budgets and forecasts, uses predictive analytics, and business intelligence to ensure resources (financial and human) are effectively allocated to achieve the goals and objectives of the City. Links resources to strategic initiatives and identifies, assesses, prioritizes, documents, reports and manages risk and its impact. Ensures safe work habits and models safety practices.

EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION
- Effectively uses verbal, non-verbal,…