Principal Project Analyst Office City Administrator

Job Description

Role Description

The Office of the City Administrator is seeking a Principal Project Analyst to join our team, where you will play a key role in a portfolio of complex, high-priority initiatives led by the City Administrator’s Office. This is a unique opportunity to work as a senior generalist on a wide range of new and time-sensitive projects across City divisions and departments, including work related to real estate, technology, policy, operations, and interdepartmental initiatives.

The ideal candidate is a highly skilled analyst with strong project management skills who is intellectually curious, communicates complex ideas clearly and effectively, enjoys collaboration, research, and strategic problem-solving, is comfortable bringing structure to complex or under defined issues, and takes pride producing thoughtful, high-quality work.

You’ll work closely with senior leaders, department partners, and other stakeholders on sensitive, consequential, and politically nuanced issues in a fast-paced, high-performing, and supportive environment. If you’re ready to roll up your sleeves and get to work improving government, this might be the position for you.

Under the general direction of the Project Director, you will:

Project Leadership & Delivery

• Lead the planning and advancement of complex initiatives and work streams.
• Independently drive work streams forward, maintaining ownership of follow-through and surfacing risks, decisions, and issues requiring escalation.
• Manage competing priorities and adapt quickly as new leadership questions and time-sensitive assignments arise, while maintaining high-quality results.

Research, Analysis & Strategic Problem-Solving

• Bring structure to complex or under defined issues and develop effective analytical approaches.
• Conduct independent research and policy analysis to understand complex issues and support strategic decision‑making.
• Synthesize complex legal, operational, and stakeholder information, identifying the findings and insights that matter most.
• Interpret evidence, assess implications and tradeoffs, and develop clear, actionable recommendations, including processes, operating models, or other solutions where appropriate.

Stakeholder Engagement & Cross-Departmental Coordination

• Plan and facilitate stakeholder engagement, meetings and multi‑stakeholder processes.
• Lead and coordinate work across organizational boundaries without formal authority, navigating differing responsibilities and perspectives and recognizing when disagreements or decisions should be surfaced or escalated.

Executive Communication & Decision Support

• Prepare concise briefings, slide decks, written analyses, and recommendations for senior leadership.
• Distill research, analysis, and stakeholder perspectives into clear, actionable insights that support decision-making on complex, sensitive, or under defined issues.
• Respond to sensitive information requests with discretion, professionalism, and sound judgment.

Qualifications:
Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

Education:

Possession of a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university

Experience:

Five (5) years full-time equivalent experience performing professional-level analytical work. Qualifying professional-level analytical work includes analysis, development, administration, and reporting in major programs and functions of an organization in the areas of budgets, contracts, grants, policy, or other functional areas related to the duties of positions in the 182X Class series.

Substitution:
Possession of a graduate degree (Master's degree or higher) from an accredited college or university with major coursework in specialized subject matter areas such as public or business administration, management, business law,…