City Clerk / Deputy City Clerk Executive Assistant

City Clerk/Executive Assistant or Deputy City Clerk/Executive Assistant

The City of La Palma is seeking a highly organized, detail-oriented, and service-minded professional to join our team as a City Clerk/Executive Assistant or Deputy City Clerk/Executive Assistant. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced administrative professional who enjoys working in a collaborative municipal environment and is interested in supporting City leadership, elected officials, and the community.

This position offers the opportunity to work on a wide variety of responsibilities involving municipal government, City Council meetings, public records, elections, official records, legislative administration, executive support, and confidential administrative matters. The successful candidate will play an important role in supporting the City Manager, City Council, management staff, and City Clerk operations.

The City offers a highly competitive compensation package which is dependent upon qualifications. The City's attractive benefits package includes the following:

• Retirement For miscellaneous management employees, the City offers the CalPERS 2% at 62 formula for new CalPERS members.; OR 2% at 60 formula for existing CalPERS members with less than a six-month break in service from another CalPERS or CalPERS reciprocal agency. Employees are responsible for paying the full Employee contribution through payroll deduction.
• Medical Insurance - The City contracts with CalPERS to offer medical insurance to employees and their eligible dependents. The City provides a monthly health benefit allowance to be used toward monthly health insurance premiums.
• Wellness Program - All employees and their dependents are enrolled in a confidential Employee Assistance Program.
• Annual Health/Wellness Reimbursement Program - All management employees are eligible to receive reimbursement up to $500/fiscal year, for health and/or wellness services or programs upon City Manager approval.
• Dental Insurance - The City provides dental coverage for employees and their eligible dependents. The City pays 100% of the premium and has a reimbursement program (up to 30%) for crowns.
• Vision Insurance - The City has a vision care reimbursement program (up to $400) per employee and their eligible dependents per fiscal year.
• Life Insurance The City contracts with The Standard Insurance Company to provide $100,000 in basic group term life insurance for employees with additional coverage for eligible dependents. Employees may purchase additional coverage by participating in AFLAC plans.
• Disability Insurance The City provides short and long term disability insurance coverage with the City paying 100% of the premium.
• Flexible Spending Accounts The City currently offers a flexible spending account plan through which employees may set aside pre-tax dollars for a wide variety of eligible non-reimbursable medical expenses for themselves or their eligible dependents and/or eligible dependent care expenses.
• Additional Insurance Opportunities The City contracts with AFLAC to provide additional health, dental, and life insurance coverage, as well as many other reimbursable plans. Employees may set up these accounts as pre-tax dollars.
• Deferred Compensation Accounts The City offers employees the option to defer pre-tax earnings through the ICMA-RC 457 Deferred Compensation Plan; contributions are at the employee's discretion.
• Retiree Health Benefits The City contributes the minimum Public Employees Medical and Hospital Care Act (PEMHCA) contribution, currently $160 per month, toward retiree medical insurance for retirees who elect to continue their CalPERS medical coverage into retirement. The city does not offer retiree dental or vision coverage.
• Holidays - Ten (10) paid fixed holidays and 40 hours of paid floating holiday time annually are provided. Employees are required to use either floating holiday time, vacation time, or compensatory time to facilitate a holiday closure between Christmas and New Years.
• Vacation - Full-time employees entering service after July 1, 2011, earn 80 hours of annual vacation leave per year through year 5, with leave increasing to 184 hours by year 20.
• Sick Leave - 96 hours per year and can accrue a total balance of 760 hours.
• Administrative Leave - Management Employees are FLSA Exempt and therefore receive 80 hours of administrative leave per fiscal year subject to City Manager approval.
• Bilingual Pay The City offers employees the opportunity to test once per year for bilingual accuracy. After successfully passing an interactive test, the employee will receive $150/month. Testing is renewed biannually in order to continue receiving the stipend.
• Work Hours - Full-time employees work a four day work week/10 hour work days; a 40 hour work week, Monday - Thursday.