Assistant City Manager

Assistant City Manager

The City of Tigard, Oregon is seeking a seasoned executive with experience leading a diverse leadership team of directors and professional staff in a complex public-sector organization. The successful candidate has a proven ability to inspire leaders, navigate competing priorities, foster collaboration across departments, and translate strategic vision into measurable results. The new Assistant City Manager is a strategic and forward thinker who will quickly understand the values of Tigard and easily sees the big picture and long-term vision for the city. The Assistant City Manager brings a fresh yet experienced voice and perspective with a strong ability to see the interdependencies between all departments as an experienced organizational leader. As a creative problem solver, the successful candidate has a strong background in strategic planning and understands the importance of advancing new initiatives while supporting current programs, services, and daily operations. This candidate will also be a trusted leader, relationship builder and collaborator who recognizes that Tigard's success is connected to its neighboring communities and regional partners.

More specifically, the Assistant City Manager will be the following:

• Strategic without losing sight of day-to-day service.
• A visionary while remaining practical.
• Confident without being hierarchical.
• Decisive while genuinely collaborative.
• A trusted advisor and thought partner to the City Manager.
• Provide strategic support, guidance, and accountability to department leaders while empowering them to manage their areas with appropriate autonomy.

Minimum Qualifications:

Education and Experience: Any combination of training and experience that would provide the required knowledge, skills and abilities is qualifying. A typical way to obtain the required qualifications would be:

• Equivalent to graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with major coursework in business or public administration, public policy, finance, or a related field AND
• Five (5) years of management or administrative experience in administration and City government.

How to apply: Please apply online. We do not accept applications via email. ATTENTION VETERANS: To receive veteran's preference, please upload your DD214/Separation documentation. IMPORTANT (Please Read): The City of Tigard evaluates each applicant's work history and responses to supplemental questions. Please upload a cover letter with the answers to the following supplemental questions.

• What is your specific leadership and communication strategy for building long-term institutional trust, driving workplace morale within a high-visibility public sector leadership team?
• Tell us about your experience managing multiple, diverse municipal departments such as Community Development, Public Works, IT, etc. How do you ensure accountability and alignment with overall city goals?
• Describe your role in developing and managing a multi-million-dollar municipal budget.

In addition to being a great place to work, the City of Tigard offers competitive employee benefits for full-time and part-time employees working 20 or more hours per week:

• Choice of health and dental plans
• Generous retirement plan (non-PERS)
• City-paid HRA-VEBA
• Paid time off (PTO) program plus paid sick leave
• 11 paid holidays
• Life and disability insurance
• Universal transit pass through TriMet

This job classification is not represented by a union.