Assistant City Administrator, City of Mauldin
The position is to perform advanced administrative and professional work in organizing, planning, and directing assigned departments and functions of the City of Mauldin to ensure effective and efficient municipal operations.
Essential Job Functions: Assists the City Administrator in daily municipal operations working with administrative staff and department heads. Assists in the execution of policies and programs to meet the City's goals and objectives by conducting project research and feasibility analysis, forming action plans and strategies, coordinating activities, and working with project principals. Responds to inquiries, questions, and complaints regarding city services and works with citizens, staff, and the City Administrator to identify and facilitate appropriate resolutions.
Provides highly responsible administrative, analytical, and professional assistance to the City Administrator, completes a variety of technical, confidential, and complex projects as assigned. Supervises, directs and evaluates assigned staff: directing work, assisting in problem solving, counseling, discipling and completing employee performance appraisals. Coordinates, assigns and reviews work and establishes work schedules for assigned departments. Monitors the status of work in progress, inspects completed assignments, answers questions and gives advice and direction as needed.
Preferred Qualifications: Master’s degree, preferably in public administration, business administration or government related field, and three (3) to five (5) years of experience as a City/County Manager/Administrator, Deputy/Assistant, or department head in a municipal government of similar size, complexity, and demographics or possession of any equivalent combination of education/experience.
Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in a government-related field and 7 (seven) years of experience in a supervisory capacity in a full-service agency of similar size, complexity and demographics.
Please send resume and cover letter to Mark Putnam, HR Director at mputnam@mauldincitysc.com.