City Manager
Developmental Associates Goldsboro, NC, USA
- Location: Goldsboro, NC, USA
- Categories: Administration and Management
- Job Type: Full Time
- Posted: Jan 13, 2025
Job Description:
City Manager
Description
The City Manager is responsible for implementing the policies of the City Council, directs business and administrative procedures, and appoints departmental officers. The City Council is comprised of a Mayor and six members representing six districts and serving four-year terms. The Mayor is a voting member of the City Council. This full-service municipality employs 496 full- and part-time workers and has an FY 2024-2025 budget of nearly $86M. Taxes were also raised in FY2024 by 5 cents and in FY2023 by 3 cents. Revaluation in Wayne County is planned for 2025, earlier than the 8-year schedule; the last revaluation was done in January 2019. The City Manager is supported by one assistant manager, the City Clerk, Deputy Clerk, Assistant to the City Manager, and Public Information Officer. The City Manager oversees 19 staff departments, including a theater and a golf course.
The next City Manager must maintain and enhance the quality of life desired by residents while continuing to drive economic diversity, enhancing excellent local and regional partnerships, proactively planning and managing infrastructure investment, improving safety, and encouraging citizen engagement. Critical infrastructure projects include water/wastewater treatment plant expansion, a new public safety building, road improvements, and other capital projects. An ability to proactively assess issues and seek innovative solutions, including maintaining and developing partnerships, will be critical for success. A track record of innovation in delivering on strategic initiatives and increasing collaborations, effective governance, and service delivery is essential.
Key priorities for the next City Manager are:
- Enhance the manager/staff relationship and partnership with the City Council to improve collaboration and trust while also establishing, preserving, and protecting the reputation and image of the City and ensuring quality customer service delivery.
- Strategically and swiftly evaluate the social determinants of poverty, the unhoused, mental health challenges, and crime that impact the viability and vitality of the community by prioritizing safe, secure environments for residents and businesses to flourish through leveraging intergovernmental and private-public partnerships.
- Facilitate fiscal health and excellence through strategic leadership and innovation that ensures compliance with all required reporting, educating stakeholders on the impact of fiscal decisions on project adoption and completion, staff attraction and retention, economic development, job development, affordable housing, infrastructure maintenance, and planning; and,
- Conduct an organizational assessment to evaluate operations, staffing, and programs to ensure outstanding customer service, fiscal responsibility, and achievement of strategic objectives.