administrative manager Milpitas, CA
Job description
The City of Milpitas is a progressive 13.63 square mile community that is known as the “Crossroads to Silicon Valley”. With a diverse residential population of approximately 80,000 that doubles with business activity and visitors during business hours, the City is recognized as home to several of the world’s major technology companies. Contributing to the City’s attraction to live and work are its diverse retail, dining, and transit oriented development and broad variety of public services. The City of Milpitas is home to the famous Great Mall of the Bay Area adjacent to the Milpitas Transit Center, the well-known Milpitas Square shopping center, and a multitude of outstanding recreational opportunities that includes aquatics, cultural arts, sports leagues and activities, and youth and senior programming and activities. The City of Milpitas seeks a communicative, ethical and experienced leader as a City Manager who is a practitioner of the Council-Manager form of government; will achieve the goals, objectives and mission of the City; understands how to effectively work with the City Council, staff and community fairly, equally and impartially; and a responsive and caring individual who listens, is politically astute, and engages with the City Council, staff and community. Furthermore, the successful candidate is a professional with integrity, honesty, and experience for overseeing the delivering government services; providing policy guidance recommendations; balancing all aspects of the City Manager’s roles and responsibilities; being transparent with all City Council members, and implementing City Council policy direction.
A typical way to obtain the knowledge and experience for serving as the City of Milpitas City Manager is 4 to 7 years of work in city government, management and administration at a senior and supervisory level such as a Department Head, Assistant City Manager and/or City Manager. A typical education is a Bachelor’s degree in business administration, public administration, or political science. A Master’s degree is desired. The City Manager is an at-will position under an employment agreement. The current salary is $334,367; placement is negotiable and dependent upon qualification and experience of the successful candidate.
Filing deadline: August 18, 2023
Resumes are acknowledged within 2 business days.
