Employment Opportunities
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Union Status: AFSCME
Salary Range : 21 ($33.421 – $50.132)
Safety Sensitive: No
General Definition of Work
Performs complex administrative work planning, organizing, implementing, and directing economic development programs and activities to promote growth of the City's economic base, and related work as apparent or assigned. Work involves setting policies and goals under the direction of the Deputy City Manager. Divisional supervision is exercised over all personnel within the division.
Supervision Received
Works under the general guidance and direction of Department or Division Director.
Supervision Exercised
Provides supervision to assigned staff.
Qualification Requirements
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. A position may not include all of the duties listed and the listed examples are not an exhaustive list of the duties that may be found in a position of this class.
Essential Functions
- Administers Santa Fe Housing Program (SFHP) Chapter 26; meets with developers, sets up agreements, participates on DRT, attends Planning Commission, monitors compliance, and initiates enforcement actions.
- Administers fee for service contracts with housing providers and project/program contracts funded through Affordable Housing Trust Funding (AHTF).
- Conducts research, analysis, and policy development to support planning, funding, and housing development as per the New Mexico Affordable Housing Act.
- Oversees Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) administration to include ensuring compliance with U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) planning, reporting, accounting, and subrecipient contract administration.
- Provides policy support to the Governing Body; responds to public enquiries about affordable housing; participates in community discourse and events; serves as liaison with industry groups, nonprofit partners, and other governmental agencies.
- Recruits and selects department personnel; assigns, directs, trains, and inspects the work of staff; rewards, disciplines, coaches, counsels, and evaluates staff performance; develops staff schedules; recommends transfers, promotions, suspensions, terminations, and demotions.
- Prepares, justifies, and/or administers the budget for program areas; plans, administers, and monitors expenditures to ensure cost-effective support of programs and policies; assesses financial condition of an organization.
- Develops goals, documents performance, reviews, develops, and/or modifies work plans, methods, and procedures, determines work priorities.
- Provides work instruction, assists employees with difficult and/or unusual assignments, and encourages innovation.
- Resolves problems, mediates conflicts encountered during daily operations, determines appropriate solutions, and promotes teamwork.
- Encourages regular communication and informs staff of relevant business issues and their impact on the organization.
- Develops work schedules to provide adequate staff coverage and approves leave and timesheets.
- Assigns and distributes work, reviews work for accuracy and completeness, and returns assignments with recommendations for proper completion.
- Provides performance feedback and formally evaluates the work of employees.
- Conducts hiring interviews and selects candidate(s) for job opening(s).
- Provides reward and recognition for proper and efficient performance.
- Assists staff to achieve performance standards and identifies opportunities for continual improvement and development to performance standards.
- Documents causes for disciplinary action, initiates letters of reprimand, and makes formal recommendations for disciplinary action.
- Responds to formal and informal employee grievances and prepares written responses.
- Ensures staff is attending training, including safety training on a regular basis.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Attention to Detail – Ability to be thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.
- Coaching – Provides others with clear direction, motivates, and empowers. Recruits staff of a high caliber and provides staff with development opportunities and coaching.
- Conflict Management – Manages and resolves conflicts, grievances, confrontations, or disagreements in a
constructive manner to minimize negative personal impact.
- Customer Service – Ability to interact with customers in a friendly and professional manner, ability to work to resolve issues quickly and effectively, and is knowledgeable about products and services.
- Deciding and Initiating Action – Takes responsibility for actions, projects, and people; makes quick, clear decisions which may include tough choices, after considering risks.
- Decision Making – Specifies goals and obstacles to achieving those goals, generates alternatives, considers risks, and evaluates and chooses the best alternative in order to make a determination, draw conclusions, or solve a problem.
- Delivering Results – Ability to set high standards for quality, quantity, and timelines. Focuses on customer needs and satisfaction. Consistently achieves project goals.
- Financial Management - Prepares, justifies, and/or administers the budget for program areas; plans, administers, and monitors expenditures to ensure cost-effective support of programs and policies; assesses financial condition of an organization.
- Interpersonal Skills – Ability to show understanding, respect, friendliness, courtesy, tact, empathy, cooperation, concern, and politeness to others and relate well to different people from varied backgrounds and different situations.
- Learning – Uses efficient learning techniques to acquire and apply new knowledge and skills; uses training, feedback, or other opportunities for self-learning and development.
- Manages and Organizes Information - Identifies a need; gathers, organizes, and maintains information; determines its importance and accuracy, and communicates it by a variety of methods.
- Mathematical Reasoning – Solves practical problems by choosing appropriately from a variety of mathematical and statistical techniques.
- Oral Communication – Expresses information to individuals or groups effectively; taking into account the audience and nature of the information; makes clear and convincing oral presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.
- Planning and Evaluating – Organizes work, sets priorities, determines resource requirements, determines short or long-term goals and strategies to achieve them, coordinates with other organizations or parts of an organization, monitors progress, and evaluates outcomes.
- Reading – Understands and interprets written material, including technical material, rules, regulations, instructions, reports, charts, graphs, or tables; applies what is learned from written material to specific situations.
- Resilience – Deals effectively with pressure; remains optimistic and persistent, even under adversity. Recovers quickly from setbacks.
- Skills in computer software/applications/office technology - Knowledge of modern office practices, procedures, and the use of standard office equipment and machinery.
- Teaching Others – Helps others learn through formal or informal methods; provides resources to help teach others; acts as a mentor.
- Thinking Strategically – Thinks strategically and promotes best practices and leading-edge ideas.
- Writing – Writes in a clear, concise, and organized manner for the intended audience.
- Written Communication – Composes, reviews, edits, and issues written materials for diverse audiences and communicates purpose in a succinct and organized manner that is appropriate for context, time, and place.
Education Requirement
Master's degree in business or public administration, economics, urban planning, or related field.
Experience Requirement
Eight (8) years of progressively responsible experience in housing and urban development, preferably in a governmental setting, two (2) years of which must have been in a supervisory capacity.
Education and Experience Equivalency
An equivalent combination of education and experience. One (1) year of the appropriate type and level of experience may be substituted for each required year of post-high school education. Additional appropriate education may be substituted for the minimum experience requirements.
Licensure and Certifications
Must possess a valid driver's license.
Special Requirements
- Must obtain and maintain a City of Santa Fe driving permit within three (3) months of hire.
- Must have a valid driver's license in New Mexico.
- Must obtain membership with the American Planning Association – New Mexico (APA-NM) chapter within six months of hire.
Physical Requirements
- Mostly sedentary work.
- Preparing and analyzing written or computer data, operating motor vehicles or equipment and observing general surroundings and activities.
- Requires the exertion of up to 10 pounds of force.
- Requires speaking or hearing and using hands to finger, handle or feel, requires sitting, standing, walking, stooping, kneeling, crouching, or crawling, reaching with hands and arms and lifting.
- Standard vision requirements.
- Vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word and conveying detailed or important instructions to others accurately, loudly, or quickly.
- Hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken word levels and to receive detailed information through oral communications and/or to make fine distinctions in sound.
- Work requires preparing and analyzing written or computer data, using of measuring devices, operating motor vehicles, and observing general surroundings and activities.
- Work is performed in a typical office setting with appropriate climate controls.
- Work occasionally requires exposure to environmental conditions.
- Work is generally in a moderately noisy location (e.g., business office, light traffic).
- Requires attendance at evening meetings and special project deadlines outside the normal workweek.
- Some travel to off-site locations is required.
EEO/ADA Compliance
The City of Santa Fe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, the City will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities and encourages both prospective employees and incumbents to discuss potential accommodations with the employer.
Pursuant to City of Santa Fe Resolution No. 2013-079, the City of Santa Fe Human Resources Department has implemented a Veterans’ Hiring Initiative policy in order to provide opportunities for veterans who meet or exceed the minimum qualifications for city employment to obtain City employment. The Governing Body does not guarantee that a veteran shall be hired for the position being applied for, only that the veteran will be given an interview; and it does not intend to supersede or modify any collective bargaining agreement that is currently in place with the City of Santa Fe.
Job applicants who are veterans with an honorable discharge from the military or are members of the National Guard or Reserve who have successfully completed basic training, must use the Veterans’ Certification Form to identify themselves and then must attach a copy of their DD214 or DD215 and/or their proof of current Active, Guard or Reserve enlistment in order to certify their status for the position in which applying for.
Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of the city application form unless the position status is at-will. When required of the position, high school diploma/GED, college degree(s), certification(s), or license(s) must be attached at the time of submission of the application. Each applicant is considered only for the current vacancy indicated on the application submitted. It is the responsibility of the applicant to monitor any future openings and to submit a separate application for each position. Incomplete applications will not be considered. Applications become public record upon receipt and may be made available for public inspection upon request. Pre-placement physical exams, and drug and alcohol screenings are required for some positions.
This job announcement is not intended to be inclusive of all functions, responsibilities and qualifications associated with the position, however, representative of the essential job functions and typical criteria considered necessary to successfully perform the position. This position description does not constitute an employment agreement between the employer and employee and is subject to change by the employer as the needs of the employer and requirements of the position change.
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