The Position JOB SUMMARY: This executive-level position reports directly to the Department Director and is responsible for assisting with the administration and coordination of services related to various functions within the Parking and Code Compliance Department. The employee must demonstrate significant initiative and exercise independent judgment to address and resolve issues as they arise, ensuring that departmental operations remain effective, efficient, and safe. Responsibilities require the use of considerable independent judgment in implementing, interpreting, and applying policies, procedures, contracts, and ordinances while ensuring compliance with city, state, and federal laws. The Assistant Director’s performance is reviewed through meetings, written reports, and general oversight to ensure compliance with established policies and objectives.
The Requirements EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE: 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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Required:
Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in public or business administration, supplemented by two (5) years of supervisory experience in municipal administration, including experience managing code compliance administration or public parking in a central business district and tourism-based area, or an equivalent combination of training and experience.
Florida Association of Code Enforcement (FACE) Levels I, II, III Certifications or
Must obtain within twelve (12) months of hire
Preferred:
Master’s Degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in public or business administration, supplemented by five (5) years of supervisory experience in municipal administration.
Certified Administrator of Public Parking (CAPP)
Additional education and experience or an equivalent combination of training and experience may be substituted for the above requirements.
CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS : - Valid Driver’s License: With proof of automobile insurance
- Background Check: Must have an acceptable background record
- Driving Abstract: Must have an acceptable driving record
The Examination ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES: - Assist the Director in overseeing all Parking and Code Compliance staff.
- Manage and evaluate the day-to-day operations of staff, reviewing performance and analyzing work data to produce reports and studies that support operational improvements.
- Assist the Director in developing action plans and initiatives to enhance the effectiveness of parking and code compliance enforcement, focusing on areas such as housing, dangerous buildings, business licenses, signage, and health or safety violations.
- Serve as a key liaison between the Parking and Code Compliance department and other departments, external offices, and agencies; address and resolve complex inquiries, complaints, and sensitive or controversial issues.
- Participate in the development and management of the department’s annual budget, including forecasting needs for staffing, equipment, and materials; monitor expenditures and make necessary adjustments.
- Conduct field investigations, review officer reports, and prepare criminal complaints when required.
- Prepare and oversee cases for prosecution and testify in court or at Special Magistrate hearings regarding compliance actions.
- Coordinate and participate in community outreach and educational programs related to parking and code compliance, promoting awareness and understanding of city regulations.
- Conduct organizational and operational studies, recommending modifications to enhance department programs, policies, and procedures.
- Ensure compliance with departmental goals and operational policies, staying informed on current industry trends and best practices in parking and code enforcement at both local and national levels.
- Testify as an expert witness in lawsuits involving the City, providing professional insight into parking and code compliance matters.
- Prepare plans and specifications for the optimal use of parking sites, managing the site acquisition process and preparing data for negotiations.
- Overseeing departmental solicitation bids, managing contracts, and vendor relationships to ensure compliance with organizational standards, legal requirements, and the timely delivery of services and resources.
- Attend public meetings, address City Commission requests, prepare agenda items, and make presentations to the public and City Commission.
- Positively represent the City, fostering professional relationships with colleagues, leadership, and the public, while promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- Assist in the department’s Emergency Operations, including preparations, coordination during emergencies, and post-event activities to ensure departmental readiness.
- Performs related work as required.
Additional Information KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES: - Knowledge of transportation, mobility and parking principles and practices.
- Knowledge of management principles and methods.
- Knowledge of modern principles, practices and techniques in revenue control pertaining to the parking industry.
- Advanced knowledge of procedures involved in the enforcement of codes and regulations including methods and techniques of conducting and documenting field investigations.
- Extensive knowledge of court documents including procedures for citation issuance and obtaining various types of inspection warrants.
- Extensive knowledge of and ability to apply principles and practices of organization, management and personnel relations.
- Extensive knowledge of city services and organizational structure as they relate to code compliance.
- Knowledge of municipal, state and federal parking ordinances.
- Knowledge of local geography.
- Knowledge of engineering requirements and construction methods as it relates to the parking industry.
- Knowledge of the prerequisites of court adjudication.
- Ability to interpret parking laws and regulations; to read and interpret plans, blueprints and specifications.
- Ability to analyze data processing reports associated with revenue control and expenditure reports.
- Ability to prepare and present clear and concise administrative and technical reports.
- Ability to maintain current information on recent developments, literature, and trends in the parking industry.
- Ability to respond to citizen's complaints and inquiries in an impartial and professional manner.
- Ability to schedule, assign, supervise and provide training to subordinate personnel.
- Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, and to prepare concise and accurate reports and written recommendations.
- Ability to maintain effective working relationships with employees, City Officials, public agencies, and the general public.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective and professional relationships with work colleagues, supervisors, managers and the public.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical abilities described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to walk, sit, write, hear, speak and be required to exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. May require fingering: picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close and distance vision, peripheral, and depth perception. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
WORK ENVIRONMENT: Work is performed primarily in an office environment that requires the employee to be sensitive to change and responsive to changing goals, priorities, and needs.
SUMMARY OF BENEFITS FOR EXECUTIVE, MANAGEMENT, & TECHNICAL EMPLOYEES - Executive, Management, and Technical level employees shall accrue two hundred (200) hours of vacation leave per vacation year, except for vacation leave directly approved by the City Commission (the vacation leave year shall begin on October 1st and end on the following September 30th). Employees in these classifications shall be required to utilize eighty (80) hours of vacation during the vacation year for which it is earned or it will be lost at the end of the vacation year (In individual circumstances, the City Manager may determine that vacation that is unable to be used may be paid out rather than lost or may remain in the employees bank). The remaining days may be carried forward and must be used within fifteen (15) months following the vacation year in which the leave is earned or be liquidated by cash payment at the end of the fifteen (15) month period. Such leave that is liquidated by cash payment shall be paid at the employee's rate of pay when the vacation time was earned. Such leave shall be earned on an accrual basis of 7.69 hours per bi-weekly pay period, except for the leave directly approved by the City Commission.
- Executive, Management & Technical employees accrue eight (8) hours of sick leave per month with no limit on the amount that is accumulated. Accrued sick leave shall be terminally paid at the following rates in relationship to years of service with the City:
Accrued Sick Leave Payout
- Less than five (5) year 20% sick leave
- Five (5) to ten (10) years 40% sick leave
- Ten (10) or more years 80% sick leave
Upon the accumulation of 200 sick leave hours, all employees have the option of converting up to forty-eight (48) hours of sick leave to vacation leave.
Employees may participate in the City’s Sick Leave Pool Program upon the completion of one year of employment and with a minimum accumulation of ninety-six (96) hours of sick and/or vacation leave. This program entitles eligible employees to participate in extended sick leave benefits for cases involving non-work related catastrophic or long-term illnesses or injuries.
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- Executive, Management & Technical employees shall accrue forty (40) personal leave hours per fiscal year. The personal leave year shall begin on October 1st and end on the following September 30th. Personal leave days will not accumulate from year to year and cannot be liquidated by cash payment. In the first year, employees hired after October 1 through February 1 will accrue 30 hours personal leave. Employees hired after February 1 through June 1 will accrue 20 hours of personal leave during their first year. Employee hired after June 1 will not accrued any personal leave during their first personal leave year.
- Executive, Management & Technical employees will receive two paid wellness workdays (either 8 or 10 hour days) each fiscal year. These days are provided to promote well-being and wellness. These paid workdays must be used within the fiscal year in which they are earned or will be lost.
- Executive, Management & Technical employees may receive the following paid holidays:
New Year's Day |Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday |President's Day |Memorial Day |Juneteenth |Independence Day |Labor Day |Veteran's Day |Thanksgiving Day |Day after Thanksgiving |Christmas Eve |Christmas Day |New Year's Eve
- Executive, Management & Technical employees will receive 40 hours of paid bereavement leave in the event of an immediate family member passing.
- Executive, Management & Technical employees will receive longevity compensation added to their base salary for the following cumulative years of service with the City:
- 5 years of service 5%
- 10 years of service 3%
- 12.5 years of service 2.75%
- 15 years of service 2%
- Executive, Management & Technical employees and families shall be provided the option of coverage in the City’s health insurance plans. The City will contribute 80% of the premium for employees electing single or dependent coverage on the OAP plan and the employee will be responsible for contributing 20% of the premium; The City will contribute 100% of the premium for employees electing single coverage on the OAPIN plan. For employees adding dependents, the City will contribute 90% toward the premium and the employee will be responsible for contributing 10% of the premium. For 2024, the biweekly rates are as follows:
Enrollment Tier |
Medical OAP |
Medical OAPINEmployee Only |$87.89 |$0
Employee +1 |$175.78 |$39.34
Employee + 2 or More |$281.24 |$86.56
- Each member shall have the option of completing an annual wellness preventative physical through the City’s contracted provider currently named Life Scan with the costs of the scan paid for by the City up to $395 for each member which includes a comprehensive medical evaluation, ultrasound imaging, cardio-pulmonary assessments, vision and hearing test, and extensive laboratory blood profiles.
- Executive, Management & Technical employees shall be provided group dental with $19.00 of the monthly premium costs paid by the City. There are three benefit plan offerings. For 2024, the biweekly rates are as follows:
Enrollment Tier |
Dental DPPO Low |
Dental DPPO High |
Dental DPPO Buy UPEmployee Only |$5.17 |$21.37 |$25.11
Employee +1 |$14.80 |$40.68 |$46.82
Employee + 2 or More |$23.69 |$58.51 |$66.86
- Executive, Management & Technical employees shall have the option to purchase vision coverage through payroll deductions. Three plans are offered. For 2024, the biweekly rates are as follows:
Enrollment Tier |
VSP Option 1 |
VSP Option 2 |
VSP Option 3Employee Only |$2.36 |$3.87 |$4.44
Employee +1 |$4.73 |$7.73 |$8.87
Employee + 2 or More |$7.61 |$12.45 |$14.28
- Executive, Management & Technical employees will receive from the City a “use it or lose it” Health Reimbursement Account annually. The amount to the employee is determined by the employee’s medical enrollment status or if no coverage is elected then it will default to the lowest level. The level of the City contribution will be reevaluated once a year. The levels are: Single or no coverage = $400; Employee plus one = $600; and Employee plus two or more = $1000. In addition, the employee may establish and contribute to a Flexible Spending Account.
- The City and the employee will make contributions into the employee's Retiree Health Saving Account based on the employee's years of service as follows:
- From 1 - 9 years of service = $10 bi-weekly
- From 10 to 19 years of service from = $25 bi-weekly
- 20 or more years of service = $35 bi-weekly
- Executive, Management & Technical employees shall be provided with term life insurance of $100,000 with all premium costs paid by the City. Employees shall have the option of purchasing additional term life insurance at group rates up to an additional maximum amount of $475,000.
- Executive, Management & Technical employees receive Disability Salary Replacement Insurance that will provide for a 60% base salary benefit after a ninety (90) day waiting period. During the ninety (90) day waiting period, an employee may utilize accrued sick and vacation leave. Upon entering the program, the employee may continue to use sick and vacation leave to make up the difference between 60% of salary and 100% of salary.
- Executive, Management & Technical employees (except the City Manager and City Attorney) are required to participate in the City Pension Plan. All employees will be required to contribute 8% pretax dollars to the employee’s retirement fund. An employee is vested in the pension plan after seven years of continuous service. To be eligible for normal retirement an employee must be age 65 with 7 years of service, age 62 with 25 years of service or age 60 with 30 years of service. The service retirement annuity (pension) is equal to 2.5% of the employee's average salary for the highest 130 consecutive biweekly pay periods of credited service multiplied by the employee's years of credited service. To file a claim for benefits under the General Pension Plan or to receive a copy of the Plan or a copy of the Summary Plan Description (SPD), contact the COHERF Pension Office at 954-921-3333.
- Executive, Management & Technical employees are eligible to apply for tuition reimbursement in accordance with the following guidelines:
Graduate Benefit
Grade of B or Better 100% Reimbursement at State tuition rates
Grade of Pass 100% Reimbursement at State tuition rates
Undergraduate Benefit
Grade of C or Better 100% Reimbursement at State tuition rates
Grade of Pass 100% Reimbursement at State tuition rates
Reimbursement may not exceed $3,000 for any employee in any one fiscal year. Any coursework eligible for reimbursement must have a direct relationship to the job requirements of the employee’s position.
Reimbursement may only be provided for attendance at an accredited college or university. Employees enrolled in a technical or vocational institution shall not be eligible for tuition reimbursement under this program.
Reimbursement shall be available for books and course fees subject to the approval of the Department/Office Director and City Manager or designee. Tuition is subject to the approval of the Department/Office Director and City Manager or designee.
Employees who receive benefits under this program, who voluntarily leave the City's employment within two (2) years of receiving such benefit, shall be responsible for reimbursing the City for the entire cost of this benefit.
To the considered for Educational Reimbursement, all coursework must be properly approved prior to the beginning of the class by the Department/Office Director and the City Manager or designee.
- Executive employees may be provided with the use of a City vehicle or a car allowance of $400 per month. Management employees may be provided with the use of a City vehicle or a car allowance or $300 per month. Such benefit shall be determined at the sole discretion of the City Manager.
- Executive, Management & Technical employees may be provided with a cellular phone allowance of $70.00 per month. Such benefit shall be determined at the sole discretion of the City Manager.
- Executive, Management & Technical employees have the option of joining the Sun Credit Union.
- Executive, Management & Technical employees have the option of participating in payroll Direct Deposit.
- Executive, Management & Technical employees may enter a Deferred Compensation Program through payroll deduction.
- Executive, Management & Technical employees have the option of participating in Pre-paid Legal/ID Theft Protection Plans and Supplemental Insurance through voluntary payroll deductions.
- Executive, Management & Technical employees are eligible to participate in the City’s Work/Life Assistance Program offering a wide range of services and support.
- Executive, Management & Technical employees may have access the City’s fitness facility free of charge.
IMPORTANT NOTICE - This document ‘BENEFITS SUMMARY’, is intended only as a summary of some of the benefits employees may be entitled to as an employee of the City of Hollywood. This is NOT a legal document, does NOT represent any guarantees, and is subject to change at any time.
Closing Date/Time: 10/7/2024 11:59 PM Eastern
