DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
- Salary: $155,595 USD Annually
- Salary Top:$189,127
- Apply By: Oct 30, 2024
- Full Time
- Administration and Management
- Building and Safety
- Community and Economic Development
- Planning and Development
- Executive
- Management
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Summary
Appointed by the City Manager, the Director of Community Development is responsible for planning, organizing, directing, and administering the activities and operations of the City’s Community Development Department. The position has full responsibility for providing direct oversight and support of all development, planning, building and safety, project management activities, budgeting and other related activities for the department.
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Job Description
The Director of Community Development’s essential responsibilities include: direct, oversee and participate in the development of the departments work plan, redevelopment activities, land acquisition and disposition, financing, marketing, housing and commercial rehabilitation, business retention and attraction, and infrastructure improvement and ensures compliance with environmental laws; manage operations of the Lawndale Housing Authority, Successor Agency to the Lawndale Redevelopment Agency, Oversight Board; research and prepare technical and administrative reports and studies; prepare and present reports to City Council, Planning Commission and other community stakeholders; direct and oversee economic development activities, housing and commercial rehabilitation, business retention and attraction, and related programs; develop and monitor department’s budget; monitor work flow; respond to and resolve difficult and sensitive inquiries and complaints; review and interpret government regulations and requirements; select, train and evaluate personnel; prepare consultant requests for proposals and bid documents; direct, coordinate and oversee the activities of Los Angeles County contract staff; negotiate and execute a variety of contracts and agreements; provide provides complex administrative support to the City Manager; represent the City and department to outside groups and organizations; and perform other related duties as assigned. This position is "at-will" and serves as a member of City’s Central Management Team (executive team).
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Job Requirements
The ideal candidate must possess a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in urban and regional planning, architecture, political science or a related field; five (5) consecutive years or more of increasingly responsible experience managing and administering activities and operations in planning and community development; AND two (2) years of supervisory experience. An equivalent combination of education and experience that demonstrates possession of the requisite knowledge, skills and abilities is qualifying. Possession of a Class C Driver’s License is required. A Master’s Degree and American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) certification is highly desirable.
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Special Instructions
APPLY IMMEDIATELY: Please submit an original City Employment application, resume, and cover letter to the Administrative Services/Human Resources Department located at 14717 Burin Avenue, Lawndale, California, 90260. Applications may be obtained from the City website at: www.lawndalecity.org or by contacting the City of Lawndale at (310) 973-3200.
All official City application materials will be screened and only the most qualified applicants, as reflected by their submitted application materials, will be invited to participate in the selection process. This recruitment is subject to close at any time, without prior notice (first application review scheduled for October 30, 2024). Please apply immediately
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ABOUT THE COMPANY
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CITY OF LAWNDALE
Show moreLawndale Blossoms
The construction culminated in the Dedication of the Lawndale Civic Center, which included a health clinic for this general area, on March 23, 1957. With the Civic Center area now dedicated, the desire for city hood accelerated into the key year of 1959. The debt to the Chamber of Commerce for their efforts in resisting the several annexation attempts must be fully realized. Incorporation was the crowning event in the years of community organizing ant the selfless work of many individual who bore a pride in Lawndale. The major cause of these annexation attempts was the desire of adjoining communities to increase their tax base. It can be said that all the efforts to identify Lawndale made it an attractive acquisition.The incorporation of Lawndale marked the end of a year and a half struggle with neighboring communities as to acquisition of the businesses along Hawthorne Boulevard, or the need to round out their boundaries. The concern of one neighboring council man went so far as to champion legislation aimed at preventing this and other incorporation's as fiscally unsound. Although this threat went as far as Sacramento, the question was finally resolved when the electorate voted three to one to form the City of Lawndale as a general law city following the Lakewood Plan. This plan provides contracting essential services through established county agencies when economically sound.
Today Lawndale continues to utilize County Fire, Sheriff, and Library services for the community and has maintained its independence in other areas of control. The Charter promise of 1959 of no City taxes has never been altered due to this continuing process of responsible financial policy.
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