Experience and Education: Two years of increasingly responsible journey level professional administrative and management analysis experience preferably within a local government environment supplemented by a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in public administration, business administration, or a field related to area of assignment. An equivalent combination of experience and education sufficient to perform the essential job functions and provide the required knowledge and abilities is qualifying.
 

Knowledge of: Principles and practices of public administration; organization and operation of municipal government; municipal government functions specifically related to program area; operational characteristics, services, and activities of assigned significant program area; advanced principles and practices of program development and administration; advanced organizational and management practices as applied to the analysis and evaluation of programs, policies, and operational needs related to area of assignment; principles and practices of contract negotiation, preparation, and monitoring; principles and applications of critical thinking and analysis; techniques and formulae for administrative, financial, and comparative analyses; methods and techniques of effective technical, administrative, and financial record keeping, report preparation, and presentation; recent developments, research methods, current literature, and sources of information related to assigned programs and service areas; terminology used in area of assignment; advanced principles and practices of budget preparation and administration and grant application and administration principles and practices; finance and accounting systems; principles of business letter writing; federal, state, and local government organizations; pertinent federal, state, and local laws, codes, and regulations; principles of lead supervision and training may be required for some position; office procedures, methods, and equipment including computers and applicable software applications such as word processing, spreadsheets, and databases; principles, trends, methods, and techniques used in customer service, public relations, public information, and program education and promotion; English usage, spelling, grammar, and punctuation.