Data is as of 6/15/2025.
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City of Austin - JOB DESCRIPTION

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Assistant Director, Budget & Organizational Excellence
FLSA: Executives/2 EEO Category: (10) Official/Adm
Class Code: 11177 Salary Grade: E00
Approved: Last Revised: April 25, 2025

Purpose:
 

Under general direction of the Director, this position assists the Director in planning, directing, and implementing the activities and operations of the Office of Budget & Organizational Excellence.
Duties, Functions and Responsibilities:
  Essential duties and functions, pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act, may include the following. Other related duties may be assigned.
  1. Develops and enforces processes to support the advancement, implementation, and administration of the City’s strategic planning efforts.
  2. Submits reports and develops revision recommendations for the Citywide strategic plan.
  3. Designs, tests, evaluates, and scales projects in programs that generate evidence to inform strategy, enhance operations, improve the quality of life in Austin, and serve as models for other communities.
  4. Develop and manage a life-cycle process for test projects, to include design, deployment, testing, and performance evaluation.
  5. Serve as a consultant and facilitator for customer departments and partner organizations seeking to develop new solutions to civic challenges.
  6. Develop and implement the City’s performance and innovation work plan guided by the citywide strategic plan and executive management priorities
  7. Forge partnerships with Local community groups, companies, universities, and school systems that can support the research and development of innovative solutions.
  8. Provide leadership in the City’s continuous improvement, performance measurement initiatives, and innovation activities to coordinate with City budget planning efforts to drive efficiencies.
Responsibilities - Supervisor and/or Leadership Exercised:
 

Responsible for the full range of supervisory activities including selection, training, evaluation, counseling and recommendation for dismissal.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
  Must possess required knowledge, skills, abilities, and experience and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.
  • Knowledge of best practices and available tools for insourcing, crowdsourcing and community-sourcing innovative solutions.
  • Knowledge of organization strategic planning.
  • Knowledge of principles and methods of management analysis and research.
  • Knowledge of fiscal planning, performance management and budget administration.
  • Knowledge of supervisory and managerial techniques and principles.
  • Knowledge of the principles of open government, transparency and community engagement.
  • Skill in recognizing transformational opportunities and applying them in a real-world setting.
  • Skill in planning and controlling the work of others.
  • Skill in collecting, analyzing and interpreting applicable research data.
  • Skill in oral and written communication.
  • Skill in identifying and securing alternative funding sources for projects.
  • Skill in facilitating organizational change initiatives.
  • Ability to inspire creative thought and problem-solving that can transform services to the community.
  • Ability to maintain effective communication and working relationships with Boards and Commissions, City executives, employees, and the partners.
  • Ability to develop strategic direction and program priorities collaboratively with multiple stakeholders.
Minimum Qualifications:
 
  • Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university, plus five (5) years of work experience that demonstrates organizational development, creative leadership, and change management skills including two (2) years in a supervisory or managerial capacity.
  • Graduation with a Master’s degree from an accredited college or university in a related field may substitute for non-supervisory/management experience up to a maximum of two (2) years.
Licenses and Certifications Required:
  None.

This description is intended to indicate the kinds of tasks and levels of work difficulty required of the position given this title and shall not be construed as declaring what the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position shall be. It is not intended to limit or in any way modify the right of management to assign, direct and control the work of employees under supervision. The listing of duties and responsibilities shall not be held to exclude other duties not mentioned that are of similar kind or level of difficulty.