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

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Customer Care Program Manager
FLSA: Standard/Exempt EEO Category: (20) Professionals
Class Code: 11243 Salary Grade: ZU2
Approved: June 04, 2009 Last Revised: October 25, 2024

Purpose:
 

Under the direction of Customer Care, this position performs generalized financial, administrative, and systems management functions; responsible for providing managerial support to Shared Services divisions.
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. Participates in short and long range planning activities for Customer Account Management, Customer Care Services and Customer Energy Solutions; serves as an advisor in support of division initiatives.
  2. Develops, maintains, and monitors departmental budget; creates, compiles, and completes all budget documents for executive presentation.
  3. Manages purchasing procurement process; monitors contract services to ensure compliance with contractual obligations.
  4. Assists in the formulation of departmental polices and operating procedures.
  5. Evaluates program effectiveness and efficiency to meet departmental business goals.
  6. Recommends solutions to critical business issues and presents alternatives. 
  7. Prepares and presents reports, oversees the design of visual presentation materials, including charts and graphs to accompany reports.
  8. Coordinates all human resource activities for department to include employment and employee relations.
  9. Coordinates cross-functional projects and personnel to assess departmental requirements.
  10. Acts as the department liaison in the operations of divisions and other City departments.
Responsibilities - Supervisor and/or Leadership Exercised:
 
  • May provide leadership, work assignments, evaluation, training, and guidance to others.
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 business strategies, objectives, departmental goals, and initiatives.
  • Knowledge of fiscal planning and budget preparation.
  • Knowledge of supervisory and managerial techniques and principles.
  • Skill in determining needs and gathering, analyzing and presenting data to provide accurate information for management's use.
  • Skill in oral and written communication.
  • Skill in handling multiple tasks and prioritizing.
  • Skill in using computers and related software applications.
  • Skill in quantitative, qualitative, and financial data analysis, including statistics, and problem solving.
  • Ability to work with frequent interruptions and changes in priorities.
  • Ability to train others.
  • Ability to quickly recognize and analyze irregular events.
  • Ability to establish and maintain effective communication and working relationships with city employees and the public.
Minimum Qualifications:
 
  • Graduation with a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in Business Administration, Public Administration, or in a field related to the job, plus four (4) years of administrative/management experience.
  • Experience may substitute for education up four (4) 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.