Description

The City Secretary plays a central role in municipal governance—serving as the official record keeper, elections administrator, and a key link between City Management, staff, and the public. The role requires precision, discretion, and strong communication skills.

Requirements

Education and Experience:

• Work requires knowledge of a specific vocational, administrative, or technical nature that may be obtained with six-months/one year of advanced study or training past the high school equivalency. Community college, vocational, business, technical or correspondence schools are likely sources.
• Over three years up to and including five years of experience is required. Texas Registered Municipal Clerk certification required or able to obtain within one year.

Employment is conditional upon successful completion of a criminal background check.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Work requires the occasional direction of helpers, assistants, seasonal employees, interns, or temporary employees.
• Decisions regarding implementation of policies may be made. Contact may involve support of controversial positions or the negotiation of sensitive issues or important presentations. Contacts may involve stressful, negative interactions with the public requiring high levels of tact and the ability to respond to aggressive interpersonal interactions.
• This position normally performs the duty assignment according to his or her own judgment, requesting supervisory assistance only when necessary. Special projects are managed with little oversight and assignments may be reviewed upon completion.
• Work requires the use of standard technical skills appropriate to the work environment of the organization.
• The position prepares accounting, budget, employment, and/or purchasing documents; and completes research to justify language used in documents for a unit or division of a department. This position may recommend budget allocations.
• Intermediate ability to read papers, periodicals, journals, manuals, dictionaries, thesauruses, and encyclopedias. Intermediate ability to deal with system of real numbers, practical application of fractions, percentages, ratios, proportions and measurements.
• Intermediate ability to write reports, prepare business letters, expositions, and summaries with proper format, punctuation, spelling, and grammar, using all parts of speech.

Special Requirements:

• Must be able to attend Council meetings and other public meetings or social events.

Licenses and Certificates:

• Valid driver's license with good driving record and ability to maintain while employed.