Watershed Director II - DWM Office of Performance and Accountability

Posted until filled

Salary range: $85,180 - $141,898

At the City of Atlanta, we are passionate about building and improving our community. Our police officers, firefighters and building inspectors keep our citizens safe. Our Public Works staff keeps our City clean and helps maintain, build and improve our City’s infrastructure.  Our City planners help envision and shape future City growth. Our Parks & Recreation professionals enhance our quality of life. 

Our engineers help keep our drinking water clean, the largest airport in the world (by passenger volume) operating and our buildings maintained.  Along with the host of Finance, Procurement, and Human Resources professionals whose support is vital, we are the City of Atlanta!   If you are seeking a meaningful role where you can make a real difference improving and growing our City, we welcome you to explore the job opportunities we have to offer.

General Description and Classification Standards
Responsible for the overall administration and management of the City's Watershed, including program implementation, fundraising/grant writing, and business operations.  Areas of responsibility include planning and evaluation, policy and program development, personnel and fiscal management, and public relations. This is the highest level of strategic and/or operations management reporting to a top department executive or a department deputy.  Position manages a primary function of the department and recommends high level policy and procedure subject to department, mayoral, and/or Council approval.   This level would be expected to manage either a varied array of professionals and manager or a group of professionals in a City-wide administrative or operations function.  This is NOT a routine promotional level and the specific justification for classification at this level must be documented. 

Supervision Received
May work independently or as part of a team of managers that meet to discuss issues related to budgets, staff, policy, and operations. Direction received is very general and focuses on strategic objectives and is typically collaborative in nature.  This is a policy-making level of management and would be considered "upper middle" management.  

Essential Duties & Responsibilities 

These are typical responsibilities for this position and should not be construed as exclusive or all inclusive. May perform other duties as assigned.

Provides direct management responsibility for the day-to-day operations of the following functional areas; 
Revenue Forecasting, Budgeting (Operations and Capital), Cash Flow Management, Inter-jurisdictional Billing, 
Monthly Budget-to-Actual Reporting, General Accounting Operations, Fixed Asset Accounting, Accounts Payable, and Cash Collections. 

Manages the invoicing for the bureau of operations which includes invoicing for formal contracts, goods and services, and utilities and inter-jurisdictional expenses. Approves payroll for the distribution groups. 

Develops policy and write rules, regulations, and ordinances for environmental protection and land development in the City of Atlanta; interfaces with the mayor's office, City Council, and other departments for policy and technical issues; Resolves technical issues and make final determination regarding the application of Federal, State, and local requirements for land development. 

Manages the operation of Watershed Information Systems which provides IT and GIS support for the Department of Watershed Management. Areas of responsibility includes providing application, desktop, network and geographic information system (GIS) support. Oversees and manages the operation of Watershed Information Systems. 

Ensures both, the short-term and long-term financial health and viability of the Department; provides assurance related to the delivery of financial-related information to internal management, City Council, Bond Rating Agencies, and the department's bondholders; provides financial leadership and oversight of the department's annual financial audit. 

Ensures the City is in compliance with all state, federal, local & regional policies, laws and regulations pertaining to water conservation. Develops and maintains the City's Conservation Plan.

Provides positive leadership, working harmoniously with others in the Department and other organizations, and ensuring that the day-to-day activities.   

Manages the Site Development Division including producing the budget, managing the staff, and overseeing technical and engineering processes.  

Ensures the bureau of operations has all the necessary resources required to successfully complete job assignments in financial, human and administrative related are