Sr. Administrative Services Manager

Pay Range: $93,574 - $121,646 annualized

Job Posting Closing on: Tuesday, June 3, 2025  📅

Workdays & Hours: Monday – Friday 8am – 5pm; Some evening/weekend work required.

Benefits for this position include: 11 Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, Professional Development Opportunities. Find out More!

The City of Fort Worth is one of the fastest growing large cities in the U.S. Our employees serve the needs of nearly 1,000,000 residents, promoting our values of exceptional customer experience, mutual respect, embracing our diversity, continuous improvement, ethical behavior, and accountability. 🌆

A Sr. Administrative Services Manager job is available with the City of Fort Worth Human Resources Department.

This position oversees the department’s combined operating budget of approximately $175 million. The position will supervise administrative department operations and manages a staff of eight employees. The successful candidate will have an in-depth knowledge of the principles and practices of government finance, personnel management, procurement and budgeting including a thorough knowledge of relevant federal, state, and local laws and rules.  The candidate will also have knowledge and experience in human resources coordination.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Business Management, Public Administration, Business Administration, Human Resources or related field.
• Four (4) years of complex administrative, fiscal, personnel and management
• Two years in a supervisory capacity.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous experience with municipal budgets.
• Experience with Risk and Health Fund management.
• Advanced principles of municipal budget preparation, trend analysis, forecasting and control.
• Principles and practices of business administration and human resources management.
• Office equipment including computers and supporting word processing and spreadsheet applications.
• Computerized financial systems, budget software, and data analysis tools.

The Sr, Administrative Services Manager job responsibilities include:

• Supervises staff, which includes prioritizing and assigning work; conducting performance evaluations; ensuring staff is trained; ensuring employees follow policies and procedures; maintaining a healthy and safe working environment; and, making hiring, termination, and disciplinary decisions or recommendations.
• Develop and maintain cost allocation models and methodologies to distribute service costs; collaborate with departments to gather data, explain allocation results, and address inquiries or disputes.
• Lead the centralized procurement function within the department; support and guide departmental staff on procurement strategies and contract management best practices.
• Administers assigned contracts; negotiates and prepares complex requests for proposals or contracts with external professional service providers and vendors
• Oversees and participates in the development, analysis, formulation and administration of the department’s budget
• Identifies opportunities for improving service delivery methods and procedures; identifies resource needs; implements improvements.
• When assigned, manages the department’s strategic and business planning process to include the development and implementation of departmental goals, objectives, performance measures, policies and priorities for each assigned service and/or operational area; ensuring their alignment with the department’s strategic goals and organizational initiatives
• Provides complex staff guidance to the department’s senior management team; participates on a variety of committees; prepares and presents staff reports and other correspondence as appropriate and necessary.

Working Conditions and Physical Demand as stated on official City job description

Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically require touching, talking, hearing, seeing, grasping, standing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, walking and repetitive motions.

Sedentary Work – Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, a negligible amount of force frequently, and/or or constantly having to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.