Description
Salary: $103,506 - $155,246
Position Grade: 224M
Department: Community Development Administration
Job Type: Full-Time (Permanent)
Examination Number: EX1712
Location: Downtown - St. Louis, MO
Incumbents in this position are responsible for leading management, coordinating, facilitating, and advising the development, implementation, monitoring, and improvement of local government policies, plans, programs, and environmental initiatives.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- Leads the implementation of program operations and oversight of funding initiatives related to North St. Louis Neighborhood Improvements.
- Assists with the implementation of an existing CDBG-DR program and leads prospective CDBG-DR funding and related programs.
- Assists with various aspects of the HUD’s annual CDBG, HOPWA and ESG funding within the City's appropriation structure pursuant to the CDA HUD mandated Annual Action Plan.
- Assists with CDBG grant application and award activities, including technological aspects.
- Directs all aspects of HUD timeliness and HUD requirements regarding complete and accurate IDIS reporting.
Leads all aspects of redeployment and objectives of the Economic Development sales tax funding.- Directs production oversight of Environmental Review staff personnel.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Data Utilization: Requires the ability to perform mid to upper-level data analysis including the ability to coordinate, strategize, systemize and correlate, using discretion in determining time, place and/or sequence of operations within an organizational framework. Requires the ability to implement decisions based on such data, and overseeing the execution of these decisions.
- Human Interaction: Requires the ability to manage and direct a large group of employees, including first-line supervisors. Oversees and controls employee discipline, selection and allocation, and planning of human resources.
- Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use: Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or provide simple but continuous adjustment on equipment, machinery and tools such as computer terminal, telephone, calculator, computer printer and/or materials used in performing essential functions.
- Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a variety of reference, descriptive and advisory data and information such as financial statements, budgets, requisitions, purchase orders, contracts, personnel policies, overtime requests, payroll records, performance evaluations, program manuals, real estate documents, maps, legal documents, public notices, program forms, computer software operating manuals, regulations, ordinances, statutes, procedures, guidelines and non-routine correspondence.
- Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; calculate percentages, and decimals; interpret descriptive statistical reports.
- Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or synthesis functions involving planning and directing of interrelated activities or multiple departments. Ability to deal with several concrete and abstract variables in working out approaches to major problems.
- Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the direction, control and planning of an entire program or multiple programs.
- Environmental Factors: Work is normally performed in an office environment under generally safe and comfortable conditions where exposure to irate individuals poses a very limited risk of injury.
- Physical Requirements: None.
- Sensory Requirements: None.
Qualifications
A Bachelor’s degree in Urban Planning or Policy, Business or Public Administration, Civil Engineering, Architecture, or a directly related field; plus five years of experience managing/monitoring federally assisted urban programs. OR an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
Scoring Components and Their Weights
Experience and Training: 100%
May be Subject to:
Background Investigation: Pass/Fail
Medical Examination: Pass/Fail
Documentation of Academic Credentials must be Submitted Upon Request
When completing the Employment History and the Educational/Training History sections of the Employment Application, please be as thorough as possible when describing your education, training and experience relating to this position. Applicants will only receive credit for their experience, training and education as shown on the application. Resumes will not be accepted as a substitute to a fully completed application. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
Veterans Preference Points
To be eligible for veteran's preference points, the applicant must submit a copy of their DD 214 Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty with the Employment Application or upon request. The Director of Personnel may, in their discretion, accept alternate documentation.
City Residence Preference Points
City residents who pass an examination for a position in the classified service and do not receive any other preference will receive a five (5) point preference on a scale of 100 points on the exam. An additional one (1) point shall be added to the passing score of City residents who receive any other preference on a scale of 100 points. City residents must have resided in the City for at least one (1) year at the time of filing their application to be eligible for the preference points.
Accommodations
If assistance with the job application is necessary based on a physical impairment, mental impairment, or otherwise, they should reach out to the Office on the Disabled with contact information. This office will not disclose any information that an applicant or employee has a disability or has discussed possible accommodations without the applicant's or employee's prior consent.
