Job Description

Job Title Manager II, Division Chief, Grade M2
Location Wheaton, MD, US
Organization Name Department of Recreation
Medical Exam Medical History
Background Investigation Yes
Financial Disclosure Yes


Montgomery County Recreation is a culturally rich and award-winning agency serving 1.1 million residents located just outside of our nation\'s capital. The Department is seeking a dynamic, collaborative, and innovative leader to serve as its next Administrative Division Chief. This executive level position provides management, organizational development, and administrative oversight to a department who strives to ensure high quality recreation is universally accessible. Work in this position requires a strong business acumen combined with an advanced understanding of recreation operations and program management including budget, finance, technology solutions, and workforce development. If you are an intellectually curious, well-organized, detail-oriented, collaborator willing to lead the organizations backbone and possess a strong desire to make a community impact, then this position may be right for you! Recreation is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals and values diverse perspectives, lived experiences, and cultures. Recreation encourages BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color), immigrants, women, LGBTQIA+, individuals with disabilities and veterans to apply.

The successful candidate in this position will:

• Maintain awareness of new trends and technologies; stay current on industry literature; maintain professional affiliations; and represents Montgomery County as an industry leader.
• Extensive knowledge of the principles, methods and challenges of organization and management.
• Acquires a detailed understanding of the organization\'s hierarchy, jobs, qualifications, compensation practices, and the administrative practices related to those factors.
• Assists in planning, directing and coordinating the department\'s work plan through subordinate managers; develops and implements goals, objectives, policies and priorities for each service area; assigns projects and programmatic areas of responsibility; meets with staff to identify and resolve problems.
• Create a positive work culture that promotes personal accountability to include reward, promotion, transfer, discipline, suspension, or discharge of personnel.
• Develops solutions, programs and policies by analyzing trends and key metrics across the Department.
• Effectively plan, develop, and manages large-scale operating and capital improvement budgets to include preparation, coordination, implementation, and regular evaluation.
• Display a high level of self-awareness, adaptability, and organizational awareness in a demanding environment with competing and changing priorities.
• Cultivate strong collaborative relationships and communicates effectively with internal and external stakeholders, agency representatives, elected officials, and community members.
• Represent the Department at meetings with elected or appointed officials, boards, commissions, and community groups, will provide analytical guidance and advise executive officials on industry best practices.
• Demonstrate ability to move between strategic thinking and tactical execution without disrupting service delivery.

The Division Chief is a key member of the Department\'s leadership team responsible for supervising and maintaining the stability of a significant portion of the Department\'s workforce by modeling desired behaviors through consistent and positive work ethic; by providing direction and guidance through clear articulation of priorities; and by advocating on behalf of the Director and leadership team. As a manager/supervisor of unionized employees, this position has a responsibility for fostering a positive labor relations environment based on mutual trust, respect, and cooperation.

This position frequently requires work beyond the typical 40 hours and during non-traditional hours to include early mornings, evenings, weekends, holidays, and in varying weather environments. This position is considered "Essential," and must be available to handle emergencies during working and non-working hours and must report to work during a period of general emergency or liberal leave.

To ensure a positive workplace and to comply with federal, state and County laws, the incumbent is responsible for completing mandatory trainings within the first three to six months or within the specified timeframe.

If selected for consideration for this position, you may be required to provide evidence that you possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities indicated on your resume.

Additional Employment Information

OHR reviews the minimum qualifications of all applicants, irrespective of whether the candidate has previously been found to have met the minimum requirements for the job or been temporarily promoted to the same position. This evaluation is based solely on the information contained in the application/resume submitted for this specific position/IRC.

Montgomery County Government is an equal opportunity employer, committed to workforce diversity. Accordingly, as it relates to employment opportunities, the County will provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, in accordance with the law. Applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process should contact the Office of Human Resources via email to . Individual determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made in accordance with all applicable laws.

Montgomery County Government also provides hiring preference to certain categories of veterans and veterans/persons with a disability. For more information and to claim employment preference, please refer to the Careers webpage on .

All applicants will respond to a series of questions related to their education, relevant experience, knowledge, skills and abilities required to minimally perform the job. The applicant\'s responses in conjunction with their resume and all other information provided in the employment application process will be evaluated to determine the minimum qualifications and preferred criteria status. Based on the results, the highest qualified applicants will be placed on an Eligible List and may be considered for an interview. Employees meeting minimum qualifications who are the same grade will be placed on Eligible List as a "Lateral Transfer" candidate and may be considered for interview.

If selected for consideration for this position, you may be required to provide evidence that you possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities indicated on your resume.

Montgomery County Ethics Law: Except as provided by law or regulation, the County\'s "Public Employees" (which does not include employees of the Sheriff\'s office) are subject to the County\'s ethics law including the requirements to obtain advanced approval of any outside employment and the prohibitions on certain outside employment. The outside employment requirements of the ethics law can be found at . Additional information about outside employment can be obtained from the website.
Minimum Qualifications

Experience: Seven years of progressively responsible professional experience in the management field, three years of which were in a supervisory or executive capacity. Note: The term "executive" is further defined as a high echelon or high-level position in an organization that is assigned technical research, management advisory services responsibilities, or policy-making duties and responsibilities that exerts considerable influence on organizational policy, plans, and operations through technical research, management advisory services, and/or policy-making duties and responsibilities (e.g., County positions at Grade 30 or above).

Education: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor\'s degree.

Equivalency: An equivalent combination of education and experience may be substituted.
Preferred Criteria

There is no Preferred Criteria. All applicants will be reviewed by OHR for minimum qualifications. Those applicants who meet minimum qualifications will be rated Qualified, placed on the Eligible List, and may be considered for an interview.

Preference for interviews will be given to applicants with experience in the following:

• Experience in applying the principles and practices of contract administration, budget and financial management, grant management, and human resources management, including recruitment, salary decisions, personnel actions, management and supervision of a diverse workforce in a mixed union/nonunion environment.
• Experience in strategic planning and systems building.
• Experience making presentations to elected officials and senior management, including but not limited to defending budgets and controversial project assignments.
• Experience in leading, supervising and managing employees and teams, including personal philosophy on leadership.

Minimum Salary
Maximum Salary
Currency USD

READY TO APPLY? Visit and follow the instructions.

|

Montgomery County Maryland Government