Job Description

***This is an internal promotional recruitment, only open to City of Napa full-time classified employees.***

Are you eager to produce phenomenal work in the areas of leadership and parks maintenance? Do you have a passion for guiding a team and encouraging growth in others? Has your collaborative work style allowed you to bring value that has made positive impacts on your team? Join us and continue your work by contributing to your team and the community we serve! Our Parks and Recreation Services Department provides a variety of services for our community and is responsible for the operation and maintenance of a wide array of parks and recreation areas within 820 acres; including 55 parks, 26 miles of trails, an urban forest consisting of 30,000 trees, and several public facilities. The Department employs 43 full-time staff and 200 seasonal, part-time staff and volunteers. While this is an amazing opportunity to become a leader in our Parks Division, you will also become the main person of contact for all-things South Napa & Downtown Parks. In this role we hope that you will share your knowledge, become an expert, and work to keep our Parks pristine! In addition to meeting the qualifications listed below, ideal candidates for this role will have had success demonstrating:

• Building Trust - Interacts in a way that gives others confidence in their intentions and those of the organization.
• Planning and Organizing - Establishes a course of action to ensure work is completed efficiently through prioritizing, using resources, and staying focused.
• Decision-making - Identifies and understands issues, problems, and opportunities; compares information from different sources to draw conclusions and develop appropriate solutions.
• Safety Intervention - Knows conditions that affect the team or self under normal conditions and conditions that occur in crisis situations; skilled in identifying conditions that might cause hazards.
• Adaptability - Maintains efficiency when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment; adjusts effectively to work within new work structures, processes, requirements, or cultures; adapts quickly to change and easily considers new approaches.
• Interpersonal Communications - Develops and maintains effective relationships; relates well to people from varied backgrounds and in different situations; shows understanding, courtesy, tact, empathy, concern, and politeness.
• Customer Focus - Ensures that customer perspective is the driver behind work decisions and activities.
• Coaching & Developing Others - Guides others to make the most of their available skills and provides timely mentorship and feedback to help others strengthen specific knowledge/skill areas needed to accomplish a task or tackle a problem.
• Information Monitoring - Sets up ways to collect and review information needed to lead a group or the ongoing work activities within it.

This recruitment and examination is being conducted to fill one (1) full-time vacancy and may be used to fill future similar full-time vacancies as they occur during the active status of the employment list. The active status of this employment list will be at least six (6) months unless abolished sooner or extended beyond that date in accordance with the Civil Service Rules.

For a full, detailed job description of Park Maintenance Worker III, please click here.
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
**NOTE: IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT INTERNAL CITY OF NAPA APPLICANTS USE A PERSONAL EMAIL DURING THE APPLICATION PROCESS, RATHER THAN THEIR CITY OF NAPA EMAIL IN ORDER TO RECEIVE THE NECESSARY COMMUNICATIONS.***
SELECTION PROCESS


The City of Napa utilizes a Civil Service Selection System founded on merit. Such a system is competitive and based on broad outreach efforts and equal opportunity for qualified applicants to take part in a process designed to determine the qualifications, fitness and ability of competitors to perform duties of the vacant position. Many of our recruitments are targeted and specific to the needs of a current vacant position, in which case, an eligible list may be exclusively used for that current vacant position. Other recruitments and eligible lists may be more broadly used for both current and future vacancies, or for other alternate jobs with comparable scopes of work.

The promulgated eligibility list for this recruitment will be at least six months, unless extended or abolished sooner.

What happens next?

• We will review your application and all supplemental materials to select the best qualified applicants to continue in the process. Screening will include a review of minimum qualifications, application appraisal rating of education, training and experience and relevance of background qualifications related to the target job as well as supplemental questions if applicable.
• Applicants selected to move forward in the process may be asked to participate in any combination of the following (at any phase of the selection process): a written examination, job related exercise, phone interview, in-person interview(s), and/or web-based testing.
• Based on the City Charter, the final phase of the selection process is the Probationary Period, which in most cases is six (6) months, but may be twelve (12) months depending on your classification.
• When three or fewer candidates are available, the testing procedures outlined in the Job Announcement may be waived by the Human Resources Department.

Language Equity

• If you need assistance with the recruitment and selection process in Spanish, contact us at 707-257-9505. These request will be assessed on a case-by-case basis.
• Si necesita ayuda con el proceso de reclutamiento y selecci\xc3\xb3n en espa\xc3\xb1ol, cont\xc3\xa1ctenos al 707-257-9505. Estas solicitudes se evaluar\xc3\xa1n caso por caso.

Reasonable Accommodations: The City of Napa Human Resources Department will make reasonable efforts in the examination process to accommodate qualified disabled applicants. Individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation in the testing process must inform the HR Department in writing by the final filing date. A Reasonable Accommodation Request Form is available from HR and may be obtained by calling 707-257-9505, or dial 7-1-1 for the California Relay Service, offering free text-to-speech, speech-to-speech, and Spanish-language services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.


The City of Napa is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we believe that a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace will maximize our talents to benefit the residents we serve.