West Marin Municipal Services Manager

Posting number: 0305-26-09

Department: Office of the County Executive

Job classification: Principal Administrative Analyst

Posting type: Open

Categories: Community Services, Community Development

Summary

The Office of the County Executive is responsible for implementing the policy direction of the Marin County Board of Supervisors and supporting the effective delivery of public services across 22 departments. The office provides leadership on countywide initiatives, coordinates interdepartmental and cross-jurisdictional programs.

Our work includes advancing the Board’s strategic priorities, overseeing the County’s $902 million budget, and leading cross-cutting efforts in housing, climate, equity, economic vitality, state and federal legislative advocacy, emergency preparedness, homelessness, and more.

Examples of duties

The West Marin Municipal Services Manager (Principal Administrative Analyst classification) is part of the Office of the County Executive’s newly established Economic Vitality and Municipal Services division. The West Marin Municipal Services Manager serves as a key liaison between the Office of the County Executive, County departments, public agencies, community organizations, and residents to advance strategic priorities and investments, strengthen economic and community vitality, and improve County services throughout unincorporated West Marin.

The West Marin Municipal Services Manager (“Manager”) is part of a four-person team that also includes a Marin City Municipal Services Manager (Principal Administrative Analyst, currently filled), an Administrative Analyst III (currently vacant)– all three positions reporting to a Director of Economic Vitality and Municipal Services. A key part of this role will be connecting the County’s Economic Vitality work with the distinct needs, assets, and opportunities of West Marin. Economic vitality looks different across Marin’s varying in communities, and in West Marin, it is closely connected to affordable and workforce housing, agricultural lands, small businesses, access to jobs and employment resources, mitigating visitor impacts, and the long-term resilience of rural communities. The Manager will work closely with the Economic Vitality and Municipal Services team to ensure implementation of the County’s Economic Vitality Roadmap is responsive to West Marin’s needs.

The Manager will lead complex projects involving housing, public infrastructure, community investment, agriculture, economic vitality, and other priorities affecting West Marin communities. The position will combine sophisticated research and analysis with cross-departmental coordination to evaluate community needs, assess County programs and investments, develop policy and funding recommendations, and help County leadership make informed decisions about West Marin priorities and the strategic deployment of public resources.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Coordinating implementation across County departments and partner agencies and briefing the County Executive and Board of Supervisors on significant West Marin issues.
• Conducting complex policy, programmatic, operational, and fiscal analyses and translating findings into practical recommendations.
• Independently preparing Board of Supervisors staff reports, executive briefings, policy recommendations, presentations, and other materials with minimal supervisory oversight.
• Analyzing County spending and investments in West Marin and identifying opportunities to better coordinate and strategically deploy resources.
• Reviewing special district governance, services, budgets, revenues, expenditures, and financial capacity.
• Researching and evaluating local, state, federal, and philanthropic funding opportunities for infrastructure and community priorities.
• Collecting and analyzing data to assess community needs, service delivery, program effectiveness, and potential policy alternatives.

This is a highly collaborative and analytical position requiring the ability to move between community engagement, public policy, financial and technical analysis, report writing and presentation, and implementation. The Manager will be expected to develop a deep understanding and connection to the West Marin’s communities and needs and translate that understanding into actionable County strategies and investments.

The Manager will serve as a visible, trusted, representative of the County in West Marin. This is a professional role that helps carry out the policies and priorities established by the Board of Supervisors, communicates County programs and decisions clearly and accurately, listens to community concerns, exercises sound judgement, and connects residents and partners with appropriate County departments and resources. Building credibility and maintaining productive relationships with West Marin communities will be essential to the role.

The position will regularly work from and be present in West Marin 1-2 days per week, providing a County presence and building sustained relationships with residents, community organizations, businesses, special districts, and other local partners. The remaining days the Manager will be onsite at the Marin County Civic Center, with flexibility for remote work one day per week.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and implement the West Marin Infrastructure Fund, a Board-established funding initiative supporting strategic capital investments in West Marin. The Fund addresses infrastructure needs associated with visitor impacts while also supporting priorities such as improvements to community facilities, public safety infrastructure, and other critical local assets. This includes evaluating potential investments, analyzing project costs and funding opportunities, coordinating with County departments and outside agencies, developing recommendations, monitoring funded projects, and helping leverage County resources with state, federal, philanthropic, and other funding sources.
• Serve as a principal liaison between the Office of the County Executive and County departments providing services in West Marin, helping identify gaps, resolve complex issues, and ensure County investments and programs respond effectively to community needs. This requires close coordination with Public Works, Community Development Agency (planning and zoning, environmental health, housing), Marin County Parks, Marin County Fire, Agricultural Weights and Measures, economic vitality, communications, and other County functions.
• Serve as a central point of connection for West Marin’s special districts and external public agencies, including federal, state, and local land managers whose decisions and services significantly affect West Marin communities.
• Help advance West Marin priorities for the County’s Economic Vitality Roadmap, working closely with the Director to identify and advance opportunities appropriate to West Marin’s rural communities and economy. This includes affordable and workforce housing, job and employment resources, small business support, agricultural vitality and diversification, visitor impacts, workforce needs, and other strategies.
• Lead and coordinate projects addressing some of West Marin’s most significant long-term challenges and opportunities, including:
  • Septic and wastewater infrastructure, including evaluating financing strategies and community-scale solutions.
  • Housing, including partnerships with nonprofit affordable housing organizations.
  • Community facilities and public safety infrastructure, including identifying and advancing priority capital investments.
  • Agriculture and working lands, including opportunities to strengthen and diversify agricultural businesses and products.
  • Local business and economic diversification, in coordination with County economic vitality and community development efforts. This includes supporting local efforts to revitalize the West Marin Chamber.
• Current ongoing projects and initiatives: Local Agency Management Program (LAMP), West Marin Visioning, Economic Vitality Roadmap, Point Reyes National Seashore Settlement, West Marin Connect, County Services Closer to Home.

For additional information, please view the West Marin Municipal Services Manager recruitment brochure here.

Qualifications

Our ideal candidate is a strategic problem solver, skilled analyst, and trusted public-sector professional who is equally comfortable conducting detailed analysis and representing the County in the community.

Our highly qualified candidate:

• Brings strong research, writing, financial analysis, and project management skills. Can independently lead complex projects from research and analysis through recommendation and implementation.
• Is a confident public speaker who can represent the County professionally in community meetings and public forums and can explain complicated policies, programs, funding decisions, and government processes clearly.
• Builds trust with residents and community partners while maintaining the objectivity and professionalism of County staff.
• Develops productive relationships with people and organizations that may have strongly differing perspectives and is comfortable navigating contentious or politically sensitive issues.
• Listens carefully to community concerns and effectively communicates those perspectives back to County departments and leadership to shape initiatives and services to be responsible to community needs.
• Can move comfortably between community engagement, technical and financial analysis, interdepartmental coordination, and executive-level briefings.
• Is genuinely interested in developing a deep understanding and connection to the West Marin’s distinct communities, geography, economy, infrastructure, and public-service needs.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Any combination of education, training and experience that would provide the required knowledge and skills. A typical way to qualify is equivalent to graduation from a four-year college or university with major coursework in business or public administration, public policy, computer science or a field related to the work and four years of experience in the assignment area performing professional-level administrative, budgetary, operational or organizational analysis. One of the years of experience must have included functioning in a lead and/or project lead capacity.

KNOWLEDGE OF

• Principles and practices of program development and administration in a public agency.
• Principles of management analysis necessary to analyze, recommend and evaluate programs, administrative policies, organizational structures.
• Long range financial projecting and forecasting techniques; public financing methods.
• Principles and practices of project management and employee supervision, including work planning and staff training.
• Principles and practices of public policy development and implementation.
• Organization, function and administrative structure of public agencies, including the role of an elected Board.
• Practices of contract negotiation and administration.
• Applicable laws, codes and regulations.
• Data analysis and statistical sampling techniques as well as computer applications related to the work.

ABILITY TO

• Manage or coordinate county-wide projects and studies such as strategic planning initiatives and processes; identify the need for policy development and manage the process by which agency-wide or interagency policies are proposed and implemented; facilitate high levels of inter-departmental coordination and cooperation.
• Plan, supervise, review and evaluate the work of staff.
• Provide training in work procedures.
• Define problems, including those of a sensitive or political nature; collect, analyze, interpret and evaluate data; define and select alternatives, establishing rational for and projecting consequences of decisions and or recommendations.
• Lead or assist in the negotiation of agreements between County departments or agencies.
• Interpret, apply and explain laws, rules, regulations and policies.
• Use sound, independent judgment within general policy guidelines.
• Organize own work and meet critical deadlines.
• Prepare clear, concise and accurate reports, correspondence, policies, procedures and other written materials.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of the work.
• Represent the County effectively in meetings with groups and individuals, including making effective oral presentations.

Supplemental information

For any questions concerning this position announcement, please contact Alisa Samuel at Alisa.Samuel@marincounty.gov.

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Testing and Eligible List: Depending on the number of qualified applications received, the examination may consist of a highly qualified review, application screening, online assessment, written examination, oral examination, performance examination, or any combination to determine which candidates' names will be placed on the eligible list. The eligible list established from this recruitment may be used to fill the current vacancy, and any future vacancies for open, fixed-term, full-time, part-time or contingent positions which may occur while the list remains active.
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