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Description
Final Filing Date: July 23, 2025
The Position:
The Assistant City Manager works directly for the City Manager in the Office of the City Manager. The Office is responsible for the general management and oversight of Daly City’s municipal operations, including the North County Fire Authority and North San Mateo County Sanitation District. This involves service and coordination to multiple agencies and municipalities. Additionally, the general management of the operating and capital budgets;
financial planning for the municipal corporation; continued improvement, expansion, or redirection of programs and activities within the organization to meet community needs; recommendation of senior management personnel; participation in labor relations activities; generating public information, facilitating conversation and information exchange with citizens, encouraging community participation; and representing the organization in
inter-jurisdictional matters with other agencies as designated by the City Manager.
These duties are carried out under the direction of the City Manager through the implementation of City Council policies and legislative actions. The Office of the City Manager is responsible for implementation of the City Council and community’s vision and priorities.
Ideal Candidate
The City is looking for an exemplary leader to assist and inspire a shared vision, encourage creativity, and foster a high-performing, accountable, and service-oriented organization by setting clear direction, goals, and expectations.
The ideal candidate will have the below attributes:
- Possess excellent communication skills and a strong desire to provide superior service to the community.
- Demonstrates professionalism, responsiveness, and accessibility to the public.
- Provides a customer-service orientated work model, transparency, and innovation.
- Leads collaboratively and is respectful of others.
- Will have open communication.
- Nurtures an environment of trust, both in the organization and the community.
In addition, the ideal candidate:
- Acts with a high level of independence and requires strong analytical and administrative skills along with a strong understanding of public sector finance, as well as experience in managing assignments, projects and personnel.
- Identifies operational effectiveness within City Departments and works collaboratively with departments on continuous improvement.
- Develops and presents reports, makes recommendations to the City Manager and makes presentations to the City Council.
- Manages and directs City projects and personnel with special assignments, both technical and programmatic in nature.
- Chairs citywide committees of policy, finance and planning.
Candidates must possess a Bachelor’s degree in the area of Business or Public Administration and five (5) years’ of municipal government or private sector experience in supervising divisions and/or managing departments. Increasingly responsible department level management experience in multiple areas and departments in municipal government is highly desirable; A Master’s degree in Business or Public Administration is highly desirable.
Benefits
Executive Management
Effective October 1, 2022
I. HEALTH & WELFARE
A. Section 125 Options - Available to all eligible full-time employees.
B. Cafeteria Plan – The City shall contribute to the monthly Cafeteria Allowance allocated specifically for the mandated purchase of insurance coverage as follows:
No coverage: $500.00 (for employees hired after January 1, 2020)
No coverage: $1255.00 (for employees hired before January 1, 2020)
Employee Only: 100% of the CalPERS Kaiser Bay Area medical premium (for employees hired before January 1, 2020, the employee only cafeteria allowance shall remain frozen at $1405.00 per month until it equals the employee only Kaiser rate.)
Employee +1: 95% of the CalPERS Kaiser Bay Area medical premium.
Employee +2: 95% of the CalPERS Kaiser Bay Area medical premium.
Mandated
- Cigna Dental: Effective January 1, 2025, affected employees pay full monthly premium of $ 125.34.
Maximum Annual Dental Benefit: $1,500Non-PPO/$1,600 PPO
Maximum Lifetime Orthodontia Benefit: $2,000
- Basic Term Life Insurance - (Coverage Rate: $0.235 per $1K effective 4/1/2021)
Level of Monthly
Coverage Premium Position
$100,000 $22.50 Assistant City Manager
- Short/Long Term Disability (City-Sponsored) Insurance: maximum benefit is 66-2/3% of salary up to $4,000/mo. after 60-day waiting period and upon exhaustion of sick leave. Employee pays full monthly premium of $35.00.
Optional
- Medical: PERS basic health plans offered and employees may purchase coverage with remaining monies after mandated purchases. If total monthly health premium exceeds amount of any remaining monies, employee pays difference via payroll deduction. Unused monies from applicable monthly amount are applied to wages.
- Additional Term Life Insurance - Available in $10,000 increments between $1K and $750K not to exceed 5 times Annual Earnings for member. Also available for spouse and children. Rates vary depending on age of the employee.
- Voluntary Vision – Superior Vision offers coverage for exams and frames & lenses or contact lenses. Monthly premium varies from $8.14 for an Employee Only plan to $28.40 for an Employee + Family plan.
C. Vision Reimbursement Program – Employees and their dependents are eligible for a maximum reimbursement of $200.00 per year for frames or lenses.
II. RETIREMENT - PERS
3% @ Age 60 for Classic Members Effective 01/01/2013; Third Level of 1959 Survivor Benefit, One Year Final compensation, annual cost of living allowance (3%); Pre-Retirement Optional Settlement 2 Death Benefit.
2% @ Age 62 for New Members Effective 01/01/2013; Three Year Final Compensation
Employer contribution: 42.35% effective 07/01/2025
Employee contribution: 8.00%
The City pays 0% of employee contribution. In lieu, the City provides 414h, a one-time, irrevocable option for employee to elect to have his or her mandated PERS member contribution picked up by the City. Electing this option authorizes the City to designate the mandatory contribution on a tax-deferred basis.
Employees pay 0.75% towards the employer share of the PERS contribution. (Includes Police Chief and Fire Chief)
*3% @ 55 for Classic Members holding the position of Police Chief, Fire Chief and Deputy Fire Chief.
*2.7% @ 57 for New Members holding the position of Police Chief, Fire Chief and Deputy Fire Chief.
III. RETIREE HEALTH BENEFITS
The retiree health benefits for all employees hired on or after November 14, 2022 shall be limited to the PEMHCA minimum.
For employees hired on or after November 14, 2022, the City shall contribute $50 per month to the current ICMA retiree health savings account.
IV. HOLIDAYS - 12 paid holidays per year
V. SICK LEAVE
Full-time employees accrue sick leave at the rate of 12 working days per year. Pay out (one-half of employee's total accrued sick leave hours) applies ONLY at retirement, death, or abolishment of position.
For employees hired before January 1, 2020 and in Miscellaneous retirement may convert unused sick leave to service credit.
Sick leave pay out eliminated for employees hired after July 1, 2020.
RETIREMENT HEALTH SAVINGS PLAN:
Maximum flat rate contribution of accrued sick leave payout: $50,000 at separation from service for employees hired before January 1, 2020
VI. VACATION
Employees accrue 13 days after one year of employment
18 days after five years;
23 days after 13 years; and
28 days after 21 years
*Management employees receive additional five days vacation at time of initial full-time appointment and annually thereafter.
Executive Management employees may convert four weeks (160 hours) of accrued vacation time per year to direct pay.
Special Instructions
Final Filing Date: Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Interviews: Date To Be Determined
Resumes are not accepted in lieu of completing a CalOpps application.
To be considered for this opportunity, please submit a cover letter, resume and a list of three professional references with your CalOpps application, attention to the Director of Human Resources, Natalie Sakkal.