Location
Description
The City of Redwood City Invites Applications for:
Management Analyst II - Homelessness
We offer a wide range of meaningful career opportunities with potential for growth, training and development, competitive salaries, flexible work schedules, paid time off, and robust benefits. The Redwood City team is guided by the core values of excellence, integrity, service, collaboration, inclusion, and innovation. Inherent in these values is a great organizational culture based on trust, strong and supportive leadership, respect, risk-taking, empowerment, and effective communication. The community is known for its inclusivity, strong engaged neighborhoods, and civic pride. The City works diligently to maintain positive and productive relationships with community partners, together providing outstanding services, programs and opportunities for residents and businesses. This mix of tradition and progress, community and diversity, makes Redwood City an extraordinary place to work and call home. If you’re looking to grow your career as a part of a hard-working and fun City Manager’s team that fosters innovation, creativity and collaboration, we hope you’ll apply.
The City of Redwood City, City Manager’s Office, invites you to apply for the position of Management Analyst II-Homelessness. In recent years, Redwood City has emerged as a leader in deploying innovative solutions to address homelessness in our local community. The City’s efforts, which include the launching of the Downtown Streets Team to create a pathway to employment and housing for individuals experiencing homelessness and the creation of the anti-camping ordinance.
This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated and experienced professional to join the team that is leading the City’s efforts on homelessness. The Management Analyst will work closely with City leadership to design and implement strategies to address homelessness. To view job description, click here.
Typical duties include, but are not limited to:
- Support the Assistant City Manager or his/her designee with the financial oversight and analysis of the $3.5 million annual budget for the City’s Homelessness Initiatives.
- Comply with state, county, and private grant requirements including cost allocations and documentation of Homelessness Initiatives Program expenditures by contracted service providers, strengthening of reporting systems.
- Manage grants from inception through close out, ensuring that best practices are followed, and spend down is maximized.
- Create annual budgets and budgets for proposals, complete budget modifications, and monitor actual expenditures versus budget.
- Prepare grant invoices and financial reports.
- Prepare financial reports for the City’s Homelessness Initiatives.
- Monitor and track budget, revenue, and expenditures for Homelessness Initiatives within the City’s financial system and with City’s Finance Staff.
- Develop cost/benefit analysis of City’s Homelessness Initiatives investments in relationship to ongoing costs of mitigation.
- Draft staff reports and other written materials.
Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate will be highly motivated to support the City’s homelessness initiatives. This position will work on a range of policies, programs, partnerships, and projects that support the creation of the anti-camping ordinance. They will embrace the City’s emphasis on excellent customer service; will have advanced experience with financial management - developing, implementing, and managing finance budgets and reporting systems, and be able to perform a wide range of finance functions pertaining to financial management of government and philanthropic grants and contracts; will possess excellent project management skills and ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities; will have strong analytical skills and will be able to synthesize and summarize complex information; will be a highly motivated and self-directed individual able to use initiative, creativity, and independent judgment; will possess strong interpersonal and communication skills; will be detail-oriented, but can also see the big picture; will possess strong business acumen and related technical skills; will be a team player who likes working with a variety of City staff and the public. The Management Analyst will report directly to the Assistant City Manager or his/her designee.
Benefits
See Job flyer
Special Instructions
Submit your application via: www.CalOpps.org by Friday, September 26, 2025 by 11:59 pm OR upon receipt of first 100 applications . In-person oral board interviews are tentatively scheduled on Monday, October 20, 2025.
A City application, supplemental questionnaire, a cover letter and resume are required. Applications must be filled out completely. Failure to list work experience, and education or training or stating “See Resume” in the work experience section of the application will be considered an incomplete application and subject to disqualification. Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of a City application.
Selection Process:
All applications will be reviewed for neatness, accuracy, completion, relevant education, experience, training and other job-related qualifications. The most highly qualified applicants will be asked to participate in the testing process, which will consist of an in-person oral board.
NOTE: Emails generated regarding your status in the recruitment process can be sent to your spam folder by your email system.
Be sure to:
- Check your spam and junk folders.
- Make sure to whitelist our email redwoodcity@calopps.org to ensure you receive our updates.