City Manager Needed - Lynwood, CA

·         An individual with the highest personal and professional integrity.

·         A successful track history at building collaborative business and community-oriented working relationships.

·         An enthusiastic, inspiring, and engaged communicator. An active listener.

·         A strong leader who shares the vision of the council and community, and can advocate, articulate, and implement that vision.

·         The ability to deliver information and comprehensive research to City Council in a balanced and unbiased manner, and to provide options and solutions with different sides to an issue with strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and risks for each alternative.

·         A manager who can blend innovation and creativity, think outside the box, and creatively move the city in a positive direction while acknowledging and responding to its challenges.

·         A solid, optimistic leader and role model with a positive presence, who demonstrates initiative, is action oriented, treats others with respect, and is collaborative and approachable.

·         A strong leader able to use sound judgement and wisdom and maintain flexibility, who is politically astute, while remaining apolitical.

·         The next City Manager will join a relatively new City Council that is motivated and eager to start the transition to a brighter, more stable future, with improved quality of life and economic vitality. This will require an ability to understand and relate to Lynwood as a highly urbanized, densely populated, bi-cultural, and socioeconomically challenged community. The expectation is for the City Manager to be active and engaged within the community and be aware of resident interests and concerns. Past experience working in a contract city and negotiating contracts and services is helpful.