Deputy Community Development Director - City of San Clemente, California

The beautiful southern California coastal city of San Clemente is a family-oriented community of 65,400 residents and encompasses 18.5 square miles. With its natural beauty and outstanding amenities, San Clemente maintains an exceptional quality of life for its vibrant and engaged citizenry. This coastal jewel embraces a higher standard for development, historic preservation, and urban design. The City of San Clemente enjoys a stable organization with strong, award-winning financial planning, and a supportive, stable, and fiscally conservative City Council.  The Community Development Department has a professional and dedicated staff of 32.75 FTE’s and operates with a proposed FY 2018/19 budget of $5,350,990.  The department consists of Community Development Administration, Building, Planning, and Code Compliance divisions.

 Overseeing the divisions of Building and Code Compliance with a total staff of 18.75 FTE’s and combined proposed budget of over $3 million, this position serves as the city’s Building Official.  The Deputy Director will coordinate assigned activities with other city departments, divisions, and outside agencies and provide highly responsible and complex administrative support to the Director.  In addition, the Deputy Director will serve as the Acting Community Development Director in the Director’s absence.  The ideal candidate will possess proven leadership and management skills and have an energy and enthusiasm for ensuring a safe and healthy high quality of life in this built-out, coastal community. At least seven years of increasingly responsible experience in building inspection or construction and code compliance, including three years of administrative and supervisory responsibility is required. In addition, the equivalent to a Bachelor’s degree with major course work in public or business administration or a related field is required. The annual salary range is $129,209 to $157,060 DOQE.

Filing deadline is July 23, 2018.
Resumes are acknowledged within 2 business days.