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Watertown, MA (35,329 pop.), is seeking an engaged and visionary leader to serve as the next Director of the Watertown Free Public Library. The Director oversees and monitors day-to-day library operations, including budgeting and personnel management. The Director must have superior people management and team-building skills, and be a strong and open communicator and an ambassador for the library, highlighting its successes and articulating its needs. The library is a welcoming, inclusive, and accepting space and the Director should recognize the library’s commitment to diversity in the hiring of staff. The City has a proposed FY24 library budget of $3.68M, with 26 FT and 12 PT employees in addition to the Director. Applicants should have a successful track record as a Director, Assistant Director, or department manager in a library. Candidates must have strong operations and budgetary management skills as well as strong interpersonal and strategic planning abilities. E xtensive...

The Assistant City Manager is responsible for the executive oversight for assigned departments and serves a key role in ensuring that excellent customer service and responsiveness is provided by all employees.  This position functions with a high degree of autonomy and corresponding responsibility and always requires the highest ethical standards and integrity as a representative of the City’s leadership team.  This is accomplished by being innovative, planning, organizing, assigning, directing, and reviewing all activities of professional personnel engaged in the administration of the City services. Other duties include serving in the absence of the City Manager and performing all other related duties assigned by the City Manager. This position will oversee the Communications, IT, Library, Parks and Recreation, and Destination Services departments of the City. This position will also work closely with the Economic Development Corporation and the local Chamber of Commerce.