As the first Assistant Town Manager, reporting to the Town Manager, the final portfolio of the selected candidate will depend on the talents of the selected individual. This leader is confident and articulate in communicating and advocating for the Town’s needs to ensure alignment with goals and strategic priorities. This professional is empathetic, patient, and flexible, someone who can adapt and shift quickly in a fast-paced environment and remain calm and steady.

The successful candidate is an energetic, proactive public-sector expert with excellent leadership, people, project management and operational skills. Key responsibilities include leading projects through various stages while ensuring collaboration across departments and stakeholders to achieve outcomes and strategic priorities.

Zebulon’s Assistant Town Manager will model the Town’s core values honesty/integrity, family, respect, dependability, and teamwork while prioritizing the following: 

• Conduct a comprehensive organizational evaluation to assess staffing levels, compensation and training needs, and work factors on the people side as well as policies, procedures, and processes to facilitate changes that improve efficiency, communication, cross-training, and sustainability;
• Advocate for short- and long-term solutions to enhance cohesion, retention, and recruitment and further position the organization as a competitive employer;
• Collaborate with the Town Manager and Management Team to manage projects and programs such as pay/market study, bond referendum, strategic planning, and budgeting.
• Partner with the Town Manager in overseeing the Town's infrastructure projects, including the upcoming construction of a new fire station.
• Support the Town Manager in strategic planning and visioning with a specific focus on evaluating opportunities to address economic development, DEI, mental health, and affordable housing while balancing and navigating opportunities to support the community’s desires for commercial development. 

Qualifications:

The successful ATM candidate will have a bachelor's degree (a master's degree is preferred) and eight (8) years of increasingly responsible professional experience in municipal government management, including five (5) years of administrative and supervisory experience at the senior or executive level or equivalent experience and education. Though residency is preferred, it is not required for this position. Community immersion is essential to its success.