Salary : $116,854.40 Annually
Location : Citizens Tower, 1314 Avenue K Lubbock, TX
Job Type: Full-Time
Job Number:Department: Financial Planning and Analysis.
Division: 2111 - Budget and Fiscal Planning
Opening Date: 10/24/2026
Closing Date: 10/30/2026 5:00 PM Central
Summary Plans, directs, and coordinates activities relating to strategic planning, organizational risk assessment, performance measurement, long-term financial planning,
operating and capital budget development, econometric forecasting, and utility rate modeling.
Essential Functions - Direct, plan and coordinate development of strategic plans through comprehensive organization-wide risk assessment, financial plans, econometric forecasts, and utility rate models;
- Direct, plan and coordinate development and monitoring of operating and capital projects budgets;
- Make presentations to the City Council and/or the public as the need arises;
- Demonstrate continuous effort to improve operations, decrease turn-around times, streamline work processes, and work cooperatively and jointly
to provide quality seamless customer service; - Select, train, and supervise personnel directly or through subordinate supervisors. Establish performance standards, evaluate the performance of
subordinate staff, and establish work priorities, goals, objectives, and schedules; - Develop and administer public relations effort to inform citizens or internal staff of services provided, and promote effective citizen and staff relations;
- Perform related duties as required.
Qualifications Completion of a master's degree in business administration, public administration or a related field with an additional five years of experience in developing fiscal policies and strategies in a medium to large scale public agency finance department, including three years experience in econometric and statistical forecasting and municipal budgeting in a leadership role; or any combination of relevant education and experience which provides the following:
Valid Current Driver's License
Knowledge and AbilitiesKnowledge of:- City policies related to finance and budgeting;
- Municipal finance criteria, including Government Finance Officer Association's (GFOA) Best Practices;
- Expectations of bond rating agencies;
- Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) requirements;
- Municipal public policy;
- Debt administration principles and practices;
- Capital planning and long-term financial planning;
- Coordination of operating and capital budgets with fiscal policy;
- Utility rate models and long-term planning.
Ability to:- Plan, organize, and direct activities of strategic planning, organizational risk assessment, performance measurement, long-term financial planning,
development of operating and capital budgets, econometric forecasting and utility rate modeling; - Exercise good judgment;
- Perform a broad range of supervisory responsibilities over others;
- Communicate orally in the English language with customers, clients, and the public in face-to-face, one-on-one settings, in group settings, and over
a telephone; - Produce written documents in the English language with clearly organized thoughts using proper sentence construction, punctuation, and grammar;
- Work cooperatively with others;
- Work safely without presenting a direct threat to self or others;
- Comprehend and make inferences from written material in the English language.
Physical Requirements:- Frequently lift and carry up to 10 pounds.
- Occasionally flex upper trunk forward at the waist and partially at the knees.
- Place arms above, at, or below shoulder height.
- Frequently push and pull objects.
