Disaster Program Manager Jobs in Marathon, FL (NOW HIRING)

Join a workforce where innovation and teamwork provide support to the community and citizens of Monroe County.
Compensation:
$115,849.03 - $185,358.44
Job Description:
The primary function of this position is to direct the Code Compliance Department and oversee enforcement activities related to gaining compliance with County regulations, including Special Magistrate processes for code cases and support for legal processes handled by the County Attorney's Office. This position is also responsible for developing County regulations to ensure they are easy to interpret and implement. Within the Code Compliance Department, this position also oversees the Unsafe Structure Program, the Overgrown Vegetation Abatement Program (canal and upland vegetation), the Vacation Rental Program, and sewer connection programs.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Supervises staff and provides interpretations, training, and guidance on code compliance matters.
• Coordinates activities of the Code Compliance Department, both directly and indirectly, with supervisors and personnel to identify and resolve problems.
• Monitors complaints received by the Code Compliance Department to ensure effective, timely responses.
• Establishes standards and procedures for departmental processes, policies, and training.
• Ensures established processes are followed and properly documented.
• Assists with online software development and conducts ongoing analysis for future improvements.
• Reviews, with the County Attorney's Office, all liens, fine reductions, injunctive relief cases, and Notice of Violation/Hearing cases prior to hearings to ensure accurate and complete information.
• Coordinates with and assists the department attorney in presenting cases before the Special Magistrate and the Board of County Commissioners.
• Maintains current knowledge of code compliance laws, best practices, and trends.
• Prepares the department budget and oversees all expenditures.
• Creates, revises, and implements County ordinances, Administrative Instructions, and departmental processes.
• Attends public venues and meetings as needed.
• Provides professional and courteous communication when disseminating the Monroe County Code to the public and other agencies.
• Issues Notices of Violation, citations, and courtesy warnings as needed.
• Prepares and presents cases before the Code Compliance Special Magistrate and in other legal proceedings.
• Oversees the Unsafe Structure Program and the Overgrown Vegetation Abatement Program.
• Responsible for personally knowing and following the County's Personnel Policies and Procedures, Administrative Instructions, Department Operating Procedures, and applicable Statutes and Regulations. Responsible for ensuring others also adhere to these standards.
• Performs other related job duties as assigned.
• In the event of special, emergency, or disaster situations, employee may be required to work schedules other than those for which they are regularly scheduled in any capacity deemed appropriate.

QUALIFICATIONS
Education and Experience:
Associate degree and at least ten (10) years of related work experience required; Bachelor's degree preferred. An equivalent combination of education and experience may substitute for formal education requirements.
Special Qualifications:
Florida Association of Code Enforcement (F.A.C.E.) Code Enforcement certifications through Level IV, or the ability to obtain the required certifications within one year of employment.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Ability to oversee, plan, and implement major programs and services for the organization; ability to report on progress to the organization's executive team.
• Ability to oversee work that involves the use of complex technical, scientific, or mathematical concepts that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the organization; ability to analyze and make recommendations on how to improve the operational performance of the organization.
• Ability to perform work that involves high-level issues, processes, or organizational needs.
• Ability to provide updates to senior managers, elected officials, or other community groups or organizations; ability to work regularly with other Directors or senior managers to ensure the provision of efficient and effective services.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The work is light and requires exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force to move objects. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:

• Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature, or texture, by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
• Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination in sound.
• Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles.
• Manual Dexterity: Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
• Mental Acuity: Ability to make rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes.
• Repetitive Motion: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers.
• Speaking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word, including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely.
• Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word, including those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Visual Acuity: Have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; and/or extensive reading.
• Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.

WORK ENVIRONMENT
Work is performed in a dynamic environment that requires sensitivity and responsiveness to changes that include goals, priorities, and needs of the organization and position.
Monroe County has the right to revise this job description at any time. This description does not represent in any way a contract of employment.
Equal Opportunity Employer: Monroe County does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age, disability, or military service in employment or the provision of services.
Empleador de Igualdad de Oportunidades: El Condado de Monroe no discrimina por motivos de raza, color, origen nacional, género, religión, edad, discapacidad o servicio militar en el empleo o la prestación de servicios.
Veterans Preference according to Florida State Statute 295.07: Certain service members and veterans, and the spouses and family members of the servicemembers and veterans, receive preference and priority in employment by the state and are encouraged to apply for the positions being filled.
Preferencia de Veteranos de acuerdo con el Estatuto del Estado de Florida 295.07: Ciertos miembros del servicio y veteranos, y los cónyuges y familiares de los miembros del servicio y veteranos, reciben preferencia y prioridad en el empleo por parte del estado y se les alienta a solicitar los puestos que se están llenando.