Assistant City Manager

Akml; Nome; On-site; NOK 1,133,000 - 1,511,000; Full time

Job summary

City of Nome is seeking an Assistant City Manager to provide strategic leadership, translate Council priorities into actionable plans, and oversee municipal operations. The role requires a public administration degree and a strong background in city management.

Ideal candidates will have at least ten years of management experience in municipal government, a valid Alaska driver’s license, and must reside in Nome during employment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Public Administration or related field required.
• Ten years of progressively responsible experience in municipal government management, including lead or supervisory experience.
• Must possess or obtain within 90 days and maintain a valid Alaska driver’s license.
• Residence within Nome, Alaska is required for the duration of employment.

Responsibilities

• Serve as executive liaison between City Manager and municipal operations, translating Council priorities into actionable strategies.
• Communicate operational updates to support data‑driven decision‑making.
• Provide executive leadership and coordination across complex municipal operations and initiatives, including emergency response.
• Oversee planning and policy development, directing the city planner and building inspector.
• Manage the annual budget and ensure fiscal stability and strategic resource allocation.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Public Administration or related field

Job description

The City of Nome is seeking the position of Assistant City Manager. The Assistant City Manager (ACM) provides high-level leadership and strategic counsel to the City Manager, serving as a vital link through the City Manager between the City Council’s vision and operational execution. The ACM is responsible for empowering department heads to reach performance benchmarks, ensuring rigorous fiscal and administrative accountability, direct knowledge and experience with city planning, and spearheading complex, high-priority initiatives. This role requires a sophisticated ability to navigate the competing interests of community stakeholders while maintaining a commitment to organizational excellence and sustainable municipal growth.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The following duties are normal for this position. The omission of specific statements of the duties does not exclude them from the classification if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment for this classification. Other duties may be required and assigned.

• Serve as an executive liaison between the City Manager and municipal operations, translating City Council priorities into actionable strategies while preserving organizational stability and operational integrity.
• Communicate critical operational updates to the City Manager and Council to facilitate data-driven decision-making.
• Provide executive leadership and strategic coordination across complex municipal operations and critical initiatives, including city-wide emergency response and continuity of government functions.
• Evaluate existing administrative policies to identify gaps in oversight and implement necessary structural improvements.
• Serves as liaison between the Planning Commission and the City Manager translating City priorities into actionable strategies, plan development, oversight and implementation of plans such as but limited to: Comprehensive and Land Use plan, Zoning plan, emergency operation plan, fee schedule, etc. ACM will direct and supervise the city planner and building inspector.
• Direct cross-departmental operations to ensure all municipal services align with established city-wide goals and legal standards.
• Manage large-scale municipal projects by coordinating resources across various functional areas to ensure on-time completion.
• Monitor departmental performance metrics to maintain high-quality service delivery while minimizing operational waste.
• Resolve complex organizational conflicts by identifying root causes and implementing sustainable, policy and data driven solutions.
• Mentor department directors and emerging leaders to build a high-capacity, resilient internal management structure.
• Oversee the development of the annual budget to ensure long-term fiscal stability and strategic resource allocation.
• Enforce organizational accountability standards to maintain a consistent and transparent professional environment for all staff.

Education and Experience

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree in Public Administration or a related field required; supplemented by ten years of progressively responsible experience in municipal government management, to include lead or supervisory experience; or any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience which provides the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities for this job.

Specific License or Certification Required

Must possess or obtain within 90 days and maintain a valid Alaska driver’s license.

Residency Requirement

This position requires the successful candidate to maintain a primary residence within Nome, Alaska, throughout the duration of their employment.

Specific Knowledge, Skills, or Abilities

Must be able to demonstrate proficiency in performance of the essential functions and learn, comprehend, and apply all City or departmental policies, practices, and procedures necessary to function effectively in the position.

Performance Aptitudes

Data Utilization: Requires the ability to synthesize and integrate data for predicting, anticipating, and planning for future events impacting the organization. Includes determining strategic and tactical decisions at the highest organizational levels of authority and responsibility.

Human Interaction

Requires the ability to function in a director capacity for a major organizational unit requiring significant internal and external interaction.

Equipment, Machinery, Tools, and Materials Utilization

Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or control the actions of equipment, machinery, tools, and/or materials used in performing essential functions. Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize consulting and advisory data and information, as well as reference, descriptive and/or design data and information as applicable.

Mathematical Aptitude

Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; ability to calculate decimals and percentages; may include ability to perform mathematical operations with fractions; may include ability to compute discount, interest, and ratios; may include ability to calculate surface areas, volumes, weights, and measures.

Functional Reasoning

Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to implement both intellectual and practical relationships; involves responsibility for consideration and analysis of complex organizational problems of major conceptual functions.

Situational Reasoning

Requires the ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness, and creativity in critical and/or unexpected situations involving moderate risk to the organization.

ADA Compliance

Physical Ability: Tasks require the ability to exert light physical effort in sedentary to light work, but which may involve some lifting, carrying, pushing and/or pulling of objects and materials of light weight (5-10 pounds). Tasks may involve extended periods of time at a keyboard or workstation.

Sensory Requirements: Some tasks require the ability to perceive and discriminate colors or shades of colors, sounds, and visual cues or signals. Some tasks require the ability to communicate orally.

Environmental Factors: Essential functions are regularly performed without exposure to adverse environmental conditions except in state of emergency situations.

Some positions may require a criminal and driving record background check after a conditional offer and before your start date; city will provide instructions if applicable.

Benefits Information

Benefits information – Mimi Farley 907-443-8522 or Peter Le for City of Nome 2026 Benefit Guide

About us

The City of Nome is a qualified first class in Alaska and is dedicated to providing quality service for the residents, businesses, visitors of our unique city, located near the Bering Straits on the Seward Peninsula of western Alaska. Nome, AK is a thriving city that has a rich and historic Inupiaq & Yupik culture enriched by its diversity. Nome is also the home of several tribal units. Nome serves as a major hub on the Seward peninsula for regional villages. The City of Nome serves approximately 3600 residents in the City with an outside population closer to the city and regionally of over 3200.
The City’s policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment. Applicants will be assured of fair treatment in all aspects of recruitment and selection without regard to a person’s age, race, color, national origin, religion, sex, genetic information, or disability, except where certain physical and mental requirements are Bona Fide Occupational Qualifications (BFOQ). The City of Nome is proud to be a second chance employer.
The City of Nome is an Equal Opportunity Employer. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, the City will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities and encourages both prospective and current employees to discuss potential accommodations with the employer.

Employer

City of Nome, Alaska

Address

City of Nome
PO Box 281
Nome, Alaska, 28802

Phone

[phone]