The Broward County Board of County Commissioners is seeking an experienced and highly skilled Assistant Director to join the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). This executive-level position offers opportunity to provide strategic leadership in budget development, financial planning, and organizational management. This position plays a critical role in guiding fiscal policy, ensuring the efficient allocation of resources, and supporting data-driven decision making across the organization.
Working under the direction of the OMB Director and County executive leadership, the Assistant Director oversees the preparation, analysis, and administration of the County's operating and capital budgets; leads a team of professional analysts; and advises senior leadership throughout the County on complex budgetary and management issues.
The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong analytical and leadership skills, a deep understanding of public-sector budgeting and management practices, and the ability to communicate complex financial information clearly and effectively. The successful candidate will be collaborative, detail oriented, and committed to advancing the County's fiscal and strategic objectives.
Benefits of Broward County Employment
High-Deductible Health Plan - bi-weekly premiums:
Single $10.90 / Family $80.79
Includes a County Funded Health Savings Account of up to $2000 Annually
Consumer Driven Health Plan - bi-weekly premiums:
Single $82.58 / Family $286.79
Florida Retirement System (FRS) - Pension or Investment Plan
457 Deferred Compensation employee match
Eleven (11) paid holidays each year
Vacation (Paid Time Off) = 2 weeks per year
General Description
Performs and manages professional and administrative budget and management work.
Works under administrative supervision, developing and implementing programs within organizational policies and reports major activities to executive level administrators through conferences and reports.
Key Responsibilities:
- Working alongside the Budget Director, develops the annual budget-development process, ensuring the production of accurate and comprehensive financial analyses and recommendations.
- Oversee the work of professional staff engaged in budget and management analysis, providing technical guidance, review, and quality assurance.
- Represent OMB in meetings with executive leadership, departmental directors, and external agencies (Sheriff, Judiciary, Tax Collector, etc) to present recommendations and provide expert consultation on fiscal and management matters.
- Develop and evaluate funding plans for new initiatives and programs, prepare financial and policy recommendations supported by sound analytical methods.
- Monitor office operations to promote efficiency, staff development, and continuous improvement of budgetary and management processes.
- Contribute to the advancement of the County's goals through the development and implementation of innovative budgetary strategies and management methodologies.
This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to the fiscal integrity and operational effectiveness of a respected and local public organization. The selected candidate will join a professional and mission-driven team dedicated to public service, innovation, and excellence in local government management.
Minimum Education and Experience Requirements
Requires a Master's degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in public administration, public policy, public affairs or closely related public sector field.
Requires six (6) years of progressively responsible local government budget and management analysis work including four (4) years supervisory experience in a local government budget agency or closely related experience.
Special Certifications and Licenses
None.
Preferences
- Experience working in a County or large local municipal government
- Experience in financial modeling and data analytics
- Experience preparing executive-level presentations, reports, and policy analysis
- Proven success in building collaborative relationships across departments and with external partners
- Knowledge of intergovernmental funding structures, capital improvement planning, and grants management
- Experience presenting to elected officials, boards, or governing bodies
- Working knowledge of Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) and budget management systems
- Experience developing and implementing performance measurement frameworks
- Commitment to promoting accountability and transparency in public service
- Advanced proficiency in financial analysis tools such as Microsoft Excel, Power BI, or similar data visualization applications
- Ability to translate complex financial data into clear and actionable recommendations for senior leadership
- Familiarity with data-driven decision making and performance-based budgeting principles
The functions listed below are those that represent the majority of the time spent working in this class. Management may assign additional functions related to the type of work of the job as necessary.
Manages the budget development process; reviews budget recommendations and analytical work products and directs refinements and changes prior to finalizing the work products.
Manages office operations including monitoring distribution of responsibilities, facilitating continuous improvement, providing direction to managers and subordinate staff, and facilitating staff professional development.
Advises and collaborates on issues and represents the organization at meetings with other departments and divisions; negotiates with agencies, collaborates and exchanges ideas, and presents conclusions and solutions.
Manages processes to recruit and select new staff members; reviews analytical work products developed by staff to ensure accuracy, appropriate methodology and to evaluate the recommendations.
Develops proposed funding plans for new projects, programs and initiatives for consideration; develops management recommendations and budgets based on analysis of data.
Develops a variety of other methodologies and recommendations for the organization.
Performs related work as assigned.
Competencies
Applies knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization's goals. Ensures that the team understands and discusses relevant industry changes. Gives strong messages about how people's efforts make a difference to the broader organization.
Interprets and applies key financial indicators to make better business decisions. Takes anticipated returns and risks into account when determining investment decisions. Ensures that organizational performance is being measured by sound data, analyses, and insights.
Makes sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems. Sees the systematic elements of issues' the major connections, linkages, and interdependencies. Ensures the organization has reliable ways to gather needed information.
Makes good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward. Ensures that people internalize policies and standards and accept full responsibility for their decisions. Confidently makes choices in the best interests of the organization, deals constructively with resistance.
Anticipates and balances the needs of multiple stakeholders. Provides guidance so that others understand the needs of different stakeholders and can balance them appropriately. Makes sure people understand and adhere to ethical standards when working with stakeholders; models and ensures cross-cultural sensitivity.
Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies. Is a strong big-picture thinker; makes frequent, clear references to the organization's vision and strategy and the efforts required to drive them forward. Effectively integrates long-term opportunities and challenges with day-to-day activities.
Provides direction, delegating, and removing obstacles to get work done. Delegates considerable responsibility to staff with clear expectations and targeted guidance, removing obstacles. Fosters highly efficient teams; tracks team performance with appropriate metrics and provides feedback.
Knows the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement. Emphasizes continuous improvement and quality outcomes across the organization and with external partners. Facilitates organization-wide adoption of best practices and lessons learned.
Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments. Measures and tracks team's and own performance, and helps the team learn from success, failure, and feedback. Adheres to, and enforces, goals, policies, and procedures.
Builds strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals. Mentors others on how to build effective teams; takes actions to correct dysfunctional teams. Ensures that the team has the right mix of skills; leverages individual strengths effectively.
Develops and delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences. Engages diverse groups by communicating in a way that matches each group's preferences. Listens carefully and probes beneath the surface to gain richer insight on others' views.
- Drives Vision and Purpose
Paints a compelling picture of the vision and strategy that motivates others to action. Makes the vision real for others and encourages people to buy in; paints an engaging and illuminating picture of future possibilities for the team. Gives people an understanding of how their efforts and contributions make a positive difference.
County Core Values
All Broward County employees strive to demonstrate the County's four core behavioral competencies.
- Collaborates: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
- Customer focus: Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
- Instills trust: Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.
- Values differences: Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Compliance
Broward County is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to inclusion. Broward County is committed to providing equal opportunity and reasonable accommodations to qualified persons with disabilities. We support the hiring of people with disabilities; therefore, if you require assistance due to a disability, please contact the Professional Standards Section in advance at 954-357-6500 or email Profstandards@broward.org to make an accommodation request.
Emergency Management Responsibilities
Note: During emergency conditions, all County employees are automatically considered emergency service workers. County employees are subject to being called to work in the event of a disaster, such as a hurricane, or other emergency situation and are expected to perform emergency service duties, as assigned.
County-wide Employee Responsibilities
All Broward County employees must serve the public and fellow employees with honesty and integrity in full accord with the letter and spirit of Broward County's Employee Code of Ethics, gift, and conflict of interest policies.
All Broward County employees must establish and maintain effective working relationships with the general public, co-workers, elected and appointed officials and members of diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, political affiliation, familial status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, or gender identity and expression.
Broward County, Florida
$144,904.22 - $231,266.72 Annually
medical insurance, dental insurance, life insurance, vision insurance, vacation time, paid holidays, sick time, retirement plan
Oct 24, 2025