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- $153,670 – $184,371 a year
Job type
- Full-time
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1017 Middlefield Road, Redwood City, CA 94063
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Full job description
Location
1017 Middlefield Road Redwood City, 94063
Description
The City of Redwood City Invites Applications for:
Community Services Manager for Human Services
(Parks, Recreation & Community Services Manager)
We offer a wide range of meaningful career opportunities with potential for growth, training and development, competitive salaries, flexible work schedules, paid time off, and robust benefits. The Redwood City team is guided by excellence, integrity, service, collaboration, inclusion, and innovation. Inherent in these values is a great organizational culture based on trust, strong and supportive leadership, respect, risk-taking, empowerment, and effective communication.
The community is known for its inclusivity, strong engaged neighborhoods, and civic pride. The City works diligently to maintain positive and productive relationships with community partners, together providing outstanding services, programs and opportunities for residents and businesses. This mix of tradition and progress, community and diversity, makes Redwood City an extraordinary place to work and call home.
The Community Services Manager for Human Services is responsible for managing the Fair Oaks Community Center (FOCC) and administering a number of financial assistance programs for local residents, as well as basic emergency and safety net services such as food, transportation, shelter referrals, housing assistance, and client advocacy. FOCC serves as one of eight core agencies in San Mateo County who work in close collaboration with the County Human Services Agency to provide vulnerable individuals and families in Redwood City and North Fair Oaks with much needed support to stabilize their living situations through a robust Information and Referral program. FOCC also serves as a designated entry point for the Coordinated Entry System for people experiencing homelessness in San Mateo County to access shelter and other resources.
The Community Services Manager for Human Services also oversees more traditional community center functions, providing room rentals for private events as well as free meeting space for nonprofits and community-based organizations. The Community Services Manager supports and interacts with a significant number of partner agencies who deliver services through FOCC. The facility includes both an Older Adult Activity Center run independently by Peninsula Family Services and a Child Care and Early Development Program. Other services delivered on site by partners include immigration and citizenship services, ESL classes, tenants’ rights clinics, mobile shower and laundry services, a mobile health van, and more. The Community Services Manager negotiates, prepares, manages, and monitors contracts and agreements with service providers and community agencies, ensuring effective program delivery and inter-agency coordination.
This position also provides leadership to inter-departmental and inter-agency collaborative projects including the OYE Latinx Youth Conference, the Redwood City/San Mateo County Toy and Book Program, the bi-annual San Mateo County Homeless One Day Count, and other critical community projects as they arise.
Please review the detailed job description for Parks, Recreation & Community Services Manager here, which includes more information on the duties and essential knowledge, skills and abilities for this position.
Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate will have a strong background in managing Human Services functions within a municipal government or nonprofit organization. They will demonstrate the ability to lead and support teams in dynamic, fast-paced environments while fostering and sustaining diverse community partnerships.
This role requires confident public engagement, including presenting to City Council, boards, commissions, committees, and at public meetings.
Additionally, the role involves researching, applying for, and administering grants and other funding opportunities. This includes preparing applications, developing budgets, managing awarded funds, and ensuring compliance with all reporting requirements. Experience in grant management is a definite asset, and bilingual proficiency in Spanish and English is highly preferred. We welcome and encourage all qualified individuals to apply.
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Special Instructions
Submit your application via: www.CalOpps.org by Wednesday, July 2, 2025 by 11:59 pm. In personoral board interviews are tentatively scheduled on Tuesday, July 22, 2025.
A City application, a cover letter and responses to the supplemental questions are required. Applications must be filled out completely. Failure to complete the application, attach a cover letter and responses to the supplemental questions will disqualify the applicant from the recruitment process. Failure to list work experience, and education or training or stating “See Resume” in the work experience section of the application will be considered an incomplete application and subject to disqualification. Resumes may be attached separately, but resumes will not be accepted in lieu of a City application.
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Recruitment Contact
Contact phone:
(650)780-7243
Contact email:
ecorona@redwoodcity.org
