Management Assistant Program Email & Phone Number

Established in 1980, the City of Long Beach Management Assistant Program is the longest-running nationally ranked municipal management development program in California. The Management Assistant Program is designed to attract, develop and retain innovative local government practitioners. It offers an intense and fulfilling paid one-year apprenticeship to individuals who have earned a Masters Degree in Public Administration, Public Policy, Business Administration, Urban and Regional Planning, or related field. The program consists of four, three-month department rotations. Management Assistants will have one rotation each in the City Manager's Office and the Department of Financial Management. The other two rotations will be in areas where the City Manager has identified critical projects that the Management Assistant can help support, while meeting the interests of the program participants.These assignments are designed to give the Management Assistant a broad, positive experience in municipal government while providing resources to areas the City Manager has determined to be high priority. Dedicated rotation programs with the Harbor Department, Community Development, or Water Department may also be available.

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  Management Assistant Program

  City Of Long Beach

  Jul 1980 - Present - City Of Long Beach

  The City of Long Beach's David Wodynski Memorial Fellowship/Management Assistant Program offers an intense and fulfilling one-year apprenticeship filled with challenge, excitement, and tremendous opportunities for career and personal growth - not to mention a host of work-life benefits that are hard to match. Excellent and meaningful opportunities to explore different career options await you, whether you are looking for a stepping stone to launch your professional life, growing a long-term career, or changing career paths. A unique and rewarding opportunity to work in local government exists where you can gain the knowledge and skills to be effective local government practitioners and make a difference in a community. An opportunity to be a highly valued integral player on the City team makes the City of Long Beach the employer of choice.