Seth Duncan, Mpa Email & Phone Number

Mauldin, South Carolina, United States

York County, South Carolina, United States

• I served as the City Manager for the City of York, South Carolina. York is a full-service community of nearly 8,500 residents and is the county seat. With a budget of over $15.4 million and 100+ employees, the city is.
• $3 MM in state and federal grants secured,
• Oversaw the construction of a $900k new city park, including the City's first splashpad,
• Updated/overhauled numerous ordinances including Business License, Animal Control, and created the City's first Renewable Energy Zoning District
• Completed the Comprehensive Planning Process, organized Council's first Strategic Plan, and led a Compensation/Classification Study
• Improved the Historic Downtown through the creation of a Facade Improvement Grant Program, updated street lighting to LED, and Senior Center refurbishments.

Batesburg-Leesville, SC

• Oversee the day-to-day operations of seven departments, more than 45 staff members, and a budget over $3.5 million. The Town of Batesburg-Leesville is a full-service community in rural South Carolina with its own Water.
• Water and Waste Water experience including system maintenance, expansion, and redevelopment.
• Wrote more than $1.5 MM in successful CDBG grants for Water and Wastewater capital improvements.
• Created numerous RFPs and RFQs for improvements to town-owned Utility systems, master plan, facility renovations, work order management system, and more.
• Oversaw a $400k remodeling and relocation of Town Hall.
• Managed the upgrade and transition of the Town's software from a server based, to cloud based system.

Charleston, SC

• Ensure businesses throughout the tri-county area have the tools needed for successful operation or growth. Responsible for the area’s On-the-Job Training program (budget of ~$125,000), Incumbent Worker Training grants.
• Working with economic development partners, led the recruitment process for $1.3 MM expansion of area boat manufacture;
• Regularly meet with industry, community, and other leaders to strengthen relationships, identify new opportunities, and ensure business needs were met.
• Spearheaded the provision of layoff assistance for three companies, successfully transitioning more than 700 workers to employment or retirement.
• Provided layoff aversion services resulting in the saving of more than 345 area jobs.

Summerville, SC

• Oversee the day-to-day functions of a public career center, which includes the management of state and federally funded programs, supervision of a 20-member staff, and accountable for the administration of more than.
• Winner of the Outstanding SC Works Center Award given annually by the Governor's Workforce Investment Board for Program Year 2011.
• Met or exceeded all state-wide Workforce Investment Act (WIA) program performance goals for Program Years 2009, 2010, and 2011;
• Spearheaded the implementation of a state-wide certification standard for facility operations, program management, and staff development;
• Provided effective leadership during the development of a new service delivery strategy that increased the efficiency and effectiveness of the program;
• Increased partnerships and coordination of services among area human services organizations to better serve clients;

• Responsible for developing and executing the campaign's new media strategy. Duties include maintaining the campaign's website, blogs, social media resources, newsletter, contact list and new media contacts. Created.
• Created a dynamic social media strategy that increased voter awareness of the candidate and his issues;
• Maintained a positive, aggressive social media strategy that proved valuable in the successful outcome of the campaign.

• Managed the day-to-day operations of all corporate social media profiles, created digital content and provided social media training to all employees. Additional responsibilities included creating and managing the.
• Developed a series of return-on-investment (ROI) baseline metrics for management team;
• Reviewed and updated corporate social media policy;
• Trained 30 employees (frontline staff, managers and executives) on the proper uses of corporate social media accounts.

• Ensured effective implementation of the WIA program and Trade Adjustment Assistance Act in South Carolina. Provided technical assistance and training, oversight, coordination, and compliance monitoring of local.
• Led/supervised programmatic compliance monitoring teams sent to evaluate local workforce investment areas and reduce waste, identify areas of improvement and share best practices;
• Improved performance, training, financial utilization and positive outcomes in all assigned workforce areas;
• Trained three new hires on the roles and responsibilities of a local operations coordinator;
• Created strategic partnerships between workforce areas and stakeholders and assisted in the development of annual plan modifications and five year strategic plans for local workforce areas.

• Assisted the Planning and Information team with background research on energy programs, preparation of website information, collection of program data and evaluation of results, and grant writing. Responsible for.
• Doubled the reported savings ($100 million to $200+ million) of the SCEO’s Savings Matrix by increasing the accuracy of its measurements.
• Implemented an Operations Plan to achieve the strategic goals set in the annual Strategic Plan;
• Authored an industry article on the development and implementation of the SCEO Savings Matrix; “South Carolina Savings Matrix Delivers Accountability.” Conservation Update. November-December 2007.
• Created the SCEO Benefits Matrix to capture and promote environmental savings from SCEO funded projects.

Mpa, Public Administration

Ba, Political Science

A.A., Liberal Arts