Uxbridge puts help wanted sign up for town manager
UXBRIDGE — The search in Uxbridge for a new town manager is officially underway, with applications for the post due by Oct. 26.
The salary for the post held by outgoing Town Manager David Genereux is negotiable, depending on qualifications. The town’s hiring advertisement lists the salary at between $110,000 and $130,000.
Genereux is leaving the post to take a job as town administrator in Leicester, Mass.
After Oct. 26, resumes will be reviewed and a Screening Committee will interview the most qualified candidates. A selection of finalists will be chosen for further evaluation and reference checks, and then forwarded to the Board of Selectmen.
The finalists will be contacted for references and approval of background reviews before their selection is advanced.
The town says candidates must have a demonstrated and strong track record of success in municipal leadership.
“The ideal candidate will be an outside-the-box thinker with expertise in economic development, strategic and long-term planning, capital planning, debt management,
and growth,” the town’s advertisement says.
Candidates must have a minimum of a bachelor’s degree, but a master’s degree and or juris doctorate is preferred. Applicants with International City/County Manager’s Association credentials are also preferred. Residency in Uxbridge is not required. Genereux, Uxbridge’s town manager for the past three years, was one of three finalists for the town administrator post in Leicester which also included Patrice Garvin, town administrator in Shirley, and Andrew Scribner-MacLean, assistant town administrator and director of municipal services in Maynard.
The Leicester selectmen are currently negotiating a salary and benefits package for Genereux.
Genereux served as Uxbridge’s finance director and treasurer/collector for eight years before he was appointed as town manager in 2014.
Genereux, a Holden resident, also served as treasurer/collector in Billerica and in Sturbridge. He was also part-time director of municipal finance for the BMA Group, a consulting firm in Maynard.
Genereux has a master of business administration degree from Nichols College and a bachelor of science in business administration from Worcester State College.