Butler County brings on recruiter to help fill key executive vacancies

The most important open role, officials say, is the finance director.

Butler County Administrator Judi Boyko has been trying to fill some key leadership roles in a very tough employment market, so the commissioners hired a recruiter to assist in the search.

The county needs a new finance director, economic development director and eventually an assistant county administrator, plus a number of non-management staff. The commissioners recently approved hiring Management Partners for $15,000 to find a finance guru first, an economic development director and possibly an assistant county administrator.

Boyko said she thought she had found a replacement for former Finance Director Angel Burton

— twice — but both candidates decided to stay where they are. Burton resigned in February to take a job closer to her Clermont County home. The salary range for the directorship is $84,219 to $124,800.

Administrative jobs in the government sector are really hard to fill right now, Boyko told the Journal-News.

“There are multiple circumstances, I think just the workforce market in general, you’ve heard the terms the ‘Great Resignation’ to the great reshuffle to the workforce reimagining its priorities and employment endeavors,” Boyko said. “Those macro endeavors all the way to available vacancies right now.”

She hired Burton in May 2020 to replace former Finance Director Tawana Keels, who left the position abruptly on Feb. 7, after seven years leading the county’s