Assistant Director - Civil Rights

Pay Range: $59.04 - $78.23/hr. | $122,805 – $162,717 annual compensation

Job Posting Closing on: Tuesday, February 3, 2026 📅

Workdays & Hours: Monday – Friday 8 am – 5 pm

Benefits for this position include: 11 Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, and Professional Development Opportunities. Find Out More!

The City of Fort Worth is one of the fastest growing large cities in the U.S. Our employees serve the needs of over 1,000,000 residents, promoting our values of exceptional customer experience, mutual respect, embracing our diversity, continuous improvement, ethical behavior, and accountability. 🌆

An Assistant Director - Civil Rights is available with The City of Fort Worth Human Resources Department. This position is responsible for the administration and oversight of the city’s services related to basic human rights, including enforcement of the city’s anti-discrimination ordinance, as well as compliance with federal laws concerning housing, employment, and public accommodations. In addition, the position will ensure compliance with all financial, outreach and program requirements through continuous auditing and monitoring. Lastly, the position will provide highly responsible and complex administrative support to the Department Director and serve as an ambassador to community-based organizations and city residents to ensure program awareness and access.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in human resource management, industrial relations, public administration, or a related field

• Six (6) years of increasingly responsible human resources experience including three (3) years of administrative and supervisory responsibility

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in public administration, pre-law, humanities, business management, political science, ethnic studies or a related field

• Seven (7) years of increasingly responsible experience in compliance-based federal, state or local programs, or federal grant program management, including financial reporting

• Seven (7) years of supervisory experience at a manager level or higher

• Direct experience with community-service based organizations, engaging with various stakeholders and constituents

The Assistant Director - Civil Rights job responsibilities include:

• Directs the activities of the division/department, which includes planning, coordinating, administering, and evaluating programs, projects, processes, procedures, systems, standards, and/or service offerings, ensuring compliance with federal, state, and local laws, regulations, codes, and/or standards

• Assists in the management of the development and implementation of departmental goals, objectives, policies, and priorities for each assigned service area to align access and opportunity service efforts across the organization

• Represents the Department to other departments, elected officials and outside agencies; and coordinates Department activities with internal departments and external agencies or organizations

• Participates on a variety of boards, commissions and committees; and prepares and presents staff reports and other necessary correspondence

• Performs other related duties as required

Working Conditions

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically require touching, talking, hearing, seeing, grasping, standing, walking and repetitive motions.

Physical Demands

Light Work – Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically exert up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly having to move objects. If the use of arm and/or leg controls requires exertion of forces greater than that for thee Sedentary Work category and the worker sits most of the day, the job is rated Light Work.

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Conditions of Employment

The City of Fort Worth is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is the policy and practice of the City to recruit, hire, train and promote a diverse workforce without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, or another non-merit factor.

The City of Fort Worth is committed to full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.

Candidates who do not meet the Education requirement, may be considered if they have more relevant work experience than the position requires. Those selected for employment will be required to pass Pre-Employment checks depending on the position requirements. Those could include, but are not limited to: criminal background check, drug screen, education verification, etc. criminal convictions will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Employees are paid by direct deposit only.