City of Alexandria careers
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Alexandria has governed itself under a charter from the Virginia General Assembly since 1950, and as an independent city, Virginia cities belong to no county, it runs the whole slate of local government on its own. A Mayor and six Council members are elected at large to three-year terms, the Mayor on a separate ballot as ceremonial head, and amending the city's structure takes an act of the General Assembly, as happened in 1968, 1971, 1976, and 1982.
The department list is where the careers live: a Department of Community and Human Services providing safety net services, the Alexandria Health Department with its public health specialty clinics, Fire, a Recreation, Parks and Cultural Activities department organized into six divisions, a central Human Resources office, and an Office of Analytics, Innovation and Data that tracks the city's performance. The city also maintains a formal system of citizen boards and commissions that advise Council on major issues, which it points to as evidence of how seriously it takes public participation. For a job seeker, that adds up to a stable, charter-bound employer with the full range of municipal professions, from clinical work in the safety net to parks, fire, and data roles.
Alexandria's care infrastructure is city business: its human services department runs safety net services, and the Alexandria Health Department operates public health specialty clinics, both places clinical and behavioral health careers land within the city.