Knowledge of: Techniques for effectively representing the City in contacts with governmental agencies, community groups, and various business, professional, educational, regulatory, and legislative organizations; import and export functions to assist local businesses in coordination with the U.S. Department of Commerce; procedures for planning, implementing, and maintaining a variety of activities and programs through community participation; administrative principles and practices, including goal setting, program development, implementation, and evaluation, and supervision of staff, either directly or through subordinate levels of supervision; public agency budget development, City-wide administrative practices, and general principles of risk management related to the functions of the assigned area; principles and practices of employee supervision, including work planning, assignment review and evaluation, and the training of staff in work procedures; applicable federal, state, and local laws, ordinances, regulations, and guidelines; methods and techniques for the development of presentations, contract negotiations, business correspondence, and information distribution; research and reporting methods, techniques, and procedures; modern office practices, methods, and computer equipment and applications related to the work; English usage, grammar, spelling, vocabulary, and punctuation; techniques for providing a high level of customer service by effectively interacting with the public, vendors, contractors, and City staff; real estate economics, principle, practices, financing methods, and sources; land acquisition, disposition, and relocation procedures and entitlement processes. Collaborates with local chambers of commerce, business associations, financial institutions, universities, and government agencies to foster a collaborative economic development environment; serves as a liaison between the city, business community and external stakeholders, ensuring that development initiatives align with community interests; facilitates public-private partnerships to support large scale projects, such as infrastructure developments and commercial real estate initiatives.