City of Springfield (MO) careers

Springfield, Missouri is governed by charter under a council-manager structure: eight council members and a mayor, elected on a non-partisan basis for four-year terms, with an appointed city manager as the chief executive and administrative officer. Four council members represent geographic zones and four serve at large, which keeps both neighborhood and citywide interests at the same table. If you're looking at city work here, the structure tells you who you'd answer to: a professional administrator hired by the elected council, not the ballot box.