The City of Athens is an Equal Opportunity Employer and recruits, employees, trains, compensates, and promotes without regard to race, creed, color, origin, age, gender, marital status, or disability
Human resources
Making Athens a Better Place to Live and WorkWelcome to the City of Athens Human Resources web page. We believe that the most important resource of any organization is the employees. Currently, the City of Athens employs 116 full time and 10 part-time employees in 8 departments. We also employ approximately 60 employees on a seasonal basis (April through September) in our Parks and Recreation department.
The Human Resource Department consists of the Director and an Assistant who are responsible for all personnel functions for the City. The goal of the Human Resource Department is to offer competitive pay and benefits, fair administration of polices, and a rewarding career that meets our objective of providing excellent service to the citizens of Athens.
Tennessee Career Center
The Career Center is a great place for prospective employees to go apply for jobs throughout our community as well as learn valuable skills to help land that dream job.
Tennessee College of Applied Sciences
TCAT is a great place to go to earn valuable skills and certificates designed to meet the needs of our local employers.