Hopkinton Town Manager Is A Finalist For Watertown City Manager Job

HOPKINTON, MA - Hopkinton Town Manager Norman Khumalo was named as one of three finalists for the position of Watertown City Manager at Wednesday's Watertown City Council Meeting.

According to an article in The Watertown News, Khumalo and the other two finalists, John Curran and George Proakis, will appear at a Watertown community forum on May 9 at 6 p.m. and then be interviewed by the City Council on May 12 at 6 p.m. At the public forum, each candidate will be available for 45 minutes to an hour to answer questions from the public.

Curran currently serves as Billerica’s town manager, while Proakis is the executive director of Somerville’s Office of Strategic Planning & Community Development. The job became open the resignation of Michael Driscoll in January.

Khumalo, an Uxbridge resident who has served as Hopkinton’s town manager since 2009, is seeking the position of former Watertown City Manager Michael Driscoll, who resigned in January. He previously worked as Westford's assistant town manager, where he also served as the interim town manager.

Khumalo also worked as the town planner in Wellesley and Walpole. He previously served as the transportation project manager at Elder Services of the Merrimack Valley and was Oxfam America’s Africa regional manager and Southern Africa program coordinator in Boston. The native of Zimbabwe also was both the town planner and the senior town planner in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.

In his resume, Khumalo referred to himself as "an intentionally collaborative and highly entrepreneurial spirit that offers a rare combination of superior management skills coupled with a keen understanding of what it takes to succeed as a community."