Internal promotion.

Norfolk City Code § 2.1-1.2

in effect

Sec. 2.1-1.2. - Internal promotion. (a) The director of human resources may, with the approval of the city manager after written certification stating that competition limited to individuals already employed by the city should allow enough competition to provide an adequate pool of qualified candidates for a particular vacancy in the classified service under the circumstances, proceed to advertise for that vacancy through the city's intranet only, so as to create a pool of candidates from current city employees only. (b) Notwithstanding any other provisions to the contrary, vacancies within the classified service to be filled by internal promotion shall be advertised for no less than five (5) days in advance. Other than the exceptions included in this section, such advertisement shall be done pursuant to all the other rules for advertising classified positions as set out in this article. (c) If, subsequent to the internal advertisement, the director of human resources determines that, contrary to expectation, the pool of applicants initially created by internal advertisement failed to provide an adequate pool of qualified candidates, the director of human resources may, with the approval of the city manager after written certification of the failure, thereafter advertise such a vacancy in the usual process. In such circumstances, the existing applicants shall be considered with any additional ones pursuant to the usual civil service commission rules, as amended, governing the certification of competitors to eligible lists. (d) The director of human resources shall provide the civil service commission with copies of all certifications required under this section at the next regular meeting of the commission after the position opened to limited competition pursuant to this section is filled. (Ord. No. 41,842, § 12C, 5-17-05; Ord. No. 42,279, § 13, 5-16-06)

Source: City of Norfolk, Virginia, City Code and City Charter (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/va/norfolk/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=COCI_CH2.1PESY_ARTIINGE_S2.1-1.2INPRFetched: 11/1/2026