Armond Budish

Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish has hired his campaign manager as a senior advisor.

(Lisa DeJong, The Plain Dealer)

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish has hired his former campaign manager to a newly-created advisory position paying $100,000 a year.

Chris Glassburn, 30, will serve as a senior policy adviser reporting to Sharon Sobol Jordan, Budish's chief of staff, according to a county personnel agenda released this week.

His job responsibilities will include preparing Budish for meetings and following up after they're over, interacting with the public, and overseeing strategic projects as they are assigned, according to a county job posting. (Scroll down to read the job posting in its entirety.)

Emily Lundgard, a Budish spokeswoman, said in an email of Glassburn's hiring: "Chris Glassburn shares Armond Budish's vision to implement an aggressive agenda to create jobs and transform Cuyahoga County into an economic powerhouse. Chris has years of experience in policy and strategic planning as Research Director and as Director of the Office of the Speaker in the Ohio House. He will be an invaluable asset to the county."

Glassburn previously worked as a deputy policy director for Budish's transition effort, which began shortly after Budish won the Nov. 4 election. The transition team disbanded in mid-January, but Glassburn has remained a regular presence in the county's headquarters building.

Glassburn has been closely associated with Budish throughout his career. He previously served as an aide to Budish in the Ohio House of Representatives, before leaving in 2012 to form his own political consulting company, Glassburn Advisors.

State campaign finance records show Budish's state representative campaign paid Glassburn's company $63,000 in 2012 for consulting.

In 2013, Budish's state and county executive campaigns paid Glassburn a total of about $68,800. Last year, Glassburn made $81,300 on Budish's county executive campaign, plus $17,300 from county taxpayers for 10 weeks as deputy director of policy on Budish's transition team.

Glassburn served on the North Olmsted school board between 2006 and 2009. In October 2013, he unsuccessfully ran to return to the school board. Earlier that year, he unsuccessfully sought an appointment to fill a vacant seat on the North Olmsted City Council.