Alison Manoogian will be named assistant city manager of Dracut.

DRACUT — This coming Tuesday night, Alison Manoogian, currently the community development director, will soon be promoted to assistant city manager and then named interim city manager.

The promotion to acting city manager is temporary. Interim City Manager Greg Hanley’s contract expires Oct. 31. Manoogian will hold the reins until a new city manager comes in.

In making the announcement, Board of Selectmen Chairman Tony Archinski said he expects to name a new city manager soon. This person will likely have to notify their current city, so the start date for this post is unknown. Manoogian’s appointment as assistant city manager is effective immediately.

Manugyan is no stranger to municipal government. In addition to the tasks associated with her work in Dracut, which includes managing the Murphy Farm Chapter 40B project, she is actively involved in the community life of Groton, where she lives.

In fact, she is Archinski’s colleague on the Groton Board of Directors. That council elected her as its chairman in May. Before serving on the Select Board, she was a member of the Groton-Dunstable Regional School Committee.

She is a civil engineer by profession and a graduate of Tufts University.

Manoogian served as director of community development for several years. “I believe her institutional knowledge will be helpful during the transition when a new city manager is installed,” Archinski said.

Archinski also said the board has been considering her for the position of assistant city manager for some time.

In the context of the outflow of personnel that followed the resignation of Victor Garofalo from this position, the idea of ​​​​promoting Manugian seemed logical. But his resignation was quickly followed by the resignation of Anna Vandal as city manager.

The council hired the Collins Center for Government, which is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Boston, to facilitate its search for candidates for the position. The board also appointed a Dracut search committee that will work with the center to identify three finalists for the position.

The names of these three will be forwarded to Collins Center deputies. The publication of these names is inevitable. Archinsky said he expects to receive them on Friday or Monday.

Hanley joined the team in early August. He retired last year as Holbrook city administrator after a 30-year career in elected and appointed positions, primarily in Norfolk and Plymouth counties. He is currently a member of the Plymouth County Commission and a member of the Quincy College Board of Governors.