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Job Description
Position Description
Make a difference in the lives of people who serve our communities.
Are you an experienced Economic Development professional? Are you looking to make a difference in economic opportunities throughout California? Are you looking for work life balance and remote work opportunity?
Regional Government services is seeking to fill one vacancy. The selected candidate must have significant experience assisting with managing community economic development projects in public sector agencies.
Join the Regional Government Service (RGS) Economic Development Team and help us build and deliver exciting programs that improve the economic vialbility of our clients communities.
The RGS Economic Development team works to support our clients in projects related to community economic development. Many of these projects are non- traditional. The team assists with strategy and projects to attract, retain, and expand businesses within our clients community. We provide support services and assist in initiating programs that strengthen client communities’ financial base and provide quality jobs for residents.
Our team members serve as a liaison and ombudsman to the community-wide economic development programs, as well as providing professional assistance such as marketing, financing, negotiating, analyzing sites, and recruiting.
Enjoy flexible hours and work from your home office. The position is expected to function as a quasi-consultant role with a varied hourly work schedule. Most of our client work is in California, the Advisor may be located in any state as long as the applicant is available to attend occasional in-person and regular remote meetings in the Pacific Standard Time zone. W eekly hours can range up to 20 hours per week depending on both the Advisor and project availability.
Regional Government Services:
RGS is a unique California public agency serving the consulting, administrative, and project management needs of local governments. Our greatest asset is our expert Advisors who pride themselves on delivering outstanding services to support the mission of our partner agencies.
In order to provide this expertise, RGS has developed a highly flexible and adaptive team environment and work culture. We utilize technology to support a remote workforce of approximately 200 Advisors. Our Advisors are trained and experienced public-sector professionals from a variety of relevant disciplines. We combine the strength of each Advisor’s unique experiences, perspectives, and skills through teaming, leveraging their combined talents to benefit our partner agencies.
As an employer, RGS offers Advisors competitive compensation, client projects that offer rewarding and challenging work, and extraordinary flexibility. While client-interactive work must be done during core business hours, there is flexibility to do other work elements on a personalized schedule to maximize flexibility.
The Ideal Candidate will:
- Be a curious and intelligent with demonstrated experience successfully leading large or complex projects.
- Have extensive experience as a local government manager with a collaborative, customer-oriented leadership style.
- Be an innovative and creative problem solver and a proactive, ethical, self-motivated, adaptable, organized leader who is comfortable working in a fluid and project-focused environment.
- Communicate in an approachable and responsive manner demonstrating understanding of stakeholder interests and needs and commitment to meeting them.
- Be a successful relationship builder and team player accustomed to coordinating with regional partners.
- Be adept at identifying critical issues and resourceful in crafting feasible options to propose to partners and decision makers.
- Be articulate and credible, have excellent communication and presentation skills, particularly in addressing non-expert audiences on complex communications matters.
- Have knowledge of principles and practices of teaming and project management work models, coupled with solid skills in setting performance expectations, defining deliverables, holding people accountable, and supporting effort through well-designed work processes.
- Be analytical and appropriately detail oriented.
- Have demonstrated experience in developing project and grant budgets.
- Effectively and professionally communicate in writing, prepare agendas, staff reports, and policy documents.
- Have knowledge of risk management and be familiar with methods to manage and mitigate those risks.
- Possess a high level of comfort and competence with various technology and applications used in to work remotely including standard office applications.
- Have experience using a variety of software and database tools.
COMPETENCIES
Adaptability and Flexibility - Responds effectively to multiple demands, ambiguity, shifting priorities, emerging situations, and rapid change
Analytical Thinking - Identifies and defines problems; extracts key information from data; and develops workable solutions for the problems identified
Collaboration - Fosters team communication and dialogue; identifies opportunities for building consensus for team options, decisions, and outcomes
Communication - Effectively conveys and exchanges thoughts, opinions, and information verbally and in writing
Decision Making and Problem Solving - Takes action that is consistent with available facts, constraints, and probable consequences to define problems and implement solutions
Initiative - Identifies and takes action to address problems and opportunities
Interpersonal Relations - Builds relationships based on mutual trust and respect
Leadership - Inspires others toward a common vision and fosters trust and ethics
Reliability and Commitment - Shows commitment, dedication, and accountability and follows through on all projects, goals, and aspects of one's work.
Results Oriented - Translates objectives into action plans including identifying task interdependencies.
Examples of Duties
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Typical Qualifications
Education and Experience:
Any combination of experience, training, and formal education that could likely provide the required knowledge and abilities would qualify.
A typical path to demonstrate the skills and knowledge we need might include:
Education: Bachelor’s degree in business, public administration or a closely related field.
Experience: Five years of progressively responsible public sector project management experience related to economic development programs
Knowledge of:- Contemporary marketing practices, including incentives and current online marketing, such as search engine optimization, advertising, analytics, and social media
- Principles and practices of demographic research and analysis
- Principles and practices of writing grant proposals
- Principles of municipal budget administration
- Principles of public and private financing.
- Principles, practices, and issues of economic development, including business attraction, expansion, facilities operation, and retention
- Promotional events planning
- Public relations techniques
- Real estate development
- Techniques of program management
- Tourism
- Provide exceptional customer service practices to others
- Communicate effectively in English, both orally and in writing including editing techniques to reach a variety of audiences
- Conduct complex research
- Create and make effective presentations to prospective tenants, businesses, and groups
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with a variety of staff, agencies, organizations, and vendors and resolve interpersonal conflicts
- Foster a teamwork environment
- Interpret and apply complex rules, regulations, laws, and ordinances
- Model and practice the highest standards of ethical conduct
- Plan, organize, and implement elements of an economic development program
- Plan, organize, prioritize, and complete projects in a timely manner
- Use desktop publishing and printing techniques
- Work with the media
- Write effective marketing copy, proposals, press releases, speeches, articles, etc.
Supplemental Information
Applications must be submitted on-line through this applicant tracking system. Materials must be complete and clearly indicate the candidate meets the minimum qualifications. Incomplete, late, emailed, and faxed applications are not accepted. Resumes are not considered in lieu of the required employment application.
Certificates, resumes, and/or cover letters must be uploaded with your application through this applicant tracking system.
All statements made on the application, resume, and supplemental materials are subject to verification. False statements may be cause for immediate disqualification, removal from eligibility list, or discharge from employment.
The deadline to apply is October 27, 2024, at 11:59 PM PST.
CLICK HERE TO APPLY.
APPLICATION PROCESS AND SELECTION PROCEDURE:
Appraisal Process - (Pass/Fail) After the closing deadline, applications will be screened in relation to the criteria indicated in this announcement.
This process may also include various interviews and/or a skills assessment exam to rank applications, and to prepare a Qualified Candidate List.
Application - Minimum Qualification Assessment - (Pass/Fail) All completed applications and supplemental questionnaires will be reviewed and assessed for each applicant's ability to meet the minimum work experience, training, and education qualifications.
Remote Screen Interview Exam - (100%) Candidates who pass the application assessment will be invited to a Remote Screen Interview Examination to evaluate training, experience, and other job-related qualifications for the position. The Remote Screen Interview will be conducted via a video conference platform and is tentatively scheduled to take place late October early November 2024.
Successful candidates will be submitted to RGS for further consideration.
All communication and notices will be sent via e-mail.
Additional inquiries about the position may be directed to Kay Randolph-Pollard at krandolphpollard@rgs.ca.gov
Regional Government Services is not responsible for failure of internet forms or email in submitting your application. Candidates who may require special assistance in any phase of the application or selection process should advise RGS by emailing Kay Randolph-Pollard at krandolphpollard@rgs.ca.gov
Regional Government Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
RGS Salary and Benefits
Closing Date/Time: 10/27/2024 11:59 PM Pacific -
ABOUT THE COMPANY
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Regional Government Services
Show moreOUR HISTORY
Regional Government Services Authority (RGS) is a Joint Powers Authority (JPA) serving the needs of cities, counties, special districts, joint powers authorities, and other governmental entities since 2002. RGS works exclusively for the benefit of public agencies, providing a ready source of support and consulting services to meet the needs of its partner agencies in a broad range of disciplines and to help local governments meet three challenges:
- Decreasing revenues
- Increasing demands (and costs) for services, and
- Loss of experienced staff.
Local government leaders knew that these challenges were likely to continue, so agencies would have to work together – uniting not only their voices but their resources to advocate and become more efficient. The idea behind the creation of RGS was to form an agency that would help local governments share expertise and improve efficiencies. This was an emerging need. It did not require that each agency hire full-time staff. With the creation of this JPA, agencies could, in effect, share expertise through a third-party.
WHO WE ARE
Today, RGS is governed by several member agencies, all with the common goal expressed in the JPA’s MISSION STATEMENT: To provide quality, innovative, cost-effective services exclusively to public agencies. In November 2020, the 5-year Strategic Plan was adopted. Current member agency representation can be found on the Board of Directors page of this website.
RGS developed a highly flexible platform of administrative support, benefit plans and programs that could serve the diverse needs of cities, special districts, counties and other joint powers authorities. Flexibility was vital because the needs of partner agencies varied and because RGS services were 100 percent fee-based. Thus, RGS costs have always been able to ramp up or down quickly, as demand changed.
To further understand RGS main service lines, please see the RGS Services Brochure or the Services area of the website.
To view the RGS Org Chart click here.
Regional Government Services Authority was formed under Section 6500, for the purpose of providing local governments with administrative, staffing and advisory services. RGS has now served over 300 cities, special districts, joint powers authorities and other local governments and non-profits that support local governments.
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