Career Opportunity

Public Service Intern (9910) - Department of Status of Women

Recruitment: RTF0127982-01153293

Published: November 10, 2022

Accepting applications until: November 18, 2022

Apply using SmartRecruiters, the City and County of San Francisco's application portal.

About:

Who We Are: The first of its kind in the nation, the San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women was established in 1975 by the Board of Supervisors after years of advocacy on the part of the San Francisco women’s community. In 1994, the voters of San Francisco approved Proposition E, which created a permanent City Department on the Status of Women to carry out the policies of the Commission.

Today: The Commission and the Department’s primary purpose is to ensure women and girls equal economic, social, political and educational opportunities within City and County government through policies, legislation and programs.

Three Core Service Areas: As part of a strategic shift to create a greater impact and serve more San Franciscans, the Department has identified three core service areas to catalyze transformative change in the lives of women, girls, and nonbinary people: (1) Health and Safety, (2) Economic Security, and (3) Civic Engagement and Political Empowerment.

Through these three areas, the Department aims to improve the whole lives of our targeted communities, including their health, wealth, physical safety and well-being. Our programming is designed to not just create balance when it comes to the construct of gender, but also to empower women, girls, and gender-nonconforming people with the tools and resources to build pathways to healthy and prosperous futures.

Role description

Working at the intersection of health, safety, socioeconomics, politics and gender, the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women believes that women’s mobility in the United States is determined and influenced by markers of difference like race, ethnicity, class, gender, identity and sexual orientation.

As we work to achieve equity across all indexes in the City and County of San Francisco, and to better understand the experiences of all women in the workforce and in society, we intend to use both gender and racial equity lenses as well as other intersectional frameworks in our research and analyses to help generate effective strategies and solutions that are grounded in the realities of women and families.

To that end, DOSW is calling on the next generation of change agents to participate in a professional internship designed to provide on-the-job training, experience and mentorship in planning and carrying out Departmental activities and assignments.

The successful candidate will be able to effectively communicate and collaborate within teams and is comfortable working on various topics and projects simultaneously. This role will be exposed to many aspects of local government and public administration in service of creating a greater impact for more San Franciscans while building a more diverse and efficient city government through gender-responsive, racially equitable policies and programs.

Duties and Responsibilities Include:

Administrative Tasks

• Answering phone while in office and daily monitoring of office voicemail and shared department email inbox
• Maintaining visitor logs
• Scheduling staff events and meetings
• Supporting office management duties such as preparing materials and supplies orders
• Assisting with the creation and formatting of weekly packets for executive management review

Commission Meetings

• Draft monthly meeting materials for Commission Secretary review
• Update member binders for Commission meetings with the latest meeting materials
• Occasionally taking minutes at Commission meetings
• Perform other tasks relating to preparation for and/or facilitation of Commission meetings

Communications

• Drafting and formatting monthly newsletters, including outreach to and follow up with staff to ensure timely content generation
• Maintain newsletter distribution database
• Updating Department website, as needed
• Drafting correspondence between Department representatives
• Posting approved social media, and occasionally creating original content
• Assisting with editorial calendar updates

Policy & Program Support

• Staffing meetings and notetaking
• Performing and/or supporting research through publicly available resources
• Performing and/or supporting outreach to other departments as needed

Special Projects including but not limited to:

• Assisting with event preparation, organization and management
• Maintaining document file systems
• Assist with data collection, analysis and writing for mandatory reporting deliverables

How to qualify

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be enrolled or have graduated from an accredited college undergraduate or graduate degree program

Required Skills/ Background:

• High degree of organizational, prioritization and problem-solving skills
• Respect for details
• Excellent communication skills – written, verbal, pictorial and numerical
• Resourcefulness in finding information and answers from within and outside of CCSF without prompting or micromanagement; a consummate self-starter
• College-age and/or pursuing a degree or recent college graduate
• Proficient in Microsoft Office

Preferred Skills/Background:

• Familiarity with issues affecting women, girls and nonbinary people
• Background/ interest in public administration or public service

What else should I know?

• Application Opening: November 1, 2022
• Application Filing Deadline: Extended through November 18, 2022
• Hourly Compensation: $18.75 per hour
• Type of Employment: Part-Time, up to 20 Hours/Week. Limited to 1040 hours in a Fiscal Year.

Appointment Type: Tempoary-Exempt (TEX). Pursuant to the City & County of San Francisco Charter, Section 10.104-16. Any person occupying a position under exempt appointment shall not be subject to civil service selection, appointment, and removal procedures. Exempt employees shall serve at the pleasure of the appointing officer. This position shall not exceed 1040 hours in a Fiscal Year.

Additional Information Regarding Employment with the City and County of San Francisco:

• Information About The Hiring Process
• Conviction History
• Employee Benefits Overview  
• Equal Employment Opportunity 
• Disaster Service Worker
• ADA Accommodation
• Veterans Preference
• Right to Work
• Copies of Application Documents
• Diversity Statement

How to Apply:

To be considered, please submit a SmartRecruiters application and attach to your application:

• A cover letter with your interest for the role.
• An updated resume

Applications for City and County of San Francisco jobs are only accepted through an online process. Visit https://careers.smartrecruiters.com/CityAndCountyOfSanFrancisco1/ and begin the application process.

• Select the “I’m Interested” button and follow instructions on the screen 

Applicants may be contacted by email about this recruitment and, therefore, it is their responsibility to ensure that their registered email address is accurate and kept up-to-date. Also, applicants must ensure that email from CCSF is not blocked on their computer by a spam filter. To prevent blocking, applicants should set up their email to accept CCSF mail from the following addresses (@sfgov.org, @sfdpw.org, @sfport.com, @flysfo.com, @sfwater.org, @sfdph.org, @asianart.org, @sfmta.com, @sfpl.org, @dcyf.org, @first5sf.org, @famsf.org, @ccsf.edu, @smartalerts.info, and @smartrecruiters.com).

Applicants will receive a confirmation email that their online application has been received in response to every announcement for which they file. Applicants should retain this confirmation email for their records. Failure to receive this email means that the online application was not submitted or received.

For questions or inquiries, please contact: Gary Chen, Senior Human Resources Analyst at gary.w.chen@sfgov.org

CONDITION OF EMPLOYMENT:  All City and County of San Francisco employees are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of employment. Someone is fully vaccinated when 14 days have passed since they received the final dose of a two-shot vaccine or a dose of a one-shot vaccine. Any new hire must present proof of full vaccination status to be appointed. Any new hire who will be routinely assigned or occasionally enter High-Risk Settings, must provide proof of having received a COVID-19 booster vaccine by March 1, 2022, or once eligible.

The City and County of San Francisco encourages women, minorities and persons with disabilities to apply. Applicants will be considered regardless of their sex, race, age, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition (associated with cancer, a history of cancer, or genetic characteristics), HIV/AIDS status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, military and veteran status, or other protected category under the law.