Career Opportunity

Legislative Assistant - Office of Supervisor Mandelman - Board of Supervisors (1835)

Recruitment: RTF0140415-01118510

Published: October 04, 2023

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About:

Specific information regarding this recruitment process are listed below:

• Application Opening: October 4, 2023
• Filing Deadline: Open Continuously until filled. Applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible as the application may close at anytime, but not before October 31, 2023.
• Annual Salary: $115,076 to $139,932
• Appointment Type: Permanent Exempt (PEX): The Legislative Assistant position is exempt from Civil Service Rules and serves at the pleasure of the appointing body.
• Recruitment ID: PEX-1835-140416 / RTF0140415-01118510

The Board of Supervisors is the legislative branch of the City and County of San Francisco that responds to the needs of the people, establishes city policies, and adopts ordinances and resolutions. For more information visit: https://sfbos.org/

About Supervisor Mandelman
Supervisor Mandelman represents District 8 on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. District 8 includes the Castro, Glen Park, Noe Valley, Diamond Heights, Mission Dolores, and Cole Valley. Supervisor Mandelman is one of the LGBTQ members of the Board of Supervisors, and throughout his first term, was one of the only LGBTQ Supervisors in Northern California.

He currently serves as Vice-Chair of the Budget & Finance Committee. He serves as Chair of the San Francisco County Transportation Authority and represents San Francisco as a member of the Executive Board of the Association of Bay Area Governments and as Vice-Chair of the Transbay Joint Powers Authority Board of Directors.

Read more about Supervisor Mandelman at https://sfbos.org/supervisor-mandelman-district-8.

Role description

Position Description:

The Office of San Francisco Supervisor Rafael Mandelman seeks a Legislative Assistant to perform a wide variety of legislative, constituent, and administrative duties. Each Supervisor may employ up to four full-time Legislative Assistants. Office staff is supplemented with volunteers and interns, who are managed by the Legislative Assistants.

The Legislative Assistant will have a unique opportunity to join Supervisor Mandelman’s team to make substantive contributions to the development of policies that shape the City and County of San Francisco. The work environment is fast-paced and dynamic, and Legislative Assistants are expected to be well-organized, detail oriented, and available to work flexible hours.

The essential duties of this position include:

Legislative

• Advise, research, and prepare briefs, reports and talking points for the Supervisor on political and policy issues before the Board of Supervisors.
• Work with the Supervisor, other elected officials, the City Attorney’s Office, City Departments, advocates, and interest groups to draft and pass legislation.

Constituent

• Connect residents and merchants with relevant resources, convene neighborhood meetings, maintain strong relationships with neighborhood and community stakeholders and mediate neighborhood conflicts.
• Represent the Supervisor at community meetings and events.

Administrative

• Screen and respond to calls, emails, and inquiries, prepare correspondence, monitor meetings.
• Draft press releases, statements, speeches, neighborhood news columns and op-eds.
• Contribute to office’s online communications platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and email newsletters.
• Manage team of policy and administrative volunteers.

How to qualify

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or significant commensurate (year-for-year) work experience AND
• Minimum of two years of professional experience, preferably in a public or community-based agency.

Substitution
Additional experience as described above may be substituted for the required degree on a year-for-year basis. Thirty (30) semester units or forty-five (45) quarter units equal one year.

Desirable Qualifications

The following desirable qualifications may be considered at the final selection process when candidates are referred for hiring:

• Graduate degree in public policy, law, business, or related field.
• Experience working in local government.
• Knowledgeable about San Francisco—issues, people, politics, places.
• Smart, motivated, articulate, diplomatic, politically savvy.
• Excellent writing skills.
• High-level interpersonal skills to communicate effectively with a wide range of people including constituents, community activists, city staff and press.
• Strong public speaking ability.
• Volunteer or team management skills to create high performing, professional, inviting office environment.
• Well-organized, detail-oriented, and available to work flexible hours.

What else should I know?

Selection Procedures

Applications will be screened for relevant qualifying experience. Additional screening mechanisms may be implemented in order to determine the applicants’ qualifications. Only those applicants whose backgrounds best match the position will be invited to participate in the selection process. Applicants meeting minimum qualifications are not guaranteed advancement in the selection process.

Selected applicants will be invited for in-person or phone interviews.

APPLICANTS MUST PROVIDE TWO (2) ATTACHMENTS. Failure to include all 2 attachments may result in not proceeding further in the application process.

• COVER LETTER
• RESUME

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
• Right to Work
• Copies of Application Documents
• Diversity Statement

HOW TO APPLY

Applications for City and County of San Francisco jobs are only accepted through an online process. Visit https://careers.sf.gov/ 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 regarding this recruitment or application process, please contact the recruitment analyst, Jessica Wong at jessica.j.wong@sfgov.org.

Please note: All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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.