Field Deputy

City of Los Angeles•Los Angeles, CA

4d•$82,434 - $94,106•Onsite

About The Position

The Office of Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman seeks thoughtful, hard-working, ethical and compassionate team members to work in a collaborative, fast-paced environment. Public policy, legal, planning, and government experience is valued as is public speaking and consensus-building experience. Most important is that you are self-starting, organized, energetic, and dedicated to bringing about positive policy change. The Field Deputy will be assigned to one or most neighborhoods within the district. They will work closely with the rest of the Field Team and City Hall staff to ensure constituents in the district have their needs met and that district priorities and information about important issues are proactively communicated to constituents.

Requirements

Diligence, high ethical standards, flexibility, a capacity for hard work, professionalism and a willingness to work collaboratively with multiple team members.
Worked with neighborhood stakeholders to help build consensus around a project or issue, where there were a variety of differing opinions.
Worked as a community organizer with responsibility for building public awareness at a grassroots level for an initiative, project, or campaign.
Represented an elected official, political candidate, community organization or business to a group of community stakeholders, where it was their responsibility to effectively communicate a public narrative.
Demonstrated commitment to social justice and enthusiasm about Councilmember Raman’s policies, priorities and values.
Successfully assisted a member of the community by engaging a government agency to help solve a complex problem.
Successfully delivered a project in a challenging setting, with many stakeholders, from start to completion.

Nice To Haves

Fluency in communicating in Spanish is a plus.

Responsibilities

Proactively engaging, communicating with, and building relationships with constituents and community groups.
Fielding, replying to, and relaying constituent concerns, complaints and ideas to appropriate City Hall staff and City departments to ensure that constituents’ needs are met in a timely and satisfactory manner.
Working with the Communications team to ensure constituents have knowledge of and access to appropriate resources and messaging from the Council office meets the needs of constituents.
Identifying and driving neighborhood priorities in accordance with district-wide priorities
Working creatively to problem solve on behalf of constituents and identify governmental and nongovernmental solutions to neighborhood concerns.