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The Mayor's Office is seeking an enthusiastic, organized, and knowledgeable person to join the Mayor's Office of Strategic Initiatives and Budget as a Strategic Partnerships Manager. This role will work closely with our key partner, the San José Public Library Foundation and will have a dotted line reporting role to the Foundation. This role serves as a key leadership team member and active participant in strategic decisions. Working closely with the Director, the Strategic Partnerships Manager will design and implement a comprehensive development plan and cultivate individual and institutional philanthropic support. This person will develop a communication strategy and collateral that demonstrate the impact of strategic initiatives and support fund development efforts. They will also serve as a key policy advisor to Mayor for issues related to Education, Workforce Development, Service/Volunteerism, and Performance. The Manager has primary responsibility for raising $300,000 through individual gifts and collaborating with the Director of Strategic Partnerships and SJPLF Executive Director to secure institutional gifts (foundation grants, corporate sponsorship, government grants).

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Create compelling effective content and fundraising collateral, coordinates production, designs mailing lists, meets deadlines, and tracks results for all fundraising campaigns.
• Writing grants and reports for foundations, corporations and government (local, state and federal).
• Maintain templates for flyers, press releases, PSAs, sponsorships, and more.
• Handle multiple edits/updates/changes.
• Conducts new funder prospecting efforts by researching sources, performing analysis of fit, and writing letters of inquiry and gift proposals.
• Research opportunities for corporate sponsorships and grants, initiates relationships, and monitors progress and fulfillment.
• Establish a process for social media distribution of key Mayoral and SJPLF initiatives. This includes the maintenance and execution of a regular calendar and cadence of posting across all platforms.
• Develop and execute regular posts to all current and future social media platforms – this includes promoting key initiatives, tracking trends and news cycles, and engaging with partners where appropriate on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
• Work with partners and internal stakeholders to orchestrate participation in outside social media campaigns.
• Execute on paid social media campaigns and provide learnings and analysis on data outcomes.
• Understand metrics for tracking and regularly track, analyze, and report on social media analytics across all social platforms.
• Collaborates with the Library’s marketing team on donor-related collateral and multi-platform communications to ensure clear and consistent messaging

This is a full-time, exempt position with a high degree of autonomy and opportunity for growth. Salary will be based on a candidate's unique combination of skills, training, and experience.

DOT is accepting applications for the position of full-time benefited Maintenance Assistant. Candidates who meet the minimum qualifications may be required to pass a written exam and a practical exam.

Under immediate supervision, the Maintenance Assistant performs unskilled work in the maintenance and repair of streets, pavements, sewers, landscaping, traffic signs, and traffic signals. Duties include digging holes, trenches, and ditches. It also includes operating a wide range of hand, mechanical, and power tools, as well as a variety of light and heavy vehicles, trucks, and equipment relevant to work performed, ensuring compliance with safe working practices.

Maintenance crews provide services seven days a week. Individuals in this classification may be required to work alternate work shifts, including grave and swing, weekends, holidays, overtime, and on-call.

More information on the typical duties can be found in the Class Specifications for Maintenance Assistant.

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Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) is seeking to add a talented Business Diversity Program Manager to our team.

Under direction, the Business Diversity Program Manager plans, directs, manages, and administers VTA's business diversity programs, including the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE), Small Business Enterprise (SBE), Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE), Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise (DVBE), and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Business Enterprise (LGBTBE) Programs.

The Business Diversity Program Manager is a single position class that manages the work of professional level analytical staff in addition to performing complex and responsible duties. This classification works with a high degree of independence and is expected to carry out the necessary day to day activities without direction, except as new or unusual circumstances require. The incumbent serves as a subject expert on DBE, SBE, MWBE, DVBE, LGBTBE, and related programs, providing direction, assistance, and input on program policies and procedures, and serves as VTA's liaison to a variety of individuals and organizations regarding the DBE, SBE, MWBE, DVBE, LGBTBE, and related programs.

Minimum Qualifications:

Development of the required knowledge, skills, and abilities is typically obtained through a combination of training, education, and experience equivalent to graduation from an accredited college or university with a four-year degree in public or business administration, or a related field, and four years of increasingly responsible experience performing DBE-related work for a public or private sector organization, with at least two years at the level of Management Analyst or equivalent. Experience in a lead or supervisory capacity is desirable.

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