What are the responsibilities and job description for the Field Deputy position at City of Los Angeles?
Office of Councilmember Nithya Raman, Los Angeles City Council, 4th District:
Field Deputy
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 multiple 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.
The ideal candidate will have:
- Diligence, high ethical standards, focus, flexibility, a capacity for hard work, and a willingness to work closely 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.
- Fluency in communicating in Spanish is a plus.
Duties include, but are not limited to:
- 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.
The City of Los Angeles values diversity, equity and inclusion in its workforce. We encourage any and all qualified individuals to apply, regardless of their racial or ethnic background, sex, gender identity or any other protected background.
The position is full-time and exempt from Civil Service. Compensation will be based on experience and includes excellent benefits.
About the Office of Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman
Nithya Raman is an urban planner, a graduate of Harvard and MIT, a working mother, an immigrant to America, and a member of the Los Angeles City Council representing the 4th District.
Since taking office, Councilmember Raman has prioritized delivering compassionate and effective services for people experiencing homelessness, building more affordable housing, and moving with greater urgency to meet our city’s climate goals.
Councilmember Raman serves as Chair of the Housing & Homelessness Committee, Vice Chair of the Rules, Elections, and Intergovernmental Relations Committee, and as a member of the Planning & Land Use Management Committee, Energy & Environment Committees, and the Ad Hoc Committee on Unarmed Crisis Prevention, Intervention, and Community Services.
Councilmember Raman was also appointed to the South Coast Air Quality Management District Governing Board by former Mayor Eric Garcetti, and to the Board of the Los Angeles County Affordable Housing Solutions Agency by Mayor Bass.
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