Hourly Program Assistant (Part Time-Limited Term)

The Position

Carlsbad - The Community

This nearly 40 square mile city is ideally situated in north San Diego County with an approximate population of 115,000. It offers a great climate, beautiful beaches, lagoons, and abundant natural open space. World-class resorts, family attractions, well-planned neighborhoods, a diverse business sector, and a charming village atmosphere combine to create the ideal California experience. Thanks to an award-winning growth management plan, the city's infrastructure and services keep pace with development and promote an excellent quality of life.

You belong in Carlsbad

The City of Carlsbad embraces and recognizes the vital relationship of an inclusive, engaged work environment and innovative excellence. An equitable and inclusive work climate comprises personal experiences, values, and views shaped from differences of culture and circumstance. Our organization appreciates belonging, creativity, recognition and retention of its employees and is committed to hiring and developing motivated, productive and talented employees who provide services and enhance our quality of life. We work to embrace open and equitable access to opportunities for learning and development as our responsibility and goal.

The Department

The City of Carlsbad has had a long history of proactively addressing affordable housing and homeless issues. The Housing & Homeless Services Department was created to address the growing importance of these two issues in Carlsbad. The Department includes administration of rental assistance programs, creation of affordable for sale and rental housing, the implementation of critical city policies that help create additional affordable housing, administration of local and federal grant programs that provide critical services to the community, and implementation and oversight of services and resources that reduce homelessness.

The Position

• The Housing and Homeless Services department has a Program Assistant opening (part-time, limited-term position).

Under general direction from the department or division director, incumbents in this series are fully responsible and have considerable latitude in the administration of assigned specialized programs in the Homeless Services Division. Incumbents work cross-functionally to perform highly responsible, complex, professional, administrative and technical work.

The ideal candidate is a self-motivated, high performer who is responsible to plan, organize and assist with policy oversight, activities and programs, which includes assisting with coordination with other departments, governmental and nonprofit agencies, and developers.

The city is seeking a highly qualified individual with technical expertise and strong interpersonal and organizational skills. Candidates will have the ability to communicate in a clear, concise, and direct manner, including communicating technical information in a non-technical manner both orally and in writing. The candidate should be a team player who can communicate with people at all levels and with a high degree of political acumen. It is expected that the candidate be well organized, efficient and effective, and able to meet critical deadlines while managing multiple tasks. We are looking for someone who has a passion for excellence and is truly excited about helping the community through affordable housing and homeless services. The right candidate will have high standards and appreciate working for an organization that values exceptional customer service, quality, innovation and efficiency. Enthusiasm, diplomacy and attention to detail are all important traits.

Key Responsibilities

The following are examples of the types of job duties that may be found in this role :

Administer assigned projects, including but not limited to compiling and analyzing data and monitoring progress and trends.

Perform project and policy analysis, which includes conducting research; presenting findings and results; and making recommendations as appropriate.

Provide support with the completion of grant reporting, staff reports and the development of presentations.

Assist in special project teams on special studies and complex projects / programs, using effective project and / or program management skills and techniques.

Perform other duties deemed necessary to the position.

Qualifications

Knowledge of :

Ability to :

Experience & Education

Any combination equivalent to experience and education that could likely provide the required knowledge and abilities is qualifying. A typical background would include :

A bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with major work in public administration or related field.

A minimum of one year of related work experience preferred .