Equity and Belonging Associate (Open and Promotional)

Salary : $99,819.20 - $124,758.40 Annually
Location : County of San Mateo, CA
Job Type: Regular
Remote Employment: Flexible/Hybrid
Job Number: New 04 02 2025
Department: County Executive's/Clerk of the Board
Division: County Management
Opening Date: 04/02/2025
Closing Date: 4/29/2025 11:59 PM Pacific
Bargaining Unit: 50B

Description
The County of San Mateo seeks well qualified candidates dedicated to closing the gap in life outcomes for San Mateo County communities for the position of Equity and Belonging Associate.
The vision of the Office of Racial and Social Justice (ORSJ) is one where all San Mateo County residents, workers, and staff experience just and fair inclusion into a society in which all can participate, prosper, and reach their full potential. All residents are better off, when we enable everyone to fully participate in the civic, social, and economic opportunities. Our work is to help create the institutional conditions that enable all our clients, communities, and partners to reach their full potential.
The Equity and Belonging Associate will support the functions of the ORSJ which include, but are not limited to:

• Sustain and grow an interdepartmental Core Equity Team and its committees to advance their annual action plan.
• Build and sustain external collaboratives to advance shared priorities.
• Lead communications initiatives.
• Implement the County's Anchor Institution framework to align County business operations with its mission.
• Develop policies, programs, tools, and resources.
• Design and deliver trainings for County employees.

Examples Of Duties
As part of the duties, this position will be responsible for the following, but not limited to the following activities:

• Conduct research on best practices, needs, landscape, stakeholder analyses, and program evaluations.
• Support internal and external collaboratives with facilitation, administrative tasks, research, and action plans.
• Coordinate, facilitate, and support internal working groups with facilitation, administrative tasks, research, and action plans.
• Research, develop, and deliver training curriculums.
• Assist with administrative and contract management tasks.
• Prepare and present on a variety of pertinent issues, programs, and reports.
• Coordinate communications efforts.
• Develop and distribute electronic newsletters, writing segments of the newsletter and collecting and posting others.
• Maintain an internal resource hub for all staff that includes resources, tools, action plans, guidance, and trainings to support staff implementation of fair and just processes and outcomes for all residents, but especially our most vulnerable.
• Complete other duties as assigned.

The County of San Mateo is recognized state-wide as an innovative organization that provides comprehensive services to the residents and businesses in the county.

NOTE: The eligible list generated from this recruitment may be used to fill future extra-help, limited term, unclassified, and regular classified vacancies.

Qualifications
Education and Experience: Any combination of training and experience that would provide the required knowledge, skills, and abilities is qualifying. A typical way to obtain the required qualifications would be:

• Equivalent to graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with major coursework in business administration, public administration, or a related field.
• At least one year of professional administrative experience is typically required at the Associate Management Analyst level.

Knowledge of:

• Issues related to equity, racial and social justice, and cultural humility.
• Lived experience facing and/or addressing systemic inequities.
• Concepts and best practices in community engagement of diverse and impacted communities.
• Principles and practices of county management and government.
• Project and/or program management, and report preparation techniques.
• Effective research and reporting methods that are accessible to broad and diverse audiences.
• English usage, grammar, spelling, vocabulary, and punctuation.
• Sources of information related to a broad range of county and community programs, services, and administration.
• Techniques for effectively representing the County in contacts with governmental agencies, community groups, and various business, professional, educational, regulatory, and legislative organizations.
• Techniques for providing a high level of customer service by effectively connecting with the public, vendors, contractors, and County staff.
• Techniques for online meetings and forums, including zoom meetings and webinars and related features for engagement on zoom such as breakout groups, polls, and surveys.
• Digital communications platforms including GovDelivery and Drupal (or similar platforms such as MailChimp, Constant Contact, and WordPress).

Ability to:

• Respectfully and positively engage, communicate, and build relationships with diverse stakeholders, including communities that have been marginalized, staff members across County departments and classifications, County and City leadership, and beyond.
• Conduct research on best practices on a wide range of topics relevant to the Office of Racial and Social Justice's work, as well as policy and programs to serve the community and/or staff.
• Assist in the development of goals, objectives, policies, procedures, and work standards for internal and external collaboratives and working groups.
• Coordinate and oversee programmatic activities.
• Prepare clear and concise reports, correspondence, presentations, policies, procedures, and other written materials.
• Support the preparation and facilitation of complex virtual and in-person meetings and trainings with large and diverse audiences.
• Perform responsible and difficult administrative work involving the use of independent judgment and personal initiative.
• Establish and maintain a variety of filing, record keeping, and tracking systems.
• Organize and prioritize a variety of projects and multiple tasks in an effective and timely manner and organize own work, set priorities, and meet critical time deadlines.
• Plan, organize, and carry out assignments from management staff with minimal direction.
• Analyze, interpret, summarize, and present information and data in an effective manner.
• Use tact, initiative, prudence, and independent judgment within general policy and legal guidelines in politically sensitive situations.
• Effectively represent the department and the County in meetings with governmental agencies, community groups, and various businesses, professional and regulatory organizations, and in meetings with individuals.
• Effectively and positively partner with team members to accomplish shared projects and goals.

Application/Examination
Open and Promotional. Anyone may applyCurrent County of San Mateo employees with at least six months (1040 hours) of continuous service in a classified regular, probationary, extra-help, or limited term position prior to the final filing date will receive five points added to their final passing score on this examination.

The examination process for this recruitment will consist of an Application Screening (weight: pass/fail), and an Interview (weight: 100%), which may include the evaluation of a brief writing exercise given immediately preceding the interview. Applicants must successfully pass the Application Screening to move forward to the interview. Candidates must successfully pass the interview to be placed on the eligible (hiring) list.

Depending on the number of applications, a screening committee may select those applicants whose education and/or experience appear to best meet the needs of the position. For that reason, not all applicants with the minimum qualifications are guaranteed to advance through the recruitment.

All examinations will be given in San Mateo County, California and applicants must participate at their own expense.

IMPORTANT: Applications for this position will only be accepted online. If you are currently on the County's website, you may click "Apply". If you are not on the County's website, please go tohttps://jobs.smcgov.org/to apply.In addition to completing the standard Employment Application form, responses to the Supplemental Questionnaire (attached to the application form) must also be provided.

TENTATIVE RECRUITMENT SCHEDULE
Deadline for Applications: April 28, 2025
Application Screening: April 29 - May 5, 2025
Panel Interview: May 13, 2025

Departmental/Finalist Interview: Week of May 19, 2025

About the County

San Mateo County is centrally located between San Francisco, San Jose, and the East Bay. With over 750,000 residents, San Mateo is one of the largest and most diverse counties in California and serves a multitude of culturally, ethnically, and linguistically diverse communities. The County of San Mateo is committed to advancing equity to ensure all employees are welcomed in a safe and inclusive environment.

The County of San Mateo, as an employer, seeks to hire, support, and retain employees who reflect our diverse community. We encourage applicants with diverse backgrounds and lived experiences to apply. Eighty percent of employees surveyed stated they would recommend the County as a great place to work.

The County of San Mateo is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion at all levels.
Analyst: Chet Overstreet (04022025) (Associate Management Analyst - D182)
Please visit for a complete listing of all benefits for this classification.
Benefits are offered to eligible employees of the County of San Mateo. All benefits are subject to change.
As an additional benefit, the County offers extensive training, wellness and development programs designed to improve skills and enhance career opportunities. Most programs are offered on County time at no cost to you.
County employees are also covered by the federal Social Security system and earn benefits for retirement based on salary and time worked.
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IMPORTANT NOTE: Applicants for this position are required to submit responses to the supplemental questions below. Your responses will provide detailed information about your background and experience related to this position. This information will weigh heavily in the application screening by the subject matter experts and will also be used in the selection process. Answer the questions completely, paying attention to the multi-parts of the questions. While being thorough and detailed, also be concise. Your strategic use of language as well as neatness, clarity of expression, attention to detail, proper use of grammar and the ability to follow instructions will be considered in the evaluation process. A resume will not be accepted as a substitute for your responses. I have read and understand this information.

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What inspires your passion and commitment to equity and justice?
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What strengths will you bring to the Equity and Belonging Associate position that will help the position be successful?
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Describe in broad terms your experience with outreach, education, and engagement of diverse audiences. Provide a specific example that describes your experience engaging and collaborating with diverse populations and community groups. Include the issue, stakeholder(s) and methods used, your role, and the outcome of the collaboration(s).
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Describe your experience researching best practices on a policy or program area. Please share the area of focus, how you performed your research, what challenges you faced and how you addressed them, and how you shared your research.
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