RGS Senior Advisor - Economic Development

Position Description

Make a difference in the lives of people who serve our communities.

Are you experienced with entrepreneurial projects that drive community economic development? Are you looking to make a difference in driving community economic growth throughout California? Are you looking for work life balance and remote work opportunity?

Regional Government services is seeking to fill one vacancy. The selected candidate must have significant experience assisting with developing and managing community economic development projects in public sector agencies.

Join the Regional Government Service (RGS) Economic Development Team and help us build and deliver exciting programs that improve the economic vialbility of our clients communities.

The RGS Economic Development team works to support our clients in projects related to community economic development. Many of these projects are non-traditional and require a collaborative effort to increase economic diversity, resiliency, and growth within the communities we support. The team assists with strategy and projects to attract, retain and expand businesses within the community. We provide support services and assist in initiating programs to strengthen the client communities’ financial base and provide quality jobs for residents.

Our team members serve as a liaison and ombudsman to the community-wide economic development programs, as well as providing professional assistance such as marketing, financing, negotiating, analyzing sites, and business recruiting.

Enjoy flexible hours and work from your home office. The position is expected to function as a quasi-consultant role with a varied hourly work schedule. Most of our client work is in California, the Advisor may be located in any state as long as the applicant is available to attend occasional in-person and regular remote meetings in the Pacific Standard Time zone. W eekly hours can range up to 20 hours per week depending on both the Advisor and project availability.

Regional Government Services:

RGS is a unique California public agency serving the consulting, administrative, and project management needs of local governments. Our greatest asset is our expert Advisors who pride themselves on delivering outstanding services to support the mission of our partner agencies.

In order to provide this expertise, RGS has developed a highly flexible and adaptive team environment and work culture. We utilize technology to support a remote workforce of approximately 200 Advisors. Our Advisors are trained and experienced public-sector professionals from a variety of relevant disciplines. We combine the strength of each Advisor’s unique experiences, perspectives, and skills through teaming, leveraging their combined talents to benefit our partner agencies.

As an employer, RGS offers Advisors competitive compensation, client projects that offer rewarding and challenging work, and extraordinary flexibility. While client-interactive work must be done during core business hours, there is flexibility to do other work elements on a personalized schedule to maximize flexibility.

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL:

• Be an innovative and creative problem solver who is a proactive, ethical, self-motivated, adaptable, organized leader who is comfortable working in a fluid and project-focused environment.
• Have an entrepreneurial curiosity to problem solving.
• Communicate in a proactive, approachable, and responsive manner, demonstrating understanding of stakeholder interests and needs and commitment to meeting them.
• Be a successful networker, relationship builder, and team player accustomed to coordinating with regional partners.
• Be adept at identifying critical issues and resourceful in crafting feasible options to propose to partners and decision makers.
• Be articulate and credible, have excellent communication and presentation skills, particularly in addressing non-expert audiences on complex communications matters.
• Have knowledge of principles and practices of teaming and project management work models, coupled with solid skills in setting performance expectations, defining deliverables, holding people accountable, and supporting effort through well-designed work processes.
• Be analytical and appropriately detail oriented; along with demonstrated experience in developing project and grant budgets.
• Communicate effectively both in writing and orally.
• Have knowledge of risk management and be familiar with methods to manage and mitigate those risks.
• Possess a high level of comfort and competence with various technology and applications used in to work remotely including standard office applications.
• Have some academic or work experience in urban or regional planning.
• Have experience using a variety of software and database tools including GIS.

COMPETENCIES

Active Listening - Hears and acknowledges what others say and accurately interprets the subtleties and nuances of the information conveyed by others
Collaboration - Fosters communication and dialogue; identifies opportunities for building consensus for group options, decisions, and outcomes
Communication and Public Speaking - Effectively conveys and exchanges thoughts, opinions, and information verbally and in writing
Creative Thinking - Keeps an open mind by challenging traditional ideas, cultivates curiosity, embraces new perspectives, and encourages experimentation
Decision Making and Problem Solving - Takes action that is consistent with available facts, constraints, and probable consequences to define problems and implement solutions
Financial Literacy - Effectively manages budgets, analyzes financial data, and understands cash flow patterns
Initiative - Identifies and takes action to address problems and opportunities
Leadership - Inspires others toward a common vision and fosters trust and ethics
Networking and Interpersonal Relations - Actively seeks out relationships with industry peers, potential partners; continually builds relationships based on mutual trust and respect
Results Oriented and Time Management - Translates objectives into action plans, including identifying task interdependencies; accomplishes plans with both flexibility structure to prevent wasted resources or missed deadlines

Examples of Duties

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Typical Qualifications

Education and Experience:

Any combination of experience, training, and formal education that could likely provide the required knowledge and abilities would qualify. A typical path to demonstrate the skills and knowledge we need might include:

Education: Bachelor’s degree in business, regional planning, public administration, or a closely related field

Experience: Five years of progressively responsible experience related to economic development programs

Knowledge of:

• Contemporary marketing practices including incentives and current online marketing, such as search engine optimization, advertising, analytics, and social media
• Principles and practices of entrepreneurship in economic development
• Principles and practices of demographic research and analysis
• Principles and practices of writing grant proposals
• Principles of municipal budget administration
• Principles of public and private financing
• Principles, practices, and issues of economic development and regional planning, including business attraction, expansion, facilities operation, and retention
• Promotional events planning
• Public relations techniques
• Real estate development
• Techniques of program management
• Tourism

Ability to:

• Provide exceptional customer service practices to others
• Communicate effectively in English, both orally and in writing and including editing techniques to reach a variety of audiences.
• Conduct complex research
• Create and make effective presentations to prospective tenants, businesses, and groups
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with a wide variety of staff, agencies, organizations, and vendors and resolve interpersonal conflicts
• Foster a teamwork environment
• Interpret and apply complex rules, regulations, laws, and ordinances
• Model and practice the highest standards of ethical conduct
• Plan, organize and implement elements of an economic development program
• Plan, organize, prioritize, and complete projects in a timely manner
• Use desktop publishing and printing techniques
• Work with the media
• Write effective marketing copy, proposals, press releases, speeches, articles, etc.

Supplemental Information

Applications must be submitted on-line through this applicant tracking system. Materials must be complete and clearly indicate the candidate meets the minimum qualifications. Incomplete, late, emailed, and faxed applications are not accepted. Resumes are not considered in lieu of the required employment application.

Certificates, resumes, and/or cover letters must be uploaded with your application through this applicant tracking system.

All statements made on the application, resume, and supplemental materials are subject to verification. False statements may be cause for immediate disqualification, removal from eligibility list, or discharge from employment.

The deadline to apply is October 27, 2024, at 11:59 PM PST.

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APPLICATION PROCESS AND SELECTION PROCEDURE:

Appraisal Process - (Pass/Fail) After the closing deadline, applications will be screened in relation to the criteria indicated in this announcement.

This process may also include various interviews and/or a skills assessment exam to rank applications, and to prepare a Qualified Candidate List.
Application - Minimum Qualification Assessment - (Pass/Fail) All completed applications and supplemental questionnaires will be reviewed and assessed for each applicant's ability to meet the minimum work experience, training, and education qualifications.
Remote Screen Interview Exam - (100%) Candidates who pass the application assessment will be invited to a Remote Screen Interview Examination to evaluate training, experience, and other job-related qualifications for the position. The Remote Screen Interview will be conducted via a video conference platform and is tentatively scheduled to take place late October early November 2024.
Successful candidates will be submitted to RGS for further consideration.

All communication and notices will be sent via e-mail.
Additional inquiries about the position may be directed to Kay Randolph-Pollard at krandolphpollard@rgs.ca.gov.

Regional Government Services is not responsible for failure of internet forms or email in submitting your application. Candidates who may require special assistance in any phase of the application or selection process should advise RGS by emailing Kay Randolph-Pollard at krandolphpollard@rgs.ca.gov.

Regional Government Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

RGS Salary and Benefits

Closing Date/Time: 10/27/2024 11:59 PM Pacific

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• Regional Government Services

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