PART-TIME COMMUNICATIONS INTERN

Job Description:

PART-TIME COMMUNICATIONS INTERN

Description

job description

The Office of Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martínez is seeking a thoughtful, hard-working, and compassionate team member to work in a collaborative, fast-paced environment as a Communications Intern.

The ideal candidate should demonstrate a commitment to racial and economic justice, some experience with social media/communications, and a strong understanding of the diverse communities and neighborhoods within CD 13.

Starting at 20 hours/week and $25/hour.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

Digital

• Update website copy/structure/design

• Post newsletter weekly on website

• Send out weekly comms debriefs with clips, comms updates, and metrics.

• Translate content from English to Spanish

Social Media

• Design graphics/images for social media

• Draft social media posts in both English and Spanish

• Assist communications team with miscellaneous social media projects

Constituent Services

• Respond to inquiries from constituents via social media

• Manage the office’s mail correspondence system that we use to alert constituents about changes in their community, with assistance from the communications team

• Assist communications, field, and admin teams with certificate and presentation requests

The ideal candidate should have experience in the following

• Strong graphic design skills.

• Exceptional written, verbal, and visual communication skills in both Spanish and English.

• Strong attention to detail.

• A capacity for hard work, and a willingness to collaborate with others.

• Enthusiasm for and some familiarity with local politics and municipal policy.

• Experience in project management, graphic design, or other communications-related fields is a plus.

How to apply

To apply, visit bit.ly/commsintern13

exempt employment

If employment is said to be exempt, it is meant that the employment is exempted from the civil service provisions of the City Charter. In order to receive a regular civil service appointment, employees must have successfully participated in a civil service examination, received a high enough score on the examination to be placed on and receive an appointment from an eligible list, and they must serve a probationary period. Exempt employees do not compete in a civil service examination, they are not placed on an eligible list and receive an appointment from that list, nor do they serve a probationary period. As a result, exempt employees do not have what is referred to as a “property interest” in their job. Exempt employees serve at the will of the appointing authority and can be terminated at any time without cause. Employees with a property interest in their job, i.e. civil service employees, cannot be deprived of their employment(discharged or suspended) without due process.

General Information About Exempt Employment

Exempt employees serve at the will of the appointing authority, and as such, they may be discharged, suspended or otherwise disciplined without cause. Exempt employees have no property interest in their employment, and any procedural benefit or other prerogative extended to them by their appointing authority is not intended to create and does not create any such property interest. No officer or employee of the City may make to any other officer or employee any representation of a property interest in employment which does not correspond to Charter provisions unless the City Council, by ordinance, permits such representation. No unauthorized representation can serve as the basis of an employee's reliance on, or expectation of, a property interest.

Employees Seeking To Become Civil Service Employees

There is no protective leave for an exempt employee appointed to a civil service position. Upon receiving a civil service appointment and passing probation, the former exempt employee will be subject to the Civil Service provisions described in Article X of the City Charter. Upon appointment, the civil service employee will begin to accrue displacement and layoff seniority on the first day of his/her civil service appointment and may file for promotional examinations for which s/he qualifies. A full or half-time exempt employee appointed to a full or half-time civil service position continues to: contribute to the Retirement System; accrue vacation time; accrue sick time; receive anniversary date salary increases; and, receive health and dental benefits identical to those received in the civil service position.

Closing Date/Time: 2/6/25