Salt Lake County…A career with a purpose in the community you love!
Salt Lake County invites you to explore our exciting career opportunities. We seek highly enthusiastic individuals to enrich our County with your experience and talent. If you enjoy working in a team environment that is committed to changing the lives of its community, please keep reading.
What it is like to work here:
At Salt Lake County our culture is woven into all aspects of our work and our employees’ lives, from the way we treat each other to the way we support the community. To promote and foster a fun and healthy work environment, we appreciate employees through great benefits, a healthy work life balance and room to grow and develop.
Surround yourself with:
Peers who are motivated to make a difference in the lives of those we serve. We serve Salt Lake County and envision a safe and beautiful place for all to live, work and have fun. Salt Lake County is about connecting people and championing our community. Community is more than a place….its our heart and service that bring us together.
We encourage a work life balance:
Working for Salt Lake County is more than just a paycheck. A career with /Salt Lake County includes several benefits and perks. We support our employees with 12 Holidays, up to 24 vacation days, 12 sick days and one personal day every year.
Additional Benefits include:
- Retirement options for hybrid pension/401(k) or 401(k) only with a 10% contribution
- Medical coverage including a 100% county paid premium option-Dental and Vision coverage including coverage for adult designees
- Health Savings account with a county contribution up to $1200/year, Flexible Spending Account
- 100% county-paid Long-Term Disability and Short-Term Disability option
- Professional Development including professional membership fees paid
- Plus: Onsite medical clinic, and gym; hospital insurance, pet insurance auto and home insurance and discounts at County facilities.
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JOB SUMMARY
This position coordinates the development, implementation, and day-to-day administration of the Salt Lake County Continuum of Care (CoC), Salt Lake County’s local homeless coordinating committee and Salt Lake Valley Coalition to End Homelessness (SLVCEH), which aim to render homelessness rare, brief, and non-recurring, and ensure requirements for federal funding are fulfilled.
Training and Technical Assistant Position: Primary responsibilities include monitoring, evaluation, and coordination of homeless service programs administered by community partners. Strategize, create, and implement plans to ensure that CoC funds achieve desired impact on identified priority needs
Communications Position: Primary responsibilities include developing, executing, and maintaining communications plans for the SLVCEH.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Public Administration, Business Administration, Social Work, Social Sciences, or a closely related field to human services; OR an equivalent combination of related education and experience.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Provides planning, facilitation, logistical and other staff support to CoC/SLVCEH and its Core Function/Task Groups.
- Works closely with all SLVCEH partners, ensuring and expanding good working relationships.
- Collects, coordinates and distributes planning information to internal and external stakeholder committees and partners.
- Develops and maintains strategic professional relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Coordinates professional development opportunities for internal and external stakeholders.
- Researches and shares information about best practices for CoCs/homeless services systems.
- Assist in the development of written standards to meet key federal requirements that operate in alignment with local outcomes.
- Works with all Salt Lake County Department, Divisions, and Offices as well as with community and municipal partners across the region to develop collaborative solutions to social issues, including homelessness and criminal justice reform.
- Reviews, analyzes and reports on community needs to assist in budget, grant, and program planning.
- Assists with grant writing. Helps ensure compliance of all US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s expectations and grant requirements.
- Coordinates with partners on deliverables for Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program
- Coordinates funding opportunities to maximize use of resources, including matching for Federal and State dollars.
- Creates, implements and performs program analysis and monitoring plans for the Salt Lake County Continuum of Care (COC).
- Assists in the evaluation and monitoring of current system-wide programs that impact the homeless services system; makes recommendations for improvement and works with stakeholders to implement recommendations as directed.
- Works with community leaders and partners to mobilize community support.
- May oversee recruitment, training, and placement of volunteer staff.
- Maintains communication and ongoing proactive working relationships with stakeholders in the community and CoC/SLVCEH partners.
- Facilitates ongoing communication between project partners to ensure internal transparency and alignment of actions.
- Assists stakeholders and members of the public to understand current system structure, services, access points, and outcomes through visualization of data, system processes, and structures.
- Represents the County and the Office to community groups and stakeholders.
- Develops and maintains public relations materials, including presentations, web-based, and social media content.
- Gathers, organizes, analyzes and verifies information; developing oral and written presentations which identify issues and recommends options to proposed policy or legislation; identifying and researching policy and programmatic changes to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the homeless services system.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (KSA)
Knowledge of:
- Effective public relations and communications methods and techniques
- Auditing and monitoring procedures
- Office operations and support functions
- County and State homeless services systems, agencies, and policies
- Research and assessment methods
- Grant proposal writing techniques
- Post-award grant management techniques
- Meeting facilitation, conflict resolution, consensus building
- Public program planning, development, budgeting, and management
- Needs assessment and outcome measurement
- Grant development and administration
- Federal, State, and local funding sources
- Community resources and their related services
Skills and Abilities to:
- Use word-processing, spreadsheet and visual presentation software applications
- Research and investigate
- Effectively apply general principles to specific situations
- Interpret and apply complex rules, regulations, policies and procedures
- Interpret contractual agreements
- Work in close collaboration with stakeholders and partners, internal and external to the County
- Prepare complex narrative and statistical reports, correspondence, and other documents
- Exercise judgment and discretion in dealing with interpersonal relationships, public relations, and writing
- Communicate effectively both orally and in writing and demonstrate public presentation skills
- Establish and maintain strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Exercise independent judgment, initiative and self-direction
- Work as an effective and collaborative team player
- Write and speak effectively, including the ability to conduct effective meetings