• Application Opening: May 17, 2022
• Application Filing Deadline: May 27, 2022
• Compensation Range: $106,678 to $129,714
• Recruitment ID:  PEX-1835-121835 / RTF0121834-01121097

The Board of Supervisors is the legislative branch of the City and County of San Francisco that responds to the needs of the people, establishes city policies, and adopts ordinances and resolutions. For more information visit: https://sfbos.org/

About Supervisor Dorsey:
Supervisor Matt Dorsey, appointed by Mayor London N. Breed on May 9, 2022, represents District 6 on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Read more about Supervisor Dorsey at https://sfbos.org/supervisor-dorsey-district-6

Appointment Type:
Permanent Exempt (PEX): The Legislative Assistant position is exempt from Civil Service Rules and serves at the pleasure of the appointing body.

Position Description:
The Office of San Francisco Supervisor Matt Dorsey seeks two legislative assistants to perform a wide variety of legislative, constituent and administrative duties. Each Supervisor may employ up to four full-time Legislative Assistants. Office staff is supplemented with volunteers and interns, who are managed by the Legislative Assistants.

The Legislative Assistant will have a unique opportunity to join Supervisor Dorsey’s team to make substantive contributions to the development of policies that impact the City and County of San Francisco. The work environment is fast-paced and dynamic and Legislative Assistants are expected to be well-organized, detail oriented, and available to work flexible hours. The Legislative Assistant job covers a broad range of skill sets and issue areas, including but not limited to:

• Carries out, interprets and explains existing policies, methods and procedures relative to the activities and operations of the Board and its committees.
• Conducts research on a variety of subjects and policy issues.
• Prepares resolutions, ordinances, reports, speeches, press releases, memoranda and correspondence.
• Represents or accompanies the Supervisor at governmental, neighborhood, community, social or business functions and meetings.
• Serves as a liaison to constituents, Supervisorial offices, city departments, local, state and federal governmental agencies, neighborhood. associations, media and community, political, nonprofit and private sector organizations.
• Manages office interns and volunteers.
• May include other duties as assigned.

The essential duties of this position include:

Legislative

• Advise, research, and prepare briefs, reports and talking points for the Supervisor on political and policy issues before the Board of Supervisors.
• Work with the Supervisor, other elected officials, the City Attorney’s Office, City Departments, advocates and interest groups to draft and pass legislation.

Constituent

• Connect residents and merchants with relevant resources, convene neighborhood meetings, maintain strong relationships with neighborhood and community stakeholders and mediate neighborhood conflicts.
• Represent the Supervisor at community meetings and events.

Administrative

• Screen and respond to calls, emails and inquiries, prepare correspondence, monitor meetings.
• Manage scheduling and office administration.
• Manage team of policy and administrative volunteers.

Bachelor of Arts degree or significant commensurate (year-for-year) work experience; AND

Minimum of two years of professional experience, preferably in a public or community-based agency

Substitution: Additional experience as described above may be substituted for the required degree on a year-for-year basis. Thirty (30) semester units or forty-five (45) quarter units equal one year.

Applicants must meet the minimum qualification requirement by the application filing date unless otherwise noted. 

Desirable Qualifications

The stated desirable qualifications may be used to identify job finalists at the end of the selection process when candidates are referred for hiring.

• Graduate degree in public policy, law, business or related field is highly desirable.
• Experience working in local government is highly desirable.
• Knowledgeable about San Francisco—issues, people, politics, places is highly desirable.
• Smart, motivated, articulate, diplomatic, politically savvy
• Excellent writing skills.
• High-level interpersonal skills to communicate effectively with a wide range of people including constituents, community activists, City staff and press.
• Strong public speaking ability.
• Volunteer or team management skills to create high performing, professional, inviting office environment.
• Well-organized, detail-oriented, and available to work flexible hours.
• First-hand knowledge of District 6’s neighborhoods, businesses, community groups, and/or residents.

Verification:

Applicants may be required to submit verification of qualifying education and experience at any point during the recruitment and selection process. If education verification is required, information on how to verify education requirements, including verifying foreign education credits or degree equivalency, can be found at https://sfdhr.org/how-verify-education-requirements

Note: Falsifying one’s education, training, or work experience or attempted deception on the application may result in disqualification for this and future job opportunities with the City and County of San Francisco.

All work experience, education, training and other information substantiating how you meet the minimum qualifications must be included on your application by the filing deadline. Information submitted after the filing deadline will not be considered in determining whether you meet the minimum qualifications.

Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of a completed City and County of San Francisco application.

Applications completed improperly may be cause for ineligibility, disqualification or may lead to lower scores.

Selection Procedures:

Applications will be screened for relevant qualifying experience. Additional screening mechanisms may be implemented in order to determine the applicants’ qualifications. Only those applicants whose backgrounds best match the position will be invited to participate in the selection process. Applicants meeting minimum qualifications are not guaranteed advancement in the selection process.

Selected applicants will be invited for in-person or phone interviews.

Attachments: APPLICANTS MUST PROVIDE FOUR (4) ATTACHMENTS. Failure to include all 4 attachments may result in not proceeding further in the application process. To upload, please attach using the "additional attachments" function. 

• COVER LETTER
• RESUME
• WRITING SAMPLE
• LIST OF THREE (3) REFERENCES

Additional Information Regarding Employment with the City and County of San Francisco:

• Information About the Hiring Process 
• Conviction History
• Employee Benefits Overview
• Equal Employment Opportunity 
• Disaster Service Worker 
• ADA Accommodation
• Right to Work
• Copies of Application Documents
• Diversity Statement

HOW TO APPLY

Applications for City and County of San Francisco jobs are only accepted through an online process.  Visit https://careers.sf.gov/ and begin the application process.

• Select the “I’m Interested” button and follow instructions on the screen

Applicants may be contacted by email about this recruitment and, therefore, it is their responsibility to ensure that their registered email address is accurate and kept up-to-date. Also, applicants must ensure that email from CCSF is not blocked on their computer by a spam filter. To prevent blocking, applicants should set up their email to accept CCSF mail from the following addresses (@sfgov.org, @sfdpw.org, @sfport.com, @flysfo.com, @sfwater.org, @sfdph.org, @asianart.org, @sfmta.com, @sfpl.org, @dcyf.org, @first5sf.org, @famsf.org, @ccsf.edu, @smartalerts.info, and @smartrecruiters.com).

Applicants will receive a confirmation email that their online application has been received in response to every announcement for which they file. Applicants should retain this confirmation email for their records. Failure to receive this email means that the online application was not submitted or received.

Analyst Information: If you have any questions regarding this recruitment or application process, please contact the recruitment analyst, Jessica Wong at [email protected].

CONDITION OF EMPLOYMENT:  All City and County of San Francisco employees are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of employment. Someone is fully vaccinated when 14 days have passed since they received the final dose of a two-shot vaccine or a dose of a one-shot vaccine. Any new hire must present proof of full vaccination status to be appointed. Any new hire who will be routinely assigned or occasionally enter High-Risk Settings, must provide proof of having received a COVID-19 booster vaccine by March 1, 2022, or once eligible.

The City and County of San Francisco encourages women, minorities and persons with disabilities to apply. Applicants will be considered regardless of their sex, race, age, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition (associated with cancer, a history of cancer, or genetic characteristics), HIV/AIDS status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, military and veteran status, or other protected category under the law.