Soglin is looking for you! Women and People of Color, now encouraged to apply!
MAYOR – ELECT INVITES CITIZENS TO SERVE ON CITY COMMITTEES
SOGLIN ALSO RECRUITING MAYORAL AIDESMadison, Wisconsin. Mayor – elect Paul Soglin announced today that he is actively recruiting Madisonians to serve on city committees and boards.
“Madison is a city that prides itself on active involvement of our citizens and their participation in the governmental process,” said the mayor-elect. “We are a talented community and we will examine resumes and recommendations from all over Madison. We are looking for diversity.“
Simultaneously, the mayor is recruiting qualified applicants for staff positions in his office. Four mayoral aides will perform highly responsible professional and managerial work and will report directly to the mayor. They also will function with a high degree of independent judgment and discretion. Each will work with a cluster of department heads as well as the respective city committees and the public.
A fourth position, governmental relations officer, is in the process of development. The governmental relations officer will analyze legislation and help develop strategy for working with state government and other local units of government. This person will not have managerial duties but will be very knowledgeable about state government, especially its regulations of local government and the revenue formulas and the state and federal legislative needs of the city agencies.
Applicants for staff positions are invited to submit their resumes to the City of Madison Human Resources Department by Tuesday, April 19th to be assured of consideration. The Mayoral Aide job description and application form are available on the city website.
Brenda, can you explain what you mean by your “Women and People of Color, now encouraged to apply!” comment?
Sure. You can look, I have several posts from the last few years but there are many city committees that have 60, 70, 80, 90, 100 percent white men. Soglin mentioned many times during his campaign, that he would work to get those ratios more representative.