ABOUT SONOMA VALLEY COLLABORATIVE (SVC) SVC is a forum of community leaders from a wide range of sectors across Sonoma Valley, finding solutions and taking action to address our community’s biggest challenges. Please read about our values, members, and activities at https://sonomavalleycollaborative.org/, including a summary of accomplishments here.
SVC’s core functions are as follows, with a focus on different functions at different times:
SVC’s topic since 2019 has been housing affordability. Until early 2024, we focused on several planning documents from the City and County of Sonoma with enormous long-term impacts on housing affordability in Sonoma Valley. Now we are focused on researching the partners, programs, and costs that can most move the needle in Sonoma Valley in affordable housing production, subsidized housing preservation, and renter protections.
SVC’s governance body is a Steering Committee, operating from a Charter, ultimately overseen by the Board of Directors of Sonoma Ecology Center, which hosts SVC as a project. SVC may spin-off as an independent nonprofit or to a fiscal sponsor that is not an SVC member. Applicants are urged to read SVC’s Charter.
SVC has an annual budget of ~$100,000 and is staffed by a half-time project director and a half-time coordinator. We seek to transition SVC’s staff, over time, to either a full-time director with part-time support staff, or to a half-time director and another half-time person focused on community member engagement and communications support. In either configuration, we seek bilingual, multicultural competency from SVC’s staff to better serve Sonoma Valley’s entire community.
POSITION SUMMARY
To give a flavor for this position, the Assistant Director will, among other things, facilitate delicate conversations between unlike SVC members to seek consensus positions that SVC can advocate for; write and supervise communications that keep the Sonoma Valley community engaged in what SVC is doing and can do; talk with youth, business leaders, health leaders, and environment leaders in ways that show them how their own needs and goals are advanced through the efforts of SVC; get help from topic experts to thread the needle finding positions that satisfy SVC’s members’ needs; speak at government public meetings to represent SVC’s platform; learn how to protect SVC members’ “lines in the sand” while still advancing the coalition’s larger interests.
The position will be mentored by and potentially eventually replace the current Project Director (PD). We anticipate that the current PD will work alongside the new hire for at least six months to create a gradual transition.
The position takes on some of the communications, negotiation, facilitation, and consensus-building overseen by the PD.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
THE POSITION REQUIRES THE ABILITY TO…
ADDITIONAL COMPETENCIES (PREFERRED)
EXAMPLE PERFORMANCE MEASURES
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT
Most of the job can be done from home, with prolonged periods of sitting or standing. You must be able to see, hear, and speak in order to use a computer, establish and participate in video conferences, and use office equipment. In-person meetings and site visits are part of the job, occurring 2 to 6 times monthly. In-person meetings generally require driving a car and having a license. Lifting up to 30 pounds may occasionally be required. Some physical agility, balance, and strength are needed for occasional set-up and take-down of in-person gatherings. Site visits may rarely involve walking over rough terrain in high temperatures for short periods.
BENEFITS
On the first of the month after hire, employees who average 20 hours or more per week are offered the following: Eligibility to enroll in one of two Kaiser Permanente health insurance plans, of which SEC pays 80% of the employee’s premium (not that of dependents). Other benefits include paid holidays, paid floating holidays, vacation accrual, and sick accrual. SEC provides an optional self-funded TIAA 403(b) plan and an optional free cell phone plan.
All qualified applicants will be given equal consideration without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, political beliefs, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, breastfeeding, veteran, military status, genetic information, marital status, familial status, or other protected classes of people. Sonoma Ecology Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Equal access to programs, services, and employment is available to all persons. Applicants requiring reasonable accommodation for the application or interview process should notify our Human Resources Department.
ABOUT SONOMA VALLEY COLLABORATIVE (SVC) SVC is a forum of community leaders from a wide range of sectors across Sonoma Valley, finding solutions and taking action to address our community’s biggest challenges. Please read about our values, members, and activities at https://sonomavalleycollaborative.org/, including a summary of accomplishments here.
SVC’s core functions are as follows, with a focus on different functions at different times:
On the first of the month after hire, employees who average 20 hours or more per week are offered the following: Eligibility to enroll in one of two Kaiser Permanente health insurance plans, of which SEC pays 80% of the employee’s premium (not that of dependents). Other benefits include paid holidays, paid floating holidays, vacation accrual, and sick accrual. SEC provides an optional self-funded TIAA 403(b) plan and an optional free cell phone plan.
On the first of the month after hire, employees who average 20 hours or more per week are offered the following: Eligibility to enroll in one of two Kaiser Permanente health insurance plans, of which SEC pays 80% of the employee’s premium (not that of dependents). Other benefits include paid holidays, paid floating holidays, vacation accrual, and sick accrual. SEC provides an optional self-funded TIAA 403(b) plan and an optional free cell phone plan.
English proficiency
Spanish proficiency (desired)
English proficiency
Spanish proficiency (desired)
Please submit your resume or CV along with a Cover Letter. PDFs preferred. Feel free to submit writing samples. Top candidates will be required to provide such samples on request.
Please note that this position will start at 20 hours per week, gradually increasing to full-time.
Please submit your resume or CV along with a Cover Letter. PDFs preferred. Feel free to submit writing samples. Top candidates will be required to provide such samples on request…