Require Community Activity Worker (BeautifySJ) | Parks, Recreation and Neighborhood Services in San Jose, CA
Posted 2025-03-17Job title: Community Activity Worker (BeautifySJ) | Parks, Recreation and Neighborhood Services
Company: City of San Jos?
Job description: Are you ready to join a team that is ?Building Community Through Fun?? Are you ready to make a difference?
The City of San Jos?'s Department of Parks, Recreation and Neighborhood Services (PRNS) is looking for people who want to make San Jos? a better place to live. Our mission is to connect people through parks, recreation, and neighborhood services for an active San Jos?. ActivateSJ, PRNS' latest strategic work plan, is committed to establishing healthy communities that inspire belonging by following the guiding principles of stewardship, nature, equity & access, identity, and public life.
The Department creates and activates thriving places where people live, work, play, and learn, which include 48 community centers, 10 regional parks, 203 neighborhood parks, Happy Hollow Park & Zoo, 290 playgrounds and almost 63 miles of trails, programs and services that touch the lives of individuals and families in our community. We take a fun approach to public service, and value the public's trust. Our team is collaborative, supportive, and innovative. We are a fast-paced organization that takes decisive action after thoughtful planning.
For more information, please visit BeautifySJ is the home of the City of San Jose's blight reduction and encampment management programs and services. BeautifySJ works to address and prevent blight including graffiti removal, coordinating neighborhood litter clean-up events and dumpster days and removing illegal dumping. Encampment management services include weekly trash services and abatement activities to ensure that locations and conditions of encampments are cooperative and complying.
Community Activity Worker job duties for BeautifySJ are focused on providing direct support to address litter/trash related blight in neighborhoods, waterways, and/or encampments. Duties include setting up, planning and attending resource fairs and neighborhood-based outreach events (e.g. ?dumpster days?), developing working relationships with schools, volunteers, internal and external stakeholders and non-profit partners. Job duties also include assisting Community Coordinators with behavior change and encampment engagement strategies including but not limited to conducting site assessments, removing trash and debris from identified active encampments, submitting outreach requests and working directly with the unhoused community. You are encouraged to apply for work in this program if you want to work with communities to empower residents to take pride in our City.
Job duties for Community Activity Workers in any of our programs include, but are not limited to:
- Working some weekend and/or evening schedules per the program schedule
- Develops and presents written materials and makes public presentations to inform people about programs and encourage participation.
- Participates in planning and coordinating in-service training and development of program aids and materials.
- Performs public contact and liaison work in explaining and interpreting program.
- Prepares and monitors budget and timesheets.
- Prepares monthly reports, and various other correspondence.
- Coordinates with governmental agencies, local businesses, and City Departments.
- Conducts and facilitates workshops for the neighborhood.
- Surveys targeted neighborhoods needs via methods including telephone surveys or door-to-door canvassing.
- Provides information to residents on accessing City services or other service providers.
- Assists in planning and implementing special activities or programs, such as community service or community empowerment projects, community meetings, community/graffiti clean-ups, tree-planting, tutoring, or sports activities.
- Renders first aid in case of injury; watches for the safety of participants and spectators.
- Designs and produces flyers and announcements.
- May be required to provide bilingual translation, both orally and in writing.
- Education: Graduation from high school or equivalent (General Education Development (GED) Test or California Proficiency Certificate).
- Experience: Two years of full-time equivalent experience (4,160 hours) doing community related work, projects, or programs. Acceptable Substitution: One year of college (30 semester units) may be substituted for one year of the required experience.
- Employment Eligibility: Federal law requires all employees to provide verification of their eligibility to work in this country. Please be informed that the City of San Jos? will not prepare or file a labor condition application with the Department of Labor.
- Possession of a current valid drivers' license or the ability to obtain one upon hire.
- Bilingual skills, especially in Spanish or Vietnamese are highly desirable.
The ideal candidate will possess the following competencies, as demonstrated in past and current employment history.
Job Expertise: Demonstrates knowledge of and experience with applicable professional/technical principles and practices, Citywide and departmental procedures/policies and federal and state rules and regulations.
Customer Service: Demonstrates the ability to anticipate customers' needs and deliver services effectively and efficiently using professional demeanor.
Initiative: Exhibits resourceful behaviors toward meeting job objectives; anticipates problems, is proactive, and avoids difficulties by planning ahead; displays willingness to assume extra responsibility and challenges; pursues continuing education opportunities that promote job performance.
Reliability: Completes quality work assignments in a timely and efficient manner; fulfills responsibilities and maintains confidentiality as appropriate.
Teamwork & Interpersonal Skills: Develops effective relationships with co-workers and supervisors by helping others accomplish tasks and using collaboration and conflict resolution skills.
Communication Skills: Effectively conveys information and expresses thoughts and facts clearly, orally and in writing; demonstrates effective use of listening skills; displays openness to other people's ideas and thoughts.
Social Awareness: Demonstrates the ability to read or sense other people's emotions and how they influence the situation of interest or concern; demonstrates empathy and organizational awareness.
Selection Process
The selection process will consist of an evaluation of the applicant's training and experience based on the application and responses to the Job-Specific Questions. Only the candidates whose backgrounds best match the position will be invited to proceed in the selection process.
Additional phases of the selection process may consist of one or more interviews, one of which may include a practical/writing exercise.
You will be prompted to answer the following job-specific questions during the online application process. You MUST answer all job-specific questions to be considered for this vacancy or your application will be deemed incomplete and withheld from further consideration:
- Please provide the following details of your work experience doing community related work, projects, or programs: 1) A brief description of your work experience 2) Name(s) of employer(s) 3) Dates/length of employment(s) 4) Average hours worked per week.
- Please describe your customer service philosophy. Include examples of how you have put this philosophy into action in your prior/current work experience.
- Please describe your experience with working in underserved communities or with the unhoused (homeless) population: 1) Briefly describe your experience 2) What types of resources or services where you able to provide or bring to them.
- Please describe any bilingual skills you possess.
- If you have questions regarding BeautifySJ position/program, contact Xochitl Montes via email
Expected salary:
Location: San Jose, CA