The Uncaucus has posted this job description locally and in states across the country to challenge assumptions about what it means to be Mayor, get more citizens involved in the hiring process and encourage new candidates to step forward.
Job Title: Mayor
Start Date: January 1, 2011
Full Time: 4 Year Term
Job Summary:
The Citizens of the City of Providence seek applications for the position of Mayor. Through policy and practice, the Mayor must inspire intelligent and transparent decision-making across all arms of city government and deliver services that support the well being of all residents.
The successful candidate will transform municipal leadership in Rhode Island by vigorously rewarding innovation, creativity and civic participation, even if it disrupts the status quo.
This position reports directly to the citizens of Providence, Rhode Island. And, they will be watching.
Requirements:
- Ability to create transparent administrative and fiscal systems at City Hall.
- Commitment to use new modes of citizen engagement to move political power away from a chosen few and back into the community-at-large.
- Willingness to experiment with new ideas, policies and practices that may be disruptive to vested interests.
- Capacity to recognize and serve ALL of the City's residents.
- Skills to develop new models for how city government partners with other public and private sector organizations.
- Courage to discuss the City's weaknesses while celebrating its strengths.
Annual Compensation: $125,000.00 per City ordinance. Competitive benefits.
How to Apply
Send a cover letter, resume, and materials that support your application to info@uncaucus.org.
Genius. This is what the world needs. Glad to see it happening in our backyard. Seems like it could be fun to have this take off as a platform. Better than ratemyprofessor.com for politicians.
Love this! I hope your approach manages to change the conversation and gets the candidates digging deeper and offering more than usual soundbites. Tired of being made to feel like politicians are just paying us citizens lip service. Perhaps a platform that serves all citizens - as opposed to the huge number of individual interest groups out there vying for attention - is just what's needed.
You guys planning on sticking around after the fact? To your point under the job summary: "We will be watching."
Thanks for the meeting with John Lombardi yesterday. I've attended a similar event with Angel Tavares and look forward to hearing from Steve Costantino.
I love the Uncaucus "application" idea, but if these were really our job applicants' interviews, I'd vote for re-advertising the job before hiring either of them. They failed to respond to the Uncaucus posting. All politicians prefer to skate by on platitudes, vague principles and promises and a few anecdotes. Unfortunately, that's what John Lombardi got away with yesterday, as did Angel Tavares for the most part at the other event. I have to hope that our candidates are capable of better.
But we won't know unless Uncaucus insists that they respond to the application specifically. I'd rather have a moderator run through a set of tough questions, with follow up to expose baloney, than listen to the usual stump talk followed by random members of the public like myself asking whatever we can think of on the spot.
Any chance Uncaucus will pursue other means of insisting that candidates really tell us how they will approach the job as described in your job posting? Candidate assessments perhaps?
So far, "none of the above" would get my vote. I really wish it was a ballot option.
Thanks for the meeting with John Lombardi yesterday. I've attended a similar event with Angel Tavares and look forward to hearing from Steve Costantino.
I love the Uncaucus "application" idea, but if these were really our job applicants' interviews, I'd vote for re-advertising the job before hiring either of them. They failed to respond to the Uncaucus posting. All politicians prefer to skate by on platitudes, vague principles and promises and a few anecdotes. Unfortunately, that's what John Lombardi got away with yesterday, as did Angel Tavares for the most part at the other event. I have to hope that our candidates are capable of better.
But we won't know unless Uncaucus insists that they respond to the application specifically. I'd rather have a moderator run through a set of tough questions, with follow up to expose baloney, than listen to the usual stump talk followed by random members of the public like myself asking whatever we can think of on the spot.
Any chance Uncaucus will pursue other means of insisting that candidates really tell us how they will approach the job as described in your job posting? Candidate assessments perhaps?
So far, "none of the above" would get my vote. I really wish it was a ballot option.
I would like to get a new mayor as well. We need someone with a lot of drive who can actually get some things done in office. We really need some change around here and I hope that it happens sooner more than later. We need the public to organize some sort of order fulfillment so that we can get some more donations so we can get some new people in office.