Associate Civil Rights Analyst

The Civil Rights Office handles sensitive matters, ranging from conducting workplace investigations to advising on equitable and fair service for all County of Monterey residents. It is careful and deliberate work that can have a long-lasting impact. It requires thorough and fair discretion and consideration of process, policy, and law.

About the Civil Rights Office
The Civil Rights Office is a small team with a wide scope. We make sure the County follows Federal and State civil rights laws and policies — as an employer and as a provider of public services. We investigate complaints of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. We administer the County’s Nondiscrimination, Reasonable Accommodation, Language Access and Effective Communication, and Sexual Harassment Policies, and the Title VI Implementation Plan. We deliver the County’s mandated harassment prevention and civil rights training and continually develop a training suite. We advise departments on recruitment practices, help them manage conflict, and represent the office before commissions, community groups, and the Board of Supervisors.

In a single week, you might interview witnesses in a difficult investigation, rebuild a training module, advise a department head on a policy question, and stand in for the Civil Rights Officer at a public meeting. The role allows for autonomy as analysts assist in building and maintaining strategy and practice and requires organization.

The Civil Rights Office values the fact that the County is diverse and is made up of residents and employees who speak a variety of languages and come from different backgrounds. Spanish fluency is not required, but it is genuinely useful.

Who we are looking for
An ideal candidate is someone who can pick up potentially unfamiliar ground quickly and handle it collaboratively and responsibly. Laws and policies change, which requires ongoing learning and research so that the office is prepared to address questions it has never encountered before.

Additionally, priorities shift when a complaint comes in, a request from the Board of Supervisors is received, or a deadline changes, so being adaptable and able to shift priorities calmly and quickly is imperative.

Much of the work the office handles is sensitive and can sometimes lead to tense or uncomfortable discussions or situations. The ideal candidate needs to tactfully navigate these circumstances when individuals are angry or distressed.

One of our core duties is holding parties accountable for a violation of a policy. It is important that the ideal candidate can exercise good judgment, as much of the work involves making a call on how to resolve an issue or knowing when to bring it to the attention of others. This includes knowing when it is best to act or when it is better to ask for guidance. As a result, the office expects its team to work responsibly and thoroughly, prioritizing accountability for our workload and responsibilities to partners, and dedication to the office’s core mission and those we serve.

Any combination of training, education and/or experience which provides the knowledge, skills and abilities and required conditions of employment is qualifying. An example of a way these requirements might be acquired is:

Education: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor’s degree in Equal Opportunity, Human Resources, Public or Business Administration, Labor Relations, Political Science, Law or a related field.

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Experience:  Two years of progressively responsible professional work experience performing research, analysis, and completion of the technical components of Civil Rights/EEO investigations, which is comparable to the classification of Equal Opportunity Analyst with the County of Monterey.