If you think you can get a JOB at BART.. GO FOR IT!
Job Title:
Exec Mgr External Affairs
Location:
Lakeside - 18th Floor
Reference:
001683
Marketing Statement
A job at BART offers the satisfaction of providing an invaluable public service, while accomplishing your own career goals, earning highly competitive pay, and enjoying an unparalleled benefits program.
One of America¿s premier systems, BART has become a highly visible and crucial component life and economic vitality of the Bay Area. BART , a wonderful career opportunity.
Pay and Benefits
BART offers one of the most comprehensive compensation and benefits programs you will find anywhere. We pay at rates that are strongly competitive in the labor market, and complement our pay program with an outstanding benefits package. Benefits include the renowned CalPers pension, excellent medical, vision, and dental coverage, supplemental insurances, excellent paid holidays and vacation, as well as two investment programs, one of which is entirely funded by BART on your behalf. BART also saves you money in your paycheck because no deductions are made for Social Security.
Pay Rate
$136,560.53 - $211,672.03/ Annually
Posted Date
May 19, 2009
Closing Date
Open Until Further Notice
Reports To
D. Dugger
Days Off
Saturday and Sunday
Who May Apply
All current BART employees and qualified individuals who are not yet BART employees
Current Assignment
Reporting directly to the General Manager, the Executive Manager, External Affairs is the District¿s primary resource on issues relating to stakeholders outside the agency. Key interactions include those with community, state, and federal government representatives; existing and prospective customers; the media; and the public at large.
The Executive Manager not only provides strategic advice to the General Manager on a range of issues relating broadly to the future of the organization, but also speaks on her behalf in advocacy with community and government officials at all levels regarding funding, service, and related issues. The position also provides leadership and management oversight to the departments within the Executive Office (Community and Government Relations, Media and Public Affairs, Marketing and Research, and Customer Services).
Essential Job Functions
1) Oversees the development and implementation of goals, objectives, policies and priorities for the Executive Office, and oversees their delivery.
2) Provides leadership in developing and executing plans to expand ridership, including identifying and addressing issues of interest and concern to customers.
3) Provides strategic leadership in the execution of long and short-term plans as they relate to legislation that affects the transportation industry, especially in funding and related areas.
4) Establishes, within District policy, appropriate service and staffing levels, monitoring and evaluating the efficiency and effectiveness of the methods and procedures used. Allocating the resources necessary to direct and implement changes needed.
5) Promotes effective use of electronic media in public communications, as well as strong working relationships with mass media outlets in furtherance of BART¿s interests.
6) Conceives and carries out a comprehensive program of customer services.
Minimum Qualifications
Education:
A Bachelor's degree in business administration, public administration or a closely related field from an accredited college or university.
Experience:
Seven (7) years of (full-time equivalent) verifiable experience in planning, marketing or government/public relations program administration which must include at least four (4) years of management responsibility.
Substitution:
Additional professional experience as outlined above may be substituted for the education on a year-for-year basis. A college degree is preferred.
Find me a job that requires
Find me a job that requires no previous experience (such as a train operator) and I will happily apply and take the job.
BART operators get paid far more than the positions warrant, more than many people with advanced degrees get paid.
I just found you one.. BART
I just found you one.. BART Police... go apply!
FYI... Becoming a Train
FYI... Becoming a Train Operator does require experience.. so I guess yu don't qualify.
Experience Required:
Four (4) years of (full-time equivalent) verifiable operational, maintenance or technical experience in a transportation agency setting such as military, commercial or public transportation agency. Examples of qualifying experience include the following:
drivers, operators, or pilots of transit vehicles; air/sea/land traffic controller; mechanics or communications technicians; equipment/personnel dispatchers utilizing two-way radio and other public address systems.
Another qualification needed
Another qualification needed for applying for a TO position.
Min three years experience in owning a Television with remote control.
...you forgot the ability to
...you forgot the ability to read a newspaper from front to back without looking up once from Pittsburg to Daly City and back...
Well there's your
Well there's your problem.
BART offers terrible starting jobs (according to you part time with no benefits for 1-5 years) only to people who have previous experience in the field, which means that you only get the desperate dregs from other transit agencies. People who are so worthless that they can't find full-time employment at another job or in another transit agency.
Operating the trains isn't difficult, and is something that anyone with a college degree could easily do. BART should open up their hiring to a wider audience, and maybe they'd start getting some worthwhile employees.
That is far from the truth.
That is far from the truth.
How so? What part of it is
How so?
What part of it is inaccurate?
Do you deny that any college graduate with sufficient training could be a TO?
Because I can guarantee that if it wasn't for that stupid 4-year experience in public transportation requirement I could easily pass any employment tests, excel at training, and be at least as good of a TO as 90% of the current employees.
Actually there are a lot of
Actually there are a lot of operators here that do have a four year degree.
That doesn't refute anything
That doesn't refute anything I said.
You know, I was thinking the
You know, I was thinking the same thing when back in the day, Providian denied me a job because of the lack of a college degree.
Because I can guarantee that if it wasn't for that stupid 4-year party experience in college with a diploma requirement I could easily pass any employment tests, excel at training, and be at least as good of a white collar employee as 90% of the current employees.
But no,I had to go get a lowly no benefit underpaying non union truck driver job. Years later as if by magic I qualified and passed all the requirements to work at BART.
. Keep bitchin while I slide my union protected skill-set up your ass as your sniveling sounds like sweet music to me. This a good refute for ya? ;>
So basically you are agreeing
So basically you are agreeing that, to be a train operator, one does not educated. This is the first time, i am hearing that College education is no good. WOW, way to go Bart employees.
If I had to hazard a guess,
If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say that having a college education would actually hurt your chances at getting a job as a TO, since they would consider you "overqualified" for a job where your main challenges are to push a button and stare directly ahead.
I heard they had trained
I heard they had trained monkeys operating as bart train operators and they had to stop the experiment because the trained monkeys were doing better than the regulars.
I'm just sayin..
I dunno about all that, but
I dunno about all that, but the driverless train system at SFO runs better than BART, so it makes you wonder how much the TOs really do.
Unfortunately it would probably cost about 80 gazillion dollars to upgrade all the trains and switch to computer control, so that won't be happening any time soon.
The trained monkeys refused
The trained monkeys refused to join the Union. That's the reason they were let go. The regulars were ok working with the monkeys, because the monkeys were doing even their portion of the work.
Jerk, I heard that a bunch of
Jerk,
I heard that a bunch of BART employees are gonna come out to your job and spit on all the Big Macs.
I'm just sayin....
Careful with those personal
Careful with those personal attacks, my friend.
It seems that you TOs are a testy bunch.
"So basically you are
"So basically you are agreeing that, to be a train operator, one does not educated. This is the first time, i am hearing that College education is no good. WOW, way to go Bart employees." - barthater-
"If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say that having a college education would actually hurt your chances at getting a job as a TO, since they would consider you "overqualified" for a job where your main challenges are to push a button and stare directly ahead." -master chief-
"I heard they had trained monkeys operating as bart train operators and they had to stop the experiment because the trained monkeys were doing better than the regulars. I'm just sayin.." -the-jerk-
"The trained monkeys refused to join the Union. That's the reason they were let go. The regulars were ok working with the monkeys, because the monkeys were doing even their portion of the work." -barthater-
So master chief, you tell me to be careful with the personal attacks, but you obviously turn a blind eye to the attacks, potshots, and snide comments I just quoted from this thread alone.
It seems that you civilians are a bitter, hypocritical bunch.
Attacking a group is not a
Attacking a group is not a "personal attack."
A personal attack is an attack on a specific person, not a group.
That fact aside, what you quoted me as saying is not a personal or group attack in any way. Many jobs in the public service sector actually frown on applicants who have college degrees, and prefer to hire workers they consider more "needy" who generally only have high school diplomas or GEDs. I tried applying for a couple of menial jobs for the City of Berkeley a couple years ago, and was told point blank that I wasn't going to get the jobs because I had "too much" education.
Wrong again master chief.
Wrong again master chief.
Any organization attempts to hire the BEST talent it can find. Why should BART be any different? BART is subsidized by the government. BART is responsible for the transport and safety of hundreds of thousands of people everyday. Equipment and such cost MILLIONS of dollars. Each car costs over a million. There is a lot at stake everyday here. You honestly think BART is gonna hire a bunch of idiots or people with minimal education levels and trust them with that responsibility? You think BART is gonna hire someone without a degree before someone with one? Having a degree or some type of college education is no longer a requirement, but it is DEFINITELY preferred.
The logic in here sometimes is pure comedy.
"You think BART is gonna hire
"You think BART is gonna hire someone without a degree before someone with one?"
ABSOLUTELY.
This is common practice in government jobs, particularly in the bay area.
Not at BART. And my
Not at BART.
And my information regarding this matter is coming from the people that do the hiring. Where is YOURS coming from????????
I already told you. City of
I already told you.
City of Berkeley hiring offices.
You'll have to excuse me, but I don't really trust your impartiality about this issue, especially since you don't seem to understand that offering only p/t jobs to start is a deterrent to college graduates who need f/t work to pay back college loans.
If you want to stick around
If you want to stick around and reap the benefits of full time employment, it's not a deterrent. It's only a deterrent to people that have no patience and foresight to know it's greater later.
I was part time for two years as a college graduate. Considering the situation I'm in now, it was definitely worth it.
Good for you, but what about
Good for you, but what about qualified applicants who don't have the resources to wait around for 2-5 years?
I'm glad the situation worked out for you, but you have to admit that it's far from idea for the majority of workers.
A lot of things in life are
A lot of things in life are far from ideal man.
Those that endure, conquer. Period.
Good job agreeing without
Good job agreeing without agreeing.
I like your posting style. (Seriously.)
Or perhaps shills for
Or perhaps shills for management?