Featured Job: Administrative Specialist III
Closing Date/Time: Mon. 03/13/17 11:59 PM Pacific Time Salary: $22.94 – $29.08 Hourly Job Type: Career Service Location: Chinook Building, Downtown Seattle, Washington Department: Department of Public Health–Administrative Services Description: This Administrative Specialist III (AS III) position supports the BSK Implementation Team which includes the Communities of Opportunity (COO) staff team. This individual will work in a fast-paced environment, leading and managing complex administrative projects that involve multiple tasks and partners. The Administrative Specialist III reports to the Communities of Opportunity Initiative Director within Public Health’s Office of the Director. Learn more about this position or view all available jobs .
RASKC on Univision: Angel Fund (story no. 9)
Crossposted from Tails from RASKC This is the last of the nine segments which Univision Seattle, KUNS Channel 51, is proudly airing on Wednesdays at 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. This segment focuses on RASKC’s Angel Fund, but provides an underlying message about its support to victims of domestic violence. Learn more about RASKC’s stories on Univision. Read more at Tails from RASKC
Tech Tip: Sharing a specific job post with someone via a link from the King County website
We often have people email asking how to share a job post with someone. They know how to print it or send the link to the jobs page but are unsure how to send a single job to someone. Below are the easiest instructions to share a specific job. From the jobs search page, right click on the job you are interested in and a menu will appear (see attached image). Then select the option for “Open link in new tab” OR “Open in new window” which will open the job in… Read More
DNRP, Lower Duwamish Work Group begin Activated Carbon pilot study
An innovative sediment cleanup technology is being tested by the Lower Duwamish Work Group. Activated Carbon, common in household water filters, was placed on three plots in the Lower Duwamish. Three years of monitoring now begins to evaluate the effectiveness of Activated Carbon in trapping contaminants and the effects the filtering has on organisms living in the sediment. The Lower Duwamish Waterway Group is composed of specialists from King County, the City of Seattle, the Port of Seattle and the Boeing Company. The County’s Wastewater Treatment Division constructed the pilot project and… Read More
Area code changes are coming to western Washington
What you need to do know to avoid disruption On July 1, 2017, western Washington will incorporate the new area code 564. The new area code is an overlay for phone numbers issued in the current 206, 360, 253, and 425 area codes and will cover new phone numbers only. What this means is: As phone numbers in the current area code are no longer available, a new phone number will be assigned using the 564 area code. As of July 1, 7-digit dialing when making local calls within the same area… Read More
Forest Carbon/Forest Health Lunch and Learn, March 8
Join us at this month’s Climate Preparedness Lunch and Learn to hear from the WLRD Rural and Regional Services team about how the County’s Forest Health plan is preparing us for climate change impacts. Wednesday, March 8, from noon to 1 p.m. King Street Center, 6th Floor, King and Chinook Rooms All King County employees welcome, but space is limited. Please sign up here.. For more information, please contact Jessica Engel at Jessica.engel@kingcounty.gov or 206-477-3132.
From the Hip: Martha Cohen, Manager, Office of Interpreter Services
A voice for all King County ranks nationally as a top county in numbers for refugee and immigrant resettlement. Indeed, 98198 is one of the most ethnically diverse zip codes in the U.S. It can be said that what New York City was to cultural diversity in 1905, Seattle/King County is today. Since 1992, this office has provided interpreters in 161 different languages including ASL for all Superior Court departments: civil and criminal cases, deaf jurors and court related programs at the KCCH (Seattle), MRJC (Kent) and Youth Services Center (12th and… Read More
National Women’s History Month profiles trailblazing women in King County labor and business
This article is featured courtesy of Jamie Holter, Communications Manager, Department of Information Technology Profiling amazing women working throughout King County: Tamara Davis, KCIT IT Project Management How did you get your start in IT? I started in GIS as an analyst and quickly realized I had two choices: one, pursue GIS as an IT career developing databases and applications, or two, pursue using GIS as a helpful tool in support of a particular line of business most likely transportation planning. I picked number one. Do you bring a different perspective to IT? Female employees bring different… Read More
Deepening the dialogue and hoping for a better tomorrow
by Kirsten Garcia, Wastewater Treatment Division This is the start of a poem by Quenton Baker that he shared at one of last year’s Reflecting on Race and Racism events organized by an employee ESJ team. The poem, which is titled “Drip” and is dedicated to George Stinney, Jr., begins with a genial image – ice cream on a sunny day. But the story of George Stinney, Jr. is anything but genial. Stinney was a fourteen-year-old African-American boy wrongly accused of murdering two white girls in Alcolu, South Carolina in 1944. He… Read More
King County, City of Kent partner to provide rearing and refuge habitat for salmon
The City of Kent recently completed one of the eleven projects funded in part by the DNRP Wastewater Treatment Division 2016 WaterWorks Grant Program. In addition to remediating the soil of the Leber Homestead, which is where this grant was used, the purpose of the project was to provide rearing and refuge habitat for salmon, especially for juvenile Chinook salmon, which are a threatened species in the Puget Sound. “The Kent project is a win for the environment and also for public health,” said King County Councilmember Dave Upthegrove. During the project,… Read More
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