City Hall Park lunch options
Check out the food trucks at City Hall Park on the south side of the King County Courthouse this week from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Today and Thursday it’s Plaza Garcia Express Mexican cuisine, and on Friday it’s World’s Best BBQ. Click here for a complete schedule and menus of food trucks at City Hall Park. For more information visit www.seattlefoodtruck.com.
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Featured Job: Business and Finance Officer IV – Budget (Internal Only)
Salary: $94,937.02 – $120,338.60 Annually
Location: Seattle, WA
Job Type: Career Service, Full Time, 40 hrs/week
Department: DLS – Local Services
Job Number: 2019RH10423
Closing: 8/21/2019 11:59 PM Pacific
Are you an experienced public sector budget analyst seeking your next challenge? Come join the Roads Services Division of King County’s Department of Local Services as a Business and Finance Officer IV!
Successful candidates will have the skills needed to develop and monitor the Road Division’s biennial capital and operating budgets, as well as the Capital Improvement Program’s Six Year Plan and demonstrated ability to operate in a role with heavy quantitative emphasis that also supervises two professional staff members. This position will be part of the Roads Budget and Finance Unit, within the Strategic Business Operations Section, and reports to the Roads Finance Manager.
Learn more about this position or view all available positions.
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Training Spotlight: Mindfulness and Emotional Resilience
Mindfulness and Emotional Resilience, Oct. 17: Emotional Resilience refers to a person’s capacity for meeting difficult emotional situations with greater equanimity and a person’s capacity for returning to a state of emotional balance more quickly. This 4-hour workshop introduces techniques specifically designed to enhance participants’ ability to be aware of and respond to difficult emotional situations with both mindfulness and compassion, a combination which cultivates emotional resilience. This course is sponsored by Balanced You. Register and learn more.
View more training and development opportunities at www.kingcounty.gov/learning.
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King County Drug Diversion Court: By the numbers
Crossposted from King County Superior Court blog
The King County Drug Diversion Court (KCDDC) Program began in August 1994 as the twelfth drug court in the country. Currently, there are drug courts in every state and 3,100 nationwide.
The mission of King County Drug Diversion Court (KCDDC) is to ensure community safety and empower participants to rebuild their lives by combining the resources of the criminal justice system, substance use treatment and other community service providers.
Read more from King County Superior Court blog
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Employee discounts to 2019/2020 Seattle Symphony season
Save 15% on most of the 2019/2020 Seattle Symphony season with Promo Code VIOLIN20. Concerts include Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto to Schumann’s Piano Concerto to Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, and world-renowned pianists including Lang Lang, Daniil Trifonov, Beatrice Rana, Chick Corea, and more. Get tickets here.
See all available employee discounts at www.kingcounty.gov/employeediscounts.
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New Implementation Dashboard to track progress toward Zero Youth Detention
Crossposted from Zero Youth Detention
This month, we launched the Zero Youth Detention Implementation Dashboard, where we’re tracking strategies, projects and actions King County and its partners are working on to get us closer to Zero Youth Detention. This Implementation Dashboard is a companion site to the Zero Youth Detention Data Dashboard we launched last year to track overall data about the juvenile legal system in King County.
Read more from Zero Youth Detention
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Evaluation points to early successes among partners to advance equity
In 2018, Communities of Opportunity (COO) launched a participatory evaluation to assess existing conditions and early partner efforts toward creating racial, economic and health equity. Over 46 partners shared their perspectives through surveys, focus groups, interviews and a community workshop.
- Over 4,000 people increased skills through 81 capacity building events, job training and seminars.
- 275 relationships between organizations were newly developed or strengthened due to COO support.
- 264 community members held leadership positions within their communities and our region, including 85 youth
A snapshot of the findings is now available.
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Featured Job: Finance Manager (Internal Only)
Salary: $112,081.42 – $142,069.61 Annually
Location: Seattle, WA
Job Type: Career Service, Full Time, 40 hrs/week
Department: DLS – Local Services
Job Number: 2019RH10424
Closing: 8/21/2019 11:59 PM Pacific
Are you a senior-level public sector finance professional looking for your next opportunity? Join the Department of Local Services as our new Finance Manager and take your career to a new level!
The Road Services Division is seeking a Finance Manager to oversee all budgeting, financial planning, accounting, internal control, financial management, internal and external financial reporting, and data stewardship for the division’s Operating, Capital and Road Improvement District funds. In addition, the manager will oversee the division’s payroll function.
Learn more about this position or view all available positions.
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Now recruiting 2019 Ambassadors!
Crossposted from Employee Giving Program
Build your resume AND make a difference? Yes, you can have it all.
Ambassadors are the most important element of our Employee Giving Program team. You will be the key to making sure that every King County employee has a quality opportunity to support a cause they care about through the program. Register Here
You get to:
- Meet new people,
- Advocate for your favorite cause, and
- Build rock star skills.
Read more here and learn about being an Ambassador in the video below.
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Meet the apprentices of the Children and Family Justice Center Project
King County capital projects are helping fill the industry shortage for trades workers by partnering with pre-apprenticeship and apprenticeship programs that provide apprentices with career opportunities and hands-on training with journeymen, all while earning family wages.
View the video below to hear what apprentices on the Children and Family Justice Center Project have to say about their experience.
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