SLU Public Policy Studies

Founded in 1993, LAANE is a leading advocacy organization dedicated to building a new economy for all. Combining dynamic research, innovative public policy, and the organizing of broad alliances, LAANE promotes a new economic approach based on good jobs, thriving communities and a healthy environment. LAANE led the movement to pass a Living Wage Ordinance in the city of L.A. in 1997 and continues to advocate for progressive policies that create middle class jobs and healthy communities. For more information about our work, visit www.laane.org.

Campaign Description: LAANE is currently seeking a full-time campaign research/policy analyst to develop strategies for an ambitious campaign to win an Energy Efficiency and Green Jobs Program that will provide employment for thousands of residents in Los Angeles and reduce greenhouse gas. The campaign will involve seeking approval for the program from the nation’s largest utility. The goal is to ensure that the program creates good jobs and that workers are hired locally and from low income communities to retrofit and weatherize buildings to make them more energy efficient.

Position Responsibilities: LAANE conducts research both for policy development, campaign strategy and for publications that reframe the debate on the economy and low-wage work in Los Angeles. The research/policy analyst will work under the direction of the Campaign Director. The research/policy analyst will use government data sources, conduct interviews with key agency staff and stakeholders, and review public documents. She/he will present her/his findings through written materials and oral presentations to the campaign team (including community and labor partners) and other venues. The research/policy analyst will also represent LAANE at meetings with allies, attend LAANE actions, and support the work of the organization as a whole.

Qualifications: Applicants must demonstrate a commitment to economic justice and the labor movement. Candidate must have a graduate degree in public policy or a related field or experience as a researcher in the labor movement. Skills required: excellent analytical skills, written and verbal communications skills, familiarity with database and word processing software, basic quantitative skills including familiarity with spreadsheets, interviewing skills, ability to work well in a team. Driving your own car required. Preferred qualifications include: corporate research experience, knowledge of Westlaw, experience writing reports, knowledge of public finance. Also needed: willingness to work long hours and weekends when necessary and ability to work independently.

Terms of employment: LAANE’s salary and benefit standards are very competitive. Full health benefits; pension; generous time off; parking. Friendly, team-oriented working environment.

Application Process: This position is available in April. E-mail cover letter and resume to Jessica Goodheart at jgoodheart@laane.org. No phone calls please. Applicants who do not meet the minimum requirements will not receive a response.

LAANE IS AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER. WOMEN AND PEOPLE OF COLOR ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY.

Requisition Title/Job Title: TRANSPORTATION ANALYST
Department: Department Of Transportation
Position information: This position is located in the Engineering Division of DOT.
Position Number: 3061007
Salary: $44,366 to $69,763 annually
Position Type: Full-Time
Hours worked per week: 40
Issue Date: 03-16-2010
Final Filing Date: 03-31-2010
Essential Job Functions: Under direction, manage, maintain and improve the department’s work order and pavement management system -Cartegraph – which is a SQL Server based asset management system that is linked to a Geographic Information System (GIS). Manage, maintain and improve the department’s asset management system. Integrate and coordinate engineering drawing files, archives, GIS data, survey data, contract data and asset management data. Expand the use of the asset management system to other divisions in the department. Automate, maintain, analyze and display transportation and geographic data regarding various components of the transportation system. Modify application to meet department needs or to make more user friendly. Perform quality control/assurance procedure on DOT’s asset data. Convert data from a variety of formats into the department’s asset management system. Create and run reports on transportation asset data. Research, compile, and summarize statistical data and information materials. Provide technical support services to departmental asset management application/GIS users as needed. Provide end users with asset management application training. Perform other related duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree with course work emphasis in Civil Engineering Transportation Planning, Geography, Computer Sciences, or a related field; supplemented by three (3) years progressively responsible and knowledgeable experience in transportation development; additional years experience in practical aspects of the work may substitute for a portion of the required education; or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

Preferred Experience: 3-6 years of progressively responsible related experience with at least two years of which includes experience with transportation asset management or planning applications.

Knowledge of principles and practices of traffic engineering, construction and maintenance, principles and methodologies of GIS and relational databases.
Special Instructions to Applicants: This position is funded through the 1% Transportation Improvement Program and is contingent upon continued funding of the program. It may end if the program funds are exhausted.
Grade: 53
Status: Exempt
Requisition: 0000368 (SC)

Human Resources Department
Employment Center, 100 Cherokee Street,
Second Floor
Marietta, GA 30090-7006
http://hr.cobbcountyga.gov

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD’s) Office of Policy Development and Research has recently posted a job opening for a social science analyst position. This position involves designing policy-relevant research studies; translating the results of research to inform policies and programs; conducting quantitative analysis using administrative and panel data; communicating policy or program options orally and in writing to technical and non-technical audiences; and developing policy and program options, implementation strategies, and recommendations for a whole range of housing and community development issues.

Candidates for this position should possess working knowledge of housing policy and community development issues currently facing HUD. Knowledge of housing finance is preferred but not required. The position will be located in HUD Headquarters Offices in Washington D.C. Grade will be GS-12, and salary will be commensurate with education and experience and range from $74,872 to $97,333.

The job is advertised at USAJOBS. The job announcement number is H10-DE-323537-MSz. Applications must be received by March 30, 2010.

If you have questions regarding this job posting, please contact Michael A. Simms, either via telephone at (202) 402-3395, or email at michael.a.simms@hud.gov.

Undergraduate and Graduate Students:

Two new elective courses are being offered to SLU Students in the area of Gerontology; a rapidly growing field, with many job opportunities!

Introduction to Gerontology: Being offered at the University of Missouri- St. Louis in the fall of 2010, and cross listed with SLU. This course will be on Tuesday evening from 4:00-6:00, free parking available and the class is near the UMSL metro stop. Students can expect to gain knowledge in common issues dealing with the older adult population.

Interprofessional Gerontology: Offered through SLU’s School of Social Work. This class will look at several different aspects of the life of an older adult through the eyes of a Social Worker, Occupational Therapist, Nurse, Physical Therapist, Physician, and other health care professionals. Students will learn valuable skills regarding working with an interprofessional team, and gain knowledge of interconnectedness of the helping professions. This course will be in spring 2011.

You Are Invited to Get St. Louis Moving!
In less than a month, voters will be asked to pass Proposition A, the County’s Ballot Measure to Restore and Expand MetroLink and MetroBus Service.
Help make sure voters turn out on Tuesday, April 6.
 
Wednesday, March 31st
5:30-7:30 p.m.
Mai Lee Restaurant
8396 Musick Memorial Drive, at the corner of Hanley and Eager (just behind Best Buy)
Accessible by MetroLink and MetroBus at Hanley Station
Hors D’oevres and Beverages provided
 
Event Committee
Don Musick
Grace Corbin
Nancy Cross
Dennis Flatness
Patrice Gillespie Smith
Craig Heller
Lawrence Katzenstein
Bill Kuehling
June McAllister Fowler
Richard Murray
Tom Shrout
Les Sterman
Todd Swanstrom
Leonard Toenjes
Mark Vogl
Rose Windmiller

All checks made payable to: Advance St. Louis
 
____$1,000(Conductor)_____ $500(Operator)  _____ $250(Promoter)

_____  $100 (Supporter)  ____ $25(Student)
 
Can’t make it?  Donate online at http://www.advancestlouis.com/donate3.php
Or mail checks to: Advance St. Louis
c/o Matt Lieberman
5650 Pershing Ave., Unit 50
St. Louis, MO 63112
 
 
RSVP by March 26th at moremetrolink@yahoo.com or by calling (314) 776-1247

Please join us for our March SLUUPA event, which will likely be the last one of the year! Pizza and soft drinks will be provided.

Who: Maggie Campbell, Executive Director of the St. Louis Downtown Partnership

What: A discussion on (re)development in downtown St. Louis, upcoming downtown events, and the role of the Downtown Partnership.

Where: Tegeler Hall, Room 102

When: Friday, March 26, 2010 at 5:30 PM

Please RSVP to Dan Burghoff at sluupa@gmail.com.

Show-Me Institute Seeks Summer Interns
March 9, 2010

SAINT LOUIS — The Show-Me Institute announced its summer internship program today.
Interns at the Show-Me Institute are involved in virtually all aspects of the institute’s operations, working closely with senior staff on a wide variety of projects. Show-Me Institute interns develop an in-depth understanding of how a think tank works, including editing and publishing, event planning, and occasional travel around the state.

Recent interns have also had articles published in newspapers throughout the state, including the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Columbia Daily Tribune, the Sedalia Democrat and the St. Louis Business Journal.

A recent intern, Dan Grana, wrote about the program: “Perhaps more than anything, I’ve benefitted from the Show-Me Institute’s exceptional staff.  In addition to being extremely friendly, the members of this organization have been great educators. By talking with them about a variety of topics, I’ve gained an understanding of different political philosophies that draw on the same respect for economic freedom. … In short, my relationship with the staff has been constantly pleasant and so thoroughly educational that you could probably get away with charging tuition to future interns.”

The summer internship runs from late May or early June through August, and will be held at the institute’s offices in the Central West End. Interns will be paid on an hourly basis.

Applications are available online . The application deadline is April 15.

Methodology Workshop Series
Spring, 2010
The Public Policy Research Center,
the School of Social Work Center for Family Research and Policy,
and the  Center for Teaching and Learning
present:
Dissemination and Implementation Research: Bench to Client to System
Monday, March 22

Noon-1:15 p.m.
Bellerive Chapel
UM-St. Louis  (South Campus)  >>view map
 
 

The seminar will provide an overview of Dissemination and Implementation (D&I) research.  D&I is an emerging field striving to advance the translation of results from clinical studies into everyday clinical practice/decision making.  This involves identification and resolution of barriers to implementation of evidence-based practices in community practice; and for scientists, the use of new methodological approaches, strategies, and measurement of implementation (vs. clinical) outcomes.
 
The presenter, Enola Proctor Ph.D., is the Frank J. Bruno Professor of Social Work Research, and Associate Dean for Faculty, George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University.  She directs the Dissemination and Implementation Core within the Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences, the Implementation Research Institute, and the Center for Mental Health Services Research.

Please feel free to bring a lunch. Light refreshments will be served.
 
Please RSVP by calling 516-6385.  Download a campus map here.
This Event Is Free!

His Excellency Mr. Raymond Joseph

Ambassador of Haiti to the United States

To Speak at Saint Louis University During Atlas Week

 March 23, 2010, 7:00 p.m., Wool Grand Ballroom, Busch Student Center

Saint Louis University is pleased to announce that His Excellency Mr. Raymond Joseph, Ambassador of Haiti to the United States, will deliver a Distinguished Guest Lecture, “Live for Haiti” during its Annual Atlas Week Program.  The  Tenth Annual Sam and Marilyn Fox Atlas Week Program will be held the week of March 20-27 at Saint Louis University.  The theme for the 2010 Atlas Program is Global and Local Justice:  The United Nations Millennium Development Goals.  The Ambassador will speak on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. in Wool Ballroom, Busch Student Center.  This event is free and open to the public.

Since the massive earthquake struck Haiti, the Ambassador and his wife, Mrs. Poisson-Joseph, have worked tirelessly coordinating volunteers and recovery and humanitarian relief efforts. 

Mr. Joseph will discuss the current situation in Haiti, plans for the future, and how we might help.

Ambassador Raymond Alcide Joseph has served as Haiti’s Ambassador to the United States since 2004.  Prior to his current post, he spent the majority of his career as a journalist.  When he was 19 years old, he established the first print shop and founded the first monthly Christian newspaper, Reyon Limyè (Rays of Light), in Cayes, Haiti.

In the 1960’s, he worked as a radio personality and founded Radio Vonvon, the first New York radio broadcast against the Duvalier dictatorship.  “Radio Vonvon” or “Radio Bug” was nicknamed the “Six O’clock Mass” because it hit the waves at 6:00 a.m. and was the broadcast not to miss.

In the 1970’s and 1980’s, he was at the Wall Street Journal in New York as a financial writer and co-founded, with his brother Leo Joseph, the Haiti-Observateur, the first crusading commercial Haitian weekly.  The Observateur remains the premier organ abroad of the Haitian community.

In 1990 Mr. Joseph was called to be Haiti’s Chargé d’Affaires in Washington and his country’s representative at the Organization of American States.  After helping with the first democratic elections in December 1990, he returned to the Haiti Observateur where he remained until he was called back to Washington in March 2004, where he is currently the Ambassador.

Raymond Joseph is a graduate pastor from the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, a B. A. holder in Anthropology from Wheaton College, Wheaton, Ill.  He also has a Master’s degree in Social Anthropology/Linguistics from the University of Chicago.

About Atlas:

The Atlas Program is designed to recognize the international dimension of Saint Louis University’s academic programs and to celebrate SLU’s role in international education and service in light of our Jesuit tradition.  One of the main goals of the Atlas Program is to increase awareness of the global issues that confront us today in an effort not only to promote discussion, but also to inspire and inform action.  It focuses on what we as global citizens can do to contribute to a better life for all people now and in the future.  For more information on the Atlas Program, visit http://atlas.slu.edu or contact Michelle Lorenzini at lorenzms@slu.edu.

This position will provide research, writing and administrative support for the North Grand Neighborhood Services grant program.  Position is part-time but could become full time.

Experience Desired

• Most important for this position is a passion for Community Development.  Please review our website www.ngns.org to learn more about us.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent time management and organizational skills are essential.
• Previous experience with grant writing.
• Proven success in achieving measurable financial results.
• PC proficiency is required.
• Individual must be detail-oriented with the ability to multi-task and prioritize a variety of projects.

Specific Responsibilities

• In collaboration with the Executive Director manage North Grand Neighborhood Services grant writing program.
• Research grant makers to locate new sources of funding
• Draft and edit foundation, corporate, and government grant

Salary: Hourly/ Depends on experience

APPLICATION INFORMATION

To apply or inquire about this position please contact:  Howard McAuliffe 314-535-6467 or by email at howard@ngns.org