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Dozens of Roles to Support the Turnaround of a Rural American City (City of Raton, New Mexico, USA)

Raton, New Mexico, USA
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City of Raton, New Mexico, USA
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Is This You?

Do you strive to be a principled, purpose-driven, and practical person? Are you interested in doing the greatest good for the greatest number, alleviating disproportionate suffering, and strengthening society's net contributors while making humanity's net detractors increasingly irrelevant? 

Can you imagine yourself as the aspiring social-benefit pioneer that the once-prosperous City of Raton in New Mexico, USA, needs to help counter the threat of Rural American blight and contribute to the greater good, a better-functioning society, and human flourishing?

Are you ethical, enthusiastic, and effective? Do you wish you could develop broad and deep transdisciplinary, cross-functional, and digital-technology knowledge, skills, and experience? Do you approach challenges with a commitment to compassion, character, and contribution? 

Want to Apply?

We invite applications from all disciplines because we are revitalizing every aspect of our city, county, and region!

If you join the City of Raton, you will become a transdisciplinary, cross-functional, and digital-tech specialist. You will help to improve the City of Raton’s culture, competencies, and brand equity. You will learn how to increase municipal revenues, operating efficiencies, and earnings growth. You will gain experience in mitigating risk, enhancing competitiveness, and enabling scalability. You will facilitate organizational salability, speed to favorable real-world results, and enhanced stakeholder metrics (e.g., growth in grant funding, educational attainment, remote workers, employment figures, business startups and growth, nonprofit startups and mission attainment, daily visitors, prosperous families, financially secure retirees, and a highly attractive quality of life).

If you want to perform at your best and if you are committed to this kind of life—a life of social impact—then kindly submit your resume, cover letter, and references to:

Synthia Laura Molina, MBA, BSc
Director of Community and Economic Development
City of Raton, New Mexico, USA
Address: 224 Savage Avenue, P.O. Box 910, Raton, NM 87740 USA
Tel: +1 575-445-9551 | Fax: +1 575-445-3398 
Cell: +1 505-617-4770 | Email: smolina@cityofraton.com
LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/synthialauramolina/

We welcome (1) students seeking real-world projects for coursework; (2) interns in need of wages; and (3) interns whose high schools, colleges, or universities offer a subsidized internship program designed to help you build a portfolio of real-world achievements, aligned with your life’s calling.

Contact us now or take time to learn even more below.

Would You Prefer to Serve in a Social-Benefit Enterprise?

On behalf of public, private, and nonprofit enterprises in the City of Raton, Colfax County, and Northern New Mexico, we are recruiting individuals of all ages who

  • would prefer a career in a social-benefit enterprise in the public, private, or nonprofit sectors;
  • have language, mathematics, and critical thinking skills;
  • know Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook—and are proficient in the Microsoft, Google, and/or Apple ecosystems;
  • try to maintain broad and deep knowledge of sociodemographic, economic, governmental, technological, industrial, and environmental trends;
  • hope to build transdisciplinary mindsets, cross-functional skillsets, and digital-tech toolsets;
  • imagine themselves growing into servant leaders who treat management as a liberal art and understand the essential role of knowledge workers in a thriving organization and economy; and
  • are candid, conscientious, and competent.

Seeking a Specific Job Title?

We believe in supporting your career by providing work opportunities that align with your life’s purpose. In fact, your internship will begin with coaching sessions to help you discover your life’s calling if you do not yet have a sense of what that might be.

Reflecting your innate capabilities, your interim job functions could align with any of the following AI-leveraging job roles:

  • Writer, Editor, and Graphic Designer
  • Instructional Designer for On-Premises, Cloud-Based, and Hybrid Curricula, Courses, and Content
  • Audiovisual Scriptwriter, Editor, and Producer (e.g., using AI-enabled videography tools like Synthesia)
  • XR Multimedia Studio and Film-and-Gaming Workforce Development Professional
  • Online-Store Designer, Developer, and Director
  • Digital-Marketing Director, Manager, or Professional
  • Content Developer, Content Editor, and Content Syndication Specialist
  • Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) Systems Administrator
  • Website Designer, Developer, and Administrator
  • Digital-Content Designer, Developer, and Director (e.g., creating website blogs and vlogs, building social-media communities, developing landing pages, and designing and directing digital-marketing campaigns)
  • Geographic Information System (GIS) Application Developer, Integrator, and Manager
  • City Planner (e.g., focusing on regional master planning, land use planning, infrastructure planning, transportation planning, environmental planning, brownfield assessments and remediation, community engagement, economic development, and grant application and management)
  • Enterprise Technologist (e.g., leading enterprise-wide technology training, troubleshooting, and transformations)
  • Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems Administrator
  • Researcher, Analyst, and Strategist (e.g., focusing on the “Revitalization of Rural America” and “The American Dream, Renewed”)
  • Program Manager, Project Manager, or Product Manager
  • Financial Analyst, Modeler, Forecaster, Budgeter, and Controller
  • Statistical Analyst, Data Scientist, and AI-Pioneer
  • Quality Systems Engineer (e.g., improving business strategies, policies, structures, systems, processes, standards, and results)
  • Gen-Alpha, Gen-Z, Millennial, or Gen-X Advisory Board Member (serving Baby Boomers, the Silent Generation, or other)
  • On-Air, YouTube, and Webinar Technologist, Program Director, or Broadcaster
  • Social-Benefit Consultant (e.g., applying your unique transdisciplinary, cross-functional, and digital-technology skills to so-called “Wicked Problems“)

Hoping for a Specific Work Arrangement?

Your role with our elected officials, the City of Raton itself, and our constituents could be structured as follows: 

  • Self-Directed Student (For-Credit Course or Student Project)
  • Intern, University-Subsidized
  • Intern, Paid
  • Employee, Part-Time
  • Employee, Full-Time
  • Independent Contractor
  • Strategic Advisor
  • Strategic Ally (e.g., serving as a City of Raton Evangelist in your specific domain)

Curious About Compensation?

Given the socioeconomic challenges facing the City of Raton, we currently prefer student workers from institutions that fully subsidize internships with public sector employers like us. 

At the same time, many of our constituents are looking for help and would consider tier-one talent at the following rates:

  • $15 per hour for paid test projects (e.g., mini-projects lasting 5 to 25 hours—and paying 
    $75–$375 per project—to enable students to demonstrate their world-class capabilities)
  • $20 per hour for highly qualified new interns (e.g., top 3%)
  • $25–$30 per hour for highly qualified and highly experienced interns (top 1%)

Want to Understand Reporting Structures?

You may qualify for a student project, an internship, a part-time role, a full-time role, an independent contractor agreement, an advisory role, or a formal strategic alliance based on your performance, outcomes, and impacts to date—and you may end up reporting to any of the following individuals:

  • City Manager
  • City Treasurer and Chief Procurement Officer
  • Director of Public Works
  • City Engineer
  • Director of Community and Economic Development
  • Economic Development Consultant (from https://bettercity.us)
  • Leader of an Affiliated Public, Private, or Nonprofit Enterprise

Hoping to Learn More About the City of Raton?

As a growing source of regional employment across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, the City of Raton offers both aspiring and active social-benefit pioneers a unique opportunity to support the greater good, contribute to a better-functioning society, and promote human flourishing.

With citywide Broadband fiber-optic internet and a combination XR Multimedia Studio and Film-and-Gaming Workforce Development Center in the works—and with other social-good initiatives in the queue—the City of Raton offers adventurous interns, remote workers, residents, soon-to-be retirees, and others “The American Dream, Renewed.” 

Our region welcomes dedicated trainees, frontline workers, skilled tradespeople, professionals, managers, and leaders. 

Local public, private, and nonprofit organizations need fresh talent not only to enable growth, but also to take over local enterprises from aging owners. And our community offers hands-on guidance to social-benefit entrepreneurs and other startup founders with the vision, tenacity, and creativity to bring life-improving products, services, and solutions to market.

Located where the Southwest meets the Mountain States—along Interstate 25, just 6.5 miles south of the Colorado border, 90 miles west of Texas, and less than 230 miles and 3.5 hours from Denver, Co; Albuquerque, NM; and Amarillo, TX—Raton embodies the promises and challenges of Rural America. 

We offer a proud history, a tight-knit community, and a pioneering spirit that harkens back to the Santa Fe Trail and covered wagons, the Santa Fe Railroad and Harvey Girls, coal mines, and the excitement of horseracing. 

At the same time, we have a profound sense of duty and urgency in applying new funding—from government, corporate, and philanthropic sources—to create a tech-forward infrastructure, an increasingly vibrant and well-paid workforce, exquisite and affordable housing, an alluring destination for leisure activities and outdoor recreation, an unparalleled quality of life, and engaging opportunities for lifelong learning and adventure.

As civil servants, employees of the City of Raton do all we can to ensure that all who come here get the help they need to succeed—and earn the financial rewards and freedom that thoughtful risk-taking makes possible. 

As a statutory municipality and the county seat of Colfax County in Northern New Mexico, Raton serves a population of 6,000 within city limits and tens of thousands more in neighboring towns. Our local government reflects a Commission and City Manager structure—combining the political savvy of elected officials with the leadership, managerial, and professional experience of an appointed administrator. Our devoted Mayor, Mayor Pro-Tem, and Commissioners set policy—while our mission-driven City Manager leads day-to-day operations of the municipality in service to the community at large. This dutiful governance structure results in highly efficient, effective, and empowering City operations—with refreshing transparency, accountability, and responsiveness.

The City of Raton employs about 100 public servants—and our affiliated utility operations (Raton Water Works and Raton Public Services Co.) each employ about 20 more highly committed individuals—creating a municipal workforce of nearly 150. Interns, employees, and registered vendors can earn a living supporting a broad range of municipal operations and initiatives: Emergency Dispatch, Emergency Management, Police, Fire, Medical Transport, Municipal Court, Parks and Recreation (including a Regional Aquatic Center), Library Services, Business Operations, Economic and Community Development, Engineering, Planning, Zoning, Code Enforcement, Animal Control, AI-Enabled GIS Applications, Brownfield Remediation, Regional Airport Management, and more.

Reach out to our Director of Community and Economic Development at info@cityofraton.com or +1 505-617-4770 to ensure we have your latest resume, cover letter, or startup business plan on file—and be on the lookout at https://www.ratonnm.gov for job openings, grant announcements, and requests for proposal. 

At the City of Raton, we hope you will join us in our important and pioneering work: renewing the American Dream.

Open to a Variety of Projects?

If we onboard you, your assignments could be along the following lines or custom-tailored just for you: 

  • Lead one or more government program design, development, implementation, evaluation, planning, management, and/or continuous improvement projects.
  • Develop branded and intellectual property (IP) protected templates using knowledge, skills, and experience in Microsoft 365 (e.g., templates, themes, and styles within Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)—and/or the Apple and Google ecosystem equivalents.
  • Design, develop, and direct digital-marketing campaigns for public, private, and nonprofit constituents (e.g., leveraging Lead Gen & CRM [formerly SharpSpring] from Constant Contact, Neon CRM from Neon One, HubSpot, Salesforce, Adobe Marketo Engage, and Oracle Eloqua).
  • Create so-called “master content” (e.g., in print, digital, and audiovisual formats) that lends itself to repurposing (e.g., into official blogs, vlogs, whitepapers, manuscripts for publication, training materials, consulting tools, e-books, and software applications).
  • Interview regional policymakers, key opinion leaders (KOLs), and subject matter experts (SMEs) and produce purposeful multimedia content for omnichannel distribution.
  • Design, develop, and direct a technology-enabled communications program inclusive of public service announcements, constituent sentiment analysis, and leadership decision support.
  • Design, develop, and direct a grant and contract targeting, application, and management function capable of winning, overseeing, and renewing 7-figure to 10-figure grants and contracts from public (federal, state, county, municipal), private, and nonprofit sources.
  • Design, develop, and direct enterprise resource planning (ERP) system selection, implementation, and management projects (e.g., Accela GovOS, CivicPlus, iWorQ).
  • Improve organizational efficiencies, effectiveness, and endpoints by (1) evaluating next-generation software applications; (2) making application-related build, buy, or license recommendations and securing buy-in on the total cost of ownership (TCOO); and (3) implementing acquired applications to produce promised real-world results (RWRs).
  • Create salable curricula, courses, and content—for on-premises, cloud-based, and hybrid delivery—using your expertise in talent development, instructional design, and graphic design.

Curious About Essential Duties?

In supporting the City of Raton, your accountabilities could include some or all the following:

Provide sound rationale (e.g., SWOT analyses focused on organizational strengths and weaknesses, as well as external opportunities and threats) for Go/No-Go decisions and Go-Forward strategies.

  • If No-Go, recommend other opportunities made apparent during the research, analysis, and reporting process.
  • If Go, improve the performance, outcomes, and impacts of the organization by helping leaders, managers, and professionals to
    • refine the organization's values, mission, vision, objectives, strategies, policies, and structures;
    • define the ideal market, characterize ideal customers with BANT (e.g., budget, authority, need, and time-pressure), and develop compelling value propositions;
    • target, develop, and leverage strategic alliances;
    • design and implement effective, efficient, and scalable systems, processes, and standards;
    • source, allocate, and track the performance of monetary and other resources;
    • create new product, service, or solution categories; high-impact marketing materials; and constituent demand;
    • engineer, implement, and manage quality systems;
    • fill the business startup, growth, and relocation pipeline; qualify prospects; and close deals;
    • improve institutional culture, competencies, and brand equity;
    • increase institutional revenues, operating efficiencies, and earnings growth;
    • mitigate risk, enhance competitiveness, and assure organizational scalability;
    • support salability, speed to favorable real-world events, and constituent metrics;
    • develop and lead the market preemptively; and
    • expand key accounts, deepen customer loyalty, and earn referrals.

Provide as-needed support to leaders, managers, and professionals in implementing strategy, operations, and tactics in the following areas (e.g., to build on organizational strengths in relation to market opportunities and to reduce vulnerabilities associated with organizational weaknesses):

  • Strategic and General Management
  • Competency Management
  • Innovation Management (aka R&D)
  • Marketing Management
  • Finance Management
  • Operations Management

Keen to Succeed?

We focus on 10 key success factors:

Results (e.g., Performance, Outcomes, and Impacts)

  • Help City of Raton and key constituents to (1) refine their missions, visions, and objectives; (2) improve their culture, competencies, revenues, operating efficiencies, earnings growth, risk mitigation, competitiveness, scalability, salability, speed to favorable real-world events, and constituent metrics; and (3) contribute to the greater good, a better-functioning society, and human flourishing.
  • Improve the well-being, productive capacity, and socioeconomic status of individuals, organizations, and communities.
  • Prepare for a career as (1) an innovator, entrepreneur, or executive; (2) an industry pioneer and groundbreaking program director; or (3) a content developer, editor, or syndication expert.

Values

  • Maintain a morally grounded and authentic personal, professional, and public persona that adheres to ethical principles and practices in service to humanity.

Vision

  • Help the City of Raton attract world-class resources; create press-worthy breakthroughs, best practices and benchmarks for reversing Rural American blight; and emerge as a thought-leader and practice-leader in renewing the American Dream.

Critical Insight

  • Leverage “Deep Strategy” thinking, techniques, and tools for fostering growth in social-benefit enterprises across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.

Knowledge, Know-How and Know-Who

  • Demonstrate knowledge of
    • municipalities and their dependencies on and influences across enterprises in the public, private, and nonprofit sector;
    • relevant value chains and supply chains;
    • key stakeholders and their agendas, values, missions, visions, and objectives;
    • social-benefit engineering and social entrepreneurship;
    • leadership, management, and knowledge worker theory and practice; and
    • mission-critical aspects of the enterprise.
  • Demonstrate know-how in relation to
    • need identification and market influence;
    • key enterprise activities (e.g., strategic, operational, and tactical);
    • key management functions (e.g., strategic and general management, competency management, innovation management [aka R&D], marketing management, financial management, and operations management);
    • quantitative and qualitative research methods; and
    • strategic sourcing.
  • Demonstrate know-who in relation to
    • mission-critical constituents;
    • policymakers, key opinion leaders (KOLs) and subject matter experts (SMEs);
    • decision-makers (aka BANTs with budget, authority, need, and time-pressure);
    • gatekeepers, door openers, and influencers; and
    • rivals, buyers, suppliers, new entrants, and substitutes (aka Porter's Five Forces)

Skills

  • Apply transdisciplinary, cross-functional, and digital-technology skillsets as follows:
    • Maintain knowledge of industry, market, and competitive drivers, trends, and disruptive forces as they relate to project assignments—and deliver early warnings and strategic recommendations.
    • Perform industry, market, and competitive analyses to lead, preempt, and/or outperform lesser geographies
    • Define enterprise challenges and information needs.
    • Design primary and secondary research studies, implement research projects, tabulate findings, analyze results, use visualization tools, create clear and actionable reports, and present research results and recommendations.
    • Perform analyses to optimize municipal positioning (e.g., 4Ps+: “product” benefits and features, pricing, placement, and promotion) and outperform existing, emerging, and potential competitors in terms of individual, organizational, and community (societal) endpoints.
    • Assist in developing pro forma financial forecasts.
    • Help to hire, train, and support other interns.
    • Manage key programs, projects, and processes, as assigned.

Tools

  • Apply empowering technologies:
    • MS Word
    • MS Excel
    • MS PowerPoint
    • MS Outlook
    • MS Access
    • MS Visio
    • MS Project
  • WordPress
  • Learning Management Systems (LMSs, like Canvas and Kajabi).
  • Digital Marketing Applications
  • Audiovisual Applications for Videography, Podcasting, Photography, Animation, and Graphic Design
  • Data Analytics and Data Visualization Applications (e.g., Tableau, Alteryx, Microsoft Power BI)
  • MySQL, SQL Server, NoSQL
  • Next-Generation Statistical, Data Science, and AI Applications

Training

  • Provide evidence of
    • Undergraduate-level or graduate-level capabilities (through formal education or 
      self-education);
    • coursework or online training in the hard sciences, social sciences, and data sciences (e.g., decision support, statistics, and analytics); management sciences; and/or liberal arts;
    • business writing, technical writing, and creative writing expertise;
    • group facilitation, presentation, and public speaking experience; and
    • growth-mindedness, critical thinking skills, and problem-solving capabilities.

Plan of Action

  • Demonstrate advanced capabilities in
    • data collection, warehousing, and cleansing;
    • financial analysis, forecasting, planning, budgeting, and control (e.g., using breakeven analysis, net present values [NPVs], and internal rates of return [IRRs]); and
    • crafting strategic plans and operating plans.

Measurement, Reporting, and Continuous Improvement

  • Improve social benefits as follows:
    • Design dashboards, scorecards, and other management reporting systems.
    • Develop systems for tracking real-world results.
    • Report on performance, outcomes, and impacts—including unexpected successes, unexpected failures, and outlier events.
  • Identify what has already happened that has yet to have full impact; share insights, implications, and imperatives; and revisit targeted results.

Ready to Apply?

Please forward your resume, cover letter, and references to us today.

Synthia Laura Molina, MBA, BSc
Director of Community and Economic Development
City of Raton, New Mexico, USA
Address: 224 Savage Avenue, P.O. Box 910, Raton, NM 87740 USA
Tel: +1 575-445-9551 | Fax: +1 575-445-3398
Cell: +1 505-617-4770 | Email: smolina@cityofraton.com
LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/synthialauramolina/

Thank you for considering the role you could play in tackling Wicked Problems associated with Rural American blight, right here in the City of Raton, Colfax County, and Northern New Mexico.

We look forward to considering how you could contribute to “The American Dream, Renewed.”