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What progress has been made in filling vacancies at the Mayor's Office of Equity and Racial Justice (MOERJ), and what recruitment steps have been taken to address vacant positions?

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The Chief Equity Officer & Commissioner, Sideya Sherman, explains that recruitment is her top priority.

A new office has been established in a challenging recruitment environment.
MOERJ's pipeline is filling up as new people have been hired within the last two weeks.
More new hires are starting soon.
MOERJ is looking to hire equity planning managers with particular skillsets to work with agencies.
These roles have been actively advertised and there are candidates in the pipeline.

Carmen N. De La Rosa

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As of March 2024, only 8 of the 38 budget positions for MOERJ were filled.

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Have you made any progress in filling vacancies and what are the challenges associated with having so many positions remain vacant.

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What recruitment steps have you taken to address?

Sideya Sherman

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Sure.

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So, you know, my number one priority is recruitment.

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And obviously, we've, you know, have established a new office and a challenging recruitment environment.

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I'm happy to share that our pipeline is filling up.

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We certainly we bought on some new people just within the last 2 weeks.

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We have some new people starting as well.

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We're looking for a number of equity planning managers who will be working with agencies.

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It's a very particular skill set.

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Certainly, and we wanna make sure we get it right.

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And so we we've been advertising those roles, and fortunately, we have some candidates in the pipeline.

Carmen N. De La Rosa

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Great.

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I wanna just check real quick if anyone has any other questions because they are stepping away.

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We will send you the rest of our questions, and if you could help us by getting some answers back to the committee, that would be great.

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Absolutely.

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It's good to see you.

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Thank you for coming.

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We're going to go back into our questions of the rest of the admin team that's here.

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And I know that there's some graphics for chair Lewis and Chair Williams.

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