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City job titles can be hard to read. Pick one to see what the work is, which majors fit, and how the city hires for it.

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Post a civic micro-project

A good project takes 5 to 6 weeks for one team of 3 or 4, at about 3 hours a week per student in place of their usual course project. It needs no private data and gives the city something it can use. The instructor gives weekly feedback; you join a kickoff call and a midpoint call and score the final work (plan on 8 to 12 hours in all). Each student also hands in a one-page "my part" memo and gives a 10-minute walkthrough, which you score 1 to 4. The college pays $300 to each student whose team scores 12 or more of 16 and whose own part scores 3 or more.

Project title Plain words. Example: "Count park use on two Saturdays" Department What the team will do 2 to 4 sentences a first-year student can follow

Weeks (5 to 6)

Where

Safety and fairness checks (all required) This project uses no personal, confidential or security-sensitive data. Any data is public or already anonymized by staff. A named staff member will give feedback within 5 business days and score the final work with the shared rubric. This is a learning project, not a replacement for a city employee's work, and it follows our labor agreements. Staff review the work before the city publishes or uses it. In-person tasks happen only where the city's risk manager has confirmed coverage.

Interview pool

Scored students who chose to share their work. A student qualifies with a team score of 12 or more of 16 and an own-part score of 3 or more of 4. Each qualifying student gets a guaranteed first interview for Student Aide / Intern I openings (a proposed part-time class: 12 completed units, enrolled in 6 or more, no GPA minimum).

City supervisors score the work with a shared 4-part rubric. Any team scoring 10 to 13 gets a second score from a supervisor in another department who doesn't see student names. The two scores are averaged and rounded down, so 11.5 does not qualify. No AI scores, ranks or screens anyone. Permanent civil-service jobs still use the normal exam; pool students get an alert and coaching when one opens.

Sample interview pool
Candidate	Project finished	Team: first score	Team: second score (10 to 13 only)	Team: final (rounded down)	Own part	Action

Fairness and results tracker

Made-up numbers. No pilot has run. This shows the layout a city and college would publish each term. With about 60 students, most results are shown as counts.

Results: pilot students vs comparison group

Pilot results count every student who opted in, whether or not they qualified. Comparison group: consenting students in other sections of the same courses, matched on units, work hours and Pell status.

Sample results against a comparison group
Outcome	Pilot sections (60 students)	Matched comparison students (58)	Target

Fairness check (made-up counts)

Does each group qualify in proportion to its size in the pilot classes? Students self-report this, it is optional, and only totals are shown. "Expected" is the number who qualified times the group's share of the class. A group 3 or more short triggers two fixes chosen in advance for the next term: deadlines outside finals week, and 2 paid make-up hours.

Sample fairness check
Group	In pilot classes	Qualified (21)	Expected	Flag

What does that city job title actually mean?

Open civic micro-projects

My scored work samples

Permit wait-time cleanup, 2023 to 2025

Supervisor rubric (1 to 4 each)