Date Published: 10/25/2010
Open Competitive Examination #: None Promotional Examination #: None
Application Deadline: 11/12/2010 Application Filing Fee (Non-Refundable): $0.00
Onondaga County (NY) is seeking an experienced and team oriented Deputy Commissioner of Emergency Communications to plan, organize, and manage the daily operational activities of the Onondaga County E9-1-1 Center and to assist the Commissioner in the overall administration, management, planning, and staffing of the Department along with the development, enforcement, and implementation of procedures and standards.
Minimum qualifications include at least three years of senior management experience in a public safety communications center, or ten years of senior management experience in a public safety agency with communications related experience, or eight years experience at the senior supervisory level of emergency communications dispatching, or three years senior management experience in the emergency communications or public safety field along with a Bachelors level degree in a related field. Candidates must have experience in managing a large organized work force and personnel processes to include grievance management, discipline, selection, promotion, training, and performance evaluation. Candidates must have detailed knowledge of CAD (Computer Aided Dispatch), Mobile Data Radio systems, and trunked land mobile radio systems. Candidates should have fiscal management experience, successful project management experience, and demonstrated success in dealing with multiple oversight boards. Candidates must have experience in dealing with the news media, an organized labor force, and dealing with police, fire, and EMS agencies. Candidates must be available on a 24-hour on-call basis.
Onondaga County is a CALEA accredited agency and candidates with experience with the accreditation process are preferred.
The salary range for the Deputy Commissioner of Emergency Communications is $62,370 - $87,966. Resume and cover letter should be submitted on or before November 12, 2010 to the attention of:
Commissioner William R. Bleyle
Onondaga County Department of Emergency Communications
3911 Central Ave
Syracuse, NY 13215
ONONDAGA COUNTY - AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER
Showing posts with label Syracuse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Syracuse. Show all posts
Saturday, October 30
Sunday, June 20
N.J. pipeline to Syracuse linked to murder, drugs
Syracuse, NY -- Long before police discovered the migration of heroin addicts from New Jersey to rehab in Syracuse, there was the case of LeRoy Jennings.
Jennings came to Syracuse from New Jersey to recover from alcohol addiction at the Salvation Army counseling center on Erie Boulevard East. He dropped out of the evangelical program and crashed at the apartment of his new friend, Walter Perry, the bell captain at the Hotel Syracuse (whole article: http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2010/06/nj_pipeline_to_syracuse_linked.html )
........There have been new developments:
• Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner asked the Salvation Army to stop taking referrals from the outreach groups at the heart of the investigation. The agency agreed.
• The Justice Department discovered that all 17 of the people arrested were from New Jersey. Prosecutors and Salvation Army officials said three went through the Salvation Army drug program and at least three others have a family connection to the program.
• One of the men arrested, Derrick Campbell, came to the Salvation Army drug rehab program after serving three years in prison in New Jersey for his seventh felony drug conviction.
“In my 18 years as a prosecutor, I’ve never seen a defendant with seven prior felony drug convictions,” Assistant U.S. Attorney John Katko said at a detention hearing last week. “He’s used to the revolving door of justice in New Jersey. He’s used to short sentences, then getting out on probation or parole and he’s back at it again.”
• Until Miner’s request, the Salvation Army continued to take people from New Jersey and other states last week and took no responsibility for bringing drug activity to Syracuse. Staff said they did not do criminal background checks and instead relied on the drug addicts to reveal any past crimes.
Salvation Army staff said, in a written statement, that they had not had any contact with federal prosecutors and had no knowledge of the incidents except the information in the newspaper
.....The rehab program has no government oversight and receives no government money, he said.
One-third of the Erie Boulevard East rehab center’s beds are filled with people from New Jersey. That’s about 100 people a year.
The Salvation Army does not follow up with people after the program.
And regardless of the high drop-out rate, the Salvation Army staff did not see a reason to tell police about the people they were importing to Syracuse — even though the police chief is on the Salvation Army’s advisory board.
“I don’t see it as our responsibility to tell the police department, just as when folks are moving from one community to another they are not required to do that,” Schoch said.
The program supports itself. The people in the program work 40 hours a week at the Salvation Army warehouse and at the rehab center without pay, helping the agency generate annual revenues of more than $6 million at its thrift stores.
.......
In recent years, the number of people enrolled in the program through New Hope Baptist Church in Newark has been sporadic, Schoch said. When it started 10 years ago, as many as 15 people a week were bused from Newark to Syracuse, according to the minister who got the program started.
Jennings came to Syracuse from New Jersey to recover from alcohol addiction at the Salvation Army counseling center on Erie Boulevard East. He dropped out of the evangelical program and crashed at the apartment of his new friend, Walter Perry, the bell captain at the Hotel Syracuse (whole article: http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2010/06/nj_pipeline_to_syracuse_linked.html )
........There have been new developments:
• Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner asked the Salvation Army to stop taking referrals from the outreach groups at the heart of the investigation. The agency agreed.
• The Justice Department discovered that all 17 of the people arrested were from New Jersey. Prosecutors and Salvation Army officials said three went through the Salvation Army drug program and at least three others have a family connection to the program.
• One of the men arrested, Derrick Campbell, came to the Salvation Army drug rehab program after serving three years in prison in New Jersey for his seventh felony drug conviction.
“In my 18 years as a prosecutor, I’ve never seen a defendant with seven prior felony drug convictions,” Assistant U.S. Attorney John Katko said at a detention hearing last week. “He’s used to the revolving door of justice in New Jersey. He’s used to short sentences, then getting out on probation or parole and he’s back at it again.”
• Until Miner’s request, the Salvation Army continued to take people from New Jersey and other states last week and took no responsibility for bringing drug activity to Syracuse. Staff said they did not do criminal background checks and instead relied on the drug addicts to reveal any past crimes.
Salvation Army staff said, in a written statement, that they had not had any contact with federal prosecutors and had no knowledge of the incidents except the information in the newspaper
.....The rehab program has no government oversight and receives no government money, he said.
One-third of the Erie Boulevard East rehab center’s beds are filled with people from New Jersey. That’s about 100 people a year.
The Salvation Army does not follow up with people after the program.
And regardless of the high drop-out rate, the Salvation Army staff did not see a reason to tell police about the people they were importing to Syracuse — even though the police chief is on the Salvation Army’s advisory board.
“I don’t see it as our responsibility to tell the police department, just as when folks are moving from one community to another they are not required to do that,” Schoch said.
The program supports itself. The people in the program work 40 hours a week at the Salvation Army warehouse and at the rehab center without pay, helping the agency generate annual revenues of more than $6 million at its thrift stores.
.......
In recent years, the number of people enrolled in the program through New Hope Baptist Church in Newark has been sporadic, Schoch said. When it started 10 years ago, as many as 15 people a week were bused from Newark to Syracuse, according to the minister who got the program started.
Sunday, March 21
Mercy Corp worker and Syracuse University graduate gives Joe Biden some advice in Iraq
By Emily Kulkus / The Post-Standard
July 09, 2009, 5:04PM
Al Behrman/ APVice President Joe Biden, shown here speaking Cincinnati, listened to SU graduate Sahar Alnouri's advice about Iraq on July 3.
Sahar AlnouriEditor's note: Sahar Alnour is a program manager for Mercy Corps in Iraq. She spent part of her childhood in Syracuse and graduated from Syracuse University in 2001.
In packing for a recent trip to Baghdad, the furthest thing from my mind was Vice President Joe Biden. I thought I would spend much of my trip helping my colleagues move boxes into a new office, and I packed accordingly.
It took us six hours to Baghdad from Sulaimaniya, the Kurdish city in the north where I have been living. I am a program manager for the international aid organization Mercy Corps. Since February, I have been running women's programs in the country, including a literacy campaign.
I sat in the front seat, excited to be traversing new terrain. Until recently, it was considered too dangerous to make the trip to Baghdad by car.
Sadly, it was too dusty to really see much that day. It reminded me of visibility in Syracuse, my hometown, during a light snow storm. Of course, the sky on the road to Baghdad had an orange haze to it like nothing you'd see in Upstate New York.
When I got into Baghdad, I could sense a tense mood. Most Iraqis were pleased to see U.S. troops withdrawing from Iraqi cities on July 1, but two car bombs the week before, one in Kirkuk and one in Baghdad, had dampened the occasion.
I was busy last week running a series of community meetings and racing to write two grant proposals under deadline -- all while the office was in complete disarray from the move and temperatures soared to 90 degrees.
So when I received an e-mail telling me that on top of everything else, I had to represent Mercy Corps at a meeting at the U.S. embassy on July 3, I nearly lost it. I begged to get out of the meeting -- to no avail.
When I called the embassy to confirm my attendance, I mentioned that I hoped the meeting was not too formal as I didn't even have a suit with me. The embassy employee laughed and said it would be a bit formal. He told me a VIP would be joining the meeting, but he didn't say who that VIP would be.
That evening as I pulled my only pair of dress pants out of the just-hooked-up washing machine, I discovered the towel I had washed with them had shed light brown lint all over. Now, I'm not talking about a few specks. This was lint that gets stuck and never comes off.
Total panic ensued. The only other pants I had with me were jeans. My female colleagues didn't have any clothes that fit me and there was no time to pick up something new.
Thankfully, a male colleague lent me a pair of pants that nearly fit. Then we had to figure out the word for safety pin in Arabic (kelaab) and frantically call our Baghdad staff begging to borrow some. When we finally managed to get our hands on some safety pins the next morning, we hiked up the hems a good 5 inches, and off I went.
Upon arrival at the meeting place, we were escorted in almost immediately. And there was the Vice President standing in a receiving line, ready to shake everyone's hands.
As I sat at the long, oval table, I realized I was the youngest participant in the meeting by at least 10 years and the only woman. And, I was wearing men's pants with safety pins. This was clearly a sink-or-swim situation.
The Vice President facilitated the meeting himself. He began by asking about the tension between Kurds and Arabs, Shias and Sunnis -- looking for feedback about whether improved economic development would relieve some of these tensions.
I responded immediately, saying that I did not think that economic development alone would help the situation between Kurds and Arabs because the Kurds are actually doing pretty well economically -- except in areas where you have displaced Arabs in poor Kurdish communities.
Biden also asked the group how U.S. assistance could be more effective. I was the first participant to speak.
Here, I had to take a deep breath and ask if I could speak frankly. I told him that the Provincial Reconstruction Teams -- military personnel doing humanitarian assistance and development work -- are not an effective use of resources. I said that while their hearts are in the right places, ordinary Iraqis are often afraid when they see their uniforms. This means that most of the time, the military is relying on information from only a few select people. I argued that this leads to an environment rife with corruption.
We also talked about the security conditions on the ground. I highlighted Mercy Corps' no-arms policy, which means that we do not travel in armored vehicles or use security forces, and how we rely on community acceptance to accomplish our goals. Mercy Corps has been in Iraq since 2003 and operates in some of the most challenging and insecure areas in the country. Mercy Corps employs more than 180 local Iraqi staff, and only 18 internationals, which means our programs are designed and run by Iraqis.
After the 90-minute roundtable discussion, Biden walked around the table to thank me for Mercy Corps' participation. I couldn't believe the Vice President was personally thanking me. Army Gen. Ray Odierno also thanked me, and said he agreed with me. He said they've been frustrated by their inability to connect with communities, and that I made some important points.
And that is how a girl from Syracuse met the Vice President of the United States of America in men's pants and safety pins.
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2009/07/mercy_corp_worker_and_syracuse.html
July 09, 2009, 5:04PM
Al Behrman/ APVice President Joe Biden, shown here speaking Cincinnati, listened to SU graduate Sahar Alnouri's advice about Iraq on July 3.
Sahar AlnouriEditor's note: Sahar Alnour is a program manager for Mercy Corps in Iraq. She spent part of her childhood in Syracuse and graduated from Syracuse University in 2001.
In packing for a recent trip to Baghdad, the furthest thing from my mind was Vice President Joe Biden. I thought I would spend much of my trip helping my colleagues move boxes into a new office, and I packed accordingly.
It took us six hours to Baghdad from Sulaimaniya, the Kurdish city in the north where I have been living. I am a program manager for the international aid organization Mercy Corps. Since February, I have been running women's programs in the country, including a literacy campaign.
I sat in the front seat, excited to be traversing new terrain. Until recently, it was considered too dangerous to make the trip to Baghdad by car.
Sadly, it was too dusty to really see much that day. It reminded me of visibility in Syracuse, my hometown, during a light snow storm. Of course, the sky on the road to Baghdad had an orange haze to it like nothing you'd see in Upstate New York.
When I got into Baghdad, I could sense a tense mood. Most Iraqis were pleased to see U.S. troops withdrawing from Iraqi cities on July 1, but two car bombs the week before, one in Kirkuk and one in Baghdad, had dampened the occasion.
I was busy last week running a series of community meetings and racing to write two grant proposals under deadline -- all while the office was in complete disarray from the move and temperatures soared to 90 degrees.
So when I received an e-mail telling me that on top of everything else, I had to represent Mercy Corps at a meeting at the U.S. embassy on July 3, I nearly lost it. I begged to get out of the meeting -- to no avail.
When I called the embassy to confirm my attendance, I mentioned that I hoped the meeting was not too formal as I didn't even have a suit with me. The embassy employee laughed and said it would be a bit formal. He told me a VIP would be joining the meeting, but he didn't say who that VIP would be.
That evening as I pulled my only pair of dress pants out of the just-hooked-up washing machine, I discovered the towel I had washed with them had shed light brown lint all over. Now, I'm not talking about a few specks. This was lint that gets stuck and never comes off.
Total panic ensued. The only other pants I had with me were jeans. My female colleagues didn't have any clothes that fit me and there was no time to pick up something new.
Thankfully, a male colleague lent me a pair of pants that nearly fit. Then we had to figure out the word for safety pin in Arabic (kelaab) and frantically call our Baghdad staff begging to borrow some. When we finally managed to get our hands on some safety pins the next morning, we hiked up the hems a good 5 inches, and off I went.
Upon arrival at the meeting place, we were escorted in almost immediately. And there was the Vice President standing in a receiving line, ready to shake everyone's hands.
As I sat at the long, oval table, I realized I was the youngest participant in the meeting by at least 10 years and the only woman. And, I was wearing men's pants with safety pins. This was clearly a sink-or-swim situation.
The Vice President facilitated the meeting himself. He began by asking about the tension between Kurds and Arabs, Shias and Sunnis -- looking for feedback about whether improved economic development would relieve some of these tensions.
I responded immediately, saying that I did not think that economic development alone would help the situation between Kurds and Arabs because the Kurds are actually doing pretty well economically -- except in areas where you have displaced Arabs in poor Kurdish communities.
Biden also asked the group how U.S. assistance could be more effective. I was the first participant to speak.
Here, I had to take a deep breath and ask if I could speak frankly. I told him that the Provincial Reconstruction Teams -- military personnel doing humanitarian assistance and development work -- are not an effective use of resources. I said that while their hearts are in the right places, ordinary Iraqis are often afraid when they see their uniforms. This means that most of the time, the military is relying on information from only a few select people. I argued that this leads to an environment rife with corruption.
We also talked about the security conditions on the ground. I highlighted Mercy Corps' no-arms policy, which means that we do not travel in armored vehicles or use security forces, and how we rely on community acceptance to accomplish our goals. Mercy Corps has been in Iraq since 2003 and operates in some of the most challenging and insecure areas in the country. Mercy Corps employs more than 180 local Iraqi staff, and only 18 internationals, which means our programs are designed and run by Iraqis.
After the 90-minute roundtable discussion, Biden walked around the table to thank me for Mercy Corps' participation. I couldn't believe the Vice President was personally thanking me. Army Gen. Ray Odierno also thanked me, and said he agreed with me. He said they've been frustrated by their inability to connect with communities, and that I made some important points.
And that is how a girl from Syracuse met the Vice President of the United States of America in men's pants and safety pins.
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2009/07/mercy_corp_worker_and_syracuse.html
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