Chief Communications Officer

We need to output HTML fragment with sections: headings

for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. The posting includes: description, about the county, salary range, recruitment timeline, some info about examination process, etc. No explicit responsibilities list, requirements list, qualifications list, skills list, benefits list, schedule list. We have salary: $161,470.40 - $201,905.60 Annually. So we can include a Pay section with that. Schedule? Not given. Benefits? Not given. Responsibilities? Not given. Requirements? Not given. Qualifications? Not given. Skills? Not given. About the role? There's description: "The County Executive’s Office is seeking an accomplished, strategic, and innovative communications leader for the position of Chief Communications Officer." Also maybe "Please view our Online Brochure for a detailed description of the position and instructions on how to apply." That's not substantive. Could treat that as About the role? Might be minimal but we can include a short paragraph. However we must not include placeholder text like "commensurate with experience". The description is substantive enough? It's a brief statement. We could include an About the role section with that sentence. We also have "About The County" section with details about county. That could be About the role? Actually it's about the county, not role. Could be a separate section maybe "About the County". But headings allowed are only those listed: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We cannot add custom headings like About the County. So we need to fit that info into allowed sections. Perhaps we can put county info under About the role? Not ideal but allowed. Or we could omit it? Must preserve ALL substantive information; cannot drop. So we need to include county info somewhere. Could we put it under About the role as a paragraph? That would be mixing role and county but still preserving info. The instruction: "Use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It says e.g., meaning those are examples, but likely we should only use those headings. It doesn't forbid other headings, but says use those for section headings. Probably we should stick to those. So we need to map county info to one of those headings. Could be "About the role" includes description of role and maybe also about the county as context. Or we could create a "About the role" section with the role description, and then maybe a separate paragraph after that not under a heading? The instruction: "Use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). Use

• for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and

  for prose." It doesn't say we cannot have prose outside headings. But likely they expect sections with headings. We could have a

  for the county info without a heading, but that might be considered stray. Safer to include it under About the role heading. We also have recruitment timeline, application process details. That could go under Responsibilities? No. Could be under Requirements? Not really. Could be under Qualifications? Not exactly. Could be under Skills? No. Could be under Benefits? No. Could be under Pay? No. Could be under Schedule? The timeline includes dates, but not schedule of work. Might be considered Schedule? Not really. However we could treat the timeline as part of "About the role" or maybe we could create a separate section not in list but risk violating instruction. The instruction says "Use

  for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It doesn't say we cannot have other headings, but it's implied to use those for sections. Safer to stick to those. Thus we will have sections: About the role (includes role description and county info and maybe timeline?), Pay (salary). Possibly also Requirements? No specific requirements listed besides "Anyone may apply." and internal employee points. That's not a requirement. Could be under Requirements? Might be considered eligibility: "Current San Mateo County and San Mateo County Superior Court employees with at least six months (1040 hours) of continuous service..." That's a qualification/requirement. So we could put that under Requirements or Qualifications. Let's treat as Requirements (eligibility). Also "Open and Promotional. Anyone may apply." That's also eligibility. Thus we can have Requirements section with bullet list: Open and promotional; anyone may apply; current county employees with at least six months continuous service get 5 points; etc. We also have examination process details: application screening pass/fail, panel interview weight 100%, etc. That could be under Requirements or Qualifications? Might be under Requirements as part of selection process. Could be under Qualifications? Not exactly. Could be under Responsibilities? No. We could put that under Requirements as well. We also have "All examinations will be given in San Mateo County, California, and applicants must participate at their own expense." That's also a requirement. Thus Requirements section can have multiple bullet points. We also have "Tentative Recruitment Timeline" with dates. That could be under Schedule? Not exactly work schedule but timeline of recruitment. Could be under Schedule heading? Might be acceptable as schedule of process. The instruction says Schedule section for work schedule, but we could still use it for timeline. Might be okay. Alternatively we could put timeline under About the role as prose. We need to decide. We need to preserve all substantive information. Let's extract all substantive bits: - Position: Chief Communications Officer (title already shown, not repeat) - Department: County Executive’s Office - Description: seeking an accomplished, strategic, and innovative communications leader. - Refer to Online Brochure for detailed description and instructions on how to apply (maybe not needed) - Open and Promotional. Anyone may apply. - Current San Mateo County and San Mateo County Superior Court employees with at least six months (1040 hours) of continuous service in a classified regular, probationary, extra-help, or temporary position prior to the final filing date will receive five points added to their final passing score on this examination. - Examination process: application screening (weight: pass/fail) based on application and responses to supplemental questionnaire. Candidates who pass application screening invited to panel interview (weight: 100%). Depending on number of applicants, an application appraisal of education and experience may be used in place of other examinations, or further evaluation of work experience may be conducted to group applicants by level of qualification. All applicants who meet the minimum qualifications are not guaranteed advancement through any subsequent phase of the examination. All examinations will be given in San Mateo County, California, and applicants must participate at their own expense. - IMPORTANT: Applications for this position will only be accepted online. If you are currently on the County’s website, you may click the “Apply” button above. If you are not on the County’s website, please go to http://jobs.smcgov.org to apply. Responses to the three supplemental questions in the Supplemental Questionnaire must be provided along with County of San Mateo Employment Application Form. - Tentative Recruitment Timeline: Final Filing Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2026 by 11:59 PM PT; Application Screening: Week of October 19, 2026; Panel Interview: Week of November 9, 2026. - About The County: location, over 750,000 residents, largest and most diverse counties, serves diverse communities, committed to advancing equity, safe inclusive environment, seeks to hire/support/retain employees reflecting diverse community, encourage applicants with diverse backgrounds, 80% of employees surveyed would recommend County as great place to work, equal opportunity employer. We must remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, application instructions. The equal opportunity statement is maybe boilerplate but also substantive? It's part of About The County. Might keep as part of county description but not as separate EEO boilerplate. The instruction says remove EEO/equal-opportunity boilerplate. However the equal opportunity statement is part of the county's commitment; might be considered boilerplate. Safer to remove explicit equal opportunity employer line? But it's also part of county's description. The instruction says remove EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate. So we should remove lines that are purely boilerplate like "The County of San Mateo is an equal opportunity employer." However the surrounding text about equity and diversity is substantive. We'll keep the equity/diversity commitment but remove the explicit equal opportunity employer line. Also remove duplicated lines: The paragraph about seeking to hire, support, and retain employees who reflect our diverse community appears twice; we keep one. Remove application instructions: "IMPORTANT: Applications for this position will only be accepted online..." etc. That's application instructions, should be removed. Remove "Please view our Online Brochure for a detailed description of the position and instructions on how to apply." That's application instructions. Remove "Open and Promotional. Anyone may apply." That's not instruction but eligibility; keep. Remove "Responses to the three supplemental questions in the Supplemental Questionnaire must be provided along with County of San Mateo Employment Application Form." That's application instruction; remove. Remove "If you are currently on the County’s website, you may click the “Apply” button above. If you are not on the County’s website, please go to http://jobs.smcgov.org to apply." Remove. Thus we keep: - Role description: "The County Executive’s Office is seeking an accomplished, strategic, and innovative communications leader for the position of Chief Communications Officer." - Eligibility: Open and promotional; anyone may apply; current county employees with at least six months continuous service get 5 points. - Examination process details (screening, interview, etc.) - Recruitment timeline dates. - About the county: location, population, diversity, equity commitment, inclusive environment, encourage diverse backgrounds, 80% recommendation. - Pay: salary range $161,470.40 - $201,905.60 Annually. Now we need to map to sections. Possible sections:

  About the role

  The County Executive’s Office is seeking an accomplished, strategic, and innovative communications leader for the position of Chief Communications Officer.

  Requirements

  • Open and promotional; anyone may apply.
  • Current San Mateo County and San Mateo County Superior Court employees with at least six months (1040 hours) of continuous service in a classified regular, probationary, extra-help, or temporary position prior to the final filing date receive five points added to their final passing score.
  • Application screening (pass/fail) based on application and responses to supplemental questionnaire; candidates who pass are invited to a panel interview weighted 100%.
  • Depending on applicant volume, an appraisal of education and experience or further evaluation of work experience may be used to group applicants by qualification level.
  • Meeting minimum qualifications does not guarantee advancement.
  • All examinations administered in San Mateo County, California; applicants participate at their own expense.

  Schedule

  Tentative Recruitment Timeline: Final Filing Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2026 by 11:59 PM PT; Application Screening: Week of October 19, 2026; Panel Interview: Week of November 9, 2026.

  Pay

  $161,470.40 – $201,905.60 per year.

  About the role