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HTML

<div id="job_category_chosen">
                <ul>
                    <li><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Development</span>
                        <a class="search-choice-close">SOME TEXT</a>
                    </li>
                    </ul>
                    </div>

JavaScript

$(document).ready(function(){
        $('#job_category_chosen').on('click', '.search-choice-close', function(){
            alert('This is not working.');
        });
    });