ABOUT THE ROLE:
CDD has an immediate need for a part-time community outreach worker to engage with youth and children and youth serving organizations in Cambridge as part of its Community Engagement Team. Reporting to the Community Engagement Manager, a Community Outreach Worker is expected to be a highly visible presence in Cambridge neighborhoods, support departmental outreach efforts to reach a diverse community, and encourage community leadership.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
Become familiar with resources that CDD provides to Cambridge residents.
Build strong relationships with youth serving providers, including schools.
Engage youth in learning about CDD programs, services, and planning processes while maintaining appropriate boundaries.
Encourage youth to participate in CDD public events and city planning work in developmentally appropriate ways. This work may include placing flyers around the community, posting to social media, attending events, hosting focus groups, visiting community based organizations, partnering with youth serving organizations, implementing surveys, and other engagement opportunities.
Participate in discussions and educate the staff of CDD about outreach strategies for building relationships with communities in Cambridge, including youth of all backgrounds.
Attend all required meetings and training sessions and complete all assignments: document outreach activities and participate as needed in the evaluation of the program.
Support in removing access barriers to CDD resources, programs and planning processes.
·Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions
MINIMUN QUALIFICATIONS:
Comfortable facilitating groups of young people in Cambridge.
English language skills to communicate fluently and spontaneously.
Cambridge resident strongly preferred.
Sincere desire to work with underserved and underrepresented Cambridge communities.
Knowledge of, or willingness to learn about, CDD programs, services, and processes.
High motivation and good time management skills.
Ability to work in a team environment.
The City of Cambridge's workforce, like the community it serves, is diverse. Applicants must have the ability to work and interact effectively with individuals and groups with a variety of identities, cultures, backgrounds, and ideologies.
Familiarity with Cambridge’s youth serving community preferred, and an understanding of the impacts of historical and structural racism on this community.
This position may be eligible for hybrid work under the City's Telework Policy, depending on operational needs.
REQUIRED DOCUMENTS:
Please upload the following documents to complete your application:
Resume
Cover Letter
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, a nexus of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Notably, Cambridge is home to two internationally prominent universities, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. According to a 2008 census estimate the city population was 105,594. It is the fourth most populous city in the state, behind Boston, Worcester, and Springfield. Cambridge is one of the two county seats of Middlesex County (Lowell is the other).
The site for what would become Cambridge was chosen in December 1630, because it was located safely up river from Boston Harbor, which made it easily defensible from attacks by enemy ships. The first houses were built in the spring of 1631. The settlement was initially referred to as "the newe towne". Official Massachusetts records show the name capitalized as Newe Towne by 1632. Located at the first convenient Charles River crossing west of Boston, Newe Towne was one of a number of towns (including Boston, Dorchester, Watertown, and Weymouth) founded by the 700 original Puritan colonists of the Massachusetts Bay Colony under governor John Winthrop. The original village site is in the heart of today's Harvard Square. The marketplace where farmers brought in crops from surrounding towns to sell survives today as the small park at the corner of John F. Kennedy (J.F.K.) and Winthrop Streets, then at the edge of a salt marsh, since filled.
