ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT:
The Department of Human Service Programs (DHSP) creates and coordinates services that enhance the quality of life for Cambridge residents. Driven by the needs of residents, DHSP’s extensive services and programs touch almost every sector in the city: from newborns to senior citizens, from school-aged children to homeless families, from non-profit organizations to local employers.
ABOUT THE ROLE:
The Mayor's Summer Youth Employment Program (MSYEP), run by the Office of Workforce Development (OWD), is a municipal summer employment program serving more than 1000 Cambridge teens every year. Under the supervision of the Director of Youth Employment, the Senior Liaisons will support a caseload of 30-40+ Cambridge teens at various summer employment worksites and act as a mentor for Liaisons.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
·Provide peer mentorship and support to new Liaison staff.
·Support 30-40+ youth at worksites.
·Keep daily reports on each youth and worksite.
·Act as a link between MSYEP youth and worksites.
·Help design and deliver youth development workshops for teens.
·Maintain clear records of youth work hours; collect and organize timesheets and distribute checks.
·Assist in evaluation of program; other program related duties as needed.
Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
CORI REQUIREMENTS:
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS, WORKING CONDITIONS, WORK FLEXIBILITY AND ACCOMODATIONS:
Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.
REQUIRED DOCUMENTS:
Please upload the following documents to complete your application:
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.
