Job Description

Boston Healthy Families Community-Based Perinatal Health Project (Boston COPHI) is seeking a full-time Training Manager to help develop and facilitate a Doula Training program tailored for women and families of color in Boston that aims to address racial inequities in maternal and infant health.

DUTIES

The Training Manager is responsible for the following:

• Ensure compliance with all BPHC policies and procedures, and actively participate in ongoing professional development and required trainings to maintain excellence in program implementation.
• Working to help BPHC become an antiracist organization by meeting or exceeding the standards set by the BPHC Anti-Racism Policy.
• Collaborate with the Boston COPHI team, including staff from the Community Health Education Center to design and implement new Doula training.
• Support Boston COPHI team to track and report on OMH grant deliverables.
• Coordinate logistics of training delivery, including promotional materials, outreach, registration, and follow-up documentation of outcomes
• Engage community partners in adapting or developing training content as needed (for example, identifying learning needs and strengths through 1:1s, focus groups, surveys, advisory groups, )
• Provide follow-up consultation, technical assistance, referrals and coaching to training attendees as needed.
• Coordinate with community partners to uplift existing training resources and identify training gaps, including developing interdisciplinary and cross- disciplinary workshops and training
• As member of Boston COPHI team, support initiatives that support the expanded access to Doula services among families of color in Boston.
• Work collaboratively to ensure training content is up to date with local and national best practices and meets local community needs and funding requirements.
• Speaking to issues of maternal and infant health through an intersectional racial equity lens when representing Boston COPHI Prevention and BPHC at trainings, community meetings, and other
• Build relationships with community and City partners to learn about one another's services, co-develop trainings, strengthen referral networks, share resources, develop shared language, and identify emerging needs and resources related to
• Coordinate with the Boston COPHI team, BPHC Communications, CHEC and other partners to uplift key information and resources on BPHC's social media and webpage that are relevant to racial inequities in maternal and infant health, updates on partner agency services and events, with a particular focus during special

observances (e.g. Domestic Violence Awareness Month), and as it relates to current events (e.g. public incident of violence in the news)

Uplift resilience, strengths-based, survivor-centered and anti-racist approaches to safety and healing for those impacted by these harms to key stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Passionate commitment to health equity and racial/social justice issues.
• Knowledge of or willingness to learn about the role of public health in addressing racism, the social determinants of health, and inequities in health outcomes as well as strategies to advance racial justice and health equity.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in Human Services, Social Work, Public Health or related field OR Bachelor's degree+ 2 years in relevant
• Minimum 2 years' experience designing and implementing training or educational programs and Bilingual (Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Cape Verdean Creole) strongly encouraged.
• Experience working with survivors of violence in strengths-based way, for example survivors of community violence / harm, domestic violence and sexual violence
• Knowledge of the impact of structural and institutional racism, and other forms of oppression, as well as strategies to promote racial justice and health equity.
• Candidate must have strong interpersonal skills including ability to practice self-reflection, give and receive constructive feedback, and build meaningful, collaborative relationship and partnership with providers across different
• Candidate must have excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Demonstrated ability to balance working independently and collaboratively to produce high-quality work and consistently meet deadlines.
• Strong writing skills, including the ability to develop accessible, clear and compelling content (slides, handouts, flyers, ), reports and other materials for a variety of audiences in a timely manner
• Understanding of the ways multiple forms of violence (domestic, sexual, community) intersect and approaches to safety and healing that do not rely on the criminal legal system a plus (e.g. restorative and transformative justice)
• Familiarity with social media and social marketing approaches to awareness and prevention a plus

Mission Statement

The mission of the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) is to work in partnership with communities to protect and promote the health and well-being of all Boston residents, especially those impacted by racism and systemic inequities. The BPHC sets an expectation that all staff and leadership commit, individually and as part of the BPHC team, to hold ourselves accountable to establishing a culture of anti-racism and advance racial equity and justice through each of our bureaus, programs, and offices.

Additional Information

• City of Boston residency is required; Allston, Back Bay, Bay Village, Beacon Hill, Brighton, Charlestown, Chinatown, Dorchester, Downtown, East Boston, Fenway-Kenmore, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Mattapan, Mid-Dorchester, Mission Hill, North End, Roslindale, Roxbury, South Boston, South End, West End, West Roxbury, Wharf district.
• A Criminal Offenders Records Information request must be completed for this position. However, a record is not an automatic bar to employment but is reviewed in relation to the job applied for.
• Certain immunizations will be recommended and/or required prior to commencement of employment duties.
• Any position that requires an advanced degree will be subject to education verification.
• Certain positions at the BPHC may be Grant Funded.
• The Boston Public Health Commission is an EEO Employer and all applicants meeting the minimum requirements are eligible to apply.
• Certain positions at the BPHC may require Child Protective Service Background verification.
• The advertised shift and schedule are subject to change at the department's discretion.

Shift

9am-5PM Hybrid Eligible

Pay Range

$60,000 - $65,000 Annually