Statement of Duties

The City of Somerville’s Youth Services Team seeks a Youth Workplace Learning Coordinator to lead the development and facilitation of year-round employment and engagement opportunities for Somerville teens. They will collaborate with City departments to design and lead a series of Youth Employment Cohorts for the City of Somerville’s Mayor’s Summer Jobs Program. During the school year, the Coordinator will be responsible for facilitating year-round youth employment and development positions in collaboration with city departments and local partners.

The Youth Workplace learning Coordinator will be a member of the city’s Youth Services Team, a newly established division within the Health and Human Services Department that promotes and fosters the development of resilient, prepared, and engaged Somerville teens.

Essential Functions:

The essential functions or duties listed below are intended only as illustrations of the various type of work that may be performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to the position.

• Develop and facilitate work-based learning curriculum for Summer Jobs Program participant cohorts, beginning with a Climate Justice cohort of the 2024 season.

• Communicate with Somerville Public Schools, City departments, and external partners to identify specialized teen employment projects for teen participants and oversee placements.

• Facilitate developmental group experiences and individual check-ins with teen participants.

• Develop new programs based on the recommendations of an ongoing needs assessment and Youth Services Team strategic planning.

• Manage the development of new collaborative initiatives in response to ongoing needs assessment related to Youth Services in Somerville.

• Lead a team of interns/part time employees facilitating youth learning opportunities.

• Recruit youth for year-round engagement and employment opportunities

• Collaborate with city departments to design creative school-year job placements for teen employees.

• Provide ongoing career exploration and support to teen participants throughout the school year.

• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

Education and Experience: Associate Degree in social sciences, education, human services or related field, and three to five (3-5) years’ experience in youth work/direct services; or any equivalent combination of education, training and experience which provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the essential functions of the job.

Preferred Requirements

•  Multilingual skills in Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian-Creole, Mandarin, and/or Nepali.

Knowledge, Abilities and Skill:

Knowledge:

• Understanding of Positive Youth Development approach and best practices for Youth Employment

• Strong understanding of, and experience with, work-based learning environments and curriculum development

• Knowledge of tools and practices to ensure physical and emotional safety for teens in a work environment.

Ability:

• Ability to collaborate intentionally and anticipate competing needs of multiple stakeholders.

• Experience creating space for youth-led dialogue.

• Ability to execute time management and prioritize tasks.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including public speaking and facilitation.

• Ability to coordinate and lead a team of program coordinators.

Skill:

• Enthusiasm for working with teens and for working collaboratively.

• Driven to take initiative and demonstrate flexibility and creative problem solving.

Work Environment

The work environment involves everyday discomforts typical of offices, with occasional exposure to outside elements.  Noise or physical surroundings may be distracting, but conditions are generally not unpleasant.  Employee may be required to work beyond normal business hours in response to attend evening meetings or complete work assignments. Frequently attends meetings and events throughout the City, at times in inclement weather.

Physical and Mental Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the position’s essential functions.

Physical Skills

Few physical demands are required to perform the work. Work effort principally involves sitting to perform work tasks, with intermittent periods of stooping, walking, and standing.  May also be some occasional lifting of objects such as office equipment and computer paper (up to 30 lbs.). When coordinating events, needs to lift and move materials.

Motor Skills

Duties are largely mental rather than physical, but the job may occasionally require minimal motor skills for activities such as moving objects, operating a telephone, personal computer and/or most other office equipment including word processing, filing and sorting of papers.

Visual Skills

Visual demands require constantly reading documents for general understanding and analytical purposes.

Hours: Full-Time

Salary: $64,945.93 annualized, plus benefits

Union: Non-Union

FMLA: Non-Exempt

Date Posted: May 8th, 2024

City of Somerville residents are especially encouraged to apply.

The City of Somerville is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, age, national origin, disability or any other protected category. Women, minorities, veterans, and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Auxiliary aids and services, written materials in alternative formats, and reasonable modifications in policies and procedures will be provided to qualified individuals with disabilities free of charge, upon request. Persons with disabilities who need auxiliary aids and services for effective communication (i.e., CART, ASL), written materials in alternative formats, or reasonable modifications in policies and procedures in order to access the programs, activities, and meetings of the City of Somerville should please contact Adrienne Pomeroy at 617-625-6600 x 2059 or apomeroy@somervillema.gov.

Pre-Employment Requirements for All Employees:

• MA Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) clearance

• Completition of Conflict-of-Interest Law Education training for municipal employees

  Overview of Total Rewards:

• 4 weeks annual vacation (for non-union positions) union positions vary by contract

• Medical insurance through the Group Insurance Commission (GIC) - 80% of premium costs paid by City

• Dental coverage low and high plans through Cigna

• Vision care through Vision Service Plan (VSP)

• Long term disability through Sun Life

• Group and voluntary life insurance through Boston Mutual

• Health Care and Dependent Care flexible spending through Benefit Strategies

• Deferred compensation plans through a choice of three vendors

• Free, confidential services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) provided by E4Health

• Annual cancer screening & wellness release

• Somerville Retirement Pension System

• Tuition reimbursement

• MBTA pass program

• FREE Blue Bikes membership

• Eligible employer for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF)

Benefits listed are for benefits-eligible positions and the above information is meant to be a general overview of the benefit programs offered by the City of Somerville and not a binding contract.

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