Community Engagement Associate

Boston Public Health Commission•Boston, MA

About The Position

This position focuses on community engagement and technical assistance related to youth prevention needs in Boston. The role involves co-delivering training on substance use, harm reduction, and restorative prevention, adapting training content, and providing assistance to community partners. It also includes building relationships with youth-serving organizations and schools, representing the program at outreach events, and serving as a point of contact for the Youth Prevention Advisory Board (YPAB). The role also supports the YAB and coping skills activities, and involves administrative duties such as participating in meetings, supporting fiscal activities, tracking participation, gathering data for reports, and fulfilling grant requirements. All positions at BPHC are expected to contribute to becoming an antiracist organization.

Requirements

Minimum 3 years of experience in community work, public health, social work, communications, substance use continuum of care, or related field, OR Bachelor's degree +1 years' experience in relevant field OR Master's degree.
Minimum 2 years' experience conducting outreach and engaging community organizations.
Knowledge of, or willingness to learn: Substance use prevention, harm reduction, and substance use disorder.
Knowledge of, or willingness to learn: Impact of structural and institutional racism, and other forms of oppression, as well as strategies to promote racial and LGBTQ+ equity.
Knowledge of, or willingness to learn: Collaborative, strengths-based approaches when working with youth, families and providers to promote community-building, resilience, and healing.
Ability to work with a flexible schedule including weekends and evenings as assigned.
Candidate must have strong interpersonal skills including ability to practice self-reflection, give and receive constructive feedback, strong verbal and written communication skills, and build meaningful relationships and partnerships with organizations across different sectors, youth, parents/caregivers, adults and elders.
Candidate must have excellent organizational skills and attention to detail; must 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 materials such as slides, handouts, flyers, etc. for a variety of audiences.

Nice To Haves

Bilingual/bicultural strongly

Responsibilities

Co-deliver training on substance use, harm reduction, and restorative prevention to youth and youth-partnering organizations.
Review existing training content and adapt or enhance it to ensure topics and content are up-to-date and relevant.
Provide assistance to community partners implementing a coping skills campaign.
Help build capacity of youth serving organizations and youth-serving providers through substance use trainings & resources.
Build relationships and rapport with community-based youth-serving organizations & schools.
Represent the Youth Prevention Program at tabling events, resource fairs, and other outreach opportunities.
Serve as an additional point of contact for the Youth Prevention Advisory Board (YPAB).
Help build capacity of partnering community organizations through trainings and Youth Advisory Board (YAB).
Support the implementation/facilitation of YAB and coping skills activities with partner sites.
Expand partnerships for annual coping skills campaign.
Participate in RSB Team bi-weekly meetings and Youth Prevention Advisory Board monthly meetings and other meetings as assigned.
Participate in calls and meetings with federal funders and technical assistance providers.
Support coordination of relevant fiscal activities, such as timely payments of gift cards/stipends, etc.
Track participation in YAB, coping skills campaigns, and other related activities.
Gather data for report writing and other deliverables.
Fulfill additional duties that arise to fulfill grant and reporting requirements.