Equity Support - Portuguese

Statement of Duties

The Equity Support Portuguese staff will help disseminate information and connect community members to City and community resources including but not limited to housing food access financial support educational access childcare employment trainings and health. The Equity Support Portuguese staff will support community outreach efforts targeting traditionally under considered and marginalized populations including Portuguesespeaking members of the community. Methods of outreach will include but are not limited to event tabling community walkabouts/roaming office hours dropins at partner organizations/businesses houses of Fullknocking.

Essential Functions:

The essential functions or duties listed below are intended only as illustrations of the various types 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.

• Support community outreach efforts by sharing vital information programming and services with Portuguesespeaking members.
• Aid Portuguesespeaking constituents in the completion of surveys to capture experiences and feedback and in the completion of applications to connect residents and business owners to services and programming.
• Connect with City departments community agencies houses of worship among others to learn about available resources for Somervilles immigrants and refugees
• Participate in events sharing City information and connecting community members to City services
• Assist constituents via telephone or in person to navigate available services and programs
• Assist in recruitment efforts to increase the participation of Somervilles immigrant and refugee constituents in the City of Somervilles committees commissions boards task forces focus groups among others
• Attend regular staff meetings trainings and other meetings as requested
• Maintain the highest standards of confidentiality
• May require evening and weekend hours in order to maximize engagement with the community

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education and Experience:

One (1) or more years of directly relevant experience engaging with vulnerable populations and connecting them to the case of the Equity Support Portuguese position applicants must be fluent in Portuguese.

Knowledge Abilities and Skill

Knowledge:Strong commitment to social justice. Proficient in all Microsoft Office Suite including Outlook email. Knowledge of community agencies and resources.

Ability:Ability to work independently and within a multicultural team. Creative and analytical thinking. Ability to problemsolve and use social media platforms.

Skill:Strong interpersonal communication and teamwork skills. Must be a fluent speaker and writer of Brazilian Portuguese. Acceptable English skills (or better) for written communications required (must be able to communicate effectively in English in writing but a moderate level of errors is acceptable). Strong writing skills and attention to detail. Assessment and problemsolving skills. Demonstrated organizational and time management skills.

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.

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 positions essential functions.

Physical Skills

Minimal 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. Work requires some agility such as moving in or about construction sites or over rough terrain. There may also be some occasional lifting of objects such as office equipment or photocopy paper (up to 30lbs.). When in the field more physical skill may be required to accomplish the duties required.

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: Parttime up to19 hours a week
Salary:$25.00 per hour
Union: NonUnion
Date: May 8 2025

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 atx 2059 or

PreEmployment Requirements for All Employees:

• MA Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) clearance
• Completion of ConflictofInterest Law Education training for municipal employees

Overview of Total Rewards:

• 4 weeks annual vacation for nonunion positions. Union positions vary by contract. Please note police officers are members of the SPEA union.
• 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 benefitseligible 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.