The Department of Racial and Social Justice (RSJ) leads the City of Somerville’s equity efforts and collaborates with city departments, constituents, and stakeholders to eliminate the institutional and structural systems that create racial inequities, social disparities, and injustices. The Director of RSJ leads an interdisciplinary team to work within the City and the community to drive the City’s progress toward racial and social justice. The Director is responsible for organizing community-led processes to identify strategies to dismantle systemic racism and social inequality. The Director also works with residents, community organizations, elected officials, and City staff to implement those strategies. Overall, the Director leads the City of Somerville’s work to eliminate institutional and structural racism and its intersections with other forms of oppression, including sexism, heterosexism, classism, ableism, and more.
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.
Minimum Qualifications
Education and Experience: Bachelor’s Degree in public administration, equity and social justice, social work, political science, or a related field and five to seven (5-7) years’ experience in a government, non-profit organization, or related setting with at least four (4) years of experience supervising staff and leading programs that build racial and social equity and inclusiveness; or any equivalent combination of education, training, experience, demonstrated investment and measurable performance that provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the essential functions of the job.
Knowledge, Abilities, And Skill
Knowledge:
Abilities:
Skill:
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 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 require some occasional lifting of objects such as office equipment and computer paper (up to 30lbs.)
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: $119,067.54 annualized, plus benefits
Union: Non-Union
FLSA: Exempt
Date Posted: March 6, 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 [email protected].
Pre-Employment Requirements for All Employees:
Overview of Total Rewards:
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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