Make an Impact Within Boston's Diverse Immigrant Communities

The Strategic Communications Manager is responsible for preparing proactive messaging and educational materials for our city’s immigrant communities in the face of changing policies at the local and federal level, and designing communications campaigns that tell the real story of immigrants in Boston. They’ll help to position the Mayor and MOIA as thought leaders on immigrant and immigration issues in the media, and effectively communicate the Mayor’s immigrant impact agenda, her administration’s accomplishments, and any other MOIA initiatives to our city’s diverse residents through designing outreach and community engagement strategies for MOIA programs and initiatives.

Serving as the bridge between MOIA and our immigrant communities, this role will focus on engaging with Boston’s immigrant residents to deliver effective constituent services, supporting outreach to diverse immigrant communities, and strengthening collaborative referral networks with immigrant-serving community-based organizations. This position in particular will focus on the supportive services provided to MOIA’s constituents and provides an opportunity to engage with the individuals that reach out to and seek assistance from our office.

Looking to use your community organizing skills to make an impact at the governmental level? The Community Organizer for New Arrivals will focus on engaging with Boston’s newest immigrant residents to learn from, listen to, and lean on their lived experiences to identify their most pressing needs and to utilize organizing tactics and techniques to identify and address current gaps and inequalities in the existing system. This role focuses on new arrivals and provides an opportunity to educate and engage the City of Boston’s newest residents as they learn about the role of local government.

This role supports MOIA’s Immigrant Youth Advancement Program, which aims to provide equitable and engaging work experience opportunities for immigrant youth regardless of their immigration status. The organizer will be responsible for developing and implementing an outreach plan to engage MOIA’s network of community partners in the field and support our team’s efforts to scale up the program's capacity to serve up to 1000 immigrant youth in the coming year!