Facilitator/Community Organizer
Job no: 497302
Position Type: Staff Full Time
Campus: UMass Boston
Department: Institute Community Inclusion
Pay Grade: 28
Date opened: Eastern Standard Time
Applications close: Eastern Standard Time
General Summary:
The Facilitator/Community Organizer will provide coordination and support to the Riders Transportation Access Group (RTAG), whose responsibility it is to advise the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) on transportation matters impacting seniors and/or persons with disabilities. The goal of the group is to ensure that all people with disabilities and seniors have every opportunity to be fully participating members of the transportation community; noting that fundamental to this opportunity is the right and ability to use public transportation in an equal, effective and dignified manner.
Examples of Duties:
- Provide outreach to community organizations throughout the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s (MBTA) service area to help foster community engagement in various ways, including attendance of relevant community meetings and/or events in order to increase the Rider’s Transportation Access Group’s (RTAG) visibility to the disability and senior communities;
- Liaise with the MBTA and the RTAG to facilitate collaboration between the MBTA and the group with the specific goal of completing the goals and objectives of the group’s work plan;
- Organize all busin