Equitable Engagement Trainer, Mayor’s Office of Public Engagement

Posted by City of Philadelphia on June 7, 2022

The Office of Civic Engagement and Volunteer Service (OCEVS) is committed to increasing long term, sustainable civic engagement throughout the city. To support this goal, we offer a variety of training opportunities for community members, nonprofit partners and City agencies. In addition, we support internal and cross-sector convening and collaboration to reduce silos and increase efficiency and efficacy of engagement and volunteer programs and tactics. OCEVS is housed within the Mayor’s Office of Public Engagement (OPE).

Job Description

About the project you’ll be working on:

Community engagement is the foundational way government opens its doors to connect communities to programs and services, better understand community need, share decision-making, and honor work already occurring in neighborhoods. However, many communities won’t and can’t interact with government because we’ve either broken their trust or haven’t created the conditions for their engagement.

To address these realities, the PHL Service Design Studio and the Mayor’s Office of Civic Engagement and Volunteer Service have been working on an Equitable Community Engagement Toolkit in collaboration with City engagement staff, community groups, and Philadelphia residents. The Toolkit is a Citywide initiative that will transform how the City of Philadelphia thinks about, plans for, and facilitates engagement with the communities we serve. It’ll include a vision and guiding principles, strategies and tools, evaluation resources, training, and a cultivated community of practitioners made up of City engagement staff and community members. All guidance will be accessible online within the phila.gov platform.

About your position:

The Equitable Community Engagement Trainer will be responsible for the development and facilitation of a series of Equitable Community Engagement trainings, guided by the Equitable Community Engagement (ECE) Toolkit, a project led by the Mayor’s Office of Civic Engagement and Volunteer Service (MOCEVS), Mayor’s Office of Public Engagement (OPE), and the Service Design Studio (SDS) at the Chief Administrative Office (CAO).

The Equitable Engagement Initiative aims to envision what equitable community engagement can look like for the City of Philadelphia, through shared principles, tactics and tools for both internal City staff and community based engagement practitioners conduct equitable community engagement work across Philadelphia.

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