Waterfront Ambassadors youth employment program to continue serving local Boston communities this summer | Now hiring!
Last summer, a group of high school students from East and South Boston joined The Trustees Boston Waterfront Initiative as our “Waterfront Ambassadors.”
Meeting with artists, landscape architects, local businesses and partner organizations over a six-week period, the teens participated in, and in some cases led, a variety of educational and service activities around the waterfront. Projects ranged from park and greenway clean-ups, to gardening, stewardship work, and educational workshops.
During the summer program the teens had the opportunity to work with and learn from peers, community leaders and grassroots organizers, developing and refining critical job skills including teamwork, collaboration, leadership, responsibility, community outreach, civic engagement, and how to interpret and share information on local climate change impacts with their community.
“The Waterfront Ambassadors program gave our team the opportunity to engage with students who live in and around the neighborhoods where we hope to build beautiful, resilient and equitable parks,” said Nick Black, Managing Director of the Boston Waterfront Initiative. “Youth represent our future—and they will inherit what we leave behind. Our Waterfront Ambassadors were a fantastic group of students who jumped right into a full itinerary of community projects and activities. They learned a lot about East Boston and about the challenges our waterfront city is facing from the impacts of climate change.”
On their final week in August 2019, the Waterfront Ambassadors prepared poster presentations and hosted an open house event at Nuestro Jardín / Our Garden.
This summer One Waterfront is proud to continue this program, and is now hiring the seasonal position of Waterfront Ambassadors Program Manager. The ideal candidate will be a Boston resident and enthusiastic youth leader ready to inspire local teens to engage with climate change, waterfront, and open space issues affecting Boston’s neighborhoods. The Program Manager would join the One Waterfront team in late April in a part-time capacity, before switching to full-time for June, July, and August.
“Working well with our grassroots and non-profit partners in the East Boston neighborhood and beyond will be a key to success in this position,” adds Black. “We look forward to building out this program to an even larger cohort of students, to continue to learn about and contribute to, the resilience of our vulnerable waterfront.”
For more information about the position, or to apply, click here. For questions, contact Amy Eynatian at aeynatian@thetrustees.org.