Description
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is seeking up to six Equity Partners to support the Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness Planning (MVP) 2.0 program. Equity Partners will work directly with municipal core teams and community liaisons to embed environmental‑justice, equity, and community‑engagement practices into climate‑resilience seed projects. The role involves delivering roughly 30–38 hours of consulting per community across eight defined steps, including team building, lived‑expertise identification, outreach, social‑resilience workshops, priority revisiting, seed‑project selection, and implementation planning. Partners must meet the Supplier Diversity Program (SDP) commitment, may be individuals, sole proprietors, or organizations, and will be paid on a fee‑for‑service basis.
• Provide technical assistance, facilitation, and equity‑focused training to ~47 municipalities (≈ 1,500 total hours per partner).
• Deliver a series of structured workshops and deliverables as outlined in Appendix 1, with corrected hour allocations (Step 2 = 10 hrs/community; Step 7 = 8 hrs/community).
• Must allocate ≥ 1 % of contract sales to certified diverse businesses and submit an SDP Plan.