Boston’s Newest Job Perk: $85K if You’re ‘Passionate About Serving Mayor Wu’ — and Willing to Monitor the Locals

BOSTON — Ever wanted to make nearly $86,000 a year watching your neighbors and promoting the Mayor? Good news: City Hall is hiring.

According to a new job posting, the City of Boston is looking for four full-time “Neighborhood Liaisons” — government-speak for paid political messengers — with starting pay that tops out at $85,794.62.

The job promises “community engagement,” “constituent services,” and the usual City Hall fluff. But read a little closer… and things start to get weird.

Buried in the “Who You Are” section, applicants are told they must be:

Passionate about serving Mayor Wu.

Not the public. Not the neighborhood. Not the city.
Mayor Wu.

And that’s just the opening act.

From Outreach to Oversight

Sure, the job includes basic stuff — attending public events, helping during emergencies, forwarding complaints. But here’s where it takes a turn:

detect and elevate key areas of growing concerns in their assigned neighborhood

Translation: monitor what people are upset about… and report it straight to the top.

These liaisons aren’t just helping residents. They’re keeping an eye on them — and keeping City Hall in the loop. You’re not just repping the city. You’re repping Wu, full-time.

Loyalty Test on the City Payroll

“Passionate about serving Mayor Wu” isn’t a throwaway line — it’s the job’s personality test. If you’re not a fan, don’t bother applying.

Forget qualifications. Forget independence. The first box you check is loyalty.

That’s not public service. That’s branding.

Since when did serving the public mean pledging allegiance to the politician in charge?

Who Watches the Neighborhood?

The job goes way beyond potholes and lost trash bins. Liaisons are expected to:

• Sit in on zoning and cannabis hearings
• Host listening sessions and push policy updates
• Promote “core mayoral initiatives” (whatever that means this week)
• Report “brewing” community concerns before they go public
• Basically, act like Wu’s eyes and ears on the street

This isn’t constituent service. It’s political fieldwork with a city badge.

It’s PR, community monitoring, and message enforcement — all rolled into one taxpayer-funded role.

DEI Talk, Political Walk

The posting leans hard on City Hall’s DEI language — bilingual skills, community experience, cultural competency. All good things, on paper.

But the job reads like something else entirely: a way to quietly install loyalists in politically sensitive neighborhoods, especially in an election year.

Wrapped in equity. Built for control.

The Quiet Power Play

You know what else these liaisons will help manage?
Zoning disputes. License applications. Dispensary approvals. Neighborhood flashpoints where decisions get made — and tempers boil.

Having the Mayor’s rep in the room changes the room. It tilts the scales. And now, those reps will be on payroll — paid to guide outcomes and flag opposition before it flares up.

Not outreach. Not equity.
Strategy.

Not a Campaign Job — But You’d Be Forgiven for Thinking So

It’s 2025. Wu’s up for re-election. And in neighborhoods like Dorchester, West Roxbury, and the South End, people are fed up — over crime, over chaos, and over being ignored.

So what does City Hall do?

It posts four new six-figure jobs that look a whole lot like campaign operatives. Hired to promote the Mayor. Monitor the mood. Keep City Hall ahead of the headlines.

Promote the boss. Watch the block. Report anything that might be a problem.

It’s not a campaign team.
But it’s close enough to make taxpayers do a double take — and wonder why they’re footing the bill.

What Comes Next

Mass Daily News is investigating who lands these jobs — and whether they’re connected to the Mayor’s political team.

Because while the listing calls it constituent service, the fine print tells a different story:
Shape the message. Screen the critics. Protect the principal.

Call it outreach. Call it engagement.
Just don’t call it neutral.

🔗 To see the job ad for yourself, click here.

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