Job Title: Community Food System Team Coordinator
(0.6 FTE)
Location:
Position Summary:
The purpose of this position is to encourage the development of a vibrant community-based food system that achieves the following goals:
· Design, support and deliver educational programs designed to increase consumption of locally produced safe, healthy and affordable food as a significant source of the community’s diet.
· Improving the profitability of the county and region’s farmland.
· Developing job opportunities across the food and farm economy.
· Improving public health by ensuring access to safe, healthy and affordable food from local and other optimal sources.
The
essential function of this position is to provide vision and leadership for a
broad-based, multi-pronged approach to community food system programming that
integrates the existing work and resources of the Greene County Association and
Key
responsibilities:
· Providing leadership for Association efforts in nutrition education, including supervision of two full-time program educators in nutrition and seeking greater synergy between federal nutrition programs and local food system efforts.
·
Managing the Association’s participation in the
NYS Department of Health funded project entitled “Eat Well Play Hard (EWPH),” a
youth physical activity and nutrition program, including collaboration with
project partners in
· Developing a conceptual framework for community food system programming and effectively communicating the program goals and activities to diverse audiences.
· Working with the Executive Director and other program staff to integrate the existing work and resources of the Association and identify opportunities to create complementary programming in the future.
· Conducting an assessment of existing food and farm resources in the county and region with an emphasis on understanding linkages, both real and potential, and identifying unmet needs.
· Building leadership and working partnerships among food and farm system stakeholders.
· Encouraging and facilitating the development of peer-to-peer learning teams that freely exchange information, experience and resources.
· Identifying other opportunities to enhance community engagement in the food and farm system with an emphasis on empowering eaters in both private and institutional settings.
· Developing and implementing a plan for ongoing program evaluation.
· Participating in regional and statewide working groups that advance program goals
Essential
Responsibilities and Functions:
Issue Area Leadership and Management
(40%)
Responsible for the supervision of two full time nutrition program educators funded through the ESNY and EFNEP nutrition programs. Responsible for coordination of statewide reporting, contract management and participation in the Capital Region nutrition site supervisor committee. Responsible for day to day support and supervision of the nutrition staff as well as compliance with annual performance review process.
Managing the Association’s participation in the NYS
Department of Health funded project entitled “Eat Well Play Hard (EWPH),” a
youth physical activity and nutrition program, including collaboration with
project partners in
Program Development and Priority Setting
(40%)
Developing a conceptual framework for community food system programming and effectively communicating the program goals and activities to diverse audiences.
Building leadership and working partnerships among food and farm system stakeholders.
Encouraging and facilitating the development of peer-to-peer learning teams that freely exchange information, experience and resources.
Identifying opportunities to enhance community engagement in the food and farm system with an emphasis on empowering eaters in both private and institutional settings.
Subject Matter Resource and Program
Delivery (10%)
Conducting an assessment of existing food and farm resources in the county and region with an emphasis on understanding linkages, both real and potential, and identifying unmet needs.
Propose an integrated program plan to address the opportunities identified in the assessment stage and seek additional funding to support implementation strategies.
Building leadership and working partnerships among food and farm system stakeholders.
Campus Connections and Program Evaluation
(5%)
Developing and implementing a plan for ongoing program evaluation.
Participating in regional and statewide working groups that advance program goals.
Participating in or cooperating with applied research projects related to responsibilities.
Administrative Management (Finance,
Budget) (5%)
Work closely with the Executive Director, Senior Administrator, and Accounts Rep in the development and monitoring of budget items related to nutrition and EWPH programs.
Responsible for ensuring that programs reach diverse audiences, and for embracing diversity in all interactions with clientele, staff, volunteers and the public. Find ways to involve audiences traditionally under-represented in the design and development stages of new program initiatives with the goal of increasing youth involvement from traditionally under-represented audiences.
Develop an annual plan of work for program implementation as well as a professional development plan as part of Association annual performance management system.
Qualifications
Masters Degree in Agriculture, Nutrition, Social Science, Natural Resources or related field. A minimum of two years progressive community-based experience in Natural Resources and Food System programming.
Technical skills required of applicant:
· Excellent written and oral communication skills
· Strong quantitative and qualitative research skills
· Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
· Internet Applications
Preferred Qualifications and Functional experience sought
in applicant:
·
Experience with grant management, including, but
not limited to: fundraising; budget negotiation and management; project
management including communication with project sponsors, execution of
short-term and long-term objectives, and midstream and project-end reporting.
·
Program evaluation
·
Community-based programming
· Coordination of special events
·
Staff supervision
· ArcGIS
·
SPSS
APPLICATIONS
will be reviewed beginning on June 30, 2008, or until an acceptable pool of applicants has been
identified.
Send letter of intent,
resume, and transcripts to PA
**Individuals who bring
a diverse perspective and are supportive of diversity are strongly encouraged
to apply. EOE.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: http://www.cce.cornell.edu