Company description

REAL FOOD MEDIA: Powerful media and storytelling to inspire, educate and grow the movement for sustainable food and farming.We recognize that every year agribusiness, biotech and agrochemical companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars to shape what people believe is sustainable, healthy and fair. Our Project works to combat this misinformation with creative communications that rely on research, not rhetoric. We are a clear and synthesizing voice for the sustainable food movement, popularizing complex ideas and policy for a general audience. We are a communications resource, creating our own content and catalyzing storytelling that otherwise would not occur. Through our initiatives, we inspire and motivate people to believe that changing the food system is possible and to perceive ways that they can make a difference, both large and small. We do all this while keeping our core team lean and nimble and tapping strategic collaborators, from organizational allies to high-level advisors and media partners.

Our suite of programs includes:
Real Food Films: An international short films contest, global pop-up film festivals and an online library of more than 70 short films on food. All free and shareable.
Food MythBusters: Tools to take on food industry PR spin, including an online video series, mythbusting reports and a rapid response network.
Popular Education: Farm-to-table dinners. Webinars. Conferences. Columns and thought pieces. An online book club. We connect with you online and off to spark engaging conversations about the future of food. Learn more about our founder, Anna Lappé, or invite her to speak at an upcoming event via annalappe.com.
Partnerships: Unique collaborations to craft storytelling and media tools that support grassroots campaigns and policy change. Campaigns include Voices of the Food Chain in collaboration with StoryCorps and leading communications and website strategy for the national Good Food Purchasing Program with Food Chain Workers Alliance and the Center for Good Food Purchasing.

Job description

Program Coordinator, Real Food Media

Overview: This role supports content development, program planning and outreach for several Real Food Media campaigns and programs in close coordination with the Director of Programs + Partnerships. This position draws upon strong skills in communications and project management, writing and social media strategy with an eye for visual design, and an emphasis on growing our reach and impact by engaging strategic networks and allies.

Hours: 15 hours a week; in office 1-2 days a week and remote the remaining hours.
Location: 420 N. May St., Suite 211, Chicago, IL 60642

Focused Program Areas:

• Good Food Purchasing Program: Real Food Media is developing strategic communications tools for the national Good Food Purchasing Program campaign in collaboration with the Food Chain Workers Alliance and the Center for Good Food Purchasing in 2016.
• Lens on Hunger: A new series of grassroots event kits addressing food access and equity, cooking skills for kids & families, and eating well on a budget. Featuring films, screening and discussion guides and action prompts, Real Food Media is piloting 100 screenings in 2016 in collaboration with Leanne Brown and the Good and Cheap cookbook network.
• Real Food Reads: Monthly book selections and author interviews to promote virtual and in- person book clubs, discussion and action with food systems issues and authors.

Specific Areas of Work in Each Program Area:
Good Food Purchasing Program (GFPP) Communications

• Support Director of Programs + Partnerships in conducting research, drafting content and designing materials for target audiences including small to mid-size businesses and farms, city administrators and policymakers, vendors and food policy councils;
• Draft design content to represent data visually (ie: creative charts, infographics) around core themes of the GFPP values: food that is sustainable, local, healthy, humane and fair;Upload content via Wordpress platform for GFPP and Center for Good Food Purchasing websites;
• Implement communications and social media strategy for GFPP campaign with the Director of Programs + Partnerships;
• Draft social media outreach posts and images to execute the communications strategy with national partners.

Lens on Hunger

• Contribute via writing and design layout for Lens on Hunger film screenings materials to be included in Event-in-a-Box offerings, such as: film resources, event checklists for hosts, discussion questions for audiences, action opportunities for people to get involved in the issues raised in the films and events;
• Support Programs + Partnerships Director in purchasing materials, assembling Event-in-a-Box resources and coordinating shipments to event hosts;
• Manage communication with event hosts with support from the Director of Programs + Partnerships;
• Implement communications and social media strategy to promote the Lens on Hunger series;
• Outreach with Good and Cheap network to build interest and engage affiliated organizations to sign 
up to host events over Summer and Fall 2016.


Real Food Reads

• Communicate with authors to confirm details and request assets needed;
• Edit posts about each month's selection and add to website via Wordpress;
• Create social images and posts to promote each month's selection;
• Support RFM staff in outreach efforts to sign up and interact with local Real Food Reads hosts.

Skills: Our team regularly interfaces with Microsoft Office Suite; Wordpress; Mailchimp; Insightly; Adobe Design programs including Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop; Asana; Slack; Canva; Google Drive and Box platforms in a fast-paced virtual environment. Demonstrated skills in these areas are a plus.


Compensation: Contract employee. 15 hours/week $25/hour through December 2016 with possible extension.

Compensation

this position is: hourly

Application instructions

Deadline

May 01, 2016