Company description

The Growing GRASS project, funded by the USDA “Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities” program, deploys the GRASS verification system to validate the climate benefit of regenerative grazing systems. This collaboration between farmers, ranchers, and herders, processors, brands, and experts aims to help increase the supply and profitability of regeneratively raised beef and bison byproducts.

Job description

About the Role:

The Growing GRASS Project is seeking a team member to help us fight climate change while building value in partnership with ranchers and market partners. Growing GRASS is a 5-year $35 million USDA Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities grant funded project of the American Sustainable Business Network (ASBN). The Systems Manager will join a five-person administrative team and dozens of programming partners from across the country who are passionately committed to building beef and bison value for producers, people, and the planet.

 

We’re looking for an organized, adaptive person to join our Growing GRASS Project team. The successful candidate will be eager to embrace agriculture’s potential as a positive force in combating climate change and supporting rural livelihoods and society, and will be able to provide the systems-thinking lens needed to keep this work going. The role will be best filled by a data-loving, creative communicator who can identify and implement project tools that ensure that multiple ongoing initiatives are well-integrated. If you have experience with complex initiatives, thrive in a start-up environment, and are ready to advance our climate-smart mission by connecting regenerative livestock producers with the forward-thinking textile and retail industries, read on!

Role Responsibilities:

• Process mapping: creating clear pathways for communication, tool creation and feedback loops among a diverse array of professionals representing a field-to-market agricultural supply chain.
• Technical writing: gathering and communicating information and logic in a straightforward way. Including, but not limited to, writing instructions, developing forms that facilitate project processes, and identifying and customizing off-the-shelf technologies that will help the Growing GRASS project make progress towards its multifaceted goals.
• Supporting creative communications: making technical language clear and fun to interact with; collaborating with our Communications Manager on communications deliverables (video, narration, etc.).
• Working closely with tool creation initiatives: serving as a liaison between the Growing GRASS administrative team and data and tech focused partners to ensure that technical needs and news of the project are properly communicated and shared.
• Keeping producer privacy as the highest priority when performing all tasks.
• Supporting development GRASS tool (as business analyst): working with project data- and tech-focused partners to identify what we need to build and what existing tools we need to deploy to ensure that the GRASS standard is built out efficiently.

 

Team Member Responsibilities:

• Keep the Team on Track: No, this is not your sole responsibility. But we know that culture eats strategy for breakfast, and culture needs to be communicated well and felt deeply to take hold. Therefore the grant administrative team takes responsibility for maintaining a culture of empowered accountability. To do so we need to create shared understanding of federal requirements both internally and externally, while fulfilling deliverables proactively.

 

• Prioritize Relationships: In order to build the supply for regeneratively raised beef and bison and test our hypothesis of the broken system, we will need to engage with MANY ranchers and producers. The project will deploy dozens of contractors and subawards to work towards our mission. These relationships are all paramount to us. With your leadership we can be sure to manage information and communicate with them clearly, routinely and effectively in a way that values them and their time.

Qualifications (Must Have):

• Positive, forward-looking, and curious approach
• High level of attention to detail, organization, and follow-through
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to grasp a complex project structure with a multitude of layered dependencies and limitations, asking questions to build understanding
• Proficiency in understanding data-focused technical language, and the ability to communicate these concepts in easily comprehensible formats
• Functions well within an ever-changing, fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Ability to work well in a team and also autonomously, with limited supervision
• Collaborative, communicative, team player, self-motivated, creative problem solver, and able to scope and manage multiple initiatives
  • Prioritize and manage multiple and competing schedules and deadlines
  • Balance empathetic and direct communication with technical tasks
  • Ability to learn, teach and implement new systems and mechanisms
  • Work with individuals and organizations with differing levels of knowledge and technical competency
• Commitment to giving and receiving constructive feedback with respect and intention
• Interested in exploring the complex intersection of agriculture and climate change
• Passion for equity and sustainability in agriculture and beyond

Preferred Qualifications (Nice to Have):

• Experience in a creative communications role
• Understanding of and/or basic experience with coding and digital tool/software specs
• Experience working within a federally funded program
• Experience working with a dynamic team that includes creatives, visionaries, and pragmatic players

 

We understand that you may not meet every qualification listed above, if you still think you’d be a good fit for this position, we highly encourage you to apply. Applicants will be evaluated holistically based upon the factors stated above. As may be relevant to the position, ASBN may also consider other aspects of applicant qualifications not specifically listed above.

 

Compensation

this position is: hourly, varies DOE, $50.00 - $75.00

Location

job can be done remotely

Application instructions

Deadline

July 09, 2024