Company description

The National Young Farmers Coalition (Young Farmers) represents, mobilizes, and engages young farmers to ensure their success. Since our founding in 2010, we have grown our grassroots network to over 200,000 individuals and partner organizations. We give young farmers tools to become leaders in their communities, building an effective political voice at the local, state, and national level. Together, we tackle the most critical structural and economic barriers that prevent motivated young people from starting and growing successful farm businesses—including access to affordable farmland, student debt, climate change, healthcare, racial inequities, and more. We have won historic investments in beginning farmer training, outreach to farmers of color, and farmland conservation. Our advocacy for a USDA Farm Service Agency microloan resulted in a loan program in every county that has served more than 30,000 farmers.

Job description

Starting in 2020, Young Farmers was selected by the Department of Agriculture as the lead grantee for the Northeast portion of Farmer Stress Assistance Network (FRSAN). FRSAN Northeast, rebranded as the more approachable “Cultivemos”,  is an inclusive network of service providers where diverse farming communities are connected to mental health and stress assistance programs. The Cultivemos Network consists of approximately 160 individuals from over 90 organizations providing services, from mental health assistance and stress wellness to financial literacy and farmland management. Through this network of service providers, Cultivemos offers annual trainings and workshops to farmers and farmer service providers, direct outreach services, peer groups, a resource clearinghouse, and a telephone hotline in Spanish and English that can help farmers and farmworkers facing challenges and acute crises. 

 

Young Farmers seeks a full-time Farmer Mental Health Director to play an integral role in project management to ensure the broad network of members, participants, and stakeholders align on this regional effort. The Farmer Mental Health Director will facilitate a broad coalition of partners and prioritize the needs of farming communities in this effort. The Farmer Mental Health Director will be responsible for managing relationships with new and existing Cultivemos organizational and individual members, connecting the Network to Young Farmers’ campaigns, develop and implement outreach and communication strategies, representing the Cultivemos in press and speaking opportunities and leading on all grant reporting for this project. They will represent Young Farmers in this Network effort and will work to make this network inclusive of all the region’s farming communities with a specific focus on BIPOC farmers and farmworkers.

 

Title: Farmer Mental Health Director

Reports to: Co-Executive Director

Status: Full Time; Exempt 

Location: Remote, U.S. Based Home Office, located anywhere in the Northeast(ME, NH, VT, NY, MA, CT, RI, PA, NJ, DE, DC, MD, WV)– Applicants must be eligible to work in the U.S.

Start date: September 2024
 

Responsibilities

Farmer Mental Health Strategy and Outreach (40%)

FRSAN Grant Management and Budgeting (29%)

Staff and Team Management (15%)

Leadership Team (6%) 

General Staff Responsibilities (10%)
 

Qualifications

 

This could be the right position for you, if you have:

 

• • Demonstrated experience building and maintain large, multi-organization grassroots coalitions or networks with diverse membership
  • Experience managing government grants and budgets

• Demonstrated subject matter expertise on mental health service provision, including the expert ability to analyze access and equity of mental health service landscapes and demonstrated experience designing and implementing operational practices informed by these intersections.

• Enthusiasm for and experience in cultivating lasting relationships and accountable partnerships with a diverse body of stakeholders and decision makers
• Strong project management skills, capable of planning, prioritizing, troubleshooting, and evaluating efforts in an ongoing manner
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, including the ability to listen well, build trust, and model healthy conflict resolution
• A strong team player and leader oriented toward collaboration, shared success, accountability, and learning
• 2+ years experience directly managing staff

 

The ideal candidate may also have:

• Experience providing behavioral health services and/or an advanced degree relating to public health or social work
• Excellent written and verbal communication and public speaking skills, including distilling complex material for a variety of stakeholders 
• Experience cultivating donor and foundation relationships and crafting grant language 
• Experience and training as a facilitator to develop consensus among diverse stakeholders
• Experience with long-term strategic planning as well as annual planning and priority setting
• Experience with utilizing Customer Relationship Management Tools (CRM- specifically Salesforce) to make data informed programmatic decisions
• Experience working on a farm or ranch and/or rooted in the agricultural community.
• Fluency in Spanish*

 

Schedule and Compensation

 

• Regular full-time exempt employees work 40 hours per week including a one (1) hour paid lunch break each day. 
• The current salary range for this role is $98,880, in accordance with our 2024 Salary Guidelines. 
• Young Farmers offers a competitive benefits package, health, vision and dental insurance, generous paid time off, paid sick days, personal days, paid family leave, and retirement matching.   

 

A Note to Potential Candidates: Studies have shown that women, trans, non-binary folks, and BIPOC are less likely to apply for jobs unless they believe they meet every single one of the qualifications as described in a job description. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organization, and we are most interested in finding the best candidate for the job. That candidate may be one who comes from a background less traditional to our field of work, and that's okay. We would strongly encourage you to apply, even if you don't believe you meet every one of the qualifications described.

The job post is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing every activity, duty or responsibility that is required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change slightly or be added depending on the needs of the organization. Please click the application link to learn more. 

 

 

 

 

Compensation

this position is: salaried, 75k-100k

Location

job can be done remotely

Application instructions

Deadline

August 23, 2024