Company description

ABOUT PROJECT EATS 

Founded in 2009 by artist Linda Goode Bryant, Project EATS (PE) is a living installation of art, food, and human ties. 

MISSION 

To create networks of community-based food systems in urban communities that have limited or no access to fresh nutritious food. PE food systems grow, harvest, package, process, transport, market, and work to increase the consumption of food that nourishes people in the neighborhoods and housing communities where they live. 

VISION 

Every neighborhood and community develop and sustainably operate food systems where they live and that these systems are key to the ability of residents to transform their communities into vital hubs of production, distribution, creativity, innovation, and wellbeing where they live healthy lives and thrive. 

GOAL 

PE is a catalyst, inspiration, and support of people using whatever resources they have to create the conditions they need to have healthy lives, well-being and thrive in their communities regardless of their level of income or financial wealth. 

Job description

ABOUT THE ROLE Project EATS (PE) seeks an experienced instructor to join its dynamic and growing team as Senior Instructor for its after-school programs focused in public high schools in the communities we serve.

KEY DUTIES + RESPONSIBILITIES 

 

PE offers High school students in our communities an experiential learning program (PEAS) that provides them with fundamental professional skills, knowledge, and experience, that positions them for summer, temporary, and permanent employment at PE and advancement in their educational studies. 

 

School Principal Relationships 

• Assist the Community Program Manager in securing Principals’ approval and their administrations’ support for PE to provide their students with our afterschool program using school facilities (when needed) and PE farm sites and program facilities. 

Student Awareness, Recruitment & Participation

• Review PE strategies that have been effectively used for recruitment
• Update and develop a plan for recruiting students for PE’s afterschool programs that includes: 
  • Developing awareness and recruitment materials and activities in the schools amongst the students and administration
  • Teacher meetings that make them aware of PE programs, how they reinforce and enhance students’ classroom learning experience

Afterschool Content, Facilitation Method, and Evaluations

• Update and develop PEAS content and facilitation methods.
• Update and develop experiential skills and learning content with clear skills and learning expectations students commit to achieve.
• Develop and implement evaluation tools that enable school administration, teachers, students, and PE staff to assess the effectiveness and impact of PEAS programs
• Facilitate weekly 1.5 hour skills and knowledge sessions after school, 2 times a week in farming, community network, and culinary food service sessions with 7-10 students who attend regularly at 3 different schools (LES and 2 in Brownsville)

2024-2025 School Year

• Soil & Hydroponic Farming: Teachers Prep & FD7 (Brownsville in Brooklyn), New Design School & other schools on Seward Park High School Campus (Lower East Side) - Culinary Skills in Plant-based Meals: New Design School & other schools Seward Park School 
• Developing Health & Body Products using herbs and flowers from PE farms – Winter 2024-2025 with all schools listed above

 

Program Quantitative & Impact Data

• Maintain quantitative and qualitative data on each PEAS program

 

Spring+Summer Workforce Development 

Goal: To provide interested youth with skills, information, and experience in farming so they are able to work as professional farmers at PE or other soil-based and hydroponic farms through our school and community-based programs. 

 

Senior Instructors are responsible for:

• Identifying and recruiting students from PEAS Programming who have an interest in learning more advanced farming skills and pursuing a paid internship working on PE urban farms with our farm team
• Updating and developing a curriculum that combines extensive experiential skills (developed in consultation with the farm team) with learning content from books, films, articles and discussions to augment farming skills with an understanding of food systems and the issues facing the same as well as PE’s mission and methods to work with community to develop, maintain and sustain local food systems
• Developing and implementing evaluation tools that enable PE to assess the effectiveness and impact of the workforce development program

 

In addition to the above, the senior instructor is also responsible for assisting the Community Programs Manager with other community-based programs including food pantry, community workshops, film screenings (Movies & Dialogue), community-based arts workshops and more. 

 

The above is not an exhaustive list of duties, and you may be asked and expected to perform different tasks as necessitated by your supervisor. This role will require working hours that best serve and benefit our communities’ needs and may fall outside of traditional working hours of Mon-Fri, 10am-6pm. Frequent travel between communities is also required.

 

This is an annual position with employer provided benefits inclusive of health care, paid holidays, and vacation time.  The pay for this position is 50k or approx $24.00 and is eligible for OT pay.

Compensation

this position is: hourly, $20/hr +

Application instructions

Deadline

no deadline