Food Access Program Manager

  • Date Posted November 01, 2024
  • Location Concord, CA
  • Category Nonprofit
  • Job type Full-Time

Company description

Fresh Approach is a nonprofit in the San Francisco Bay Area. For the past 15 years, our mission has been to create long-term change in local food systems, by connecting California communities with healthy food from California farmers and expanding knowledge about food and nutrition.

Job description

Fresh Approach seeks a detail-oriented and organized individual with supervisory personnel management experience to plan, coordinate, and manage the organization’s farmers’ market and mobile farmers’ market programs throughout Santa Clara, Contra Costa, and San Mateo Counties. The Program Manager directly supervises 3-4 staff members (part and full-time)and a rotating cohort of 2-4 community ambassadors and/or interns (paid volunteers) and holds responsibility for implementing programs to complete grant and contract project deliverables and assisting in required reporting on project activities.

We are seeking an individual who values diversity at all levels and is committed to fostering an environment in which community members and co-workers from a variety of backgrounds, cultures, and personal experiences are welcomed and can thrive. Bilingual (English/Spanish) conversational fluency is required to better serve and communicate with diverse community members and farmers. We highly encourage applicants from multilingual backgrounds.

This position will require a mixture of in-office, on-site, and remote work that may fluctuate week to week based on programmatic need. Primary office location is Concord where the manager will be required to attend at least twice per week. Secondary office is East Palo Alto where the manager will be required to visit at least once per week during EPA farmers’ market season. In addition, program sites will be visited routinely and as needed.

Conditions of Employment:
● This is a full-time exempt position (40 hours per week), reporting to the Food Access Program Director
● This is a salaried position with a starting range of $71,760 - $77,500.
● Benefits for full-time positions include medical, dental, and vision coverage paid by the employer; vacation and sick time accruals; and a 403b retirement plan with employer match subject to vesting. 

  • Vacation benefits include 16 paid holidays per year, as well as 10 additional paid vacation days accrued in the first year of employment. Progressive years of employment include additional accrued vacation days.

Full job description can be found at https://www.freshapproach.org/join-our-team/

Compensation

this position is: salaried, 50k-75k

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Deadline

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