Company description

FoodCorps is a fast-scaling $10M nonprofit powered by a nationwide team of leaders who connect kids to real food and help them grow up healthy. Through our partnership with AmeriCorps, we recruit, train and place 200+ emerging leaders in limited-resource schools for a year of service improving the school food environment and making the healthy choice the easy choice for students. By delivering food and nutrition education, offering hands-on engagement growing and cooking food, and creating and celebrating healthy school meals, our service members are changing the attitudes and eating habits of kids across the country, setting them on a lifelong path toward health and opportunity. Building on this foundation of direct impact in schools, FoodCorps pursues a multi-part strategy for systemic change: growing a new generation of leaders, convening a national network of partners, and inspiring broad adoption of healthy school food strategies and policies nationwide. 

Our Mission: Together with communities, FoodCorps serves to connect kids to healthy food in school. 

Our Vision: We are creating a future in which all our nation’s children––regardless of class, race, or geography––know what healthy food is, care where it comes from, and eat it every day. Through our work, future generations will grow up to lead healthier and more productive lives.

Job description

What We’re Looking For:

FoodCorps is seeking a full-time Recruitment Coordinator to provide critical support to the recruitment efforts of our rapidly scaling AmeriCorps service program. Reporting directly to the Recruitment Manager, you will support our ongoing efforts to recruit hundreds of diverse and passionate service members to commit to a year of paid service helping to connect kids to healthy food in schools. By contributing your ideas to the annual recruitment strategy, designing and leading online and offline engagement efforts with prospective applicants, representing FoodCorps at targeted recruitment events, and helping to forge key local and/or regional partnerships in support of building long-term recruitment pipelines, you will help FoodCorps advance our goal of significantly growing the size and diversity of our service corps.

This full-time position can be based in either FoodCorps’ New York City or Portland, OR offices.

Who You Are:

The ideal candidate will be an enthusiastic and positive communicator with a “customer service” orientation; be a creative self-starter with an ability to effectively coordinate and follow through on projects; skilled at multitasking, prioritizing, and keeping an eye on the larger goal while juggling multiple responsibilities; knowledge of or interest in networking with food, agriculture, public health, and education organizations/institutions serving people of color; comfort with public speaking and remote supervision.

 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Assisting the Recruitment Manager in developing and executing on FoodCorps’ recruitment goals and strategies
• Designing a vibrant engagement program for prospective applicants and managing direct e-mail communication with applicants
• Communicating the value of serving with FoodCorps to prospective applicants, both one-on-one and to large groups, online and off
• Representing FoodCorps at recruitment events
• Initiating and building deep and ongoing local and regional relationships with targeted campuses and organizations based on recruitment priorities
• Helping to generate and maintain a diverse, qualified pool of applicants for future service member positions
• Assisting Recruitment Manager in application review and selection process

 

Skills of the Ideal Candidate:

Candidates should have:

• Ability to think strategically and creatively to support short-term and long-term recruitment goals
• Commitment to and enthusiasm for diversifying the face of the food movement
• Excellent presentation skills and comfort in front of an audience
• Highly responsive and respectful in written and verbal communication
• Excellent planning and project management skills
• Ability and willingness to travel at least 30-40% of the time
• Comfort with computer technology, databases, cloud technology and Microsoft Office programs
• Ability to build positive relationships with potential recruitment partners
• Ability to work independently, while still acting as part of a team
• Comfort with remote supervision
• Willingness to work across differences and step out of your comfort zone
• Customer-service orientation in engaging with candidates and recruitment partners
• Commitment to leaving a good impression
• Social media savvy
   

Pluses, but not a requirement:

• Experience as a FoodCorps service member
• Connection to and/or familiarity with networks of people of color in agriculture, public health, nutrition and/or food justice OR minority-serving educational institutions
• An ability to think outside the box

Compensation

this position is: salaried

Application instructions

Deadline

no deadline