Company description

Who We Are:

FoodCorps believes every school should be a healthy school and every child – regardless of race, place or class – deserves to be well nourished and ready to learn. In underserved communities across the country, our AmeriCorps leaders teach students about healthy food through hands-on lessons, partner with farmers and food service workers to create nutritious and delicious school meals, and collaborate with communities to insure a long-term culture of health. Building on this foundation of direct impact, FoodCorps pursues systemic strategies that will benefit all of our nation’s 100,000 schools.

Job description

Who You Are:

You are motivated to address one of the biggest societal issues of our time: childhood health. You possess and are able to deploy the diverse ­­skills of program delivery, relationship building, network management, and leadership development across a broad swath of projects and deliverables. You excel at translating national priorities to local contexts while also being adept at facilitating new program developments that meet the needs of communities served by FoodCorps. You are highly collaborative, with the ability to manage projects independently and remotely. You have a solid background in the theories and practices of FoodCorps’ three areas of service and are generally well informed regarding farm to school, school garden, nutrition education, healthy schools, and community organizing. You have experience managing teams and supporting new, pre-professional leaders. You are an effective communicator and are known for delivering high quality work products. You are flexible and able to function well within situations of high levels of ambiguity, and are adept at seeking and using feedback to shape your work.  You have a commitment to diversity and inclusion with a desire to work for health equity and social and racial justice.

What We’re Looking For:

FoodCorps seeks an exceptionally motivated candidate to direct our program delivery and development in California. Reporting to the Sr. Director of Programs and working closely with the FoodCorps California Development Director, this position is responsible for directing the multi-component service of 20 full-time FoodCorps AmeriCorps members in partnership with an existing network of community and school-based organizations dedicated to improving child health. Through effective implementation of our Theory of Change and Healthy School Toolkit, the FoodCorps California Program Director will ensure that the schools we serve will continue to make incremental progress improving their healthy school food environments, with the eventual goal of school-wide programmatic sustainability. Additionally, this position will be responsible for building relationships with business leaders, policy makers, education officials, and other grass-tops entities that shape school food environments in the state through their work and decisions.

This is a full-time position based in our California office, and requires statewide travel and occasional travel to national program events. Special events may sometimes require weekend or evening work. 

Primary Responsibilities:

• In partnership with a state advisory committee and with input from existing service sites, develop a statewide strategy for future scale and systems change for FoodCorps programming in California
  • Identify high need school districts that are ripe for partnership with FoodCorps
  • Identify, maintain and establish partnerships with high quality service sites for member placement
  • Ensure FoodCorps’ financial health through collection and monitoring of school and/or service site partnership fees
• Lead, manage and oversee FoodCorps California program
  • Ensure superior program quality and fidelity across service sites in partnership with national staff and existing FoodCorps networks
  • Oversee and help evaluate the implementation of program priorities like the Healthy School Toolkit and Sprout Scouts
  • Oversee program performance management and monitoring, including data collection, site observations and AmeriCorps compliance
  • Support the selection and management of service sites
  • Manage AmeriCorps member recruitment, selection, training and management with an emphasis on FoodCorps’ commitment to equity and diversity
• Serve as key contact for FoodCorps’ partnership with AmeriCorps in California
  • Support national staff with AmeriCorps compliance reporting
  • Lead AmeriCorps site visits as requested
  • Strong commitment to national service and supporting AmeriCorps members
• Develop and sustain professional relationships with key stakeholders across California including California Advisory Board, school district leaders, principals, elected officials, food service directors and companies, and peer organizations
• Develop and Implement In-State Trainings
  • Design and implement trainings for service members and site supervisors, including state orientation, site supervisor training, and other events in collaboration with the State Program Coordinator
• Manage the FoodCorps California Program Coordinator
  • Ensure program coordinator provides on-going coaching, support and performance management to front-line service members
  • Empower program coordinator to assist in administrative duties of running FoodCorps such as conducting research on school districts and managing back office duties such as service fees
  • Provide on-going coaching and professional development for the program coordinator

 Skills of the Ideal Candidate:

• Strong local knowledge of California networks for farm to school, child health, health equity, food security, and other related fields, with experience working in local school districts preferred
• Demonstrated commitment to addressing race, class, gender, place and other social justice barriers
• Minimum five years working in non-profit management in a related field
• Strong internal drive and ability to manage and deliver on projects independently
• Entrepreneurial, with a creative drive to solve problems and identify and fill gaps
• Learning oriented, with a desire to seek and use feedback to shape your work
• Effective written and verbal communicator, comfortable communicating through phone, email, and video chat functions
• Experience working with school and school district administrators and school personnel
• Broadly networked in the farm to school, school health and/or school garden movements
• Strong foundation in the unique needs of FoodCorps’ network of service members and site partners
• Ideal candidate will have experience supporting and managing AmeriCorps members and partnership

Compensation

this position is: salaried, 50k to 100k

Work visa

This employer is willing to sponsor a work visa for international applicants

Application instructions

Deadline

no deadline