Director of Programs & Outreach Food Well Alliance
- Date Posted August 27, 2018
- Location Atlanta, GA
- Category Agriculture / Nonprofit
- Job type Full-Time
Food Well Alliance envisions a livable, resilient Metro Atlanta growing, sharing and eating healthy, local food. Our success is driven by collaboration, working with organizations and individuals to create thriving communities with measurable environmental, economic, community and health impacts.
As an Alliance, we unite communities in Atlanta to build a robust local food system - a network of individuals and organizations that grow, process, distribute, consume and recover fresh local food. Food Well Alliance operates in ways that are equitable, collaborative and transparent to:
- Identify, invest in and promote innovative ways to strengthen the local food system and how it is valued
- Connect people, ideas, and capital to strengthen local urban growers and markets, to increase production of sustainably grown, local food and access to local compost
We accomplish this work in three ways: facilitating collaboration, mobilizing capital and promoting innovation across the diverse local food movement in Metro Atlanta.
As a convener, Food Well Alliance brings together diverse organizations to learn from one another and develop, a shared understanding of needs and opportunities to build greater collaboration across the local food system. We inspire collaboration and co-innovation by providing Design Facilitation to solve local food problems and increase the capacity of local food movement leaders.
As a grantmaker, Food Well Alliance mobilizes capital by connecting diverse organizations to funding and other important resources to build their capacity and further their work to strengthen Atlanta's local food movement, including their annual Local Food Grant and the Food Innovation Fellowship, a local food business accelerator program.
As a champion for its Alliance members, Food Well Alliance promotes innovation by telling the stories and uplifting the innovative programs, practices, and work that are influencing Atlanta's local food movement.
The creation of Food Well Alliance was made possible through funding from the James M. Cox Foundation and through the vision of Jim Kennedy and Bill Bolling, founder of the Atlanta Community Food Bank. Together, they saw an opportunity to connect members of Atlanta's local food movement to collectively build a healthier community. Food Well alliance has brought this vision to life.
THE ROLE:
The Director of Programs & Outreach is a big picture thinker, a food system expert and a process architect. S/he is driven by the needs of Atlanta’s local food community and has the strategic prowess and social intelligence required to help build scalable models of resource generation and capacity building that deliver lasting impact. S/he is a natural innovator, with an entrepreneurial spirit and knows how to work across the organization to integrate Food Well Alliance’s grantmaking, convening, and storytelling into best-in-class programs that advance the role of urban agriculture in our city’s development and regional goals. Above all, the Director of Programs & Outreach is a trusted community leader, a natural collaborator and an inspirational manager, with a proven track record of program development, impeccable execution and measurable success.
YOU WILL:
- Under the direction of the Executive Director, design ongoing programs that integrate and institutionalize Food Well Alliance’s processes of grantmaking, capacity building and convening for community gardens and farms, as well as Alliance members.
- Create, understand and articulate a detailed vision for urban farm and community garden services, including but not limited to mentorship, technical assistance, volunteer support, and cooperative models of resource sharing
- Serve as the direct supervisor of the Grant & Relationship Manager, Project and Impact Manager, and Community Garden Coordinator.
- Partner with the Director of Marketing & Experience to ensure that the wider volunteer and supporter community has consistent opportunities to engage with the Food Well Alliance brand and mission
- Lead the development of systems and processes to ensure program efficiency and effectiveness
- Develop and utilize metrics for tracking project and program deliverables
- Establish, build and nurture collaborative partnerships with local organizations and institutions providing resources, education and training to community growers and leaders in metro Atlanta
- Bring a fresh and innovative perspective to the Food Well Alliance team while understanding and respecting what works
YOU ARE:
- A trusted community advocate and leader in metro Atlanta, with sophisticated food system and food movement experience
- Able to drive innovation, change and growth, and be a detail-oriented implementer who can mobilize small teams to translate strategy into results
- Tenaciously optimistic and goal-oriented, with the ability to remain flexible and develop creative solutions
- A seasoned collaborator that thrives in a fast-paced environment with people that are constantly looking to innovate, enjoy challenges and demand excellence
- A design-thinker that loves data and relishes in defining measurable impact, logic models and program evaluation.
- Comfortable on the farm, in the Board room, and in front of the computer.
- Business-minded with a community-building ethos
- Self-motivated. You see something that can be improved, and you don’t wait to fix it.
- An empathetic leader who understands cultural nuances and working styles across our office to strengthen collaboration throughout the organization
- Able to work in a highly collaborative environment that requires continual updating and engagement of the entire organization and multiple external stakeholders
- Confident in your ability to take Food Well Alliance from start-up to scale-up
YOU HAVE:
- A Bachelor’s Degree and preferably an advanced degree in a relevant field
- At least 7 years of management experience, and demonstrated success in business development, community development, urban agriculture, and food systems
- Expertise in program development and evaluation
- Strong understanding of technology and information systems pertinent to the role
- Proven record of results
DIVERSE CANDIDATES ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY
Food Well Alliance is a community of leaders who is proud to represent many different racial, socio-economic, gender, and other identities. Our diversity as a community is our strength, driving our ability to be empathetic, visionary, and effective leaders in the local food movement and our city.
BENEFITS:
- Health & Wellness Benefits Package
- Flexible time-off and remote working
- Fun, supportive, hard-working team