From farms to families, Fair Food Network connects people to the power of food to grow community health and wealth.

Working where we can make the biggest difference, we advance programs, partnerships, and policies that improve health, ignite local economies, and open opportunities for all — especially in communities that are underserved.

Our signature program, Double Up Food Bucks, serves as a national model for healthy food incentives, by doubling the buying power of SNAP recipients, helping families bring home more fruits and vegetables while boosting business for local farmers. Through Fair Food Fund, our impact investing arm, we invest in entrepreneurs who are strengthening communities and local economies through food. Together, we are pioneering and proving innovations that can be owned locally and scaled nationally, for lasting change in communities across the country.

The Healthy Food Incentives Technical Assistance Manager will be responsible for developing and maintaining the infrastructure and provision of FFN’s technical assistance to Double Up Food Bucks and other healthy food incentive partners.  This includes assessing the implementation challenges and support needs of Double Up Food Bucks partners, as well as managing FFN’s development and deployment of technical assistance resources to Double Up Food Bucks sites in Michigan and nationally.  The Technical Assistance Manager will play a key role in supporting the Impact Hub’s activities, helping to ensure that FFN’s training and technical assistance are supporting and enhancing the impact of partner healthy food incentive programs.
 

This position is full-time and works out of both the Detroit and Ann Arbor offices in Michigan. The Technical Assistance Manager will report to the Impact Hub Director, Noam Kimelman.
 

The Technical Assistance Manager will work closely with both FFN staff and external stakeholders to:

• Identify and inventory technical assistance needs from across the national network.
• Plan projects, create resources, and develop events to meet training and technical assistance needs.
• Develop methods for collecting and sharing information about the national network including. impact metrics, implementation successes and challenges, and examples of innovation and best practice.
• Develop and maintain communication channels that facilitate the sharing of best practices between partners.
• Ensure national partners have reliable, easy access to technical assistance resources and tools.
• Solicit and respond to regular feedback on technical assistance, including emerging or unexpected needs and areas for improvement.
• Oversee development of materials in service of learning, resource sharing, and thought leadership.
• Assist with internal program monitoring and communication, including helping to track implementation progress and status of partner programs.
• Support requests for reporting updates from other FFN departments.

• Collaborative: You are a “whole is greater than sum of parts” advocate, eager to share learning, resources, and credit. You understand your role in elevating and accelerating a field of smart and hardworking practitioners.
• Communicative: You produce clear written and verbal communications, and you’re comfortable using webinars, online filing sharing, and other technologies to communicate.
• Tenacious: You are not satisfied until all goals are met. You are comfortable with ambiguity, and unfazed by multiple and moving priorities. You take responsibility.
• Analytical: You’re are data-driven, eager to dig into the details, and experienced using program data to plan, track, and evaluate impact.
• Growth-oriented: You have a deep desire to learn and grow your skill set. You embrace challenges, learn from criticism, and see effort as a step toward mastery.
• Mission-driven: You are inspired by Fair Food Network’s mission and want to contribute your professional skills to advance our work.

• 3+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Demonstrated experience organizing and synthesizing data and information requests from multiple sources.
• Strong project management skills. The ability to track on multiple projects and deadlines and manage internal and external stakeholders progress toward project goals.
• A willingness and ability to travel between Fair Food Network’s Ann Arbor and Detroit offices, with occasional national travel (2-3x annually)
• Demonstrated awareness and understanding of the inequities that touch the communities we serve and an ability to communicate FFN’s commitment to equity and inclusion.

This is a great career opportunity in a growing organization. The salary range for this position starts at $41,000 annually with benefits. Fair Food Network offers a generous benefits package including full health benefits, a 401K match, family leave, an open PTO policy, and professional development opportunities.