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 foster a long-term culture of health. Building on this foundation of direct impact, FoodCorps pursues systemic strategies – like policy change, leadership development, and supply chain shifts – that will benefit all of our nation’s 100,000 schools and the students they serve.

What We’re Looking For:

FoodCorps seeks a motivated and passionate individual to lead, coach, and support a cohort of 22 FoodCorps service members and FoodCorps programming in Massachusetts under the direction of the Massachusetts Program Director. The Program Coordinator will play a critical role in the delivery of high quality, high fidelity programming statewide by assisting with the training and ongoing coaching to service members, the selection and management of service sites, and the day to day program administration tasks. They will have experience leading teams and be excited to support new, pre-professional leaders. Successful candidates will be mission-driven with a passion for national service.

This full-time position will be based in FoodCorps Massachusetts field office in Boston, MA and will require frequent in-state and occasional out of state travel.

Who You Are:

You are passionate about FoodCorps’ mission, and excited about the prospect of coaching and supporting emerging leaders to implement high quality programs in schools across the state. You have a commitment to diversity and inclusion with a desire to work for health equity and social and racial justice. You are a creative problem-solver with demonstrated leadership ability who is adept at coaching and supporting diverse individuals, both in person and remotely. You are thoughtful and compassionate, with the ability to handle technical, personal, and interpersonal challenges—professionally and with care. You approach challenges with a solutions-oriented perspective. You have impeccable attention to detail and thrive in a deadline driven environment. You thoroughly complete tasks assigned to you and are able to seamlessly manage multiple projects at the same time. You are known for your enthusiasm as well as your “no task too small” attitude, which is necessary for our fast-growing, creative, entrepreneurial organization.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Service Member Training, Management, and Support
  • Building and leading a statewide cohort and network of service members
  • Serving as the first point of contact in the state field office for the service member cohort, providing technical assistance with service activities and offering coaching to achieve programmatic quality and fidelity
  • Developing strong relationships with site supervisors and school contacts to ensure service members receive appropriate direction and support at the site and school levels
  • Collaborating with the Program Director to plan and deliver state orientation and monthly formal or informal trainings and gatherings for service members during the program year. They will identify and fill gaps in training to ensure members thrive in their service.

• Program Management and Administration
  • Conducting a minimum of 2 in-person site visits with each service member in the state to observe programming, deliver feedback, support improvements, and celebrate successes
  • Ensuring that FoodCorps, service members, service sites, and schools are meeting FoodCorps and AmeriCorps compliance requirements
  • Using data related to program quality, compliance, and satisfaction to drive communication and programmatic adjustments
  • Acting as the liaison between FoodCorps and service members in the state, facilitating information-sharing between these parties, including communicating key program requirements to service members and communicating requests from service members to FoodCorps
  • Providing administrative and operations support as needed and requested by the Program Director
  • Identifying and developing new service sites, and evaluating the performance and alignment of existing sites under the direction of the Program Director
  • Managing the FoodCorps Massachusetts Facebook Page
  • Supporting the planning and implementation of site visits with potential donors from Massachusetts and beyond

• Organizational Support  
  • Participating in the development and implementation of national training events
  • Helping to develop and identify effective initiatives and examples of exemplary partnerships in the state for replication elsewhere
  • Acting as an outstanding public spokesperson and representative on behalf of FoodCorps through earned media and social media outreach, special events, recruitment efforts, and other opportunities

Skills of the Ideal Candidate:

• Self-starter, with ability to collaborate and build strong rapport with team members both in-person and remotely
• Previous experience leading and coaching groups of volunteers, service members or employees
• Experience managing ongoing deliverables and project deadlines
• Skilled at developing and managing relationships across varied stakeholders, including service members, service site partners, and school administrators
• Ability to plan and facilitate high quality trainings and other professional learning experiences
• Ability to take direction, manage up, and manage horizontally
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Comfort and competence in working with people from a diversity of backgrounds
• Comfort using online and social media platforms for communication, organization, and collaboration
• Knowledge of FoodCorps or other national service programs and/or familiarity with school or district contexts, and/or farm to school, garden, or nutrition education programming is preferred