Company description

Sustainable Economic Enterprises of Los Angeles (SEE-LA) is the largest mission-driven operator of farmers’ markets in Southern California and a leader in improving food access and nutrition education. Our programs include:

- Six farmers’ markets: Atwater Village, Central Avenue, Crenshaw, Echo Park, Hollywood, and MLK Campus.

- Benefits and Incentives Program which ensures that our markets serve as a venue for WIC and CalFresh redemption, partners with organizations to advocate for food access, and manages incentives which provide fruit and vegetable vouchers to low income customers.

- Bring the Farmer to Your School program, in which local California farmers have provided sessions about local agriculture to children at Title I schools for over 15 years.

- Pompea Smith Good Cooking | Buena Cocina Nutrition Education Program, which offers hundreds of nutrition education and cooking demonstrations across South LA each year.

Job description

POSITION DESCRIPTION:

Under the direction of the Director, Farmers’ Market Operations, the Project Coordinator will be responsible for recruiting and assisting vendors in creating customer accounts, launching and marketing the app to English- and Spanish-speaking consumers, building strategic partnerships for a retail and wholesale delivery program (particularly in South Los Angeles), coordinating a stakeholder advisory group, and establishing a loyalty and rewards program to incentivize consumer participation. Additionally, the Project Coordinator will support SEE-LA’s partnership with the Urban Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College, to assess barriers to adoption for low-income customers and market manager training on implementing similar technologies to increase farmers’ market activity and share lessons from SEE-LA’s experience.

Compensation

this position is: hourly, $15-20/hr

Application instructions

Deadline

no deadline

Attachment

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