Program Manager – Nutrition Programs SEE-LA
- Date Posted November 20, 2020
- Location Los Angeles, CA
- Category Nonprofit
- Job type Full-Time
- five farmers’ markets: Atwater Village, Central Avenue, Crenshaw, Echo Park, and Hollywood.
- 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
SEE-LA is currently seeking a dynamic leader to manage the launch of an exciting new program within SEE-LA’s highly acclaimed Pompea Smith Good Cooking/Buena Cocina Nutrition Education Department. SEE-LA has contracted with the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) to provide the Specialty Crop Nutrition Education and Promotion Program (SCNEPP). SCNEPP uniquely integrates specialty crop promotion and marketing strategies across SEE-LA’s six farmers’ markets, which feature 86 specialty crop producers serving 13,000 Angelenos weekly. The Program Manager will engage a team of 3-5 staff members and coordinate with Senior Farmers’ Market Manager and producers to promote specialty crops and nutrition information at 24 seasonal specialty crop market events. Additionally, the program manager will coordinate and oversee the delivery of 36 bilingual (English/Spanish) adult nutrition education classes, recipe demonstrations, and 12 summer kids’ culinary classes annually. The Program Manager will also oversee a social media campaign featuring food demonstrations, live streams, specialty crop recipes, producer profiles, and seasonal specialty crop promotions.
Compensation this position is : salaried, 50k-75k Application instructions