Company description

Shalom Farms is:
● A small nonprofit organization driven by collaborative processes, curiosity, and partnership.
● Seeking to deepen our impact and understanding of the needs of the communities we partner with through participatory community engagement.
● Committed to understanding the systemic causes of injustice, improving food access, and creating meaningful and lasting change.
● Committed to building a diverse workforce that is representative, at all job levels, of the communities where we work, partner, and serve. We recognize that those most affected by food access issues remain significantly underrepresented in our work and in our sector and we strongly encourage applicants from traditionally marginalized and underrepresented groups. We believe that diversity and equity among our teammates is critical to our success as an organization and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.

Job description

You are:
● Passionate about growing, preparing, and talking about food, and understand the connections between food, poverty, and health.
● An engaging and effective collaborator and strong communicator, excited to coordinate culinary and nutrition education efforts with community partners.
● Organized and self-driven, able to work independently and contribute to a positive team culture, without daily supervision.
● Excited to teach food skills to diverse populations, especially adults, and can lift up the gifts and skills of group members to create safe and collaborative learning environments, in both in-person and virtual settings.
● Able to manage multiple projects and partnerships from formation to implementation in a timely manner.
● Able to authentically communicate with humility across lines of difference, particularly racial, ethnic, and economic.
● Familiar with current concepts and best practices relevant to nutrition, food skills education, and food justice; and committed to ongoing learning and personal development.

This is an exciting new full time position reporting to the Director of Programs. This position will manage our existing Prescription Produce Plan programming and work with the Director of Programs to develop and implement new nutrition and food-skills programming in other community settings. This is an important
community-facing role focused on building strategies for connecting diet and health, and creating welcoming, low-risk opportunities to prepare and enjoy healthy food.

Primary responsibilities:
● Manage and oversee all day to day aspects of our Prescription Produce Plan (PPP), including design and delivery of engaging and participatory cooking classes.
● Collaborate with the Director of Programs on PPP strategy, program monitoring, data collection, and evaluation.
● Oversee the collection of participant feedback and engagement, and collaborate with program staff to develop new community engagement strategies.
● Work with the Director of Programs and community partners as appropriate to develop goals and objectives for new and existing nutrition education programming beyond PPP, including activities and evaluation.
● Responsible for day to day oversight and execution of nutrition programming, including cooking demonstrations and food skills activities at mobile markets and other settings in accordance with program objectives.
● Help manage interns and support community partnerships related to nutrition programming, including oversight of partner nutrition activities at markets.
● As much as one day each week serve as the primary operator of the Mobile Market, including driving, managing other staff and interns, and managing the day’s operations.
● Support other organizational efforts/projects as needed, including representing Shalom Farms at community events and occasional work on the farm.

Preferred experience and other qualifications:
● Two or more years experience in one or more of the following fields: culinary/food-skills, community health/public health, education, nutrition or dietetics, social work, or agriculture.
● Personal experience and understanding of the inequitable food and health barriers that many of our partners and participants face.
● Experienced in adult education, particularly related to teaching culinary and food prep skills.
● Knowledge of principles and practices related to nutrition, food access and food justice work.
● Experience working with diverse groups, including ability to reach across racial, ethnic, generational, socioeconomic, rural/urban, and denominational lines.
● The ideal candidate will have previous supervisory experience in a community-based setting.
● Must have drivers license, ability to drive 15 passenger van, and ability to lift 50 pounds.
● From May-November must be willing to regularly work early evenings (1-3 times/week) and periodically weekends (1/month).
● Proficiency in Spanish a plus.

* Due to the current COVID pandemic, Shalom Farms has implemented and encourages temporary telecommuting arrangements for duties conducive to working from home. Until safe, all cooking classes and food-skills education will be done virtually.

This is a full time salaried position with a salary range of $40-45K (dependent on experience), generous employer-paid health coverage of a high-quality zero or low-deductible plan, generous PTO, 401k matching, and all the vegetables you can eat.

Compensation

this position is: salaried, $35,000 - $50,000

Application instructions

Deadline

March 15, 2021