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This job expired on June 29, 2021

Food Justice Network Program Director Cultivate Charlottesville

  • Date Posted April 30, 2021
  • Location Charlottesville, VA
  • Category Nonprofit
  • Job type Full-Time
Company description

Our Mission:

Cultivate Charlottesville engages youth and community in building an equitable, sustainable food system through garden-based experiential learning, growing and sharing healthy food, amplifying community leaders, and advocating for food justice.

Our Approach:

Cultivate Charlottesville aims to empower individuals to create a healthy and equitable food system – personally, in community, and across systems and structures. We do this through an integrated approach from three core programs: City Schoolyard Garden, founded in 2010; Urban Agriculture Collective, which began as the Quality Community Council in 2007; and Food Justice Network, launched in 2015. In 2018 we came together to implement a coordinated approach for amplified impact.

Our Commitment:

At Cultivate Charlottesville, we recognize the role race has played and continues to play in agriculture and education in Charlottesville and the nation. Because we manage garden spaces and work with public school students and community members affected by racial inequities, we commit to building equity in all our work.

Job description Scope of Work: Cultivate Charlottesville is seeking applications for our Food Justice Network Program Director position which is part of the Cultivate Leadership Team. The FJN Program Director is primarily responsible for advancing food equity in Charlottesville through partnerships, organizational systems, and community engagement. The Cultivate Charlottesville team recognizes the impact that systemic racism, individual bias, and white supremacy has on the Charlottesville community and all team members work to recognize, respond to, and dismantle inequities in the work we do.
 

The FJN Program Director core functions include

Provide Strategic Leadership for the Charlottesville Food Justice Network
  1. Collaborate with the Cultivate Advocacy and Systems Executive Director to set strategy for the Network and practices to advance toward overall FJN goals. 
  2. Facilitate FJN Planning Team and facilitate FJN Large Group including meetings, partner outreach, strategy alignment, racial equity trainings, and work progress. 
  3. Build relationships with individuals and key partner organizations to engage community voice and decision making in food equity efforts and its intersections. 
  4. Implement food justice capacity building – create and host presentations and research to build capacity for food equity; write newsletter, blog, and social media posts to inform and educate.
  5. Maintain network communication and administration – provide direction to maintain an up to date FJN webpage, FJN communication tools, and FJN administration tasks.  
Implement the City of Charlottesville Food Equity Initiative 
  1. Sustain and cultivate mechanisms for community voice including both formal and informal meetings with oversight by community members on programs and broader food access issues.
  2. Contribute thought leadership – policy insight and strategic initiative to discussions on the core areas of intersection with food equity including: Urban Agriculture, Food Access, Affordable Housing, Healthy School Foods, and Transportation Food Pathways. 
  3. Compile and disseminate research including an analysis of food system assessments that identifies gaps and opportunities for investment.
  4. Bring community and partners together to advocate for the Food Equity Initiative Policy Platform and ensure implementation of program recommendations and actions.
  5. Plan for sustainability by pursuing additional funding for long-term investment at the city, agency, and community member levels. 
Manage the Community Food Justice Network Team
  1. Food Justice Network currently has a team of four staff including the Program Director, Community Advocate Lead, Program Associate, and a consultant FJN Facilitator. During the summer we also have five Community Advocates. The FJN Program Director is responsible to manage the team, ensure work plans are developed and implemented, and provide guidance and overall program direction. 
  2. Work with the Community Food Justice Advocate Lead to manage advocates, design work plans, provide reports, and integrate the initiative into overall Cultivate strategies towards community leadership and equity.  
  3. In collaboration with the Youth Leadership Team, design and host youth food justice unit to enhance the internship, advance equity, and build youth food justice experience.
  4. Work with the FJN Policy Associate to implement policy advocacy efforts. 
  5. Provide input on annual program budgets and work within spending guidelines. 
Ignite and Organize Advocacy Efforts
  1. Develop and implement innovative community engagement practices that center the voices of communities of color and community members facing food insecurity. 
  2. Lead advocacy efforts for food justice policies and practices across city, public, and nonprofit institutions that affect systems change.  Outline a City investment in a public/private Food Equity Initiative. This includes advocacy efforts such as the Food Equity Initiative Policy Platform, Land is Liberation at Washington Park, Food Equity Fund, and other platforms. 
  3. Provide robust communication and thought leadership on advancing the intersection of food equity and urban agriculture, affordable housing, food access, healthy school foods and transportation. 
Organizational Capacity Building
  1. Be an active member of the Cultivate Leadership Team and engage in the effective operation to achieve our mission.
  2. Work with the Advocacy and Systems Executive Director to prioritize grants that can support the long-range work of FJN. Create timelines, collaborate with partners, and ensure timely submission of proposals and reports.
Strengthen Organizational Goals and Values 
  1. Contribute as part of the Cultivate Charlottesville team with organizational activities such as community events, social media and community outreach, evaluation tracking, etc.
  2. Engage in a robust culture of inquiry where critical thinking, self-reflection, and ideas on effectiveness, improvements, and building equity are welcome.
  3. Work to transform racial inequities in all aspects of your work with strategic and intentional action.
  4. Cultivate health and environmental sustainability in all program strategy and implementation.
  5. Collect and submit data for program evaluation.
Compensation this position is : salaried, 50k-75k Application instructions
This job expired on June 29, 2021
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