Community Grocery Developer Ecolibrium3
- Date Posted January 30, 2024
- Location Duluth, MN
- Category Business / Nonprofit
- Job type Full-Time
The Ecolibrium3 Community Grocery Developer will help advance Ecolibrium3’s mission of building a sustainable and equitable community by reducing community health disparities through the advancement of a small footprint grocery store. The role will build community understanding of food access issues and solutions while enhancing connectedness amongst community members.
IDEAL QUALITIES:
- Desire to apply knowledge, experience, and passion to advancing impactful community initiatives.
- Ability to creatively develop programs, projects, and systems.
- Experience with enterprise and/or grocery store development.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Determine grocery store model to increase food access for the neighborhood
- Choose food distributors
- Work with community members to establish an effective product mix that meets the needs of residents and provides for store sustainability
- Develop partnerships with local food organizations and others
- Develop outreach strategy
- Oversee store opening
- Analyze waste, develop reduction plan
- Develop 3-year strategic plan for grocery
- Each of our staff roles evolve as organizational needs change. The responsibilities of this job will therefore evolve over time in conversation with the employee.
SALARY AND BENEFITS:Initially, this is a one-year, grant-funded position that may grow into a permanent post. The salary range for this position is $52,000-62,000, depending on experience. As a place-based community organization, our work is in person. Accordingly, this is a full-time (40 hours per week), in-person position. Our normal work hours are 8:30 am-5:00 pm, Monday through Friday, with occasional evening and weekend commitments. We offer 10 employee-directed remote working days a year, 9 paid holidays, and PTO.
At this time Ecolibrium3 does not offer a health care plan. Instead, employee compensation is set to accommodate employees purchasing their own plans. Eligibility for company retirement benefits will occur after three months of employment.
Ecolibrium3 is an equal-opportunity employer committed to workforce diversity.