Location: Crescent City, California
Employed By: Family Resource Center of the Redwoods
Reports To: Executive Director
Time Commitment: 40 hours per week including some evening and
weekend hours
Compensation: $48,000 - $54,000 annually
(depending on experience) plus monthly health and wellness stipend, retirement
benefits, and paid vacation/sick time.
Deadline to Apply:
This position will remain open until filled. The first review of applications
will take place on September 24th.
Overview
The
Del Norte and Tribal Lands Community Food Council (DNATL Food Council) is
seeking a collaborative and driven Food Program Director. This is an exciting
opportunity to increase health and equity in one of California’s most beautiful
and isolated regions.
This
position will work out of Del Norte County, the beautiful northern corner of
coastal California. This region is home to Redwood National and State Parks,
the Wild and Scenic Smith River, and miles of Pacific Ocean beaches. There are
abundant opportunities for hiking, camping, surfing, and kayaking. Del Norte is
also only a short drive from Arcata, home of Humboldt State University and
Ashland, home of Southern Oregon University, the Shakespeare Festival, and the
Britt Festival.
About the DNATL Food
Council
The DNATL Food Council works to build a vibrant local
food system that provides healthy, affordable food to all DNATL families. Our
programs are organized around three primary efforts: ensuring food security,
growing our local food economy, and shifting DNATL’s resident food culture
towards healthy foods. The DNATL Food Council is housed within the Family
Resource Center of the Redwoods (FRC). We work closely with many community
partners including: Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation, Del Norte County Unified School
District, the Cultural Fire Management Council, College of the Redwoods, SNAP-Ed,
First 5 Del Norte, local farmers, and local farmers markets.
DNATL is one of 14 communities in The California
Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities (BHC) initiative, a ten-year, place-based
initiative to improve health outcomes for all residents, with a strong emphasis
on equity. The DNATL Food Council was founded with a BHC grant in 2010 to bring
together food system stakeholders, including residents and consumers, to
improve healthy food access and opportunity for all. Recent DNATL Food Council
work includes:
·
Collaborating with the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation on a USDA
Community Food Project grant to create four food forests across DNATL
·
Designing and opening DNATL’s first choice-based food bank
at the FRC
·
Launching Del Norte’s Seamless Summer meals program and
expanding it to serve over 50,000 meals each summer
·
Bringing Market Match funding into DNATL’s farmers
markets
·
Establishing DNATL’s first college-level agriculture
education course offerings
·
Hosting over 50 DIY food and garden workshops at the FRC
and throughout DNATL
Job Description: The Food Program
Director oversees the management and growth of all DNATL Food Council
activities. The Food Program Director
essential job duties include the following:
·
Leads program
strategy development and implementation
·
Integrates
community priorities into overall program strategy
·
Supervises a
staff of approximately five employees
·
Coordinates
and supports regular meetings of the DNATL Community Food Council
·
Oversees
program budget in collaboration with FRC staff
·
Manages
current sources of grant funding and seeks out additional funding sources
·
Oversees the
completion of all grant reporting requirements
·
Collaborates
with numerous community groups and other BHC funded teams
·
Serves as a
spokesperson for the DNATL Food Council
·
Liaisons with
the FRC Executive Director and Board
Supervisor:
The FRC Executive
Director supervises this position.
Qualifications
and Experience
The Food Program Director will have a passion for creating a
just food system. This position requires innovation, flexibility, and a high
degree of administrative independence. The successful applicant will have
strong writing and story-telling skills, have a high level of empathy and the
ability to listen to learn, be culturally competent, and will be intellectually
curious. A desire to work with communities experiencing high levels of poverty
is also required.
The applicant will have demonstrated skills and abilities in
community organizing, public policy, project management, and building positive
relationships with staff, community members, public and nonprofit
organizations, appointed and elected officials, and others. Practical cooking,
gardening, permaculture, and/or farming experience will be helpful. A
successful track record of grant writing and management is strongly desired.
A BA in food studies, agriculture, sociology, public health,
or other relevant field is required. A Master’s degree in a similar field is
preferable. Applicants
should have a minimum of two years of increasingly responsible experience with
food system or community organizing work, as well as supervisory or
administrative experience. Extensive food system and/or community development
experience will be considered in lieu of education for an outstanding
candidate.