Description:
- The Community Food Systems Program Manager works with faculty, staff, and partners to develop needed community food systems program activities and manages the Community Food Systems Extension Program. This position manages and supports outreach educational programs designed to build the capacity of community residents, leaders, organizations and First Nations to build and enhance place-based food systems to improve community health and well-being.
Candidates should:
- Have a demonstrated record of interdisciplinary collaboration and using a systems approach to food systems efforts.
- Be able to serve rural and urban communities.
- Be able to coach Extension Educators in recognizing the historical context for racial inequities and its role in shaping impacts on food systems and communities.
- Identify needs and develop plans to address the needs of diverse and underserved audiences and encourage/support outreach efforts for these audiences through an equity lens, with appreciation for the ways race and other identities intersect with community-based program efforts.
- Have educational program development skills including planning and implementing programs, participatory and systems level evaluation, and communicating program impact and value to stakeholders.