Job Responsibilities Include:
- Serve as lead for the City’s Food Security & Sustainability Program
- Develop a strategic food system development plan to address sustainability within Oʻahu’s food system, poverty-related affordability, food deserts, and increasing access to locally-produced foods
- Oversee the drafting, implementation, coordination, and monitoring of the plan’s actions to establish long-term food resilience on Oʻahu and navigate the impacts of climate change on Oʻahu’s food systems
- Conduct research on best practices among U.S. and international cities regarding the integration of food security and sustainability, and incorporates these lessons into City policy and plans
- Support the development of Oʻahu’s food networks by identifying and building partnerships with Federal, State, non-profit, and community agencies/organizations to better align among various levels of government and NGOs
- Recommend policies and initiatives with particular purview to the island’s disproportionately-impacted and vulnerable communities
- Represent CCSR and the City at various stakeholder and community meetings throughout Oʻahu
- Launch and coordinate an Oʻahu Food Policy Council or similar entity