PCC has long been a leader in ensuring that our communities have the food and education to stay healthy. The Community Nutrition Program Manager is responsible for PCC’s effort to feed our neighbors and improve access to nutritious food. In addition, they will develop strong relationships with community groups focused on improving community health through food security, food recovery and nutrition community outreach.
Open until March 25th.
Responsibilities
- Manages the bulk food donation program, including organizing and supporting volunteer packaging parties
- Ensures that the food we donate is the highest nutritional value and culturally appropriate
- Supports our stores in successfully running our grocery rescue program and supporting our partner foodbanks
- Develops and maintains strong relationships with community groups and non-profits focused on food access, nutrition and food recovery
- Provides nutritional technical knowledge and expertise to the merchandising team, community groups and customers as needed.
- Provides guidance on nutrition education for the PCC Cooks program as requested
- Contributes nutrition-related content to the Sound Consumer newspaper
- Other duties as needed or required
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Nutrition or related field
- 3+ years of experience supporting nutrition-related programs
- Strong understanding and experience related to the issues associated with food access and food insecurity
- Excellent program management skills
- Strong organizational and time management skills, and excellent attention to detail
- Strong writing skills; previous experience contributing to a publication a plus
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
- Ability to travel to all PCC stores and to other work-related locations
- Experience working on food access or donation programs preferred
Behaviors and Competencies
PCC is a company where culture and values are at the heart of who we are and what we do. Everyone at PCC is expected to:
- Collaborate
- Demonstrate kindness
- Focus on the customer
- Instill trust
- Value diversity