[Jobs] City Harvest Job Opening: Associate Director, Community Partnerships

[Leora Lawton]

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*Associate Director, Community Partnerships *

Now serving ****New York City**** for more than 30 years, City Harvest is
the world's first food rescue organization, dedicated to feeding the city's
hungry men, women, and children and improving the food landscape in
low-income neighborhoods.   Website:  http://www.cityharvest.org

This year, City Harvest will collect more than 42 million pounds of excess
food from all segments of the food industry, including restaurants,
grocers, corporate cafeterias, manufacturers, and farms. This food is then
delivered free of charge to some 600 community food programs throughout ****New
York City**** by a fleet of trucks and bikes. City Harvest helps feed the
more than one million New Yorkers that face hunger each year.
As a natural extension of our anti-hunger work, City Harvest developed
Healthy Neighborhoods programs to respond to the need for emergency food,
improve access to fruits and vegetables for residents in low-income
communities and provide nutrition education that will inspire affordable,
healthy meal choices. Through Healthy Neighborhoods programs, City Harvest
partners with residents, community organizations, afterschool programs, and
local businesses. Together we work to achieve a long-term impact in the
fight against hunger by engaging residents in healthy choices and enhancing
the local food landscape. Our Healthy Neighborhoods work is focused on five
low resource neighborhoods: South Bronx; Bedford Stuyvesant Brooklyn; North
Shore Staten Island; Washington Heights/Inwood; and **Northwest Queens**.
City Harvest seeks an Associate Director, Community Partnerships who will
work with City Harvest neighborhood-based staff to develop, mobilize and
grow community partnerships and resident-based networks in support of the
Healthy Neighborhoods Initiative. This position will focus on the link
between access to healthy food, nutritional knowledge, and food preparation
skills, and community mobilization to promote the health of residents of
the Healthy Neighborhoods. The Associate Director, in collaboration with
the Healthy Neighborhoods team, will work to engage residents, neighborhood
leaders and business to: create healthy retail options, implement
resident-based fruit and vegetable promotions in support of the City
Harvest Healthy Retail program, and organize around local advocacy for
healthy food access in their neighborhoods. This position reports to the
Director, Healthy Neighborhoods and manages 5 borough-based Healthy
Neighborhood Assistant Managers.
Major responsibilities:

· In partnership with the Healthy Neighborhood Assistant Managers,
cultivate, lead and grow strategic local and city-wide partnerships
connected to increased healthy food access, improved dietary health, and
improved community capacity across 5 Healthy Neighborhoods.

· Lead the strategic design and implementation of neighborhood-based
Community Action Networks (CANs), managed by City Harvest neighborhood
staff and made up of resident volunteers who are leaders in their community
and dedicated to improving food access and dietary health in their
neighborhoods. Work with CANs to implement community-led projects
including:

o Promoting fruit and vegetable access in their neighborhoods by supporting
existing and emerging healthy retailers;

o Creating a mechanism to support City Harvest’s Healthy Supermarket and
Corner Stores;

o Developing and implementing resident-led local fruit and vegetable
promotions;

o Creating and delivering advocacy messages around local healthy food
access.

· Ensure Healthy Neighborhood programs are strategically integrated within
each community by working with the City Harvest’s Healthy Retail, Nutrition
Education, Mobile Market and Emergency Food program teams.

· Work with Associate Director, Healthy Retail to create Healthy Retailer
Networks for corner store operators, providing marketing, merchandising and
business assistance to stores to ensure a future healthy retail space.
Create mechanisms to connect store operators with their community through
the CAN networks.

· Regularly engage in and lead neighborhood-based fieldwork to become
familiar with the geography, character and population diversity of each
Healthy Neighborhood.

· Ensure that Healthy Neighborhood activities are informed by an
understanding of how diet-related diseases poverty and food insecurity
interact with each other at the neighborhood level. Read supporting
research around the connection of dietary health to food access, nutrition
education, and community engagement.

· As senior HNI team leader, work with Director Healthy Neighborhoods,
Director Evaluation, Director Policy and Government Affairs, and VP
Community Impact to continue to develop and implement the Healthy
Neighborhoods strategic vision, food access policy, and programmatic
evaluations.

· In partnership with Volunteer Services, build and maintain a strong
coalition of community volunteers that are invested in Healthy Neighborhood
interventions and dedicate time to carry-out food access and nutrition
programming.

· Develop and maintain strong working relationships with City Harvest
colleagues in Marketing, Fund Raising, Food Sourcing and Agency Relations
to further develop programs and impact.

· Manage 5 direct reports. Recruit and oversee interns, fellows and
community volunteers to further engage in this work.

Requirements

· Graduate degree in public health, public administration, or comparable
degree or equivalent work experience as a community organizer in food
systems, food justice or community-based health related projects.
· 5+ years of experience in the development and management of urban public
health programs.

· Outstanding track record of creating and cultivating partnerships
including both community and city-wide partners.

· Strong track record of community organizing and engagement. Ability to
train staff on community organizing approaches and best practices.
· Leadership experience with obesity-or diet-related disease prevention or
treatment programs within the context of collaborative community
partnerships a plus.

· Solid public health expertise with a deep interest in having a serious
and sustained impact on community health in low resource communities of
NYC.

· Ability to synthesize complex information and present it in a helpful and
educational manner.

· Ability to speak and write fluently in Spanish highly preferred.

· Comfort with traveling around the city on public transportation as at
least 50% of time will be spent in the field.

There are many fantastic benefits to a career at City Harvest. In addition
to working to effect positive change in the lives of thousands of hungry
New Yorkers, City Harvest offers its employees a business casual work and
learning environment with generous benefits including medical, dental, life
insurance, short- and long-term disability insurance, 403(b) and generous
paid time off. There are also great perks including TransitChek, discounted
health club memberships and movie tickets, and access to free checking
accounts when electing direct deposit. Aside from a competitive salary and
excellent benefits, you will enjoy a team-oriented and community based
atmosphere while you work.

At City Harvest, we enjoy working in a team-based environment and value the
benefits of a diversified workplace. Women, people of color and other
underrepresented minorities are strongly encouraged to apply. City Harvest
is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminated
based on age, citizenship, color, creed, physical or mental disability,
ethnicity, family responsibilities, gender identity and expression, sexual
orientation, marital status, race, religion, veteran status or other
unlawful factors with respect to unemployment. City Harvest is committed to
the maintenance of a drug-free workplace and ensuring compliance with the
Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988. Qualified candidates reflecting the
cultural identity and ethnicity of the communities represented.

Please use the following link to complete our application and to submit
your resume and cover letter with salary requirements
https://home.eease.adp.com/recruit/?id=4800231. Qualified candidates will
be contacted by phone and/or email. City Harvest conducts background checks
and writing and computer literacy tests for final candidates for this
position.

City Harvest is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Minorities are encouraged to
apply.

Katherin Siracusa Coordinator, Human Resources, ****6 East 32nd St**** 5th
Floor, ****New York** **NY** **10016****.    P 646.412.0690   F
646.412.0764 ****

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-- 
Leora Lawton PhD
Executive Director
Berkeley Population Center
(of) 510-643-1270 (m) 510-928-7572
www.popcenter.berkeley.edu
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