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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-weight:bold">Associate Director, Community
Partnerships </span></font></b><br>
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Now serving <u></u><u></u>New York City<u></u><u></u>
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: <a href="http://www.cityharvest.org" target="_blank">http://www.cityharvest.org</a><br>
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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 <u></u><u></u>New York City<u></u><u></u> by a fleet of trucks and bikes.
City Harvest helps feed the more than one million New Yorkers that face hunger
each year. <br>
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 <u></u>Northwest Queens<u></u>. <br>
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. <br>
Major responsibilities: <br>
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· 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. <br>
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· 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: <br>
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o Promoting fruit and vegetable access in their neighborhoods by supporting
existing and emerging healthy retailers; <br>
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o Creating a mechanism to support City Harvest’s Healthy Supermarket and Corner
Stores; <br>
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o Developing and implementing resident-led local fruit and vegetable promotions;
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o Creating and delivering advocacy messages around local healthy food access. <br>
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· 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. <br>
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· 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. <br>
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· Regularly engage in and lead neighborhood-based fieldwork to become familiar
with the geography, character and population diversity of each Healthy Neighborhood.
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· 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. <br>
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· 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. <br>
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· 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. <br>
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· 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. <br>
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· Manage 5 direct reports. Recruit and oversee interns, fellows and community
volunteers to further engage in this work. <br>
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Requirements <br>
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· 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. <br>
· 5+ years of experience in the development and management of urban public
health programs. <br>
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· Outstanding track record of creating and cultivating partnerships including
both community and city-wide partners. <br>
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· Strong track record of community organizing and engagement. Ability to train
staff on community organizing approaches and best practices. <br>
· Leadership experience with obesity-or diet-related disease prevention or
treatment programs within the context of collaborative community partnerships a
plus. <br>
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· Solid public health expertise with a deep interest in having a serious and
sustained impact on community health in low resource communities of NYC. <br>
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· Ability to synthesize complex information and present it in a helpful and
educational manner. <br>
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· Ability to speak and write fluently in Spanish highly preferred. <br>
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· Comfort with traveling around the city on public transportation as at least
50% of time will be spent in the field. <br>
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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. <br>
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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. <br>
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Please use the following link to complete our application and to submit your
resume and cover letter with salary requirements <a href="https://home.eease.adp.com/recruit/?id=4800231." target="_blank">https://home.eease.adp.com/recruit/?id=4800231.</a>
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. <br>
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City Harvest is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Minorities are encouraged to
apply. <br>
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