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2. 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.
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 conducts background checks for final candidates for this role.
City Harvest is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Minorities are encouraged to apply.

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Katherin Siracusa

Coordinator, Human Resources



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