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Director of Healthy Neighborhoods
The nation's first community development corporation Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration is seeking a Director of Healthy Neigborhoods. The full position description is below or can be found at Director of Healthy Neighborhoods<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.restorationplaza.org_about_employment-23Director-2520of-2520Healthy-2520Neighborhoods&d=AwMFAw&c=mRWFL96tuqj9V0Jjj4h40ddo0XsmttALwKjAEOCyUjY&r=YfAi4pRWuihmE5BCxu5rQouk1fN6qS_fa6bhnAxvt0g&m=aBgeDDJwNlOYXMQprehG2kTU6iJXqxqHCOC2uxwOnn8&s=Y1bzyETr0qRzYEx5SvN9F6jdMlgaL9BHcLFNS-Wm998&e=>.
DEPARTMENT
Health Department
DESCRIPTION:
Restoration's Health Initiative
Since its inception, Restoration has worked to create and support healthy neighborhoods whether by attracting supermarkets and health and wellness facilities to the neighborhood or strengthening and improving the commercial corridors to encourage walking, biking, active living and healthy food options.
More recently, Restoration deepened this work by leading a borough-wide coalition aimed at addressing health disparities that disproportionately affect communities of color. This coalition, called the Partnership for a Healthier Brooklyn (the Partnership), initially focused on reducing alcohol consumption and tobacco use, promoting healthy eating, and enhancing the built environment to encourage active living. Soon after taking on this coordinating role, Restoration was selected by the WK Kellogg Foundation to manage the NYC Food and Fitness Partnership (NYC-FFP), one of six partnerships funded nationally to address larger, systemic issues in healthy food access and the built environment, focused more distinctly on Central Brooklyn.
Together these collaborative efforts have catalyzed some important community-level and systemic changes. Past efforts have included bringing in a successful farmers market and working with a local supermarket to promote healthy eating to the creation of 800 units of smoke-free units of housing and improvements to the built environment that include a playground at Willoughby Courts Housing and improvements to a local football field and running track. Building upon these successes, our current focus has been on enhancing access to healthy foods and opportunities for physical activity. Efforts include a Farm to Early Care Initiative that is bringing fresh local produce to over 1,100 preschoolers across 20 early care sites borough-wide, the development of free and low cost exercise programming from Citi Bike to weekly no-cost exercise classes, and a community engagement campaign around healthy living.
Restoration now seeks to leverage its accomplishments, partnerships, funding resources and national stature for greater systemic impact and scale. To do so, Restoration will merge the two collaborative efforts into a single Partnership for a Healthier Brooklyn to be focused on systems change in Central Brooklyn. Efforts moving forward will include the exploration of opportunities to improve the food system which may include the creation of a food hub. The Director of Healthy Neighborhoods will be charged with leading this merger, ensuring and elevating a collective vision, creating support for rigorous goals and strategies, and implementing innovative measurement tools to track progress as an organization, a partnership, and a community.
THE POSITION
The Director of Healthy Neighborhoods leads Restoration's healthy community initiatives, including those to be merged under the Partnership for a Healthier Brooklyn. The Director ensures the synergy and sustainability of the work as part of Restoration's larger mission and vision as a community development organization. As such, he or she is responsible for managing strategic planning, setting priorities around addressing neighborhood health disparities, and mobilizing stakeholders and the community behind a shared vision of systems change. The Director also directs the day-to-day activities of the department and manages the health team with an eye toward continued sustainability and growth. Responsibilities will include:
Strategic Program Development and Implementation
o Work closely with the Executive Vice President for Programs and Organizational Development to develop and implement a vision and plan to guide and institutionalize Restoration's multi-faceted healthy communities work.
o Ensure this work is well-grounded in Restoration's community development context, helping to connect this work to housing, employment, health care, financial wellness, and other outcomes.
o Lead local efforts to explore and develop a Central Brooklyn Food Hub and, potentially, a food cooperative.
o Oversee the collection and reporting of key program information and outcomes, and tailor reports for the field, funders, leadership team, board of directors, and general public.
o Develop and disseminate programmatic best practices through external research, analysis, and participation in national and regional networking opportunities.
o Represent Restoration at food system/healthy communities conferences and other industry events and gatherings as a presenter, panel member, or related spokesperson.
Coalition-Building
o Cultivate and manage relationships with the members of the Partnership for a Healthier Brooklyn and other community stakeholders.
o Provide leadership to the Steering Committee in developing annual and long-term goals, strategies and methodologies.
o Lead effort to improve data collection and outcomes measurement, and to regularly communicate and celebrate the Partnership's progress and community benefits.
o Attending and assisting the DSA development team in preparation for all community meetings including meetings with the community task force, open space committee, and community board meetings.
o Serve as the Partnership's liaison to City agencies, policymakers, funders and strategic partners.
o Oversee fundraising and reporting for the Partnership, working with members to delegate tasks or ensure obligations are met under funding agreements.
General Departmental Leadership and Management
o Provide management and budget oversight for the Healthy Communities department.
o Support all aspects of government and foundation fundraising including prospect research, cultivation, proposal development and submission, reporting, and ongoing funder stewardship.
o Manage three person staff and several graduate and college interns.
o Direct and oversee the development and implementation of strategies to raise profile and communicate initiatives through outreach, website, social media, conferences, whitepapers and reports, brochures and other media opportunities.
o Continue to raise profile of programs on national, state and local policy tables.
EXPERIENCE / CHARACTERISTICS
The ideal candidate will be a dynamic professional with outstanding communications skills and the ability to motivate and work closely with a diverse range of individuals from community residents and elected officials to organization leaders and the media. In addition, he or she will have:
? Four year degree, with masters degree preferred in health, food systems, community and economic development preferred
? At least ten years of experience working worked in food equity or food systems, health and wellness initiatives, or in other goal-oriented, collaborative-building community and economic development program areas.
? Strong experience in direct community engagement.
? Proven program planning and implementation experience and skills.
? A visionary yet pragmatic disposition and workstyle, able to navigate wide ranging stakeholders while driving change that is realistic and measurable
? Significant knowledge of programs serving low-income communities, ideally workforce development, benefits access, and/or economic development programs.
? Fundraising research, grantwriting and reporting experience highly desired.
? Knowledge of performance measurement and management theory and practice, including the use of data technology.
? Creativity and ability to develop innovative program strategies that integrate multiple program areas and blend various funding streams.
? Experience working with nonprofit organizations, government agencies, elected officials and staff, private foundations, and media.
? Excellent writing and computer skills
In order to apply, please email cover letter and resume to Judith Anglin, HR Director, at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
Tracey Capers
EVP Programs, Organizational Development
Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation
718-636-6906
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