Two employment and two fieldwork opportunities at the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute Please contact Ashley Rafalow (info below) regarding these positions. Job Description: NYCHA Urban Agriculture Initiative Evaluation Seeking a p/t research assistant (~15 hours/week) to assist with an evaluation of the NYC Housing Authority’s Urban Agriculture Initiative (UAI). The UAI is a three-year project to construct and operate 5 urban farms at NYCHA facilities throughout the five boroughs. The goals of the UAI include: youth development and job readiness; improved food access and nutrition; food and nutrition education; and activation of the spaces surrounding the farms. The CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute will evaluate the activities and outcomes using various qualitative and quantitative measures. Depending on experience and interest, the research assistants will be responsible for: (1) secondary data analysis of neighborhood demographics, health, and food environments surrounding the farms; (2) survey design, administration, data compilation, and data analysis; and (4) additional research tasks as needed. Data collection begins immediately. Candidates should have an interest in food policy, project evaluation, and qualitative research, and should be organized, detail-oriented, with solid writing skills. Some site visits may be required. These positions are open to advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level students in relevant fields; compensation is commensurate with experience and skills. Please apply by submitting a brief cover letter explaining your interest in the position along with a resume/CV and a brief writing sample (a class paper) to Professor Nevin Cohen: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. Job Description: Community Healthy Food Project Evaluations Seeking undergraduate and graduate students to serve as part-time research assistants to support multiple evaluation studies of community healthy food projects in New York City. Research assistants will participate in collecting and analyzing qualitative and quantitative data in communities across New York City. This work will require traveling to different site locations throughout the city and helping to conduct surveys, focus groups, and assessments of the local food environment through retail scans and analysis. To apply, please send resume and cover letter to Michele Silver: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Fieldwork or Independent Community Health Project Description: Youth Food Educators Seeking a graduate student for a field placement or independent community health project to assist the East Harlem Youth Food Educators Program (YOFE) for 10-15 hours a week during the Fall 2016 semester. YOFE trains youths to develop and launch community-based counter-marketing campaigns on unhealthy food. The candidate will assist YOFE participants in creatively expanding their counter-marketing campaigns on unhealthy foods, aid in curriculum expansion and program planning, and evaluation of YOFE. This is a great opportunity for a Graduate Student enrolled in a nutrition program or related field that has interest in community health, food justice, community nutrition or youth programming. Candidates should be detail-oriented, a self-starter, organized, have great time-management, and communication skills. Must have availability some weekday afternoons from 3-7 pm. Preference for candidates with a familiarity with social media, campaign development, youth development, community public health, food justice, nutrition education in low-income communities, and/or working with youth highly desirable. To apply, please send resume and cover letter to Charita Johnson: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. Fieldwork or Independent Data Analysis Project Description: Healthy Food Retail The CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute seeks a graduate student to support a collaborative data analysis project across multiple New York City groups and organizations. The Institute is a member of the Healthy Food Retail Networking Group—a network of organizations and agencies in New York City working to improve the health of food retail throughout the City. The evaluation subcommittee has identified several initiatives in New York City that all have independent evaluations being conducted, and developed some common metrics to include across different initiative evaluation tools and instruments (e.g. common survey questions, etc.). As a result, the group will be able to combine evaluation data from neighborhoods and initiatives across New York City working towards similar goals. The subcommittee is seeking a student with an interest in and history of working with data combining and analysis, and excited to help think about what we can learn from a “bigger picture” view of this important work happening across the city. To apply, please send resume and cover letter to Michele Silver: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Ashley Rafalow CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute City University of New York School of Public Health and Health Policy 55 West 125th Street, room 602 New York, NY 10027 646.364.9602 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> cunyurbanfoodpolicyinstitute.org twitter: @cunyurbanfood<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__twitter.com_cunyurbanfood&d=CwMFAg&c=mRWFL96tuqj9V0Jjj4h40ddo0XsmttALwKjAEOCyUjY&r=5yp8yEcP1qI14Hr4zYCtH8fT3UX-giriGWAm4Cyi8Ow&m=Ljrf3b9bacQ0MqojteRWpkANA1kjYDTYPUBc0kzpoO0&s=Hd3xAioWh9Q6vqIvysq2_ddReOp-FTpde2xtgpbtmFI&e=>