Local Coordinator, Healthy Families Produce Rx (part time, temporary)

Since 1984, Share Our Strength® has led the combat against hunger and poverty by inspiring and arranging people and organizations to share their strengths. Today, by way of the No Kid Hungry and Cooking Issues strategies, Share Our Toughness is ending childhood hunger in The usa by ensuring all youngsters get the healthful food items they want. No child ought to go hungry in The us – we’re on our way to building that a reality and we want you to be part of us. We’re daring, innovative, generally open to new thoughts, and 100% dedicated to our mission. If that seems like you, we’d like you to take into consideration turning out to be component of our team.

The Neighborhood Coordinator will aid the implementation and procedure of the Healthy People Develop Rx pilot system, a fruit and vegetable voucher method supporting nearby obtain to balanced foods. The pilot is a collaboration of Share Our Strength’s No Child Hungry campaign, Aetna Far better Well being of LA, Vouchers for Veggies (V4V), and community group companies. This job supports regional operations and involves communications and engagement with associates and method participants in the field. The Coordinator will function collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders to help coaching software partners, enrollment, voucher redemption, nourishment schooling engagement and analysis of the Nutritious Families Make Rx pilot method.

This portion-time, short-term posture (estimated 17 several hours/week, for a total of 1326 hours at a fee of $30/hour) will be based in the Acadiana Area of Louisiana: St. Landry, Acadia and Lafayette Parishes, with a dedication of about 17 months (estimated May well 2022-September 2023).

 

Duties AND Responsibilities

• Help regional functions of the Healthy Family members Produce RX, a collaboration of Share Our Strength’s No Child Hungry Louisiana, Aetna Far better Well being of Louisiana, Vouchers 4 Veggies (V4V), and nearby community businesses, clinical providers, and make retailers.
• Advertise the method and distribute products and info to area businesses. Also coordinate essential updates to task web site.
• Collaborate with undertaking companions to communicate up-to-day details and schedules to associates, which include diet education and learning offerings and gatherings at local community companies and retailers.
• Get the job done with Share Our Energy and V4V to timetable and assist delivery of Healthful Family members Develop RX training to Clinic and Retail companions in the group. Prior to pilot rollout, pay a visit to taking part sellers to carry out preliminary evaluation.
• Enter enrollment and study data into V4V tracking instrument and NTAE Qualtrics system in order to keep track of program participation and experience.
• Provide as area liaison to clinics to make sure skilled homes obtain make vouchers in particular person or by mail.
• Serve as area liaison with undertaking evaluator, conducting method analysis with clinics, retailers, neighborhood businesses and members, and supporting correct and well timed dissemination of pre-publish surveys to members throughout a selection of mechanisms.
• Take a look at and liaise often with nearby participating clinics, to answer thoughts from clinic employees, present details on pilot enrollment and assess how the system is operating in clinic.
• Provide as a useful resource for pilot system individuals who have issues about redeeming vouchers or other factors of the plan (i.e. by phone, text). React to telephone/e mail inquiries about Healthier People Produce RX.
• Show up at meetings (digital and/or in-human being) relevant to development of the program, with Share Our Power personnel and other system partners, as desired.
• Converse on a regular basis with Share Our Toughness team, and deliver Share Our Energy with responses on method functions and suggested modifications in the course of the pilot system.
• Lover with colleagues to aid Share Our Strength’s operate to be a assorted and inclusive organization, and guaranteeing this value is embedded in the organization and all through our function.

 

 

Qualifications

• Substantial university diploma or GED necessary and two or much more years of knowledge in a experienced setting. Expertise with job and/or romance administration a in addition.
• Regional awareness and networks, as perfectly as a enthusiasm for wholesome food access, well being or food items techniques very desirable.
• Ability to work with superior level of precision and consideration to element.
• Interpersonal and relationship management capabilities, which include the potential to detect and operate by way of worries, underscored by emotional intelligence.
• Demonstrated potential to perform independently and as portion of a (digital and are living) workforce environment.
• Potential to cultivate and keep beneficial, mutually beneficial associations, internally and externally.
• Access to reputable own transportation: mileage reimbursed.
• Manage several jobs at the same time and ability to initiate, organize, and prioritize get the job done independently.
• MS Office environment proficiency.
• Superb created and oral conversation competencies.
• Shown curiosity in supporting entry to balanced foods in the group.
• Curiosity in anti-hunger and anti-poverty troubles.

 

 

At Share Our Toughness, we price an individual’s diversity of backgrounds, encounters, suggestions and perspectives. A hallmark of our heritage, tradition and values has been the organization’s drive to convey together motivated, intelligent, and proficient individuals to work alongside one another to uncover and employ answers to stop hunger and poverty in the U.S. and abroad. We just about every come to Share Our Strength with a one of a kind history, but alongside one another we variety a staff that yields remarkable effects. This shared worth of encouraging and embracing range in our business fosters a place of work and tradition that is highlighted for its innovation, open up expression of thoughts, and collaboration. With a powerful shared dedication to the organization’s mission, and a distinctive mix of unique strengths, we are all working toward ensuring that each particular person can stay a healthful and effective lifestyle.