Youth Food Educator

Job Summary: This position is the primary youth educator for the Community Food Education

program at Solid Ground, leading classes, workshops, and events, and field trips to strengthen

communities’ ability to navigate their food environments. This position will provide hands-on

educational opportunities for youth to learn about growing, buying, cooking, and eating

nutritious foods. The Youth Food Educator leads classes in schools and school gardens, before

and after school settings, and at Marra Farm. 

**For full job description visit our webstie: Careers - Solid Ground (solid-ground.org)

Essential Responsibilities, Duties & Tasks:

60% Teach and prepare educational materials for cooking, nutrition, and gardening classes

with youth, primarily Pre-Kindergarten through 6th grade, using existing curricula with

Seattle Public School students, before and after school sites.

10% Support Community Food Education’s other programs as needed. Assist Community

Food Education team with events, promotions and community level systems changes

to improve community health.

10% Provide in-person farm-based education including field trips. assist with Marra Farm

maintenance and production, as needed.

10% Perform administrative work to support classes including ordering class materials,

groceries, cleaning class dishes, administering survey assessments, and work with the

Youth Education Coordinator to enter track, and report data in a timely manner.

5% Work with volunteers delivering lessons in alignment with Solid Ground’s antiracism

approach.

5% Participate in program, department, and agency meetings, Anti-Racism Initiative work,

and relevant trainings as required. Support departmental and program goals as

needed.

**Valid Driver’s license and willingness/ability to drive own vehicle with mileage reimbursement or program vehicle with volunteer passengers to class sites. 

The duties listed above are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that

may be performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them

from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to the position.

Solid Ground is an equal opportunity employer committed to workplace diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of gender, age, race and color, religion, marital status, national

origin, disability or veteran status.

Benefits include medical, dental, short-term and long-term disability insurance, basic life insurance, 401(k) savings plan including agency contribution and match, holiday pay, generous paid personal leave package and tax-sheltered health care and dependent care accounts.