Vital Village Networks Inc. is a network of residents and organizations committed to maximizing child, family, and community well-being. Based in Boston, MA, the central goal of Vital Village is to seed sustainable and scalable community change around child protection by mobilizing a collective investment from residents, community organizations and institutions using a strengths-based and trauma-informed paradigm. Launched in 2021, the Community Food Systems Fellowship is a leadership pipeline to increase opportunities for diverse leaders who are committed to food justice and equity to build skills, capacity, and networks, with a growth network of alumni leaders and partners.
The Community Food Systems Policy Specialist will oversee day-to-day programmatic and administrative coordination of the Community Food Systems Alumni Network, serving as a key operation backbone support for the alumni co-stewards leadership team and emerging policy advocacy initiatives and priorities. Key deliverables include coordinating alumni community leadership and capacity building activities, conducting regular resource scans and curation, developing advocacy toolkits and resource for dissemination, providing policy advocacy strategy technical assistance and resource coordination, tracking relevant policies, legislation, and field development, meeting and event planning and coordination, program data collection and documentation, and support with other alumni-led policy advocacy and mobilization needs and priorities. The Community Food Systems Policy Specialist will play a key role in supporting the Alumni Network’s growth and expansion, facilitate alumni-led co-design and policy mobilization efforts the network, and strengthen Vital Village’s collaborative network of cross-sector partners focused on food systems policy and advocacy. The coordinator will also support broader policy capacity building efforts and other policy-focused projects by providing quality and timely resources and tools, regular resource and policy scans and curation, and other program coordination activities across Vital Village and our networks.
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES / DUTIES:
Alumni Community Leadership and Capacity Building Coordination
Community-Based Policy Advocacy Resource Coordination and Technical Assistance
Alumni Network Meeting and Event Coordination
Other Administrative and Programmatic Supports
REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
PREFERRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
Strong experience engaging food system, public health, education, and policy systems and social service, legal advocacy, and community-based programs
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:
Vital Village Networks Inc. is a network of residents and organizations committed to maximizing child, family, and community well-being. Based in Boston, MA, the central goal of Vital Village is to seed sustainable and scalable community change around child protection by mobilizing a collective investment from residents, community organizations and institutions using a strengths-based and trauma-informed paradigm. Launched in 2021, the Community Food Systems Fellowship is a leadership pipeline to increase opportunities for diverse leaders who are committed to food justice and equity to build skills, capacity, and networks, with a growth network of alumni leaders and partners.
The Community Food Systems Policy Specialist will oversee day-to-day programmatic and administrative coordination of the Community Food Systems Alumni Network, serving as a key operation backbone support for the alumni co-stewards leadership team and emerging…
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To apply for this position, please submit a cover letter and resume/CV to the job application portal by clicking on "Go to Website." We are unfortunately unable to accept applications…