AMPL Education Specialist & Program Coordinator

Community Servings' mission is to actively engage the community to provide medically tailored, nutritious, scratch-made meals and medically tailored groceries to chronically and critically ill individuals and their families. In addition, we are committed to prioritizing racial and economic justice and health equity in all our programs and business practices.

 We are a dynamic and fast-growing agency at the forefront of the "Food is Medicine" field, providing over 1M medically tailored meals annually to clients and their families experiencing illness and food insecurity in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. In addition, our work strongly focuses on supporting the regional local food system, delivering high-quality nutrition education to the community, and hosting an on-site food-service workforce development program. Over the past 36 years, the agency has provided 15M+ free, scratch-made meals.

THE AMPL INSTITUTE

The AMPL Institute (Access to Medically Tailored Nutrition Through Policy and Leadership) is where excellence in providing medically tailored nutrition meets pioneering research, policy work, and provider education. AMPL’s mission is to transform the healthcare system so that medically tailored nutrition becomes a universally accessible standard of comprehensive, person-centered care.

Summary: The AMPL Education Specialist & Program Coordinator supports the Manager of Education in delivering the culinary medicine curriculum across partner institutions and manages administrative functions related to AMPL’s research, policy, and education initiatives.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Works closely with the Manager of Education to plan and implement the culinary medicine program across partner institutions and platforms.
• Provides administrative support for AMPL research studies, such as:
  • Budget coordination and subcontract development and renewal.
  • Maintaining inventory of AMPL research supplies, including distribution of participant workbooks.
  • Assisting with management of medically tailored grocery box program research study.
• Manages administrative details of FIMC (Food is Medicine Coalition) Accelerator program, including participant onboarding, leadership team scheduling, and coordination of on-site trainings at Community Servings.
• Manages quarterly FIMMA (Food is Medicine Massachusetts) coalition and taskforce meeting invitations and inquiries, and supports promotion and invitation tracking for technical assistance webinars.
• Coordinates regular AMPL events and legislative staff visits, as needed.
• Collaborates closely with research, policy, and education team members to streamline processes and implement innovative solutions to increase efficiency.
• Maintains strong and effective working relationships with co-workers and external partners.
• Participates in continuing education activities and learning on an ongoing basis.
• Complete other tasks as assigned.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the experience, knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Effective customer service, interpersonal and written communication skills, as an individual and a team member.
• Computer proficiency including project management software, such as Monday.com, Microsoft Suite (Outlook, Excel, Teams, etc.), and Zoom
• Able to organize work, complete tasks efficiently and independently with attention to detail, meet deadlines for multiple tasks and inquiries.
• Research knowledge with ability to understand and implement procedures/protocols.
• Able to use judgment and solve problems; assess research literature and quality improvement parameters.
• Bilingual in Spanish recommended, but not required
• Interest in food and cooking.

Education/Experience

• Undergraduate degree in Nutrition, Public Health, Policy, or related field.
• At least one year experience in research/project management, budget management, and/or nutrition education.
• Experience in developing and teaching educational programs related to food and nutrition.

Supervisory Responsibilities

None

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The noise level in the office work environment is usually quiet.

Physical Demands

The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to sit and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is routinely required to stand and walk.

Community Servings knows that diversity drives excellence. We are a place where everyone is welcome. We celebrate, promote, and derive strength from a diversity of lived experiences. We actively seek and encourage an inclusive workforce.

Community Servings participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. Please refer to the E-Verification Poster (English/Spanish) and Right to Work Poster (English/Spanish) for additional information. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, Community Servings is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before any action is taken against you, including terminating your employment. Community Servings can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed Form I-9.

We offer a complete benefits program including:

• • Medical & Vision Insurance
  • Life-, Short- and Long-Term Disability Insurance
  • Paid Vacation, Holidays, Sick Time, and Personal Time off
  • Flexible Spending account (Medical and Daycare)
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • 403(b) Retirement Plan
  • Free Dental Insurance
  • Free daily community lunch
  • Free parking