Job Title: Community Food System Team Coordinator (.6FTE)
Location: Greene County, Cairo, NY

Cornell Cooperative Extension Greene County (Cairo, NY) is searching for a Community Food System Team Coordinator (.6FTE).  The purpose of this position is to encourage the development of a vibrant community-based food system that achieves the following goals: 

• Design, support and deliver educational programs designed to increase consumption of locally produced safe, healthy and affordable food as a significant source of the community's diet.
• Improving the profitability of the county and region's farmland.
• Developing job opportunities across the food and farm economy.
• Improving public health by ensuring access to safe, healthy and affordable food from local and other optimal sources.

The essential function of this position is to provide vision and leadership for a broad-based, multi-pronged approach to community food system programming that integrates the existing work and resources of the Greene County Association and Agroforestry Resource Center and provides a framework for complementary programming in the future.
 
Key responsibilities:

• Providing leadership for Association efforts in nutrition education, including supervision of two full-time program educators in nutrition and seeking greater synergy between federal nutrition programs and local food system efforts.
• Managing the Association's participation in the NYS Department of Health funded project entitled 'Eat Well Play Hard (EWPH),' a youth physical activity and nutrition program, including collaboration with project partners in Delaware County.
• Developing a conceptual framework for community food system programming and effectively communicating the program goals and activities to diverse audiences.
• Working with the Executive Director and other program staff to integrate the existing work and resources of the Association and identify opportunities to create complementary programming in the future.
• Conducting an assessment of existing food and farm resources in the county and region with an emphasis on understanding linkages, both real and potential, and identifying unmet needs.
• Building leadership and working partnerships among food and farm system stakeholders.
• Encouraging and facilitating the development of peer-to-peer learning teams that freely exchange information, experience and resources.
•  Identifying other opportunities to enhance community engagement in the food and farm system with an emphasis on empowering eaters in both private and institutional settings.
•  Developing and implementing a plan for ongoing program evaluation.
•  Participating in regional and statewide working groups that advance program goals

 
For the complete PD, see http://hosts.cce.cornell.edu/admin/careerops/pa470.htm

Qualifications:
 
Masters Degree in Agriculture, Nutrition, Social Science, Natural Resources or related field. A minimum of two years progressive community-based experience in Natural Resources and Food System programming. 
 
APPLICATIONS will be reviewed beginning on June 30, 2008, or until an acceptable pool of applicants has been identified.
 
Send letter of intent, resume, and transcripts to PA#470, Box 26, Kennedy Hall, Cornell U, Ithaca, NY 14853.
 
**Individuals who bring a diverse perspective and are supportive of diversity are strongly encouraged to apply.  EOE.
 
 FOR MORE INFORMATION:  http://www.cce.cornell.edu