Community Food Coordinator Jobs in Canada

Position: Community Food Coordinator (Maternity
Leave Replacement)
Organization: Community Food Coordinator https://www.ecologyaction.ca/
Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia

About the Our Food Project

The Food Action Committee project Our Food: Reconnecting Food and
Community is seeking a full-time Community Food Coordinator for the
Halifax office for a maternity leave replacement.

The overarching goal of the Our Food Project is to strengthen
communities’ relationship to food by helping to build ‘p

ositive food
environments’. These are the physical and social spaces that help to
normalize healthy eating by making it easier to grow, sell, and eat
good food. We work at the individual, community and systemic level to
increase the availability of nutritious food as well as our access to
it, and actively involve citizens in the development of more localized
food systems.

This position is one of two project co-leads of a highly collaborative
7 person team. Co-leads are responsible for management of the current
project, long term planning of the work, fundraising and partnership
building. Fundraising for 2017 and beyond will be a priority during
the term of this position. Additionally, this position is the lead on
the Policy Change and Civic Engagement work of the project, and
responsible for fulfilling policy related deliverables.

The position will support and be supported by the rest of the project
staff, based in Halifax, Cumberland County, Cape Breton and sister
project in New Brunswick. The position reports to the EAC’s staff
directors.

The Community Food Coordinator duties include:
• Co-leading project management duties, including but not limited to
ensuring that reports are submitted to the funder, managing the
project budget, ensuring that project deliverables are being met,
supporting other team members in project challenges;
• Co-leading project fundraising, grant writing, and partnership development;
• Working with the rest of the Our Food Project team to identify
opportunities, common challenges and knowledge/infrastructure gaps in
the wider community as they relate to community food systems and
working with community partners in order to address these;
• Contributing to food policy change initiatives and community
engagement initiatives. Successful applicant will develop and deliver
at least three policy workshops to community partners. Duties will
also involve advancing municipal, provincial and federal food policy
campaigns, through policy research, coalitions/partnership
development, meetings with policy makers, campaign planning, and
networking;
• Public speaking, representing the Our Food Project work in a variety
of public fora;
• Supporting project communications, including, but not limited to
blogging, social media, traditional media;
• Working with project team to assist with data collection on the
impacts of the program;
• Supporting the work of the Food Action Committee and the Ecology
Action Centre;
• Other duties as required.

Interested candidates should possess the following skills and experience
• Considerable project management experience, including but not
limited to managing a project budget, ensuring deliverables are met,
project reporting, fostering coordination amongst team members;
• Considerable experience managing staff and volunteers;
• Proven ability to network and build partner relationships;
• Fundraising experience, including grant writing and other
partnership building;
• In depth knowledge of food policy issues in Nova Scotia and
experience translating this knowledge to others;
• Creative problem solving skills;
• Strong organizational skills, friendly and patient;
• Strong communication skills, verbal and written including
facilitation and presentation skills;
• Willingness to learn, experiment and adapt;
• Comfortable in a highly collaborative organizational structure;
• Leadership skills and self-direction.

The following skills are also an asset:
• Experience using developmental evaluation methods;
• Detail oriented.

The Ecology Action Centre is committed to employment equity and
encourages applications from traditionally underrepresented groups
such as women, visible minorities, First Nations, and persons with
disabilities. Diversity is a stated value of EAC, and is a strength
that we seek to cultivate within our community. It is the
responsibility of every employee of EAC to foster a culture that
embraces and promotes diversity.

Terms of Employment
• Start: early/mid June 2015
• End: mid-July 2016
• 36.5 hours per week @ $23.00/hour
• Cost-shared benefits plan and 4 weeks paid vacation per year
• Hours: Monday to Friday from 9 am to 5 pm. Some evening/weekend work
will be required.
• Location: This position will be based at our Halifax office;
however, it will require regular travel to the other project sites in
Cumberland County, Cape Breton and New Brunswick.

TO APPLY

Please email a cover letter and resume (including 3 references) to
Aimee Carson, Community Food Coordinator, at:
Aimee@ecologyaction.ca
Please submit your application in the form of a pdf document with
required elements in the following order: cover letter, resume,
references.

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