Feeding America Careers

• Takes direction from Manager/Director of Health Initiatives to implement project tasks, processes and analysis for Food & Health capacity building initiatives (e.g., food as medicine, and healthcare partnerships focused), progressing key project components and coordinating with team members, appropriate personnel, and/or consultants in a timely and clear fashion. 
• Collaborates with Health Initiatives manager and director to define project goals, program design and deliverables and to draft and manage project budgets. When appropriate, delegates tasks to team members, appropriate personnel, and/or consultants to support key project activities and deliverables. 
• Support in the implementation of Feeding America’s enterprise-level Health Impact efforts and Holistic Supports strategies, as well as any other related strategies, providing guidance and consultation to key FANO and network food bank stakeholders to support implementation of these strategies, as appropriate  
• Support collaborative efforts across departments, to support the evidence building, translation, and dissemination of models, programs, and partnerships that seek to improve key outcomes, build capacity, and inform continuous learning across the network.    
• Support the facilitation of trainings, technical assistance and sharing of knowledge and resources to the network and other stakeholders via a range of modalities, including toolkits, design and facilitation of workshops, trainings, and peer-learning spaces, documenting and disseminating key learnings and resources with internal and external audiences.   
• Support data-informed processes and platforms to monitor and evaluate initiatives throughout our network for the dual purpose of sharing promising practices and scaling what works.     
• Support Health Initiative team functions and goals by providing project management functions, including coordination of meetings and communications, progress and project management, and support activities. 
• Support fulfillment of performance measures and identified processes to support the implementation of rapid prototyping and testing of new solutions, where needed.   
• Act as a partner to the network, developing relationships that create transparency and trust with our members to ensure our service reflects the capacity and needs of our members.  
• Use gathered data to create data visualizations, executive summaries, and other deliverables that interpret and disseminate outcomes and key findings from food & health capacity building initiatives. 
• Collaborate with health initiative manager and director to contribute to the Feeding America Food and Health narrative, and broader Evaluation strategy.

Required Experience and Qualifications:

• 3 or more years of experience in non-profit, private sector or healthcare roles at increasing levels of responsibility. Specific experience in the Food as Medicine programming, public health, community health or health policy space strongly preferred.  
• Demonstrated experience in program implementation and service delivery, technical assistance and capacity building, and continuous quality improvement. 
• Strong project management skills with the ability to balance multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced, matrixed environment. 
• Experience collecting, analyzing and synthesizing qualitative and quantitative data; familiarity with evaluation methods preferred. Comfortable leveraging technology to support project implementation; proficiency in platforms such as Excel, SmartSheets, Salesforce, SharePoint or similar tools preferred.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to translate complex ideas into clear, accessible language to diverse audiences
• Demonstrated ability to develop learning materials, deliver presentations, and facilitate meetings, workshops and peer learning sessions
• Inherent curiosity and a learning mindset. Someone who thrives in thinking through gray areas of undefined opportunities with an ability to drive innovation and inspire people outside of their comfort zones in order to shape thinking, while maintaining credibility.  
• Ability to apply “systems thinking” with experience developing or informing operational or strategic frameworks and roadmaps that outline current state, future state and strategies or transformational initiatives needed to achieve the future state.  Experience translating this thinking effectively for donors or customers to successfully generate funding or sales, strongly preferred. 
• Demonstrated ability creating productive working relationships within a large, complex organizations, federated network or diverse stakeholder groups.