The Youth Farm is looking for a Nutrition Coordinator to co-run our Summer Youth Leaders Program!
Summer Youth Nutrition Coordinator
Project
Description:
The Youth
Farm is a 1 acre diversified production farm engaging the school community and
surrounding neighborhood in farm-based experiential learning. Farm products are
sold at a weekly farmers market increasing community access to fresh affordable
food. Every summer we hire twelve youth from the high school to be a part of
our Summer Youth Program, which provides them with training in leadership,
horticulture, food justice, nutrition, and community organizing.
Position
Description:
We are
seeking applicants to help staff our Summer Youth Leaders Program as Nutrition
Coordinator beginning the second week in July and ending on August 31 with
orientation days in the last week of June. The applicant should be an
enthusiastic self-starter with a background in nutrition, cooking, and/or
nutrition education, preferably with some experience in gardening or farming,
lesson planning, team management, and motivating and inspiring teens. The ideal
candidate should be equally comfortable taking initiative and working
collaboratively in a close-knit team environment.
Roles and responsibilities include:
- Teaching youth cooking skills, such as knife skills, using diverse/local/healthy ingredients, creating recipes, etc.
- Helping to create a nutrition curriculum that emphasizes the teen’s backgrounds and cultures, and relates to their lives and eating with their families
- Facilitating nutrition workshops that are engaging, fun and informative
- Helping teens to create Community Meals and prepare to give cooking demos at our market
- Work with Summer Coordinator to create a final nutrition project, such a cookbook
- Helping to manage 12 youth farmers and supporting the creation of a team environment
- Working with farm team to evaluate how youth development objectives are being met
- Supporting documenting work through teen created videos and writings
- Documenting all lessons, plans, evaluations and games
Preferred
Qualifications:
- Background in nutrition, cooking and/or nutrition education
- Teaching or other educational experience
- Some farm/garden experience preferred
- Experience supervising others, particularly teens
- Outgoing and engaging personality
- Experience with non-profits, urban farming, food preparation, and/or nutrition a plus
- Social media and outreach experience
The nutrition
coordinator will work 10 hours per week for the duration of the 8 week program
at $15/hour.
Please send
a cover letter and resume to Patricia Noto at patricia@bkfarmyards.com. The
letter should include details of your availability, as well as details about
your relevant experience.
