Application will be accepted through 12/27/2020.
A cover letter is required for consideration.
This position will be remote through June 2021.
The pay range for this role is $75,000-$95,000.
Who We Are:
Oregon Food Bank (OFB) believes that no one should be hungry. Our mission is to eliminate hunger and its root causes. We believe that food and health are basic human rights for all. We know that hunger is not just an individual experience; it is also a community-wide symptom of systemic barriers to employment, education, housing and health care such as systemic racism, sexism, and cissexism. That’s why we work systemically to achieve our mission to end hunger: we foster community connections to help people access nutritious food, and we build community power and strengthen networks of support and the safety net to eliminate the root causes of hunger for good.
We build community power to dismantle systems and policies that drive hunger and poverty.
Oregon Food Bank is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we strongly encourage applications from candidates who can increase the diversity of our organization and strengthen our capacity to eliminate hunger. We believe strongly in the power of lived experience — and we actively seek individuals who have experienced hunger and its root causes to join our team. Our organization is stronger because of the leadership of people who have faced food insecurity in their own lives and/or hail from historically under-represented communities. Learn more about our commitment at oregonfoodbank.org/equity.
Who You Are:
You care deeply about community, about people experiencing hunger and hold them in the center of all that you do. You are committed to apply equity as a process and an outcome of your work to disrupt systemic social patterns that promote hunger such as racism, sexism, and cissexism. You have a strong affinity with OFB’s 10 Year Vision and are profoundly excited to achieve this vision for and with our community.
Position Summary:
OFB seeks a collaborative and insightful Associate Director of Partnerships & Programs (ADPP) to provide thought leadership, organizational structure and staff development to support teams disrupting hunger through innovative food distribution programs, network design, community food systems projects, and community outreach and organizing around food. In collaboration with the Director of Partnerships & Programs, the Associate Director designs and develops strategies which increase food security at the individual and community level and which proportionately balance resources so that outcomes are comparable regardless of geography or identity. The Associate Director drives long and short term planning, budget processes and program evaluation; inspires and leads high-functioning and diverse teams and maintains collaborative relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Drive programmatic strategies to develop community-based food systems which build long-term food security especially in Black, Indigenous, People of Color, Trans- and Gender non-conforming, immigrant and refugee communities.
- Facilitate strengthened social connections and client/community designed solutions as integral components of resilience and nutrition for people experiencing hunger.
- Lead efforts to assess and improve partner capacity to deliver services. Oversee technical assistance and peer-to-peer learning and networking opportunities including training, webinars and conferences.
- Oversee cultivation of client messengers, advocates and leaders. Build robust interface between service delivery, policy feedback and grassroots organizing.
- Set work plan goals and oversee spending to operate within annual department budget.
- Oversee development of program evaluation tools and implementation including program descriptions, literature review, logic models, data collection instruments/analysis and survey design.
- Contribute to the P&P Director’s Team to define and build consensus for OFB’s strategic direction and culture; including personal learning to address systemic inequity and its role in food insecurity.
- Oversee staff personnel hiring, performance reviews, professional development and the engagement of volunteers and AmeriCorps members. Foster a culture of excellence and innovation.
- Coach department managers to develop and exhibit excellent interpersonal skills, divergent and convergent thinking for problem solving, passion and authenticity, skillful delegation and time-management, and compelling presentation skills. Supervise team managers.
- Administer data analysis efforts for Partnerships and Programs. Identify trends; present data and analysis to organization.
- Develop relationships with local, statewide and national hunger relief organizations to identify trends, develop innovative service delivery models and share best practices.
- Organizational level responsibilities of exempt employees include:
- Act as an ambassador and a leader for OFB’s vision and mission, a cross-departmental collaborator, and an active contributor to building a movement to end hunger for good.
- In consultation and coordination with the supervisor, actively contribute to:
- cross-departmental efforts
- work culture activities and programming
- advisory and consultative groups such as the compensation committee, affinity groups, Equity Ambassadors, Equity Think Tank meetings, among others
- plan and engage in professional development activities that strengthen your capacity for your specific role as well as your capacity to contribute and advance organizational goals, OFB’s vision and mission.
- Other duties as assigned.
Skills and Experience:
- Minimum of 3 years of program management experience, including directing the work of staff and managing budgets and work plans.
- At least 5 years of experience in planning, program development, program evaluation and program or project management.
- Experience in community organizing, group facilitation, volunteer management, community education and organizational development.
- Experience developing mission-driven staff; including strategies to address mission-creep, burn-out and compassion fatigue.
- Clear dedication to racial justice, inclusion and equity and an ability to effectively apply these frameworks in the context of anti-hunger work.
- Professional or volunteer experience within food banking, hunger relief programming and/or community food systems work.
- Ability to understand, negotiate and monitor contractual documents.
- Organizational level skills and experience for exempt employees include:
- Disposition and willingness to innovate, problem solve, test, fail and adjust.
- Experience in modeling intercultural competence and demonstrated commitment to equity, inclusion and social justice.
- Demonstrated ability to think strategically, take initiative, and to maintain confidentiality.
- Project coordination and organization skills; ability to manage multiple projects with attention to detail; ability to handle interruptions, meet deadlines and complete accurate work.
- Self- directed, meets benchmarks and checks assumptions about the end goal. Clear on personal role in the team, shows willingness to support others to build momentum and share success; comfortable working in an office environment and offsite.
- Ability to thrive in a creative, responsive, and fast-paced culture.
- Other duties as assigned.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Advanced understanding of food banking and hunger relief programs.
- Advanced understanding of community food systems.
- Intermediate data analysis skills and basic understanding of statistics.
- Experience and expertise in conflict resolution.
- Organizational level preferred qualifications of exempt employees include:
- Multilingual skills at a minimum professional level of proficiency or greater in English and any additional language/s, defined as being able to speak the languages with sufficient structural accuracy and vocabulary to participate effectively in most formal and informal conversations on practical and professional topics.
- Multicultural skills of adaptation and integration are strongly preferred.
- Adaptation is defined as the capacity to communicate and interact with people of multiple cultures, backgrounds, and styles by incorporating and adapting to the world view and perspectives of others.
- Integration is defined as being able to “code-switch” or move in and out of one’s worldview and help others understand different cultures, backgrounds, and styles to promote diversity and inclusion.
- Commitment to continued professional development to strengthen capacity to work through an equity lens for equity and racial justice.
- Strong capacity to consider multiple perspectives, to pivot to respond to emerging needs and lead through organizational changes.
- Personal living/lived experience of hunger and/or systemic inequity/oppression.
The Fine Print:
Work environment:
Work is performed in an office environment while sitting in meetings or at a computer screen for extended periods inside and outside of Oregon Food Bank and will use computer and phones extensively. May work outside of general working hours of 8:00 – 5:00 p.m., such as evenings and weekends, and occasional travel out of town may occur. This role requires travel/personal vehicle use /work outside normal hours. Work may require to lift, move and carry objects from 20 to 40 pounds, such as boxes containing office and other supplies. Crouching, bending, kneeling and reaching when filing. Accommodations may be available upon request.
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