LINKS ARE NOW LIVE!
I'm HIRING! CDFA's Farm to School Team will add TWO new operations experts who know how to SCALE IMPACT, BUILD SYSTEMS, and EMPOWER STAFF to make lasting change in the school food system.
Positions are fully remote but must be located in either Northern California or Southern California. Travel will be required to visit + support regional staff + CA Farm to School Network activities. Position salary starts at $6,963/month, with higher starting salary available for candidates with prior experience working for the state of California.
Northern California Operations Manager - https://lnkd.in/g9e7_Xfd
Southern California Operations Manager - https://lnkd.in/gZGRSNu3
Context -- California leads the nation in progressive school food policies and programming. Since the pandemic, the state has invested in universal free meals, school kitchen infrastructure and training, healthy school food apprenticeships, green schoolyards, plant based meals, scratch cooking in schools, Organic school food, and of course, farm to school. In addition, the state maximizes federal funding opportunities like Local Food for Schools and the USDA Farm to School grant program to increase reach + impact.
With these new investments, CDFA's farm to school program has grown quickly. In the last 18 months, the program added 16 regional staff positions, announced $52.8m in grant awards, hosted a statewide conference, secured $100k in federal funding to host future regional events, visited the White House with the Office of First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom to table + present to federal leaders as part of the White House Challenge to End Hunger and Build Healthy Communities, and continued efforts to implement the California Farm to School Roadmap.
These new staff positions will provide key backbone structure for the farm to school network, enabling the program to better track + scale impact, develop resources, collaborate across regions and agencies, and effectively support our growing team of regional staff.
If you would like to learn more about the roles, please send me a DM or email me at nicholas.anicich@cdfa.ca.gov.
Please see comments below for "live" links to the roles in case the posted links aren't working for you. Thank you!