The Community Associate is responsible for building and maintaining relationships with community organizations that increase access to healthy food, offer child nutrition programs, nutrition education, and physical activity enrichment programs and supporting such organizations in increasing access to such programming.
Areas of Responsibility:
- Assist with relationship building and collaborative projects with child nutrition program partners.
- Work with external partners including schools, community organizations, and local governments to promote child nutrition program participation.
- Maintain relationships with funded partners who are implementing child health and healthy food access programs with UWSEM funding.
- Implement community engagement strategies to increase aweareness of available child nutrition programs (with an emphasis on Meet Up & Eat Up summer meal programs) and health-related enrichment activities.
- Assist with the project planning and facilitation of collaborative gatherings, events, and/or conferences with internal and external partners.
- Assist with network development and collaborative efforts to increase access to physical activities and nutrition education for children.
- Together with the program team, develop newe tools, processes and strategies to help our partner agencies meet the needs of the community.
- Coordinate and track program data and assist team in analyzing program participation trends to assist in strategy development for program expansion.
- Collaborate with team members to create meeting agendas, objectives, and scheduling follow-up activities.
Educational Background:
A Bachelor's degree in human services or social sciences or a related field
Skills/Experience:
Competencies:
- Communicates Effectively
- Relationship Management
- Adaptability
- Tenacity
- Continuous Learning
- Self-Management
- Drives for Results
- Problem Solving / Critical Thinking
- Customer Focus
- Teamwork and Inclusion
- Self-Awareness
Demonstrated Abilities:
- Excellent organizational and project management skills
- Ability to assist with the planning and execution of project plans
- Skilled at managing multiple tasks and priorities
- Comfortable working with a diverse group of people, exhibits cultural competence, and is equity minded
- A positive and resilient orientation toward problem solving
Acquired Knowledge:
- A minimum of 6 months to 1 year of experience (including an internship) in nonprofit work, human or social services, or a related field
- Proficient with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Internet usage
Compensation/Benefits:
This job description describes the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this position. It should not be construed as an exhaustive list of all required duties, responsibilities and skills. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable disabled individuals to perform the essential functions of the job.
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Sep 22 2017
Active Until:
Oct 22 2017
Hiring Organization:
United Way Worldwide
industry:
Nonprofit