Student Nutrition Program

4 months ago

Kingston, Canada The Food Sharing Project Full time

**Contract Employment Opportunity**

**Student Nutrition Program Facilitator**

**28 hours per week. Tue-Fri, 8am-3:30pm. $28 per hour.**

**Sep 2024 to June 2025 (10-month / 38-week contract)**

**Organization**

The Food Sharing Project (FSP) is a registered Canadian charity that has been operating for 40 years. FSP provides nutritious food and equipment to 88 schools across KFL&A to support their in-school breakfast, lunch and hearty snack programs. An average of 5 tonnes of food, valued at over $20,000, is packed and delivered each week, throughout the school year.

**Position Description**

The **Student Nutrition Program Facilitator** is responsible for providing support of day-to-day operations of Student Nutrition Programs (SNPs) in participating schools in Kingston, Frontenac, and Lennox & Addington, so that students are engaged in their learning, experience a sense of belonging, and develop healthy eating habits. The Student Nutrition Program Facilitator will be focused on excellence, with a goal of enhancing access to healthy food for all students. They will ensure SNPs exceed minimum Safe Food Handling standards, and build, support, train and deploy volunteer teams to support school staff in offering a high quality, efficient student nutrition program.

**Key responsibilities**:
Maintain supportive relationships with Student Nutrition Program site coordinators and school staff to provide guidance, direction and support:
1. Ensure school staff and school communities have clear understanding of Student Nutrition Programs, by offering training, developing communications, making presentations, and encouraging supplemental fundraising

2. Ensure quality student nutrition programs are being offered at all participating schools and that nutritious food at school is accessible to all students by providing guidance to school coordinators consistent with program and nutritional guidelines. Conduct site visits and assessments and provide advice on program design/ delivery and nutrition/ meal planning.

3. Ensure data reporting is completed and accurate by reviewing data and providing training.

4. Design, implement and support a robust volunteer program to engage community members in supporting school nutrition programs in their neighbourhood. Develop related policies and procedures, marketing strategies, recruitment efforts, and training for volunteers. Match volunteers with school-based student nutrition programs and schedule, monitor and troubleshoot volunteer activity in collaboration with the on-site school coordinator.

5. Other duties as assigned or directed by the Executive Director.

**Skills and qualifications required**
- A strong background in nutrition and meal preparation for large groups gained through experience and/or formal education. Experience preparing meals for children and youth is an asset.
- Ability to communicate policies and processes in a respectful, collaborative manner.
- Proven experience training adults and reinforcing change and compliance.
- Successful experience managing non-profit programs, including developing policies, procedures and systems.
- Excellent ability to research and design program activities based on best practices.
- Experience recruiting, training, and supporting volunteers, or similar supervisory and instructing experience.
- Excellent planning, organization and scheduling skills; working with mínimal supervision.
- Highly effective communication skills.
- Strong essential office technology skills, such as MS Office software and electronic communication.
- Ability and willingness to travel within the communities served by The Food Sharing Project, including to rural communities.
- Use of personal automobile, valid class G driver’s licence, and clean driving record.
- Ability to communicate in French would be an asset.

**Terms and Conditions**
- Position will start in September 2024 and run until June 2025. There is a possibility of contract renewal in September 2025.
- Rate of pay $28.00 per hour, plus 4% vacation pay in lieu of paid vacation time; No benefits are offered; Mileage expenses will be reimbursed for approved travel.
- 28 hours per week, based on a 4-day work schedule of Tuesday to Friday, 8:00am to 3:30pm (7 hrs/day). Schedule will be confirmed in consultation with the Executive Director.
- Provide a satisfactory criminal police information check (CPIC) which includes vulnerable sector screening (VSS).
- Contribute to a positive, respectful, collaborative working environment.

Andy Mills, Executive Director

The Food Sharing Project

**Job Type**: Fixed term contract
Contract length: 10 months

Pay: $28.00 per hour

Expected hours: 28 per week

Flexible language requirement:

- French not required

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 2024-09-16

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