Education and Outreach Specialist II (Spanish / English Preferred)

Who We Are:

The Atlanta Community Food Bank is working to end hunger in our community with the food, people and big ideas needed so that no one worries where their next meal is coming from. Since 1979, we’ve been providing food for a growing network of nonprofit partners – including food pantries, community kitchens, childcare centers, night shelters and senior centers. We currently serve more than 700 partners in 29 counties across metro Atlanta and north Georgia.

Where You’ll Work:

Education and Outreach / Development

About the Role:

The Education and Outreach Specialist II is responsible for leading education efforts and initiatives to expand knowledge and understanding of hunger and its impact on our community and to advance the Food Bank’s strategic priorities. This individual will be responsible for seeking, creating, and maintaining connections with external community stakeholders, developing and facilitating educational programming, supporting efforts to increase awareness and public support for anti-hunger policies, programs and other strategic initiatives.

What You’ll Do:

Build and nurture relationships

• Build and guide engagement with targeted local constituencies including education and civic organizations, elected officials, government agencies, and the general public.

• Support organizational efforts to engage people with lived experience with food insecurity as strong advocates in efforts to increase awareness and advance policy priorities.

• With team, continually explore and develop innovative ways to educate and engage community around hunger issues, our strategic initiatives, and our network.

Develop and Deliver Educational Programming

• Develop educational programming for assigned constituency; research and develop curricula and presentations; prepare activities and both in-person and distance materials.

• Schedule and facilitate both in-person and distance learning educational programming for a variety of settings and audiences, including, but not limited to, public and private schools and youth groups, college and university students, community-based organizations, companies, and volunteers.

• Schedule and lead tours guided by Food Bank messaging and curricula material.

• Maintain and update program’s curriculum and outreach materials.

• Support continued expansion of distance learning.

• Plan, recruit, facilitate and/or support summer and targeted year-round youth programming.

Manage data and administrative activities

• Collect and help track monthly program activity.

• Coordinate events such as workshops, meetings, special events, speaker series, etc.

• Compile data related to program participation, send evaluations and conduct surveys to collect participant feedback.

• Train and supervise interns as needed.

Our Inclusive Hiring Process:

At the Atlanta Community Food Bank, we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We understand that skills can be gained through a variety of experiences – educational, work and lived. Towards that end, our Inclusive Hiring process is grounded in a skills based hiring approach. That means, we are looking for resumes that demonstrate key transferrable skills that can be applied to our job roles to support both our mission and culture.

Key Competencies we look for in All our Food Bankers are:

• Customer Focus

• Decision Making

• Accountability

• The Ability to Navigate Change

What You’ll Need: Skills and Experience your resume should demonstrate:

• Must have proven experience with program facilitation - ability and passion for engaging groups and guiding them through activities and discussion.

• Must be comfortable using online platforms such as Teams, Zoom, RingCentral, etc.

• Demonstrate experience successfully managing relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

• Must demonstrate a track record of working independently, handling multiple projects, and meeting deadlines.

• Must have experience working with both youth and adult groups.

• Familiarity with Microsoft Office Suite and Mailchimp.

• Must be able to read, write and speak fluently in Spanish and English.

Even Better if You Have:

• Digital communication proficiency

• Experienced user of Blackbaud/Luminate and Raiser’s Edge.

• Data driven, formal experience with research and analysis

• Program and/or curriculum development experience

This role may be a fit for you if you:

• Have excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.

• Excellent presentation skills - at ease and engaging in front of groups of all ages and experience levels.

• Experience with planning and facilitation of distance learning.

• Are a team player who seeks opportunities for collaboration.

• Have a deep commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

• Have a passion for policy work and for the promotion of civic and community engagement.

• Like the flexibility of being able to work from home 1-2 days/week.

• Have excellent customer service for both internal and external constituents

• Ability to exercise sound judgment and discretion with confidential information

• Ability to work some evenings, weekends and other times as required

• Must have reliable transportation

• Commitment to Atlanta Community Food Bank’s mission and the ability to communicate that internally and externally

And You'll Love this Position if:

• You are by nature?- a quick learner, detail oriented and have super organizational skills.

• You like to encourage and inspire people to be involved within their communities.

• You have a passion for hunger and poverty issues.

• You enjoy engaging with others and have comfort working with socio-economically and culturally diverse communities.

There may be some Physical Demands and Travel:

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Employee is?routinely required to lift 25 lbs.

• Expected local travel time for this position is up to 10% per year

Expectation:

We are committed to providing employees with an environment of mutual respect in which the values of Diversity, Safety, Continuous Improvement, and Hard work are supported and encouraged. We work diligently to engender fairness, responsibility, trustworthiness and teamwork to advance our mission: To fight hunger by engaging, educating, and empowering our community.

Final Thoughts:

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At the Atlanta Community Food Bank, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.