Community Food Advocates’ Mission:

To ensure all New Yorkers have access to healthy, affordable, culturally appropriate foods through equity-centered, high-impact public policy. We accomplish this through coalition-building and organizing, backed by strong policy and budget analysis.

Position Summary:

NYS Good Food Purchasing Campaign Manager

Community Food Advocates (CFA) is a small but mighty policy, advocacy and organizing not-for-profit that fights for high-impact, far-reaching policy solutions to address poverty and hunger in New York City. We work to make the resources of government, at all levels, benefit people who are the most economically marginalized by promoting policies that strengthen and support the full utilization of publicly-funded food and income support programs.

We are looking for a proactive and collaborative individual to join our Good Food Purchasing Program (GFPP) Campaign team. GFPP focuses on 5 value areas: environmental sustainability; worker well-being; animal welfare; nutrition; and local economies to work toward transforming the local and regional food systems by changing the ways government agencies use their purchasing power. The Manager will work directly with the Director of the NY Good Food Purchasing Campaign to build support for Good Food Purchasing efforts in the NYS legislature and with municipalities throughout NYS.

Job Responsibilities:

• Build an effective multi-sector, statewide coalition that would ensure there is support for changes to NYS procurement law and works towards state GFPP policy adoption
• Identify new members and foster leadership within the coalition to strengthen statewide network
• Educate stakeholders and decision makers on the importance of values-based food procurement and help develop educational materials
• Support local organizational partners and local governments/municipalities across NYS as they institutionalize values-based food procurement

Experience and Qualifications:

• 3-5 years experience leading legislative and/or budget advocacy campaigns grounded in coalition-building and focused on state-level change in New York
• Building and maintaining effective strategic coalitions
• Strategic engagement with legislative process
• Knowledge of NYS food system related issues
• Strong relational skills and exceptional coalition/relationship builder
• Familiarity with specific challenges faced by Black and other POC producers, suppliers, etc – throughout the institutional food supply chain
• Strong interpersonal and written communication skills
• Skilled meeting facilitator
• Demonstrated ability to center impacted communities throughout the campaign and decision-making process

Salary and Benefits:

• Salary: $70,000
• 4 day work week
• Benefits: Medical insurance, Flexible Spending Account, and commuter benefits program. 403b retirement account available. Full Paid Family Leave. Vacation, personal days, and sick/safe paid time off. 9 paid holidays and the office is closed from Christmas Eve to January 2nd.

Other:

• Travel throughout NYS as needed

Our Commitment:

Community Food Advocates is actively strengthening our organization’s anti-racist commitments. We are building a team that shares this organizational identity and represents racial diversity and inclusion. Diversity includes race and gender identity, age, disability status, sexual orientation, religion, country of origin, and other aspects of a person’s identity.

CFA believes in the strength of collective power. The best ideas come from a team with a wide range of backgrounds and experiences to solve problems and advance work through a variety of perspectives that maximize our impact. We dedicate space for anti-racist learning, conversations, and furthering initiatives that enrich our organization. All CFA employees are responsible for creating an environment of inclusion and empowering everyone to be able to do their best work.

Women, people of color, members of impacted communities are strongly encouraged to apply. Please send both a cover letter and resume to jobs@foodadvocates.org.