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The Food Trust is pleased to announce an opening for a full-time position through the FAO Schwarz Family Foundation Fellowship program. This two-year Fellowship program for recent college graduates is designed to train future leaders in the education and youth development field and to strengthen high-quality youth-serving organizations. (Please see attached page with more information on the Fellowship Program.)
The Food Trust, founded in 1992, is a nonprofit organization based in Philadelphia working to ensure that everyone has access to affordable, nutritious food. The Food Trust works to educate the public about good nutrition and to increase the availability of fresh food, with a focus on children and families in underserved neighborhoods in Philadelphia and beyond. More information about The Food Trust is available at www.TheFoodTrust.org
The selected Fellow will spend half time working with youth to provide nutrition education and conduct leadership activities, and the other half time on public policy work to increase access to healthy food in underserved areas. For the direct-service work with youth, the Fellow will be part of the Healthy Corner Store Initiative (HCSI) team, which works with urban children and corner store owners to increase the capacity of small urban stores to stock and promote healthy products, including fresh produce. The program engages children in nutrition education and leadership activities in schools, afterschool programs and corner stores to advocate for healthier corner stores in their neighborhoods.
The Fellow will spend other 50% time working with The Food Trust’s Supermarket Campaign team to advance state and national policy initiatives to increase access to healthy food in underserved communities. The goal of this effort is to create public policy changes leading to the development of more fresh-food retail (e.g., supermarkets, healthy corner stores) in low- and moderate-income areas where children and families are at increased risk for obesity.
Youth Service Responsibilities:
• Assist with HCSI programming activities in urban neighborhoods, helping provide in-school and afterschool nutrition education and youth leadership activities, communication with corner store owners and parents, and building community partnerships.
• Assist with cross programming with other Food Trust programs, including organizing trainings, communicating with educators, and carrying out related administrative duties.
• Assist staff in working with youth to empower them to change the foods in corner stores, through an interactive website, youth leadership summit, and youth led community development projects such as urban gardening and youth entrepreneurship training.
Policy Project Responsibilities:
• Work with project team on state and national policy initiatives to increase access to healthy food in underserved communities through the development of more fresh-food retail.
• Help identify and develop relationships with stakeholders from the public health, business, and community development sectors.
• Conduct research and help prepare presentations and reports as well as briefings to local, state, and federal policymakers.
• Assist other team members with project coordination, such as helping to track local, state and federal programs related to obesity prevention and healthy food retail development.
Qualifications
• Ability to work with others in a collegial environment to implement the agency’s vision.
• Position involves frequent travel throughout Philadelphia and requires a valid driver’s license and access to a reliable vehicle. Position also involves occasional travel to other states.
• Team building skills and the ability to encourage innovative thinking about problems, opportunities, and situations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Adept at forging strong relationships with key people inside and outside the agency.
• Spanish language skills desirable
• Experience with middle school age youth, nutrition education, and youth leadership strongly desirable
The ideal candidate will have unquestioned integrity, a passion for excellence, a high energy level, ability to work in a fast-paced environment, excellent listening skills, an entrepreneurial spirit, a sense of humor, an open mind, a candid manner, and a commitment to The Food Trust’s mission.
Salary: The two-year FAO Schwarz Family Foundation Fellowship will provide health benefits and a $27,500 salary for the first year, $28,500 salary for the second year, and a $1,000 bonus at the end of the Fellowship program.
Job Open Date: April 2011
The Food Trust adheres to the policy of providing equal employment opportunities to all job applicants and employees regardless of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability or sexual orientation.
FAO SCHWARZ FAMILY FOUNDATION TWO-YEAR FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
FOR RECENT COLLEGE GRADUATES
Unique Opportunity to Provide both Direct Service to Children/Youth and Work on Special Projects:
The FAO Schwarz Family Foundation Fellowship program is a two-year Fellowship program for recent college graduates designed to train future leaders in the education and youth development field and to strengthen high-quality youth-serving organizations. The Fellows will work within established youth development and educational organizations providing both direct service to children/youth as well as initiating new projects, research, or programs that may involve public policy, organizational replication or sustainability efforts, or other new initiatives to strengthen the host organization. At the same time, it is the Foundation’s hope that the Fellows receive experiences, training, and mentorship that launch them on successful careers as leaders in the youth development and educational field.
Characteristics of the Ideal FAO Schwarz Family Foundation Fellow:
While each Fellowship position has been tailored to meet the specific needs of each host organization, we believe the ideal candidates for all positions will be:
• Future leaders in the education and youth development field
• Dynamic, driven, recent college graduates looking for a challenging, multi-faceted position at a leading non-profit organization in Boston, New York City or Philadelphia
• Able to contribute to and benefit from ongoing training and leadership development opportunities facilitated by the Fellowship program
• Interested in simultaneously balancing “on the ground” direct service work with “behind the scenes” capacity-building projects, both of which will have a profound impact on the host organization’s work
Training and Informal Mentorship Provided by FAO Schwarz Family Foundation:
The FAO Schwarz Family Foundation Fellows will benefit from having a mentor from the Foundation and from participating in two training and reflection retreats a year. These training opportunities, which consist of three-day fall and spring sessions, will be a signature effort of the Fellowship and will be designed to ensure that FAO Schwarz Family Foundation Fellows across several leading organizations can share their experiences and expertise and benefit from discussions with leading youth development professionals and experts in organizational development, policy, and education. The training sessions will rotate among the three cities in which the FAO Schwarz Family Foundation Fellows work: Boston, New York City, Philadelphia.
Cohort of Nine FAO Schwarz Family Foundation Fellows in Boston, NYC and Philadelphia:
The three 2011-13 FAO Schwarz Family Foundation Fellows will be hired by the following host organizations: Food Trust (Philadelphia), The Go Project (New York City) and Year Up (New York City). The 2011-2013 Fellows will join the current six 2010-2012 Fellows (from Breakthrough Philadelphia in Philadelphia, Food Project in Boston, Jumpstart in Boston and New York City, Museum of the City of New York, and Wheelock College in Boston) to form a nine-person FAO Schwarz Family Foundation Fellows cohort, which will participate in formal training retreats and informal communications throughout the year.
How to Apply: Graduating college seniors or recent college graduates who are interested in this Fellowship at The Food Trust in Philadelphia should email a resume and cover letter to jsparks@thefoodtrust.org. Candidates may apply directly to more than one host organization.
Overview of FAO Schwarz Family Foundation: The FAO Schwarz Family Foundation is a modest-sized foundation funded through ongoing royalty payments from the current owners of the FAO Schwarz toy store to a foundation established by descendants of the store’s founders and former owners.
How to Apply: Graduating college seniors or recent college graduates who are interested in this Fellowship at The Food Trust in Philadelphia should email a resume and cover letter to jsparks@thefoodtrust.org. Candidates may apply directly to more than one host organization.
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