About Second Harvest

Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida is a member of Feeding America – the largest charitable domestic hunger-relief organization in the United States. SHFBCF secures and distributes food and grocery products to approximately 600 local nonprofit feeding programs throughout Central Florida. Last year, with the help of food and financial donors, volunteers and a caring, committed community, the food bank has distributed enough food for 81 million meals to partner programs such as food pantries, soup kitchens, women’s shelters, senior centers, day care centers and Kids Cafes. In addition, Second Harvest’s 16-week culinary training program teaches foodservice-based technical, life and employability skills to economically hard-pressed adults. Second Harvest is distributing enough food to feed 66,000 people a day. To learn more about SHFBCF, visit www.FeedHopeNow.org.

Department Overview

Second Harvest Food Bank’s Health & Hunger Strategies Department is responsible for ensuring that the right kind of food gets into the hands of people experiencing hunger, where they are and when they need it, in a safe and equitable manner, through our network of partner feeding programs, schools, healthcare partners, and community partners in the six counties we serve: Brevard, Orange, Osceola, Volusia, Seminole, Marion, and Lake Counties. We do that by building and leveraging relationships in the community, fostering the capacity of a large diverse network of partner feeding programs, assessing community needs, utilizing data in decision-making and evaluation, working collaboratively internally and externally, maintaining a spirit of innovation, as well as engaging in advocacy. Our work with the healthcare sector is a key component of our strategy to address the root causes of hunger while improving community health at-large focusing on nutrition and health outcomes and using food as medicine. A client-centered perspective that promotes respect and dignity for people experiencing hunger, a reliance on data and measurement to evaluate our work, and coalition-building to maximize our effectiveness underpins all of our work. The Health & Hunger Strategies Department is part of an interdependent system at SHFB comprised of Operations, Finance, Marketing and Development, and our Community Kitchen programs.

Position Summary

The Health Promotion Manager oversees the network health promotion programming at Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida (SHFB). The network consists of three health and hunger systems including developing a healthy pantry network of partner agencies, promoting healthy nutrition initiatives with healthcare partners and within the food bank. The Health Promotion Manager collaborates internally with Agency Relations &Programs, Operations, and Finance, and externally with community stakeholders to increase healthy food access, raise awareness of food insecurity as a public health issue, promote and facilitate nutrition education and ultimately build a healthier and more food secure community. The Health Promotion Manager is also responsible for overseeing the Policy System and Environment (PSE) work outlined in the state of Florida’s SNAP Education plan.

Reports to: Director of Health and Hunger Strategies.

Hours of Work

M-F 8:00 am to 5:00 pm with occasional evenings and weekends as needed

Principal Duties & Responsibilities

Program management:

Manage network health promotion initiatives that include, but are not limited to:

• Supervision of Health Promotion Coordinators responsible for three health and hunger systems including healthy pantries network, healthcare agencies, and healthy food bank.
• Liaison between SHFB and Feeding Florida as it relates to health and hunger systems.
• Assist Development Department and Finance Department to identify funding opportunities.
• Support Health and Hunger, Agency Relations, and SNAP Education Team to position SHFB as integral stakeholder in community health promotion.

Oversee nutrition outreach activities performed by the Health Promotion Coordinators including:

• Develop, plan and implement strategies related to Healthy Pantry development, including incentives, agency education, interface with healthcare providers, etc.
• Develop, track and report progress on goals for health promotion outreach activities.
• Oversee all reporting completed by Health Promotion Coordinator staff requirements.
• Oversee nutrition quality of available food and education of quality control process within SHFB.
• Oversee data quality, reporting frequency, and evaluations of quality control process.
• Support Health Promotion Coordinator staff in the acquisition and promotion of fresh produce and other healthy food items.

Reporting:

• Ensure fulfillment, timely and accurate reporting requirements include but not limited to data management, grants and contract required reporting.

Budget management:

• Comply with all accounting requirements within SHFB including but not limited to grant and contract budget management, accounts payable/receivable, program and staffing budgets.

Staffing:

• Supervise three health promotion coordinators.
• Assist in the hiring, training, and supervision of health promotion coordinator staff.

Other:

• Ensure clear, frequent and effective communication with other SHFB departments.
• Participate in internal committees as appropriate.
• Support SHFB Development team with media opportunities related to food, nutrition, food security and health and hunger programming.
• Contribute content to SHFB newsletters, blogs, and social media sites.
• Organize and support strategic nutrition-related events, such as the annual agency conference.
• Advocate for policies that increase food security and access to nutritious foods.

Knowledge, Skill, Education and Experience Required

• Bachelor’s degree in public health, nonprofit management, nutrition or related field.
• 2+ years of experience managing employees.
• Nutrition/Health education experience including program planning, management, and evaluation.
• Experience with successful management of grant-supported programming.
• Strong verbal and written communication, organization and presentation skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work with diverse populations, including children, adults, low-income families, community leaders, etc.
• Belief in SHFB vision to inspire and engage our community in ending hunger.
• Commitment to values of equity and justice.
• Commitment to continued education of best practices in delivering trauma-informed and culturally appropriate services.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office programs, especially Word, Publisher, Excel.
• Valid Florida driver’s license and reliable transportation .

Desired Skills and/or Certifications

• Previous work experience with a food bank.
• Previous work experience with SNAP Education.
• Experience in hunger-relief advocacy or social justice.
• Personal or lived experience with food insecurity or poverty.