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At the SFBLC, we are committed to ensuring a food secure community where all people have access to safe, affordable, and nutritious food. As part of our services, we will be running an established health and wellness program called FoodFit for the first time. FoodFit is a program designed to bring low-income community members together in fun and informative weekly sessions, to raise awareness, build skills, and find motivation to make simple, healthy changes.
This person will be primarily responsible for the planning and delivery of the FoodFit program but also liaise with the FoodFit team at Community Food Centres Canada (CFCC).
Responsibilities
Deliver ready-made 12 week program focused on increasing healthier food and exercise knowledge, engaging participants in a 30 minute walk or other physical activity, teaching food skills and recipes to prepare weekly snacks and meals, overseeing food safety in a busy kitchen
Recruit and intake FoodFit participants
Fulfill FoodFit grant reporting requirements
Recruit and manage program volunteers
Contribute to program improvements
Seek out suitable community partners to support program delivery (e.g. yoga instructors, nurse or nursing students to take vitals with participants, etc.)
Motivate participants to achieve success in the program
Qualifications
Approximately 2 years of experience in any area of nutrition, public health, food skills, kitchen management, social program delivery, personal training
Excellent understanding of hunger/poverty/food system issues
Experience/Involvement with community-based food programs
Knowledge of the link between food, physical activity and physical/mental health outcomes
Excellent communication and leadership skills
Ability to work with diverse populations with a variety of literacy, English language, and other relevant abilities
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Document use
- Writing
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organizing
- Computer use
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- Not required
Additional Skills
- Perform administrative tasks
Specific Skills
- Administer education policies and programs
- Evaluate curriculum programs and recommend improvements
- Develop the structure, content and objectives of new programs
Work Setting
- Non-governmental organization
Area Of Specialization
- Public information programming
- Multicultural education
- Literacy
- Community services
Area of Functional Expertise
- Program administration or operations management
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