Associate Director of Strategic Impact

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The Grow Appalachia Associate Director of Strategic Impact will assist the Director of Grow Appalachia program in all areas of management, operations, and development for one of the country?s largest rural food systems projects. The position includes close collaboration with Grow Appalachia?s Associate Director of Production Programming and as support to all Grow Appalachia?s current program priorities.

Duties include:

resource development (including but not limited to grants and other forms of monetary and in-kind contributions); evaluation of site partner applications and communications among the funder(s), participants and the general public; coordination of system wide activities among site partners and other collaborating institutions and individuals: public relations and appropriate on-line media management; curriculum and teaching materials development; program assessment and results based reporting to appropriate campus administrators and funders.

• Coordination of on-going evaluation of all program activities and program development in collaboration with the Associate Director of Production Programming, the Director and all staff.
• Coordination of communication strategies in collaboration with the Director and Program Associate, Associate Director of Production Programming, and in support of staff.
• In collaboration with the Director and staff, coordinate annual garden grant proposal processes including reviewing proposals, providing feedback, and making decisions with the team.
• Submit grant proposals in support of Grow?s initiatives in partnership with the Director, Associate Director of Production Programming, and all Grow staff and their programming goals.
• In collaboration with staff, draft annual budgets for the Garden Grants program, hunger relief and child nutrition programming with the Berea Kids Eat Coordinator, and other infrastructure projects in partnership with non-profits throughout Grow?s service area.
• In collaboration with the Director, Associate Director of Production Programming, and all staff, coordinate key activities in Grow?s strategic plan, including succession planning across all programs, supporting a peer-to- peer learning network with Garden Partners, maintaining an online resource library for gardeners, and other key strategies.
• Supporting Grow?s commitment to racial equity, through food justice education and racial justice awareness within staff, programs, partners, and deep integration of racial equity strategies within programs, services, and program evaluations.
• In collaboration with the Director, Associate Director of Production Programming, and Grow?s Program Associate, brainstorm annually with long-term Garden Grant partners in support of realizing their long-term food security goals through strategic planning.
• Support the Program Associate in training for program partners and volunteers in website, blog and reporting processes.
• Provide assistance in training and oversight of program students, interns and volunteers.
• In collaboration with the Associate Director of Production Programming, support the Social Enterprise Manager with marketing plans and materials.

• Bachelor’s Degree, required.
• Master’s Degree preferred. Experience required to ensure success in this position:
• 5 years of experience working in the non-profit sector.
• Knowledge of communications, marketing and fundraising strategies.
• Understanding of program evaluation and metric tracking.
• Gardening and production experience, highly desirable.
• Background in personnel management including hiring,…