Associate Director of Community Food Retail

90 BEAVER STREET - BROOKLYN, NY 11206 Overview Salary Range: $82,000.00 - $92,000.00 Salary/year Position Type:
Full Time

ORGANIZATION & PROJECT OVERVIEW Rise Boro’s mission is to unleash the potential of communities to thrive, no matter the odds. Through our unique model of holistic community revitalization, we work to eradicate the conditions that foster generational poverty within historically marginalized communities by offering services designed to connect, uplift, and support. While a history of redlining, followed by rapid gentrification has contributed to unhealthy, poor, ghettoized neighborhoods, we believe that by bringing a food and economic justice lens to our work, we can contribute to greater health, wealth, and empowerment in historically marginalized and oppressed communities.

The Our Food team at Rise Boro invites our communities to build a vibrant, robust food system with and for all of us. Food is central to how we live our lives – our work, our health, and our neighborhoods. The majority of workers in this country are food workers – mostly Black and brown and underpaid. A handful of corporations make massive profits - collapsing the environment in the process – and wealthy communities thrive, while working class communities and communities of color have little access to healthy and affordable options.

Our food should be the opposite. Our food should keep our communities healthy, should give our people dignified work, drive a just transition through the climate crisis, and bring our neighborhoods to life. Our food should be a source of joy, connections, health, and solidarity. Our food should build community, knowledge, power, and self-determination. Our food should be ours. From building farmers markets and urban farms to training and supporting cooperative businesses, we invite community members to take control of our food – to create a food system that is just and equitable, that allows the people and places we care about to thrive, that works for all of us.

The Associate Director of Community Food Retail (Associate Director) will maintain and grow market opportunities for local farmers/producers through direct-to-consumer sales while enhancing equitable access to local foods in the Bushwick community. To date, the specific program that falls under the Associate Director’s purview is the Rise Boro Farmers Markets. Rise Boro currently operates all three markets in the Bushwick area, providing community residents with access to affordable produce directly from local farmers and producers.

Additionally, the Associate Director will supervise up to two full-time Community Food Retail Supervisors, and one part-time, seasonal, Farmers Market Associate. The Associate Director will oversee all strategy, outreach, administration, partnership development, and operations of the Community Food Retail program. The Associate Director will build out a new market sponsorship program, lead on writing grant applications and reports, and support the Associate Director of Our Food and RB’s Development team in other fundraising efforts.

• File for annual permits to operate the farmers markets and ensure all operations comply with city and state laws
• Ensure markets are equipped with all needed supplies and equipment and ensure transportation is secured and managed
• Oversee Farmer/ Producer recruitment and work with the Community Food Retail Supervisor that is focused on Vendor management to ensure that all vendors are receiving timely communication
• Coordinate vendor placement at markets, support vendors to grow their businesses and comply with all laws governing their sales, etc.
• Supervise all Community Food Retail staff
• Manage relationships with program partners
• Work with Rise Boro staff to promote the Community Food Retail programs internally and to their clients
• Work closely with all of Rise Boro’s partner nonprofits organizations, and public agencies/businesses
• Oversee all finances for the Community Food Retail work - ensure timely cash deposits, all sales tracking, EBT Tracking and Farmer invoice processing, and petty cash…