Columbia Gorge Food Bank Program Manager

CGFB Program Manager

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. A cover letter is recommended for consideration. This position is currently onsite.

We recognize that people gain skills and experience in many different ways. If you're excited about this role and believe you could succeed in it, we encourage you to apply — even if you do not meet every qualification listed. We especially welcome applications from people with lived experience related to hunger, poverty, and systemic inequities.

Oregon Food Bank (OFB) believes that no one should be hungry. Our mission is to eliminate hunger and its root causes. We believe that food and health are basic human rights for all. We know that hunger is not just an individual experience; it is also a community-wide symptom of systemic barriers to employment, education, housing and health care such as systemic racism, sexism, and cissexism.

That's why we work systemically to achieve our mission to end hunger: we foster community connections to help people access nutritious food, and we build community power and strengthen networks of support and the safety net to eliminate the root causes of hunger for good.

We build community power to dismantle systems and policies that drive hunger and poverty.

Oregon Food Bank is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we strongly encourage applications from candidates who can increase the diversity of our organization and strengthen our capacity to eliminate hunger. We believe strongly in the power of lived experience — and we actively seek individuals who have experienced hunger and its root causes to join our team. Our organization is stronger because of the leadership of people who have faced food insecurity in their own lives and/or hail from historically under-represented communities.

Learn more about our commitment /equity.

You care deeply about community, about people experiencing hunger and hold them in the center of all that you do. You are committed to apply equity as a process and an outcome of your work to disrupt systemic social patterns that promote hunger such as racism, sexism, and cissexism. You have a strong affinity with OFB's 10 Year Vision and are profoundly excited to achieve this vision for and with our community.

As the CGFB Program Manager, you will contribute to the organization's success by collaborating with the CGFB Executive Director in overseeing food bank programs to carry out OFB's mission within Wasco, Sherman and Hood River Counties. The Program Manager works with staff and community partners to develop and implement strategies to build equitable food access throughout the region with particular focus on communities disproportionately impacted by hunger - including Black, Indigenous, People of Color, Trans- and Gender expansive communities, and immigrant and refugee communities.

Responsibilities include management of agency and partner relations and compliance, hunger relief programming, food sourcing, volunteer management and community outreach. The position requires flexibility, a solutions oriented mindset, strategic thinking and a commitment to racial justice and equity.

Primary Responsibilities (Essential Functions):

• Apply strategic decision making and tactical execution to support a strong network of hunger relief partners through robust programming.
• Lead the development, implementation, and evaluation of internal programming in partnership with the CGFB Executive Director including but not limited to, mobile pantry, volunteer management, community outreach, food sourcing, flex space usage, migrant farm worker boxes, Gorge homeless outreach and native outreach.
• Work with a broad base of partners, coalitions and low-income people on solutions to hunger and its root causes in support of Oregon Food Bank's mission. When possible, create leadership opportunities and partnership with the communities that are disproportionately impacted by hunger.
• Provide effective communications and technical assistance to hunger relief partners, ensuring their programs are well integrated with other strategies to end hunger and are operating consistently with CGFB's strategic direction and all relevant OFB and Feeding America partner agreement(s).
• Develop and maintain relationships with local growers, farmers, orchardists, producers and grocers to source food for donation and limited purchase.
• Lead Partner Agency compliance program including working with CGFB Operations Leads and Oregon Food Bank's internal compliance stakeholders to ensure that partners meet or exceed all USDA, Feeding America, Serv Safe, Fresh Alliance and local health department regulations.
• Analyze program, inventory, and community impact data to identify trends, evaluate effectiveness, inform decision-making, and improve equitable food distribution outcomes within Sherman, Wasco and Hood River counties serves those that are disproportionately impacted by hunger. This includes the ability to use inventory and client management systems to…