Director of Culinary Nutrition Health and Wellness
Director of Culinary Nutrition Health and Wellness
San Antonio Food Bank
San Antonio, TX
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General Description: The objective of this position is to oversee the culinary nutrition and health and wellness initiatives at the SAFB (Culinary Health Education for Families, Healthcare Partnerships, Food Rx, and SAFB Wellness initiative) under the Programs Department.
Essential Functions
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand, walk, sit, and use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hand and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch; talk, hear, taste and smell. This position requires the employee to have the ability to lift food or food boxes with weights fluctuating between 35 to 50 pounds from the warehouse. Food boxes are delivered to clients in their residences and may require walking up stairs and ramps. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close, distance, color, and peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment
The work environment is primarily indoors but will require time outside in a variety of conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate but could increase based on the machinery operating at that time.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and levels of work to be performed and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and duties.
Essential Functions
- Develop an annual Culinary Nutrition, Health and Wellness strategic plan, to include program goals and objectives, target populations, program reach, number and type of classes and revenue generation initiatives.
- Ensure effective and deliberate implementation of departmental strategy.
- Gather and synthesize implementation and impact metrics for monthly reporting.
- Ensure program efficacy with an emphasis on health, racial, and place-based equity.
- Lead, coach, and develop multidisciplinary teams focused on children and families, healthcare partnership models, community centered interventions, and health equity approaches.
- Develop and manage a network of CHEF partners to ensure program quality and partner engagement. Develop compelling offerings including data and analysis, new curricula lines and tailored experiences for partner use and dissemination.
- Work with the San Antonio Food Bank Development Department to oversee grants as necessary and prepare progress reports required under all relevant grants and contracts.
- Develop formal relationships with local universities and colleges (U. Incarnate Word and Texas State University, Trinity U. and St. Phillip College) and serve as a mentoring site for Dietetic, Nutrition students and students from other fields.
- Work with Nutrition team and relevant partners to utilize evaluation and other data to strengthen CHEF programming and resources.
- Maintain, evaluate, and develop relationships with national health organizations consistent with goals set forth in the strategic plan.
- Serve as the CHEF program expert and represent San Antonio Food Bank at conferences.
- Maintain strong relations with Feeding America, Feeding Texas, and other entities to improve program reach, impact and nutrition security.
- Foster a collaborative team that supports other Program initiatives to include Culinary, Food for Today, Tomorrow and Lifetime.
- At least five years of experience in a senior/manager level role
- Excellent computer skills including Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Access, and Social Media Tools
- Excellent communications skills, both written and verbal, including the ability for effective public speaking.
- Ability to manage time efficiently and to work independently with minimum supervision.
- Ability to work cooperatively with other staff, volunteers, and agency personnel.
- Orientation to detail, accuracy, and the meeting of deadlines.
- Good judgment and discretion.
- Ability to represent the Food Bank in a courteous professional manner.
- Possession of a current Texas driver's license and a clean driving record.
- Access to reliable transportation.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand, walk, sit, and use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hand and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch; talk, hear, taste and smell. This position requires the employee to have the ability to lift food or food boxes with weights fluctuating between 35 to 50 pounds from the warehouse. Food boxes are delivered to clients in their residences and may require walking up stairs and ramps. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close, distance, color, and peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment
The work environment is primarily indoors but will require time outside in a variety of conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate but could increase based on the machinery operating at that time.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and levels of work to be performed and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and duties.
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