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As the public health institute serving the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia, the Institute for Public Health Innovation (IPHI) develops multi-sector partnerships and innovative solutions to improve the public's health and well-being across the region. IPHI's work strengthens health systems and policy, enhances conditions that promote health, and builds community capacity to ensure equitable health opportunities for all.
At IPHI, equity is a core part of how we approach public health. We are committed to ensuring that equity is institutionalized and operationalized within all our programs, policies, and practices.
The Prince George's County Food Equity Council (FEC), formed in 2013, is a local food policy council that works to improve the County's food system by supporting residents' ability to grow, sell, and access healthy foods. The Institute for Public Health Innovation (IPHI) serves as FEC's backbone organization and fiscal sponsor.
The FEC is seeking a part-time Food Systems Senior Coordinator to support and help manage a portfolio of initiatives spanning food access, local agriculture, and community-based food system efforts. This role combines coordination and project management, with responsibility for maintaining momentum across key priorities, supporting partner engagement, and ensuring consistent follow-through across the Council's work.
Primary Responsibilities
Cross-Project Coordination and Project Management:
• Plan, implement and monitor projects or programs including defining scope, deliverables and milestones while allocating resources, budgets and timeliness accordingly.
• Manage day-to-day communications, meetings, and follow-ups across initiatives.
• Maintain work plans and track progress across FEC priorities, ensuring alignment with timelines and deliverables.
• Identify and help problem-solve gaps, delays, or coordination challenges across initiatives.
• Provide guidance and coordination support to partner staff working on related food system efforts.
• Encourage alignment across projects and partners.
Communications and Administrative Coordination:
• Serve as a spokesperson for the FEC and actively participate in local and regional food system-focused coalitions and working groups.
• Develop testimony and draft legislation in collaboration with County Council members, partners and Steering Committee members as needed and testify at hearings.
• Oversee routine communications, including partner updates, announcements, and listserv management.
• Maintain website content and shared communication platforms.
• Ensure organized systems for documents, contacts, and internal tracking.
Fundraising and Resource Coordination:
• Lead fundraising efforts, including proposal development, donor tracking, outreach, and coordination.
• Track grant deadlines and develop grant reports.
• Develop budgets and oversee the revenue and expenditure tracking of grants and contracts.
Qualifications
• Five plus (5+) years of experience in food systems, agriculture, public health, nonprofit, or community-based work.
• Experience coordinating or managing projects involving multiple stakeholders.
• Strong organizational, financial and project management skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities.
• Experience with budget management including developing budgets and tracking systems and overseeing the revenue and expenditure tracking of grants and contracts.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to synthesize information clearly.
• Demonstrated professional and political aptitude and diplomacy.
• Demonstrated commitment to equity and community-centered approaches.
Preferred:
• Experience working with food assistance providers, farmers, and/or local food supply chains.
• Experience with grant writing and proposal development.
• Experience facilitating group processes, such as committees or community coalitions.
• Experience working with state or local government and elected officials.
• Familiarity with Prince George's County or the broader DC-MD-VA region.
• Experience working with or alongside local government.
• Bilingual (Spanish or other languages commonly spoken in the County).
Working Style
• Proactive, organized, and solutions oriented.
• Comfortable collaborating with volunteers and partner organizations to achieve goals.
• Able to navigate a dynamic environment with evolving priorities.
$60 - $60 an hour
Compensation
This is a contractor position estimated at 60-75 hours per month, depending on scope and available funding. This position is ongoing but contingent upon continued funding.
Location
Position is remote however requires local travel within the DMV and within Prince George's County, Maryland. Use of office space in the County is also available.
How to Apply
Applications should be submitted through IPHI on-line application system (Lever), accessible through IPHI's website or various job advertisement boards. Please submit a resumé and cover letter to complete your application for consideration. Your cover letter can be submitted under "Additional Information" as text or uploaded as one file together with your resumé. Please note only one file can be uploaded to apply, so the cover letter and resumé must be combined into a single PDF unless the cover letter is included in the Additional Information section.
IPHI is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, IPHI will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application process, please send an email to [email protected]. This email is only provided for accommodations requests; please do not send other emails regarding the status of your application.
We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet 100% of the qualifications and look forward to reviewing your application.
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