Job Posting: Program Associate,
Double Up Food Bucks New York

Field & Fork Network is seeking a qualified individual to assist in the management of the Double Up Food Bucks program.

Double Up Food Bucks is an innovative way to encourage low-income consumers to use their federal food assistance (SNAP) benefits to purchase fresh produce. The project draws on a pool of funds raised from private foundations and federal funds to “match” purchases at participating markets and retailers. Currently, the program operates at farmers’ markets: when a customer uses their SNAP benefits at a farmers’ market, they receive an equal amount of tokens that can be used at the market to purchase any New York-grown fruit or vegetables.

This is a full-time position based in Buffalo. Some evening and weekend work will be required.

Program Associate Responsibilities

Working as part of the program team, the Program Associate will be responsible for:

• Assisting with managing the Double Up program in Western New York.
• Acting as the main point of contact for Double Up markets in Western New York.
• Assisting with training, marketing, token distribution, data reporting, and any other program operations.
• Ensuring that all markets have the resources they need to effectively operate the program.
• Assisting with developing partnerships with key agencies and organizations to help promote the program.
• Working with markets to facilitate partnerships and other promotional efforts.
• Assisting with evaluation and effectiveness of the program; customer survey, vendor survey, market manager survey and other qualitative and quantitative evaluation methods such as focus groups, etc.
• Delivering necessary routine and custom reports timely and accurately.
• Assisting with writing grants as needed in accordance with short term and long-term goals of the Double Up Food Bucks program.
• Performing other similar duties as assigned.

Education/Experience Requirement

• Minimum of having at least a bachelor’s degree.
• Minimum of two (2) years of successful experience working with community-based organizations and/or with SNAP clients in Western New York.
• Successful experience working as part of a multidisciplinary team and working effectively with persons from diverse backgrounds.
• A minimum of two (2) years of grant writing and reporting required.
• Demonstrate experience and commitment to creating a diverse and multicultural environment, both within an organization and in the community at large.

Core Competency/Skills Required

• Ability to represent the organization to a variety of stakeholders in a credible and influential way that focuses on the values of the organization.
• Excellent written and oral communications.
• Excellent analytic ability.
• Team-oriented, anticipatory, self-starter working style.
• Ability to think globally and focus on a large vision paired with the ability to develop and implement local programs that take specific steps toward realizing the vision.
• Problem solving skills, including the ability to think outside the box and to develop novel approaches to solving problems.
• Sound judgment and the ability to make complex, multidimensional decisions.
• Capacity to effectively use research and evaluation, especially for improving programmatic approaches.
• Accountability to goals and outcomes.
• High tolerance for ambiguity.
• Team effectiveness skills and the ability to use interpersonal and political skills in cooperative and diplomatic ways.
• Demonstrated proficiency with MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook.

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