Program Coordinator - Denver, United States - Clayton Early Learning

Description

About the role:

The Healthy Food for Denver Kid's Program Coordinator will help us sustain and grow our Healthy Food for Denver Kid's grant by supporting the Seed to Stomach Initiative and the onsite Clayton Cares Market. The Program Coordinator will support with building strong relationships across team members and departments and become a trusted and valued partner in helping to advance the organization's mission and core values. This role will support the Healthy Food for Denver Kid's Program Manager with working alongside our health and wellness team and collaborate with staff across the organization to promote Clayton Cares Market hours, offerings, events, new partnerships, and Seed to Stomach Approach. The coordinator will support the Manager with building positive relationships with others to secure volunteers on a regular basis to help support the unloading of supplies, stocking of shelves, and market hours each week.

The Healthy Food for Denver Kid's Program Coordinator will execute the day-to-day operations of the market, facilitate food and supply deliveries, help to expand operations to new and valuable partnerships, and to support with the enhancement of the market experience. The coordinator will also support the development, implementation, dissemination, and expansion of the Seed to Stomach Approach. Ensuring that all activities, events, and partnerships are successful and have full engagement and support.

Who we are:

At Clayton Early Learning, we stand as an innovation hub dedicated to cultivating vibrant and equitable communities. Our mission revolves around collaborative partnerships with families, fostering a holistic approach to the early years through a commitment to the whole child and whole family. By actively engaging with families, we aim to uncover effective strategies, embrace continuous discovery, and lead the charge in advancing systemic change.

Our vision is rooted in the belief that by nurturing the foundation of early childhood, we contribute to the well-being and prosperity of individuals, families, and communities at large. Through our relentless pursuit of what works, we strive to create an enduring impact on the lives of children and families, setting the stage for a future of shared success and thriving communities.

What we want you to do:

• Assists in ordering the correct quantity of foods, ensure receiving, storing, and handling is performed according to established standards.
• Receives deliveries both on campus and throughout the Denver Metro Area.
• Reviews deliveries for invoice accuracy and report shortages.
• Monitors and reports receipt of items of unacceptable quality or condition.
• Responsible for storage of all food and non-food supplies to ensure compliance with recommended storage requirements, maintaining the cleanliness and organization of food storage areas, dating, and putting up delivery stock, and counting monthly physical inventory.
• Executes operations on market days, delivery days with the help of the Market Manager, staff, and volunteers.
• Collaborates with the marketing team on promotional materials, as needed.
• Partners with the Market Lead on coordination of orders for supplies.
• Supports the development, implementations, dissemination, and expansion of Clayton's Seed to Stomach Approach
• Support SNAP and WIC enrollment of Clayton and community families.
• Communicates and works with staff across the organization, trustees, and executive team members to secure the volunteers necessary to successfully run the market.
• Communicates regularly to staff and volunteers about needs and gaps, fosters relationships that will support the market, and supports in expanding the network that will ensure the long-term success of food distribution effort.
• Offers tours for potential partners and funders as needed/requested.
• Support with identifying market gaps and issues that need addressing and troubleshoots, collaborating with other departments to implement solutions.
• Support with recognizing staff and volunteers for their support of the market and Seed to Stomach Approach.
• Enforces standards of cleanliness, health, and safety.

What we are looking for and what you must have:

• Ability to communicate fluently in both English and Spanish preferred.
• Passionate commitment to and a sense of urgency for the importance of early childhood development and taking a whole-child, whole-family approach.
• Knowledge of local trends in food insecurity a plus, particularly as applied to children and families.
• Ability to manage multiple deadlines and prioritize accordingly.
• Minimum of 3+ years of experience working in similar roles, ideally at a mission-driven organization and/or in food insecurity.
• Solid writing and communications skills.
• Strong speaking and presentation skill set.
• Self-motivated and creative communicator. *
• Knows how to build cross-functional relationships and influence others across all levels and functions within an organization. *
• Motivated and resourceful self-starter who can proactively generate innovative ideas and partner with key stakeholders across the organization to come up with solutions.
• Technologically proficient (MS Office, G-suite, Airtable) with the ability to learn new systems.
• Must Pass a statewide background check and have a valid license.
• Ability to lift up to 50lbs.

The perks:

• 401k with 5% match
• 16 Company-paid days for Holidays
• Vacation and Sick time
• Medical, Vision, and Dental benets
• FSA Plans
• College Investment plans
• Identify theft and Protection plans
• A fun, dynamic, and exciting environment

Compensation:

• $20.19-$23.07 an hour

Our Core Values:

At Clayton we work to foster a community characterized by trust, dignity, love, and justice, with our children and families, our team members, and other partners on our campus and beyond. We see these values in action each and every day as they strengthen our Clayton community and our service to the children, families, and educators we serve.

Community-Community fosters belonging, resiliency, stability, and strength. We are committed to creating a caring, trauma-informed, professional community at Clayton and we are committed to being a positive member of the many communities we partner with and serve. Community means living the seven Sanctuary commitments: nonviolence, emotional intelligence, social learning, democracy, open communication, social responsibility, and growth and change.

Collaboration-Collaboration builds trust and relationships and brings new ideas, skills, and knowledge to help us do better work. We are committed to approaching our work as one team across Clayton. Collaboration means working across teams and departments and with our external partners.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging-Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging leads us to reflect the communities we serve and bring the widest variety of ideas and innovation to our work. We are committed to building and sustaining an organization centered on diversity, equity, and belonging. Diversity means building a team that is reflective of the world around us, in all aspects of our personal and professional backgrounds. Equity means recognizing that we need to provide different resources to meet different needs and circumstances that are often the result of systemic injustice; it is core to everything we do in service of our children and families and in how we work with each other. Inclusion refers to a community where all members are and feel respected and are able to participate and achieve their potential. A true sense of belonging means that everyone who enters the Clayton campus is valued for who they are and can meaningfully say "I belong here."

Growth- Growth allows us to develop as professionals and to provide the best services we can to the children, families, and educators we serve. We are committed to growing as individuals and as an organization. Growth means we are continually learning how to do our individual and collective work better and we adapt and evolve our programs and practices to reflect new learning and to meet changing needs.

Stewardship-Stewardship enables us to have the greatest impact we can with the resources we have. We are committed to being good stewards of our community and our resources. Stewardship means using our financial resources wisely and responsibly so that we can sustain our work into the future, taking care of our unique and beautiful campus so it can remain a resource for our community, and caring for our community and team and treating each other with respect and responsibility.

Fun-Fun reduces stress, keeps us motivated, builds connections, and models for our children the joy that can come with learning and working together. We are committed to having fun Fun means noticing and sharing things that bring us joy, being creative in our work, making connections with each other, and finding humor and hope in our work.

Clayton Early Learning is an equal opportunity employer that values workplace diversity. We strive to create an inclusive work place that embraces diverse backgrounds, life experiences, and perspectives. We prohibit discrimination of employees or applicants on the basis of race, creed, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual identity, sexual orientation, religious affiliation, disability, or any other classification considered discriminatory under applicable law.