Fwd: Job Opening: Kellogg Foundation, Program Officer, Food & Community
Esperanza Pallana
Program Officer, Food & CommunityThe W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Battle Creek, MichiganEXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation, a leading philanthropic force helping communities create the conditions children need to thrive and the nation’s fifth largest foundation, is seeking nominations and applications for the position of Program Officer for the Food & Community portfolio. In recent years the foundation has sharpened its focus on improving conditions for vulnerable children, concentrating on three key factors of success and their intersections: education and learning; food, health and well-being; and family economic security. Across these areas, the Foundation has committed to seek opportunities to promote racial equity and healing, build a critical mass of engaged, diverse community leaders, and expand the reach and influence of the philanthropic community.
The Program Officer will identify and nurture opportunities to meet the good food needs of children and families throughout the life course, including mother’s milk or First Food, Early Food, School Food and Community Food. S/he will lead and oversee on-the-ground execution of program efforts to support improved local and regional food systems, to increase access to healthy, fresh, locally sourced food and physical activity environments, and to fuel a national healthy living movement. The Program Officer will develop and steward partnerships with other foundations, policymakers and stakeholders in agriculture, public health, economic development, education and community organizations across the country that are mobilizing to create new opportunity structures that benefit vulnerable children and families. Specifically, s/he will screen and recommend grants for funding; prepare funding documents; conduct site visits; manage and monitor a grant portfolio; and provide high-level technical assistance to grantees, including consultation on model development, partnership negotiations, leadership capacity building, and coaching.