Community Food Educator

Serve as the lead educator for adults, families, and youth facilitating interactive food education classes.
Job Summary

The Community Food Educator teaches healthy cooking, nutrition, and food budgeting to people living on low incomes. This position serves as the lead educator for adults, families, and youth facilitating interactive classes, workshops, and community events that build confidence, celebrate diverse food traditions, and strengthen communities’ ability to access and prepare and enjoy nourishing foods within their local food environment.

60 % Classes:
Facilitate cooking/nutrition classes, workshops, demonstrations, and events using approved curriculum at community sites in the Seattle and King County area . Support youth and farm-based education as needed.

20% Planning:
Perform administrative work to support classes – order class materials, order and pick-up groceries, class dishes, administer survey assessments, enter and track data, complete reports in a timely manner.

10% Community Involvement:
Support partner sites in ongoing health and wellness through participant-led activities including cooking clubs, wellness clubs, cooking demonstrations, etc.

5%

Collaboration:

Coordinate with volunteers in delivering class lesson materials in alignment with Solid Ground’s antiracism approach.

5% Teamwork:
Participate in program, department, and agency meetings, as well as anti-racism work.

The duties listed above are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to the position. Solid Ground is an equal opportunity employer committed to workplace diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of gender, age, race and color, religion, marital status, national origin, disability or veteran status.