Prevention Education and Outreach Coordinator Junior Garden and Food Clinic

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A career at Children's Colorado will challenge you, inspire you, and motivate you to make a difference in the life of a child. Here, it's different.

The Junior Prevention, Education and Outreach Coordinator learns to facilitate, coordinate, implement, and evaluate prevention and community-based outreach programs at Children's Hospital Colorado (CHCO), specific to the Healthy Roots Food Clinic and Garden. The Junior Coordinator supports programming by prescribed coordination of Food as Medicine initiatives, including site-specific work in the food clinic and the community garden.

Department Name: HP Community Health
Job Status: full time, 40 hours per week.
Shift: Garden season 7am to 3pm and off season 9am to 5pm

• EDUCATION - High School Diploma.
• EXPERIENCE - Two years of experience coordinating and implementing preventing and education initiatives that help address social determinants of health.

1 year of experience working or interning in a farming environment, master gardener, horticulturalist or equivalent agricultural training preferred. Knowledge of food safety, organic growing practices, succession planting, crop rotation, and integrated pest management preferred

CERTIFICATION(S) - Civil Rights Training (Issued by Food Bank of the Rockies). Food Safety Training (Issued by Food Bank of the Rockies). Food safety training from the Produce Safety Alliance- Grower Training. Trainings must be completed after hire.

LANGUAGE - Bilingual Spanish/English

POPULATION SPECIFIC CARE
No direct patient care.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
An employee in this position may be called upon to do any or all of the following essential functions. These examples do not include all of the functions which the employee may be expected to perform.

* Coordinates program specific outreach and events, as prescribed, and maintains program branding materials including brochures and websites.

* Serves as liaison between program, department, CHCO and community partners.

* Supports development and implementation of population health programs based on community benefit strategic plan, including activities designed to improve health, safety, and family education/empowerment.

* Actively trains and develops prevention, education, and outreach skillsets and progressively becomes responsible for more complex duties and responsibilities.

* Participates in local, state, regional and national efforts related to issues identified by the CHCO community health needs assessment.

* Assists in daily operations of the food clinic to include (but not limited to) food procurement, organization, and distribution

* Assists with the daily operations of the garden during the growing season (planting, crop maintenance, irrigation, pest management, harvesting, storage, monitoring production plan, overseeing internal and external volunteers, provide tours and host events, host garden programming sessions with internal clinics, maintain food safety best practices, and coordinate the distribution of harvest to the Food Clinic). Role requires exceptional attention to detail to maintain a safe, welcoming, and inclusive garden environment.

* Garden off-season: assists with production plan evaluation and creating production plan for following year, based on high-yield production practices and utilizing succession planting. Assists with garden strategy work, development of therapeutic horticulture program, and garden volunteer program.

* Helps the garden implement Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) that align with the Produce Safety Rule within the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and maintains compliance with all internal and external compliance requirements.

* Interest in working with pediatric populations and sharing passion of gardening and nutrition with patient families and team member

SCOPE AND LEVEL

Guidelines: Trains in the field and assists higher level personnel to acquire learning through practical experience.

Complexity: Performs routine and/or basic tasks common to the field. Procedures, methods, and techniques to be used are well established with options to be considered well defined. Tools, work aids, and materials to be used are specified.

Decision Making: Decisions or recommendations on non-standardized situations are limited to relating organizational policies to specific cases. Brings non routine issues to supervisor. Problems that are not covered by guidelines or are without precedent are taken up with the supervisor.

Communications: Contacts with the public or employees where factual information relative to the organization or its functions are received, relayed, or a service rendered according to established procedures or instructions.

Supervision Received: Under close supervision, the employee receives training to develop skills and abilities in a specific line of work or general occupational area. Work product is subject to close, continuous inspection.

Ability to Perform Essential Functions of the Job

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

Audio-Visual: Hearing: Good

Audio-Visual: Near Vision: Good

General Activity: Sit: 2-4 hrs. per day

Weight Lifted/Force Exerted: Up to 10 pounds: 1/3 or more of time

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Mental and Emotional Requirements: Independent discretion/decision making.

Mental and Emotional Requirements: Makes decisions under pressure.

Mental and Emotional Requirements: Manages stress appropriately.

Mental and Emotional Requirements: Works with others effectively.

It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. Be aware that none of the questions are intended to imply illegal preferences or discrimination based on non-job-related information.

The position is expected to stay open until the posted close date. Please submit your application as soon as possible as the posting is subject to close at any time once a sufficient pool of qualified applicants is obtained.

Colorado Residents: In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.

Here, you matter. As a Children's Hospital Colorado team member, you will receive a competitive pay and benefits package designed to take care of your needs that includes base pay, incentives, paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, company provided life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, 403b employer match (retirement savings), a robust wellness program, and access to professional development tools, including an education benefit to help you advance your career.

As part of our Total Rewards package, Children's Colorado offers an annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance. If organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April.

Children's Colorado delivers annual base pay increases to eligible team members based on their performance over the previous year.