Food Recovery Program: Campus Kitchen Advocate
(Title Code 4920, Student Assistant III)
Appointment: 10 hours/week
Compensation: $15 per hour
Appointment: February 26, 2018 to May 11, 2018
Application Deadline: 5PM, February 20, 2018
Applicants must be matriculated undergraduate students at UC Berkeley. Priority given to work study students. To apply, submit the following items by email as a single pdf to director@foodcollective.org with the subject line “Campus Kitchen Advocate”.
- Cover letter
- Résumé
- Contact information for 2 professional and/or academic references
Food Recovery Program:
The UC Berkeley Food Recovery Program was initiated by the Basic Needs Community in Fall, 2017 to coordinate existing food recovery efforts and collectively expand efforts to meet the scale of food waste and the need for free or affordable fresh produce and prepared food for food insecure students. The Basic Needs Community initiated a Food Recovery Coalition in Fall 2017 that has completed a strategic framework for launching a coordinated and at-scale food recovery program in Spring, 2018.
Basic Needs Security Committee
The UC Berkeley Basic Needs Security Committee and Program is a combined effort of undergraduates, graduate students, professional staff, faculty, administrators and community experts. We are united in a commitment to build and institutionalize support systems to secure food, housing, and wellness security of our campus community.
Berkeley Food Institute
The Berkeley Food Institute (BFI) seeks to transform food systems to expand access to healthy, affordable food and promote sustainable and equitable food production. We empower new leaders with capacities to cultivate diverse, just, resilient, and healthy food systems. We pursue our mission through interdisciplinary programs in education, research, policy, communications, and community engagement.
Berkeley Student Food Collective (community partner)
The Berkeley Student Food Collective works to provide healthy, sustainable, and affordable food for the East Bay community. A student-run grocery collective, the Food Collective is a local hub for both leadership development and food-related education for its members and patrons.
About the Position:
Critical to the development of an effective campus food recovery ecosystem is a centralized processing and distribution point. Several stakeholders on campus, including the Basic Needs Security Committee, the Berkeley Student Food Collective, and the Berkeley Food Institute, have identified a central Campus Kitchen as a key piece of infrastructure for campus processing and distribution of recovered food into edible prepared food for food insecure students. These organizations, in concert with a host of interested students and staff organized in the Food Recovery Coalition, are working on developing, advocating for, and creating a student-run kitchen using primarily recovered food waste that will distribute food on a progressive pricing scale.
This student position, directly supervised by staff at the Berkeley Student Food Collective, will act as a principal student representative, advocate, liaison, researcher, developer, storyteller, and visionary facilitating and assisting the creation of such a resource.
Responsibilities:
- Work closely with the Berkeley Student Food Collective Executive Director in organizing and facilitating a public working group developing a Campus Kitchen at UC Berkeley.
- Using provided resources, staff consultation, and original research, become familiar with operating models and best practices for campus kitchens, food recovery models, and student-operated organizations.
- Using provided resources, staff consultation, and original research, become familiar with the basic theory and history underlying existing UC Berkeley food security efforts.
- Attending public and private meetings (arranged in consult with student’s schedule) with various campus stakeholders, including—but not limited to—the Food Recovery Coalition, the Berkeley Student Food Collective Board of Directors, the Basic Needs Security Committee, Campus Environmental Health and Safety, and the ASUC Senate.
- Acting as a communications liaison between different campus stakeholders, including those mentioned above.
- Assisting in the development of business plans, operational guides, development/grant writing for the Campus Kitchen as needed.
Required Qualifications:
- Outstanding oral and written communication skills, particularly in regards to communications across diverse groups
- Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team
- Ability to work independently and to foresee, identify, and recommend solutions in the position’s areas of responsibility
- Strong attention to detail
- Comfort with creativity, innovation, and hard work
- Professionalism, courtesy, punctuality, and good humor
- Interest in food systems (experience not required)
- Interest and experience in public service and social equity, as core tenets of the UC Berkeley experience and the Food Recovery Coalition mission
Equal Employment Opportunity:
The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. For more information about your rights as an applicant, see: http://www.eeoc.gov/employers/upload/poster_screen_reader_optimized.pdf
For the complete University of California nondiscrimination and affirmative action policy, see:
http://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4000376/NondiscrimAffirmAct
Food Recovery Program: Campus Kitchen Advocate
(Title Code 4920, Student Assistant III)
Appointment: 10 hours/week
Compensation: $15 per hour
Appointment: February 26, 2018 to May 11, 2018
Application Deadline: 5PM, February 20, 2018
Applicants must be matriculated undergraduate students at UC Berkeley. Priority given to work study students. To apply, submit the following items by email as a single pdf to director@foodcollective.org with the subject line “Campus Kitchen Advocate”.
- Cover letter
- Résumé
- Contact information for 2 professional and/or academic references
Food Recovery Program:
The UC Berkeley Food Recovery Program was initiated by the Basic Needs Community in Fall, 2017 to coordinate existing food recovery efforts and collectively expand efforts to meet the scale of food waste and the need for free or affordable fresh produce and prepared food for food insecure students. The Basic Needs Community initiated a Food Recovery Coalition in Fall 2017 that has completed a strategic framework for launching a coordinated and at-scale food recovery program in Spring, 2018.
Basic Needs Security Committee
The UC Berkeley Basic Needs Security Committee and Program is a combined effort of undergraduates, graduate students, professional staff, faculty, administrators and community experts. We are united in a commitment to build and institutionalize support systems to secure food, housing, and wellness security of our campus community.
Berkeley Food Institute
The Berkeley Food Institute (BFI) seeks to transform food systems to expand access to healthy, affordable food and promote sustainable and equitable food production. We empower new leaders with capacities to cultivate diverse, just, resilient, and healthy food systems. We pursue our mission through interdisciplinary programs in education, research, policy, communications, and community engagement.
Berkeley Student Food Collective (community partner)
The Berkeley Student Food Collective works to provide healthy, sustainable, and affordable food for the East Bay community. A student-run grocery collective, the Food Collective is a local hub for both leadership development and food-related education for its members and patrons.
About the Position:
Critical to the development of an effective campus food recovery ecosystem is a centralized processing and distribution point. Several stakeholders on campus, including the Basic Needs Security Committee, the Berkeley Student Food Collective, and the Berkeley Food Institute, have identified a central Campus Kitchen as a key piece of infrastructure for campus processing and distribution of recovered food into edible prepared food for food insecure students. These organizations, in concert with a host of interested students and staff organized in the Food Recovery Coalition, are working on developing, advocating for, and creating a student-run kitchen using primarily recovered food waste that will distribute food on a progressive pricing scale.
This student position, directly supervised by staff at the Berkeley Student Food Collective, will act as a principal student representative, advocate, liaison, researcher, developer, storyteller, and visionary facilitating and assisting the creation of such a resource.
Responsibilities:
- Work closely with the Berkeley Student Food Collective Executive Director in organizing and facilitating a public working group developing a Campus Kitchen at UC Berkeley.
- Using provided resources, staff consultation, and original research, become familiar with operating models and best practices for campus kitchens, food recovery models, and student-operated organizations.
- Using provided resources, staff consultation, and original research, become familiar with the basic theory and history underlying existing UC Berkeley food security efforts.
- Attending public and private meetings (arranged in consult with student’s schedule) with various campus stakeholders, including—but not limited to—the Food Recovery Coalition, the Berkeley Student Food Collective Board of Directors, the Basic Needs Security Committee, Campus Environmental Health and Safety, and the ASUC Senate.
- Acting as a communications liaison between different campus stakeholders, including those mentioned above.
- Assisting in the development of business plans, operational guides, development/grant writing for the Campus Kitchen as needed.
Required Qualifications:
- Outstanding oral and written communication skills, particularly in regards to communications across diverse groups
- Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team
- Ability to work independently and to foresee, identify, and recommend solutions in the position’s areas of responsibility
- Strong attention to detail
- Comfort with creativity, innovation, and hard work
- Professionalism, courtesy, punctuality, and good humor
- Interest in food systems (experience not required)
- Interest and experience in public service and social equity, as core tenets of the UC Berkeley experience and the Food Recovery Coalition mission
Equal Employment Opportunity:
The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. For more information about your rights as an applicant, see: http://www.eeoc.gov/employers/upload/poster_screen_reader_optimized.pdf
For the complete University of California nondiscrimination and affirmative action policy, see:
http://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4000376/NondiscrimAffirmAct
