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Summary:
The Assistant Director, Neighborhood Resilience will support CCSJ’s efforts to foster leadership and community outreach strategies in the areas of food equity, corridor local purchasing and promotional efforts, and sustainability/climate and environmental justice. The Assistant Director will also support a York Road Community Day program in building positive social networks and community building along the York Road corridor. The Assistant Director will support the Associate Director, Neighborhood Resilience in maintain operations of the Govans Farmers Market (GFM) site and a future pop-up retail space.

Advise the CCSJ team in regards to food recovery and access, sustainability, and climate resilience.

Work with CCSJ’s Assistant Director for Student Leadership to develop and implement a student leadership network for nutrition education, food recovery, and food distribution opportunities (including oversight of the Govans Community Fridge, volunteering with Soul Kitchen, and other produce access programs). Supervise CCSJ interns responsible for planning York Road Community Days (Saturday afternoons of neighborhood-based service for greening and youth recreation activities). Participate in CCSJ student intern selection, training and evaluation. Meet bi-weekly with each student interns to provide oversight and guidance regarding partnerships, program administration, job responsibilities and racial justice learning (guides personal and professional development). Conduct performance evaluations.

Operational and programmatic oversight of the Govans Farmers Market (GFM) site
Work with staff from the Office of Sustainability, CCSJ’s Associate Director of Programs, national service members, and the Govans Farmers Market Manager to support activities and events tied to food, sustainability/climate, and environmental justice. Support efforts around an emerging community composting program located on-site. Maintenance the Govans Community Fridge shelves and refrigerator. Support the Govans Farmers Market Manager with logistics for summer youth programming around the GFM and urban agriculture.

Advise student programs around local purchasing and promotion of the York Road commercial corridor
Advise student leadership promotional activities for the buy and support local efforts tied to the GFM and the York Corridor Business Improvement District Management Authority, including an emerging campus-wide student network for the effort. Support the Associate Director, Neighborhood Resilience in developing and maintaining a retail pop-up space in the reception area of a new community-university space in the university’s Public Safety building, including vendor and product curation.

Partnership Management and Community Relations
The Assistant Director will also maintain Loyola’s relationships along the York Road corridor, including providing administrative support for the York Road Partnership Public Spaces and Greening Committee and serving as Loyola’s representative on the Friends of Dewees Park. Meetings and events will require some weekend and evening work. Role will serve as a Transform Mid-Atlantic AmeriCorps VISTA supervisor and will attend related meetings, as needed.

The Assistant Director will also participate in other regional and national associations and networks relevant to their program portfolio.

Performs all other duties and responsibilities as assigned or directed by the supervisor. This may include attendance of and participation in required training for role.

Passion for food, nutrition, and/or environmental programs required. Ability to develop collaborative relationships within and between university and community partners preferred. A successful candidate will be a resourceful, creative thinker, with confidence to achieve impactful results. Proficient with Microsoft Office. Ability to work with diverse populations, with strong sensitivity to racial, cultural and economic diversity. Ability to support the mission and values of a Catholic Jesuit education, as well as University goals for institutional diversity. Flexibility to work weekends and evenings is required. Bachelor’s degree and 5-8 years of relevant experience required.

Experience or demonstrated interest in anti-racism or racial justice work preferred. 5-8 years’ experience working in a community engagement/volunteer program setting preferred.

Loyola University Maryland is a Jesuit, Catholic university committed to the educational and spiritual traditions of the Society of Jesus and to the ideals of liberal education and the development of the whole person. Accordingly, Loyola inspires students to learn, lead, and serve in a diverse and changing world. Loyola’s beautiful, historic Evergreen campus is located in Baltimore, and its graduate centers are in Timonium and Columbia. Loyola enrolls 4,000 undergraduate and 2,000 graduate students across the Sellinger School of Business and Management, the School of Education, and Loyola College of Arts and Sciences. Founded in 1852, Loyola is one of 27 Jesuit colleges and universities in the United States and the first to bear the name of Saint Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus.

Loyola University Maryland strongly values the benefits that diversity brings to the workplace. In accord with its Ignatian values, the University is committed to creating and promoting a community that recognizes the inherent value and dignity of each person. Loyola University Maryland does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, national or ethnic origin, age, religion, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, military status, or any other legally protected classification. The University recruits, hires, and promotes in accord with this policy and its Core Values.

Successful candidates for any staff, faculty, or administrative position at Loyola University Maryland will be subject to a pre-employment background check. Note: In some cases, experience and/or education may be substituted for requirements.