[Community_garden] Call for Applicants - Race & The Food System Lead Editor/Consultant‏

[Diane Dodge]

FYI -------- Please circulate widely!!  Thanks from GFJI (The Growing Food and Justice for All Initiative)  Hello All, Please see the announcement below  for a positioning opening within the Growing Food and Justice for All initiative. We are looking for a lead editor/consultant to manage the creation of an online feature entitled, Race & The Food System, for the WHY Food Security Learning Center.  Applications are due by Monday, April 14th by 12:00 pm Eastern time and should be sent to jeanette at foodsecurity.org.  A subcommittee of GFJI will review the applications, propose a candidate to the education & steering committees for feedback and finalize a decision by Monday, April 21st.Please feel free to share this announcement with other list serves or individuals whom you think might be interested. (You may want to change/personalize this introduction.)  Thank you, Jeanette, Will, Rod & Maureen (GFJI Race & The Food System hiring sub committee)_______________________________________________________________ [REQUEST FOR APPLICANTS Lead Editor/Consultant for the Race & The Food System Project Sponsored by the Growing Food & Justice for All Initiative (GFJI) and in collaboration with the World Hunger Year (WHY) Food Security Learning Center.  Applications Due: Monday, April 14th t at 12:00 Central Project Time Frame: April 21, 2008 – September 18, 2008  GFJI is seeking a Lead Editor/Consultant manage the creation of an online feature entitled, Race & The Food System, for the WHY Food Security Learning Center. The purpose of this project is to bring to light a deep understanding of the relationship between race and the food system and to enhance the mission of GFJI.  GFJI aims to dismantle racism and empower low-income and communities of color through sustainable and local agriculture. GFJI views dismantling racism as a core principal which brings together social change agents from diverse sectors working to bring about new, healthy and sustainable food systems and supporting and building multicultural leadership in impoverished communities throughout the world.  The Race & The Food System Lead Editor/Consultant will: · Work collaboratively with WHY contact and with GFJI special committee on all aspects of project implementation. · Report to GFJI Steering Committee on a monthly basis on project progress. · Select and facilitate consultants to write specialized background papers as needed. · Work with content writers ensuring input from a broad base. · Ensure consistency and integration with the WHY Food Security Learning Center. · Develop, collate, and finalize text and edits for web site content.  Desired skills and experience: · Excellent writer and editor. · Deep understanding of food systems, community food security, and dismantling racism analyses. · Experience working with people of color and diverse, multi-cultural communities. · Ability to work collaboratively with a team and to integrate various perspectives. · Website communication and technological experience. · Ability to work virtually from home office and meet the timeline outlined below.  Compensation for project implementation will range from $4,000-$6,000 over the five-month period based on use of consultants for background papers and determined in the initial phases of work plan development.  To apply for Lead Editor/Consultant position, please send a cover letter, resume and brief writing sample that highlights your skills in this area to the GFJI contact listed below by Monday, April 14th by 12:00 pm Eastern time. Please include two references.  GFJI Contact: Jeanette Abi-Nader, jeanette at foodsecurity.org OR 1648 Brandywine Drive, Charlottesville, VA 22901. Please call with questions at 434-973-4435.  Background:   What is the Food Security Learning Center? The goal of the Food Security Learning Center (FSLC) is to provide tools to build a food secure world that is sustainable and healthy for all people, communities, and the environment. We are concerned with the health and livelihood of the farmers, the field workers, the processors, and all of us – everyone who eats. The FSLC's major focus is food system change – from the local to the global. We support strong, sustainable, local and regional food systems that ensure access to affordable, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food for all people at all times. Through comprehensive topics, searchable databases, news, alerts, and other special features, the FSLC provides ways to get informed and involved in food system change. From getting local food into school meals to promoting farmers’ markets in food insecure communities, the FSLC offers blueprints and examples of models that work.  Project:   'Race & the Food System' Cross-Cutting Topic for FSLC Website  Proposed website elements: · Introduction that lays out connections between race, social justice and the food system, institutional racism and its influence on the food system from farm to plate.  · Backgrounder(s), such as the historical relationship between elements of the food system and people of color could include: contributions of African-Americans, First Nations and Latinos to sustainable agriculture, the black farmer lawsuit, etc.  The Lead Editor/Consultant could work with outside experts to write the backgrounders. · Information that gives insight into the relationship between race and other FSLC topics (e.g., Domestic Hunger, Nutrition). · Lessons from the field: Best practices, program profiles +/or models on how to bring diverse populations into the food security movement. Include lessons that have been learned by those on the frontlines of doing this work. · Policy Initiatives, Actions, Solutions (e.g., FFPP Diversity Initiative) · Resource section with references to leading groups working in communities of color. Also links to research and other social justice groups (beyond CFS-type groups). · Glossary that clarifies the distinction between oppression (isms, such as racism) and diversity. Include definition of racism and principles of dismantling racism. · Available for GFJI publication if desired.  Content Format: Created in Word (other program as approved) to be posted on web. (Can be similar to other FSLC topics but not tied to that format)  Timeline: Start by April 21, 2008 Outline done by May 19, 2008 Draft by August 1, 2008 Completed by September 15, 2008 
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