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About the Role
Seeking a creative relationship builder to strengthen farm viability and institutional local purchasing by building sustainable value chains between local farms, K-12 schools, food hubs, and other institutions. This role supports American Farmland Trust’s goals of keeping farmers on the land, protecting farmland, and promoting sound farming practices.
Responsibilities
- Lead planning and execution of the New York Farm to School Institute.
- Support the development of a structured process to provide farmers with resources and coaching for selling to institutions.
- Provide technical assistance to farmers and K-12 schools and other institutions interested in selling and purchasing local New York foods.
- Support design of workshops, trainings, and other professional development events.
- Build and coordinate a network of Institute alumni.
- Build and maintain relationships with farmers, food hubs, processors, distributors, school staff, and community organizations.
- Support the policy manager with farm to school/institution advocacy efforts in NYS.
- Develop evaluation metrics for educational tools and programs.
- Conduct light analysis on data following events and activities.
- Identify and assist with storytelling opportunities throughout the farm to institution value chain.
- Represent AFT at farm to institution workshops, coalition meetings, conferences, and training sessions.
Requirements
- Strong knowledge of institutional food procurement, local food purchasing, food distribution, agriculture business planning, school food service, farm to school, farm business technical assistance, and/or agricultural value chains.
- Experience providing technical assistance, coaching, or resource development to farmers and producers.
- Strong project coordination skills, including the ability to manage timelines, logistics, partner communication, and follow-through across multiple projects.
- Ability to work independently with remote supervision as well as collaboratively on multiple projects.
- Excellent communication skills, including written, verbal, and listening.
- Aptitude for meeting facilitation and potential for public speaking.
- A track record of developing and maintaining strong working relationships with and among a diverse group of stakeholders.
- Facility with Microsoft Office Suite.
- An intellectual curiosity, understanding, and enthusiasm for food systems and AFT’s mission.
Skills
- Technical assistance
- Coaching
- Resource development
- Project coordination
- Independent work
- Collaboration
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Listening skills
- Meeting facilitation
- Public speaking
- Relationship building
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Food systems understanding
- Grant writing
- Grant reporting
- Budget management
- Training design
- Training facilitation
- Data collection
- Data analysis
- Public outreach
- Community engagement
- Communications (digital and/or traditional)
- Social media understanding
- Storytelling
- Spanish language skills (intermediate)
Location
- Saratoga Springs, NY
Work Type
- Full Time
- Teleworking
Experience Level
- Experienced
- Minimum of 3 years of related work experience
Education Level
- BA or BS degree
Salary/Compensations
- $68,000.00 - $73,000.00 Salary/year
Benefits
- Medical & Prescription Coverage
- Dental Coverage
- Vision Coverage
- Company Paid Life Insurance & Long-Term Disability (LTD)
- Voluntary Life Insurance
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA) – Healthcare & Dependent Care
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- 401k Plan
- Sick Leave: 13 days per year
- Vacation Leave: 15 days increasing to 20 days per year
- Holidays: Twelve fixed holidays and a week between Christmas and New Years off
- Floating holidays
About the Company
- American Farmland Trust is the only national organization that takes a holistic approach to agriculture, focusing on the land itself, the agricultural practices used on that land, and the farmers and ranchers who do the work.
- Since its founding in 1980, AFT has helped permanently protect over 6.5 million acres of agricultural lands, advanced environmentally-sound farming practices on millions of additional acres and helped thousands of farm families make a go of it.
- AFT is now riding a new wave of growth, driven by agriculture’s most pressing needs and opportunities.
Equal Opportunity
- A diverse and inclusive work environment