Food Systems Senior Coordinator

Role Description

The Prince George’s County Food Equity Council (FEC) is seeking a part-time Food Systems Senior Coordinator to support and help manage a portfolio of initiatives spanning food access, local agriculture, and community-based food system efforts. This role combines coordination and project management, with responsibility for maintaining momentum across key priorities, supporting partner engagement, and ensuring consistent follow-through across the Council’s work.

Primary Responsibilities

• Cross-Project Coordination and Project Management:
  • Plan, implement and monitor projects or programs including defining scope, deliverables and milestones while allocating resources, budgets and timeliness accordingly.
  • Manage day-to-day communications, meetings, and follow-ups across initiatives.
  • Maintain work plans and track progress across FEC priorities, ensuring alignment with timelines and deliverables.
  • Identify and help problem-solve gaps, delays, or coordination challenges across initiatives.
  • Provide guidance and coordination support to partner staff working on related food system efforts.
  • Encourage alignment across projects and partners.
• Communications and Administrative Coordination:
  • Serve as a spokesperson for the FEC and actively participate in local and regional food system-focused coalitions and working groups.
  • Develop testimony and draft legislation in collaboration with County Council members, partners and Steering Committee members as needed and testify at hearings.
  • Oversee routine communications, including partner updates, announcements, and listserv management.
  • Maintain website content and shared communication platforms.
  • Ensure organized systems for documents, contacts, and internal tracking.
• Fundraising and Resource Coordination:
  • Lead fundraising efforts, including proposal development, donor tracking, outreach, and coordination.
  • Track grant deadlines and develop grant reports.
  • Develop budgets and oversee the revenue and expenditure tracking of grants and contracts.

Qualifications

• Five plus (5+) years of experience in food systems, agriculture, public health, nonprofit, or community-based work.
• Experience coordinating or managing projects involving multiple stakeholders.
• Strong organizational, financial and project management skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities.
• Experience with budget management including developing budgets and tracking systems and overseeing the revenue and expenditure tracking of grants and contracts.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to synthesize information clearly.
• Demonstrated professional and political aptitude and diplomacy.
• Demonstrated commitment to equity and community-centered approaches.

Requirements

• Experience working with food assistance providers, farmers, and/or local food supply chains.
• Experience with grant writing and proposal development.
• Experience facilitating group processes, such as committees or community coalitions.
• Experience working with state or local government and elected officials.
• Familiarity with Prince George’s County or the broader DC-MD-VA region.
• Experience working with or alongside local government.
• Bilingual (Spanish or other languages commonly spoken in the County).

Benefits

• $60 - $60 an hour
• This is a contractor position estimated at 60–75 hours per month, depending on scope and available funding.
• This position is ongoing but contingent upon continued funding.

Location

• Position is remote however requires local travel within the DMV and within Prince George's County, Maryland.
• Use of office space in the County is also available.

How to Apply

Applications should be submitted through IPHI on-line application system (Lever), accessible through IPHI’s website or various job advertisement boards. Please submit a resumé and cover letter to complete your application for consideration. Your cover letter can be submitted under "Additional Information" as text or uploaded as one file together with your resumé. Please note only one file can be uploaded to apply, so the cover letter and resumé must be combined into a single PDF unless the cover letter is included in the Additional Information section.

IPHI is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, IPHI will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application process, please send an email to [email protected] . This email is only provided for accommodations requests; please do not send other emails regarding the status of your application.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet 100% of the qualifications and look forward to reviewing your application.

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