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Practice Greenhealth

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11 - 50 employees

🍽️ Food & Beverage

💼 Consulting

🏗️ Construction

Food & Beverage • Consulting • Construction

Practice Greenhealth is the leading membership and networking organization for sustainable health care, delivering environmental solutions to hospitals and health systems across the United States and Canada. The organization promotes green and healthy healthcare facility design, energy efficiency, elimination of harmful chemicals, sustainable food systems, and waste reduction to minimize environmental impacts and foster sustainable healing environments. Practice Greenhealth offers resources such as sustainability benchmark reports, cost calculators, and a range of toolkits to help healthcare organizations improve their sustainability practices. They also facilitate events and awards to recognize and promote excellence in healthcare sustainability.

📋 Description

• Manage projects and activities related to food systems priorities within supply chain transformation and climate mitigation and resilience strategies • Promote and support health care organizations in making food purchasing and food service commitments that advance climate action • Manage health care commitment campaigns, including the Coolfood pledge, US Food Waste Pact, and values-based food purchasing commitment • Develop, update, and refine how-to guides, tool kits, checklists, webinars, and other resources • Engage Practice Greenhealth partners in implementing best practices in food purchasing, menus, and food service operations • Engage hospital staff, health professionals, food supply chain stakeholders, community food system partners, and allied organizations • Design and execute collective actions addressing climate mitigation, resilience, and equity • Develop annual workplans and implement strategies supporting program objectives • Support fundraising activities and maintain funder relationships • Build and manage relationships with food supply chain stakeholders, external partners, and coalitions • Advise hospital partners, troubleshoot barriers, and develop solutions • Develop presentations, resources, tools, and other promotional and implementation materials • Plan, facilitate, produce, edit, and deliver presentations, articles, blogs, press releases, newsletters, reports, webinars, and CleanMed conference content • Coordinate contracts and Memorandums of Understanding and manage project partnerships • Participate in budgeting, work planning, grant development, strategic planning, and program evaluation • Maintain partner activity and contact records in organizational databases and file management systems

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum BA or BS; combined experience/education may substitute • Minimum 3 years in project coordination in a nonprofit, government, consulting, or health care setting • Experience or expertise in food systems, nutrition, public health, and/or health care operations • Knowledge of climate change issues and impacts on health • Demonstrated knowledge of the intersection of climate change and food systems • Ability to implement annual workplans and manage time efficiently • Ability to collaborate effectively across the organization • Ability to work independently, stay organized, and track, measure, and achieve project goals • Experience managing internal and external relationships with multiple stakeholders • Ability to develop and implement advocacy campaigns and educational content and organize events • Good written communication and interpersonal skills • Ability to use Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Google Drive, and Google Documents • Previous knowledge of or ability to learn Slack • Relevant graduate study and/or certifications preferred • 4+ years of experience with institutional food purchasing, health care food service, and/or sustainability and equity in food systems preferred • Experience with matrix organizations, multiple teams, virtual organizations, nonprofit advocacy, or membership-based organizations preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Time-limited role through September 30, 2027 • Exempt status • 1 FTE position • Equal Opportunity Employer • Inclusive and culturally and ethnically diverse workplace commitment