No Kid
Hungry Youth Ambassadors
Posting: Open
Hand Atlanta
Location: 181 Armour Dr. NE, Atlanta, GA 30324
No child should grow up hungry in the United States. By connecting kids in need with nutritious food, the No Kid Hungry campaign surrounds children with healthy food where they live, learn and play.
We’re ending childhood hunger by connecting kids to effective nutrition programs like school breakfast and summer meals. This work is accomplished through the No Kid Hungry network, made up of private citizens, public officials, nonprofits, business leaders and others providing innovative hunger solutions in their communities. These public-private partnerships work together to identify and eliminate the barriers that may prevent children from accessing existing food and nutrition resources.
Through the support of the Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation, Share Our Strength has created a program to involve college-aged Youth Ambassadors in the fight against childhood hunger by working with one of our No Kid Hungry community partners.
For the fall and spring program, Open Hand Atlanta will host one (1) Youth Ambassador who will assist in adapting cooking and nutrition education curricula to a virtual format, managing incoming cooking and nutrition education data for kids, teens, and families courses, and conducting formative research to learn more about the strengths and needs of community partners. There will also be opportunities for the Youth Ambassador to assist with in-person, physically distant Cooking Matters courses.
General:
The Cooking Matters program at Open Hand Atlanta is in the process of shifting in-person 6-week course programming to an online format. There are three long-term projects that will be included in this internship experience.
First, the Youth Ambassador will collaborate with Cooking Matters instructors remotely to adapt activities that exist in the face-to-face format to be interactive in a virtual format. This collaborative work will take place throughout the academic year in order to support the conversion of Cooking Matters for Kids, Teens, and Families curricula to online.
The Youth Ambassador will also assist with data tracking and management, with a focus on solidifying online attendance and engagement tracking for Cooking Matters Kids, Teens, and Families classes. This will be a collaborative project with the Open Hand Cooking Matters team and will directly influence the trajectory of data monitoring and management for Cooking Matters for Kids, Teens, and Families online format classes.
The third long-term project the Youth Ambassador will take on is that of formative evaluation of community partner locations that support kids, teens, and families programming. After receiving training in community assessment and formative research, the Youth Ambassador will be responsible for developing and implementing a formative evaluation plan. This evaluation will culminate in a written report of findings as well as a presentation of findings to the Cooking Matters team.
Includes:
Note: Weekly workload percentages are ranges due to shift in internship
focus from Fall 2020 to Spring 2021 semesters.
- Online curriculum and activities
development for kids, teens, families (25-50%)
- Online course data tracking &
monitoring, program data tracking/assistance (20-25%)
- Formative evaluation: community
mapping, qualitative research (5-35%)
- Website and social media content
development (20-25%)
- Cooking Matters for Kids/Teens/Families
course assistant: in-person opportunity (0-15%)
- No Kid Hungry/Share our Strength commitments & other administrative tasks
QUALIFICATIONS:
No Kid Hungry seeks enthusiastic undergraduate college students to join our program as Youth Ambassadors.
The ideal candidate will have:
·
A great
attitude and willingness to work on all kinds of projects
·
Interest
in hunger issues
·
Commitment
to working with diverse communities
·
Reliability,
responsibility, and a good work ethic
·
Good
customer service and interpersonal skills
·
Strong
organizational skills
·
Ability
to work independently
·
Familiarity
with social media
·
Familiarity
with virtual teaching and learning platforms
·
An
interest in program planning, implementation, and evaluation
·
Use of
personal laptop and mobile phone preferred
· Reliable access to a vehicle
Youth Ambassadors will receive a stipend of no more than $4500 for over the course of the fall and spring semesters, for a completion of 300 hours over two semesters. The program starts on October 23, 2020 and ends in May 15, 2021.
Youth Ambassadors will report to a national No Kid Hungry staff member and an Open Hand Atlanta staff member. Ambassadors will participate in weekly conference calls, complete a weekly report, and attend online training sessions throughout their term.
Interested applicants
should apply online at https://www.nokidhungry.org/youth-ambassadors