Institute for Public Health Innovation
As the public health institute serving the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia, the Institute for Public Health Innovation (IPHI) develops multi-sector partnerships and innovative solutions to improve the public’s health and well-being across the region. IPHI’s work strengthens health systems and policy, enhances conditions that promote health, and builds community capacity to ensure equitable health opportunities for all.
At IPHI, equity is a core part of how we approach public health. We are committed to ensuring that equity is institutionalized and operationalized within all our programs, policies, and practices.
The Prince George’s County Food Equity Council (FEC), formed in 2013, is a local food policy council that works to improve the County’s food system by supporting residents’ ability to grow, sell, and access healthy foods. The Institute for Public Health Innovation (IPHI) serves as FEC’s backbone organization and fiscal sponsor.
The 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:
● 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:
● 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:
● Track grant deadlines and develop grant reports.
● Develop budgets and oversee the revenue and expenditure tracking of grants and contracts.
Qualifications
● 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.
Preferred:
● Experience with grant writing and proposal development.
● Experience facilitating group processes, such as committees or community coalitions.
● 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).
Working Style
● Comfortable collaborating with volunteers and partner organizations to achieve goals.
● Able to navigate a dynamic environment with evolving priorities.
How to Apply
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