(3 Days Left) Community Nutrition Educator (CFHL) - Oroville, CA, Job ID 73625
Location: Oroville
Posted on: June 23, 2025
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Job Description:
Community Nutrition Educator (CFHL) - Oroville, CA, Job ID 73625
University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources Job
Description Community Nutrition and Health at UC ANR is a statewide
network of researchers and educators promoting healthy and
equitable communities for all Californians. Our shared goal is to
co-create public education and partner training programming to
advance community health across California. We collaborate with
local organizations and community leaders who share our goals to
advance community health and work to create changes across many
areas including individual behavior change, leadership capacity
building, organizational policy change, informing public policy,
and affecting systems or environmental change such workflows or
best practices within an institution. As a result of this work, our
vision is for all Californians to have access to live a healthy
life, free from chronic disease. As a core Community Nutrition and
Health statewide program, the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education
Program (EFNEP) provides community education classes for
income-eligible youth and adults which promote nutrition and
physical activity as a means of maintaining a healthy lifestyle
free from chronic disease. By focusing on improving diet quality,
increasing physical activity, assuring safe food-handling
practices, and strengthening food resource management skills, EFNEP
supports families with children to make meaningful healthy
lifestyle changes. EFNEP also partners with community stakeholders
to make changes to the surrounding community context known as
"policy, system, and environmental change efforts" which result in
deeper, long-term positive impact for even more youth and families.
EFNEP is federally funded by the United States Department of
Agriculture as part of a long-standing network of community-based
nutrition education programs across the country. As a core
Community Nutrition and Health statewide program, the CalFresh
Healthy Living, University of California program (CFHL, UC) offers
comprehensive evidence-based nutrition and physical activity
education, aligned with changes to the surrounding community
context known as "policy, system, and environmental change efforts"
in early childhood centers, schools and community environments.
Services are provided in 34 counties with 1,600 volunteers known as
"extenders" (trained teachers, afterschool staff, community
members). The majority of CFHL and UC participants are preschool
and school aged youth and their families. The CFHL, UC program also
works with SNAP-Ed eligible adults, seniors, and other priority
populations. By aligning community education with policy, systems
and environmental change strategies, CFHL, UC creates long-lasting
community impact. CFHL, UC is federally funded by the United States
Department of Food and Agriculture as part of the Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program's Education network (SNAP-Ed) across
the country. Join our statewide and national networks of nutrition
and health educators who receive high-quality training and hands-on
support so that together we can make a positive difference in our
communities. This position's primary foci are to conduct, manage,
and evaluate a nutrition education program to create a healthier
school and community environment. The Community Education
Specialist 2 position will perform the full range of program
implementation duties. Incumbent will coordinate, manage, and
deliver nutrition education with community-based adults and/or
youth in partnership with local public health and community
organizations. This includes training, guiding, and supporting
schoolteachers who volunteer to support health education in their
classes by providing them with education, information and
resources; evaluating program implementation; collecting and
compiling enrollment information, assuring proper documentation,
collecting evaluation data from teachers and participants;
performing data entry for reporting; and writing reports in
compliance with funding requirements. The Community Education
Specialist 2 will build and maintain an informal network of
partners, align nutrition education projects with approved
curricula and educational materials, develop news releases and news
articles, and maintain knowledge and competence about the subject
matter. This position is a career appointment that is 100% fixed.
Pay Scale: $19.92/hour to $26.48/hour Job Posting Close Date: This
job is open until filled. The first application review date will be
10/25/2024. 50% - Deliver lessons using adult and/or youth
engagement techniques in alignment with the UC-approved curricula
and activities. Lesson delivery includes preparing and implementing
activities such as demonstrating food preparation using recipes,
physical activity, gardening techniques, and/or other
learner-centered activities. - Extend education to community
partners and/or program participants on using the skills and
knowledge they gained in class to recommend positive changes within
their working and living environments. Promote, facilitate, or
advocate for changes in the surrounding community context known as
"policy, system, and environmental change efforts" designed to
create a healthier community environment. 25% - Recruit, train, and
provide support for community organizations and school
representatives who act as volunteers to deliver UC approved
curricula and activities. May participate in hiring and recruitment
for other educator positions. May co-deliver programming with a
partner to model class enrollment procedures, lesson delivery, and
evaluation activities. - Review evaluation data when completed by
volunteers to ensure minimum evaluation requirements are achieved.
Make recommendations to volunteers to ensure participant success.
Complete required documentation of enrollment and evaluation for
reporting purposes. Prepares all reports as necessary for
documenting program accomplishments. - May provide language
translations of class materials and/or simultaneous interpretation
during classes into preferred language of participant population,
as well as develop and share culturally relevant examples to
enhance the effectiveness of the educational experience. 15% - Meet
with local partners (i.e., community leaders, school
administrators, teachers, parent educators) to discuss the delivery
of lessons to their students and clientele. Assist in developing
outreach plans to ensure all eligible racial/ethnic groups have
received information regarding program education opportunities and
are welcome to participate with inclusive program practices. -
Develop collaboration with other programs to coordinate outreach
efforts. Attend community events and serve as representative and
ambassador for the program. Maintain appropriate records to track
the partnership activity, collaboration, and related community
events. 10% - Work as a team member to develop annual work plans,
manage volunteers, share recommendations for improvement, and coach
partner agencies to make healthy changes in their organizations. -
May provide leadership and mentoring to interns, new staff,
volunteers, and/or other educators, including working with them to
assess the successes and challenges of lesson delivery.
Requirements: - Knowledge of community education, community
engagement, teaching and/or facilitation best practices. -
Proficient in use of Windows-based computer with knowledge of
Microsoft Office programs (Excel, Word, PowerPoint). - Experience
working with a diverse youth, adult and/or volunteers, including
diversity in age, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender
identity, and/or physical and ability/disability). - Experience
working with underserved populations. - Familiarity with schools
and community-based agencies in the local area serving lower-income
youth and adults. - Thorough and effective verbal, written, and
interpersonal communication skills and presentation skills to work
in large and small groups, give presentations and organize
activities. Preferred Skills: - Bilingual communication/translation
abilities in English and Spanish/Hmong/Mandarin/Vietnamese or other
language spoken in the community. - Knowledge of community
education and or teaching practices. - Working knowledge of
conducting needs assessment to understand community strengths,
interests, and priorities. Special Conditions of Employment: - Must
comply with regulatory agency reporting requirements (California's
Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act). - Travel, including travel
outside normal business hours, may be requested. Reimbursement of
job-related travel will be reimbursed according to University
policies. - Must possess valid California Driver's License to drive
a County or University vehicle. Ability and means to travel on a
flexible schedule as needed, proof of liability damage insurance on
vehicle used is required. Reimbursement of job-related travel will
be reimbursed according to University policies. - The University
reserves the right to make employment contingent upon successful
completion of the background check. This is a designated position
requiring a background check and may require fingerprinting due to
the nature of the job responsibilities. UC ANR does hire people
with conviction histories and reviews information received in the
context of the job responsibilities. - As of January 1, 2014, ANR
is a smoke- and tobacco-free environment in which smoking, the use
of smokeless tobacco products, and the use of unregulated nicotine
products (e-cigarettes), is strictly prohibited. To apply, please
visit:
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