Senior Manager of Nutrition and Food Initiatives

Senior Manager of Nutrition & Food Initiatives

About the role:

This supports nutrition and food initiatives for children, families, and community to promote Clayton's whole child, whole family approach. Oversee the Seed to Stomach activities, food procurement, distribution, budgeting and grant management. Manages partner relationships and services and continually grows and enhances offerings provided by the organization to support child and family wellbeing. Partners internally and externally to provide strategic leadership to realize the vision of the innovation hub for thriving children and families. Delivers a coordinated and coherent set of evidence-based services that meet the needs of families, while working in partnership with Clayton team members to ensure that our direct services are both meeting the needs of families while impacting systems change beyond the Clayton campus.

Who we are:

Clayton Early Learning is a leading nonprofit dedicated to providing children from birth to five with an exceptional start and empowering families for lifelong success. We directly serve approximately 500 children annually through our school, home-based programs, and community partnership sites. As a proud member of the Educare Learning Network and the Head Start community, we are deeply committed to providing high-quality early childhood education through a whole-child, whole-family approach. Our unique location on a 20-acre historic campus in Denver is the foundation for our strategic vision to become a thriving neighborhood center to serve the community more fully, addressing needs including food security and health care access. Our team of over 125 dedicated professionals works in a supportive environment of collaboration, innovation, and personal growth.

What the role involves:

Student and Family Services Partner Leadership

• In partnership with Director Team members, sets the strategic vision for food and nutrition initiatives on the Clayton campus and drives the partnership development and implementation plan to achieve Clayton's strategic goals
• Participates in a leadership role in campus planning processes to facilitate a coordinated service approach to enable children and families to thrive
• Reviews and evaluates Clayton Cares Market and manages contracts and contractor relationships
• Oversee grant invoicing and reporting, including weekly monitoring of procurement and spending
• Ensures culturally responsive and inclusive practices in service delivery models to enhance the strengths for students, families, and employees
• Oversees all aspects of the Clayton Cares Market; purchasing, inventory, procurement, and food safety and sanitation

Compliance Management

• Monitors and tracks goals for services and meets with stakeholders to review; analyzes and tracks the team's progress towards achieving federal, program and organization goals and objectives

 Functional Team Lead

• Builds and maintains relationships with internal and external stakeholders including families, partners and government entities
• Develops, implements, and monitors policies and procedures for the team; includes quality assurance processes and a focus on balancing empirical rigor and cost-efficiency; supports with enforcing guidelines and standards for all procedures
• Overseas and develops their team to build expertise; provides support and guidance on activities and workflow; provides regular performance feedback and establishes performance plans
• Represents the program in the community to enhance collaboration and advance the brand and reputation of the organization

What we are looking for and what you must have:

• Education: Bachelor's degree in nutrition or a related field
• Experience: 1-2 years of leadership experience
• Skills:
• Operates with a data driven mindset and uses data to drive learnings and continuous improvement for the organization
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to adjust style to communicate to diverse audiences
• Excellent leadership skills with the ability to build effective and credible relationships and lead a team; serve as a trusted partner within their team and the organization
• Highly developed project management skills with track record of strategic design and implementation that generate results
• Ability to build relationships, influence others with strong customer service and interpersonal skills; can relate to others from a variety of backgrounds
• Ability to identify and seek needed information/research skills; implements creative ways to solve problems while remaining calm in stressful situations
• Analytical thinking skills; can understand and perform intermediate level mathematical computations and analytical skills for assessment and evaluation
• Planning and creative skills; ability to create and deliver proposals and presentations independently
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite; ability to learn and adapt to new software
• Must be able to pass a comprehensive background check, including CBI/FBI fingerprinting, a physical and a national sex offender registry check
• Bilingual preferred

What we offer:

• 16+ paid company holidays
• Spring Break and Winter Break - up to 10 paid days off
• Accrued vacation time, starting at 10 days per year up to 30 days per year, based on years of service
• Paid sick time
• Medical, vision, and dental insurance coverage
• Life, AD&D insurance
• Mental health support through our medical coverage and our employee assistance program (EAP)
• Long-term disability coverage
• 401(k) with 5% employer match after 1 year of employment
• FSA plans
• College 529 investment plans
• Identify theft and protection plans

Compensation:

• $80,000-$85,000 annually

Clayton's Core Values

At Clayton Early Learning, we believe that our core values help to drive actions and create habits that allow our belief in the unlimited potential of young children to become a reality. We seek candidates who demonstrate our core values and are motivated by a values-driven environment.

• Collaboration builds trust and relationships and brings new ideas, skills, and knowledge to help us do better work.
• Community fosters resiliency, stability, and strength.
• Fun reduces stress, keeps us motivated, builds connections, and models joy for our children.
• Growth allows us to develop as professionals and provide the best service.
• Stewardship enables us to have the greatest impact with the resources we have.

Clayton Early Learning is an equal opportunity employer. We strive to create an inclusive work place that embraces life experiences, and perspectives. We prohibit discrimination of employees or applicants on the basis of race, creed, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual identity, sexual orientation, religious affiliation, disability, or any other classification considered discriminatory under applicable law