Food Works is Hiring!
Position: Market Manager, Community Farmers Market
Food Works is seeking a manager for the winter season Community Farmers Market. The Community Farmers Market takes place on Saturday mornings, December through March, in Carbondale, IL. Learn more at www.carbondalemarket.com.
Duties include:
Qualifications
The hourly commitment of this position varies from 12-20 hours a week and is compensated at $14-16/hour. Most work can be completed from home on the applicant’s preferred schedule, with the exception of Saturday mornings which typically requires availability from 7:15am-2pm. The Market Manger reports to the Executive Director.
This is a temporary, part time position, ending in April 2020. The position has the potential to expand, dependent on organization’s need and applicant’s interest.
To apply, send a brief letter of interest (no more than 1 page) and resume to Jennifer Paulson, Executive Director of Food Works, at jennifer@fwsoil.org.
Applications will be reviewed immediately and continue until the position is filled. Please direct questions to jennifer@fwsoil.org or (618) 370-3287 ext. 101.
Duties include:
- Coordinating market day logistics, including vendor communications, market setup & breakdown, collection of vendor fees, reimbursements to vendors for SNAP & Link Match programs, weekly record keeping and bank deposits, and enforcement of market policies.
- All marketing for the market, including creating and posting fliers, social media, email newsletters, and website updates.
- Answering inquiries about the market from the general public in person and via phone and email. Must be willing to use a smart phone.
- Ensuring compliance with all city, county, state, and federal regulations on the sale of food at farmers markets, and maintaining records of vendors’ liability insurance and any applicable licenses or certifications.
- Overseeing the SNAP & Link Match program and reporting on program usage.
- Supervising Market Assistant. The Market Assistant operates the SNAP/Link Match station at the farmers market, assists with set-up or break-down of the market, and may also assist with SNAP outreach.
- Organizing special events at the market, such as the Seed Swap, Plant Give Aways, Kids Day, etc. Special events typically provide a service to customers or encourage customer attendance.
- Communication with local media, including news releases, and interviews with local tv, radio, and print media.
- Recruiting new vendors to ensure a high quality, diverse and balanced offering of products.
- Additional duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Strong “people skills.” The market manager works with many different stakeholders, including farmers/vendors, customers, community groups, and funders.
- Ability to verbalize the importance of a strong local and sustainable food system
- Experience marketing through fliers, social media and other digital media preferred.
- Ability to maintain organized and detailed records of vendors, sales data, etc.
- Experience organizing volunteers or managing staff
- Familiarity with or willingness to learn MailChimp, Weebly, Dropbox, Canva, Basecamp, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Excel.
The hourly commitment of this position varies from 12-20 hours a week and is compensated at $14-16/hour. Most work can be completed from home on the applicant’s preferred schedule, with the exception of Saturday mornings which typically requires availability from 7:15am-2pm. The Market Manger reports to the Executive Director.
This is a temporary, part time position, ending in April 2020. The position has the potential to expand, dependent on organization’s need and applicant’s interest.
To apply, send a brief letter of interest (no more than 1 page) and resume to Jennifer Paulson, Executive Director of Food Works, at jennifer@fwsoil.org.
Applications will be reviewed immediately and continue until the position is filled. Please direct questions to jennifer@fwsoil.org or (618) 370-3287 ext. 101.
Contact Us:
Jennifer W.S. Paulson - Executive Director |
Phone: (618) 370-3287 ext 101
Email: jennifer (at) fwsoil.org |
Jennifer originally joined Food Works in 2017 to manage the indoor winter farmers market, spearhead Food Works' food access program, and coordinate the Southern Illinois Farming Alliance. Jennifer became executive director in 2018- Food Works' 10th year!
Paulson brings to Food Works over a decade of experience engaging stakeholders and coordinating projects using her skills in management and design. Before coming to Food Works, Jennifer worked at the Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin where she cared for thousands of objects of art and manuscripts, and managed and trained university students and volunteers. Paulson was also co-owner of Carsonhill Ceramic Studio, selling handmade pottery in farmers markets and art fairs thoughout the Austin area. She has also taught art and design courses in several universities and community colleges. Paulson relocated back to Southern Illinois in 2016 where she lives on a farmstead in Cobden. In addition to growing food with her family, she loves to paint and draw in her art studio, is a passionate home cook, and a strong believer in the importance of a robust local food economy.
Paulson earned a Master of Fine Arts at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Columbus College of Art and Design.
Paulson brings to Food Works over a decade of experience engaging stakeholders and coordinating projects using her skills in management and design. Before coming to Food Works, Jennifer worked at the Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin where she cared for thousands of objects of art and manuscripts, and managed and trained university students and volunteers. Paulson was also co-owner of Carsonhill Ceramic Studio, selling handmade pottery in farmers markets and art fairs thoughout the Austin area. She has also taught art and design courses in several universities and community colleges. Paulson relocated back to Southern Illinois in 2016 where she lives on a farmstead in Cobden. In addition to growing food with her family, she loves to paint and draw in her art studio, is a passionate home cook, and a strong believer in the importance of a robust local food economy.
Paulson earned a Master of Fine Arts at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Columbus College of Art and Design.
Sandra Sorensen - Co-Facilitator
Phone: (618) 370-3287
Email: sandy (at) fwsoil.org
Email: sandy (at) fwsoil.org
Sandra Sorensen is the Co-Facilitator in Farm Beginnings. Sandy is a farmer with a diverse background that includes horse racing, bookkeeping, shipping and receiving, entrepreneurship, and classroom teaching. She launched Sorensen Heritage Farm due to her personal convictions about the importance of animal health and welfare – an ethic she nurtured on the horse race track. When exploitation became the norm in the racing business, she left, taking her last horse with her. Sandy lives on her farm outside Thompsonville in Franklin County, Illinois where she raises Gloucestershire Old Spot heritage breed pigs from which she makes brats and sausage using an old family Kentucky recipe. She sells Sorensen Heritage Farm pork products at the Benton Farmers Market on Thursdays and at the Carbondale Farmers Market on Saturdays and by appointment.
Libby Ervin- Southern Illinois Farming Alliance Coordinator
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Libby joined Food Works as the SIFA Coordinator in 2019. Her and her husband Derek moved to Southern IL from Chicago in '17 after inheriting his Grandfathers Farm. They started their farm, Glaciers End in Johnston City, while taking the Food Works Farm Beginnings class. Since then, they have immersed themselves in everything they can related to farming, agriculture and networking in Southern IL. They started an orchard on their farm as well as trying to utilize as much as they can from their land. They are in several farmers markets throughout Southern IL as well as LEAF Food Hub. Libby has worked with Seniors and the Disabled for over 20 years and has experience in business, training, education and community outreach.
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Dayna Conner - Founder
Dayna has been an active good food advocate since 1998 and has experience as a Biointensive food production teacher, a small business director and child educator. She is the founder of the learning gardens at River Oaks Elementary in Austin, Texas, where she taught sustainable gardening to Pre-K through 5th grades. She is also co-founder and former executive director of the Green Corn Project urban food garden initiative in Austin.
Dayna lived most of her life in the central San Joaquin Valley in California and is the granddaughter of migrant farm workers. She believes that access to healthy food is a right of all people, and that the landbase - the water, topsoil, and all living communities that interact with them - should be protected at all costs. In establishing Food Works, Dayna created practical programs to ensure that food grown in Southern Illinois is produced and marketed in ways that respect and honor growers and the living communities of which they are a part. After working in the Carbondale community for 11 years and serving as Executive Director of Food Works since 2008, Dayna moved on in December 2014 and returned to California.
Dayna lived most of her life in the central San Joaquin Valley in California and is the granddaughter of migrant farm workers. She believes that access to healthy food is a right of all people, and that the landbase - the water, topsoil, and all living communities that interact with them - should be protected at all costs. In establishing Food Works, Dayna created practical programs to ensure that food grown in Southern Illinois is produced and marketed in ways that respect and honor growers and the living communities of which they are a part. After working in the Carbondale community for 11 years and serving as Executive Director of Food Works since 2008, Dayna moved on in December 2014 and returned to California.
Kathleen Logan Smith
Kathleen is a long time food and environmental activist. Most recently, she served as Executive Director of Food Works from 2014-2018. She has consulted on research on Missouri permitted livestock operations and conducted outreach to communities on local food systems. While serving as Environmental Policy Director for the Missouri Coalition for the Environment, she edited the 59-county, bi-state St. Louis Regional Food System Study which examined health, food, and farming with an aim to promote local, sustainable food in Missouri and Illinois. Prior to serving as Policy Director, she was Executive Director of MCE from 2006-2013 helping grow the organization and diversify its support. Her work in environmental advocacy revealed the links among soil health, water quality, human health and farm policy and prompted her to turn her attention to food systems.
Reanna Putnam
Reanna served as the Farmers Market Program Manager and Farming Alliance Program Specialist at Food Works. She was responsible for the operations of the Community Farmers Market (CCFM) and provided leadership, oversight and organization for the market. Reanna successfully built partnerships and secured funding for a double value incentive program at the Community Farmers bringing in new low-income customers and increasing SNAP sales at the market. Reanna also facilitated the Farming Alliance.
Reanna relocated to North Carolina in August 2017.
Reanna relocated to North Carolina in August 2017.