To be a Campus Coordinator, you need to be:

• At any post-secondary school in Winnipeg, Toronto, Stratford or Perth (ON) and applying to lead this work on the campus that you are studying at.
• A student leader with demonstrated involvement on campus and in community.
• Knowledgeable or seriously interested in food security issues and experiential learning (a general term referring to applied student research, community-service learning or field placements)
• Excited about working with everyone from students to low-income community members, from professors to Deans, and from community organizations to food service companies.
• A good communicator and facilitator. You don’t need to have the loudest voice in the room, but you do need to know how to explain projects to people in very different situations than your own, and you need to be good at leading meetings and building trusting relationships.
• Solutions focused. You are dedicated and creative in finding ways to reach the best results for everyone at the table.
• Available and able to commit for a full school year. This position runs from September 2014- May 2015, including the fall and winter semesters (part-time, at least 7 hours per week per coordinator, an honorarium to be offered), with the possibility of full-time paid employment during the summer. It will require availability for regular involvement at the local Community Food Centre, regular meetings on campus with students and monthly Campus-Community Food Centres Project network video-conferences. Participation in conferences and other events will be strongly encouraged. Please consider carefully whether you can make this time commitment before applying.

As a Campus Coordinator, you will work as a team to:

• Build relationships with Community Food Centre (CFC) Staff and the communities they work with: understand the organization and community through directly working in diverse program areas; work with CFC staff to identify opportunities for applied student research, placements and volunteer roles that could help fulfill an organizational or community need; and liaise between student-volunteers and Community Food Centre staff to ensure that the partnership is mutually beneficial.
• Recruit and coordinate student volunteers to get involved with the CFC: work with professors and academic staff to set up research projects and field placements within existing course structures. These classes may be on a wide range of subjects from a variety of disciplines, as long as they meet the priority needs identified by the CFC. Once these course tie-ins have been identified, you will facilitate student involvement at the CFC.
• Organize one Campus-CFC Outreach event/campaign in Fall 2014: collaborate on an event/campaign with CFC staff that builds a tangible link to the local CFC on campus, and gets key campus stakeholders and students excited about the work being done in the community. This keystone event could take on the form of an advocacy campaign focused on raising awareness about policies that keep people hungry, a food skills-building workshop on campus, a good food fundraiser or, even better, a combination of all of those--- the sky is the limit!
• Host one Key Campus & Community Partners’ Celebration in Spring 2015: work throughout the year to build relationships with key people who could provide support in sustaining partnerships with the CFC. Invite them to come together to celebrate all that has been achieved, reflect and assess project impacts on both the campus and the CFC, and create a vision for what still can be achieved. Key contacts will include CFC staff, community members, professors, administrators, student union representatives, student volunteers, placement students, and other engaged members of the student food movement. By convening these diverse stakeholders in the same place, you will be helping to bridge the gap between the campus and community and linking up a network of champions that could sustain the campus-community relationship beyond the term of the project.
• Assess Opportunities to Apply CFC Model and Approach to Campus: the group you gathered will also be asked to work with campus stakeholders on exploring the opportunities of applying the CFC model to campus. Since food security is a real issue on campuses as well as in communities, there is value in engaging this network in an evaluation of whether and how the CFC model could be applied to campuses. By the end of the year, you will draw on CFC staff experience, expertise and advice to develop a set of recommendations to support better responses to food security within your campus community.

As a Campus Coordinator you will receive:

• Resources for every step of the way, including detailed toolkits, precedents from other campuses, webinars, and templates.
• One-on-one coaching, troubleshooting, and occasional site-visits from the Campus-Community Food Centre Project Coordinator, Michael Waglay. Michael is a former student-leader who was involved in the development of the Regent Park Community Food Centre in Toronto, and successfully coordinated the Good Food Market at George Brown College, which went on to become one of the city’s largest food access programs of its kind. The Project Coordinator will work directly with you, the Community Food Centre and the stakeholders on campus to help you meet your project goals.
• Access to leaders of the food movement across the country, including non-profit and business leaders, funders, researchers, and a network of peer student coordinators across the country. Regular meetings will be by videoconference, and in-person, at events and conferences.
• The opportunity to get course and professional credit for your work, present at national conferences and in webinars.
• Financial support, in the form of an honorarium during the school year, potentially a full-time job during the summer, and support for travel costs and campus events.

If this sounds like a good fit for you, please fill out the application form.

Please note that at least 2 student leaders per campus are sought. We encourage individuals and groups to apply.  If there is someone else on your campus that you think would be a good fit and you would like to work with, please share this application with them as soon as possible, and get them to fill out their own individual copy.

Click here for more information about the Students for Good Food for All project

All applications are being reviewed and accepted on a rolling basis.Submissions should be made AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

**We strongly encourage all available applicants to attend the National Student Food Summit**
(Mansfield, Ontario, August 14-17)