Food Education Training Manager

FoodCorps

About The Position

The Food Education Training Manager leads the end-to-end development and delivery of high-quality FoodCorps member training and contributes to organizational learning initiatives, including curriculum development and the School Food Leadership Network and Micro-credential programs. The role combines classroom teaching, curriculum design, adult learning, facilitation, project management, and training logistics. It reports to the Director of Leadership Learning & Design and is a Manager-level position with a salary of $82,400 per year. The manager designs and facilitates differentiated virtual and in-person training, maintains asynchronous learning modules in an LMS, reviews participant work, and provides individualized feedback. The role also supports member coaching, formal observations, curriculum audits and development, training and adoption of lesson plans, network engagement, and the Food Education Microcredential program. In partnership with the School Nutrition Training Manager and other teams, the manager coordinates training calendars, platforms, events, feedback processes, internal resources, technology support, budgets, and cross-team program delivery. Success in the first year includes delivering national in-person and virtual training, maintaining interactive modules and the training catalog, supporting curriculum developers and updated lesson plans, energizing network discussions, supporting microcredential participants, and building relationships across departments and with corps members. FoodCorps describes its workplace as supportive of staff career development and offers medical benefits, time away, family-related health and wellness benefits, and other stated benefits. Applications are accepted until a match is made. FoodCorps is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations as required by law.

Requirements

Strong skills in classroom teaching, curriculum design, adult learning, and project management.
Proactive, organized, and tech-savvy approach.
Ability to build collaboration across teams and excel in facilitation and communication.
Ability to manage program development and logistics.

Responsibilities

Create and facilitate differentiated virtual and in-person training for FoodCorps members.
Design and maintain asynchronous LMS training modules on food education, review participant work, and provide individualized feedback.
Develop or co-create slides, materials, prework, and asynchronous activities for member training sessions.
Source and collaborate with subject matter experts and guest facilitators, overseeing content alignment, session quality, and event logistics.
Coach and support state-based Managers of Program Impact and mentor teachers at partner sites, providing professional development resources.
Assist the Director of Leadership Learning & Design with the FoodCorps Member formal observation process, including scorer coaching and calibration, review of evaluation results, and process or technology updates.
Maintain working knowledge of trends, policies, and best practices in food education and school nutrition.
Support curriculum overhaul and expansion by helping hire, onboard, and project-manage external curriculum developers and consultants.
Audit curriculum resources for alignment with FoodCorps Food Literacy Standards and organizational priorities.
Contribute to lesson plans for hands-on food education in classrooms, gardens, cafeterias, and kitchen or cooking spaces.
Support rollout of curriculum materials by leading member training and modeling hands-on instructional techniques.
Develop and provide feedback on FoodCorps print, online, and video publications and resources.
Moderate School Food Leadership Network channels and encourage food education discussions.
Support School Food Leadership training and coaching on food education topics.
Maintain and support the Food Education Microcredential program, including learning resources, Slack community engagement, and participant progress tracking.
Design cohort experiences that build participant connection and loyalty to FoodCorps communities.
Collaborate with the Director of Leadership Learning & Design to align programming with organizational priorities and outcomes.
Maintain the member training calendar, catalog, and online training platforms.
Create instructional resources and Standard Operating Procedure guidance, and maintain internal systems that organize Learning and Design Team work and make it accessible to staff.
Provide technology support for virtual training, webinars, and panel discussions.
Support team goals and deliverables, including managing internal and external team calendars.
Collaborate across teams and with the Data & Evaluations team to develop, review, and implement post-training survey feedback.
Partner with the Event and Engagements team on training event logistics and coordination.
Support budget tracking and timely invoice submissions.
Perform other duties as assigned.