NEW APPLICATION LINK: We're Hiring Farm to School Regional Leads!

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Volume 2, Issue 7, February 29, 2016

The Dirt - New and Notes from FNS's Office of Community Food Systems

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We're Hiring Three Farm to School Regional Leads!

Due to technical difficulties, the job announcement posted last week has been updated and the deadline is now March 11. Please use the new link to learn more about these positions.

We're looking for Farm to School Regional Leads in the following USDA Food and Nutrition Service locations:

  • Southwest Regional Office: Dallas, TX
  • Western Regional Office: San Francisco, CA
  • Mountain Plains Regional Office: Denver, CO

This is an opportunity to:

  • Help implement the USDA Farm to School Program, including grants, training and technical assistance, and actively participate in driving the program’s growth and evolution;
  • Provide on the ground training, technical assistance, and support to a wide variety of farm to school stakeholders and be held accountable for increasing the availability of local foods in schools;
  • Play a key role in identifying training and technical assistance gaps in the farm to school community and fill those gaps by fine tuning existing resource materials and/or creating new program offerings; and
  • Be a resident expert on key local and regional procurement issues.

Know someone who might be a great fit? Help us spread the word!

Applications are due March 11.