Current Opportunities
The Swetland Center has ongoing opportunities for students, trainees, and professionals from a variety of disciplines to engage in meaningful research that will have an impact on environmental health in greater Cleveland and beyond. Case Western Reserve University is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging excellence through diversity. Qualified women, veterans, members of underrepresented minority groups, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
Research Associate/SNAP-Education Program Manager
The Swetland Center is newly extending our food systems and nutrition equity research within real-world practice by hiring community nutrition educators who are working directly in community sites in Cuyahoga County to support nutrition education and community nutrition programming through the Ohio SNAP-Education program (SNAP-Ed).
As an fundamental step in this effort, our Center is pleased to share a position opening for a Program Manager for SNAP-Ed staff in Cuyahoga County who will work closely with OSE Extension staff regarding implementation of SNAP-Ed in the county and will provide leadership in hiring, training, coaching, and supervising at least five SNAP-Ed community nutrition educators at Case Western Reserve University. The Program Manager will also execute evaluations focused on the dissemination and implementation of evidence-based policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) interventions designed to promote community nutrition in diverse settings.
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SNAP-Education Program Assistant
We are hiring 3 SNAP-Education Program Assistants to conduct nutrition education classes and programming throughout Cuyahoga County to SNAP-eligible audiences! Position postings include HS diploma/GED, associates degree, and bachelors degree.
Program Assistants will provide direct nutrition and physical activity educational programming (e.g., teaching standardized classes) and Policy, Systems, and Environmental (PSE) interventions (e.g. school gardens, choice food pantries, promoting SNAP at farmers markets) with local, community-based partners in areas of high food insecurity throughout Cuyahoga County. The educational programming and PSE interventions will serve SNAP-eligible individuals of various demographics in a variety of community settings and will use USDA approved, standardized curriculum and evidence-based PSE approaches to improve access to nutritious food and physical activity opportunities. Familiarity teaching in group settings is essential. Experience teaching adult audiences and Spanish language are preferred but not required. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis.
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