The Congressional Hunger Center seeks a Manager for the Mickey Leland International Hunger Fellowship who will report to the Chief of Staff and Director, Mickey Leland International Hunger Fellowship. This leader will manage the execution of programmatic goals, recruitment, selection, and advising; have oversight over program budget, administration, and reporting; and undertake special projects. The Manager will collaborate with staff and consultants who lead learning and training, fundraising, and communications.
Who You Are:
o You are an energetic, flexible, self-starting team player, who enjoys finding creative solutions to challenges.
o You have at least five years of experience in global food security, nutrition programs, and/or public policy; program management; coaching young professionals; and supporting nonprofit partnerships.
o You thrive in a team-oriented, multi-cultural, multi-generational environment.
o You have exceptional communication skills, the willingness to adapt your style to various audiences and platforms, and the ability to effectively synthesize feedback from multiple parties.
o You have earned a bachelor’s degree or higher.
What You Will Do:
You will manage the selection and advising of a bi-annual cohort of Leland Fellows placed with host organizations in development or humanitarian placements worldwide. You will support the management of strategic partnerships with host organizations and serve as a knowledgeable source for information about international food security policy and programs. You will ensure that program goals are met by managing program operations, implementation, evaluation, and reporting. In collaboration with others on the Hunger Center team, you will help fellows learn to see what works in international development—and what does not—and how to make the system more efficient, more effective, and more just.
To be specific, you will:
Manage the Program:
o Implement program goals and policies and prepare and monitor program and grant budgets.
o Lead the evaluation of program quality by collecting, analyzing, and reporting on program data.
Manage Fellow and Host Organization Recruitment and Selection:
o With strategic guidance from the Leland Director, and in collaboration with the Recruitment Coordinator, develop implementation plans for fellow recruitment and selection.
o Develop and maintain relationships with current, past, and potential host supervisors and host organizations and conduct occasional site visits.
o Promote the Leland Fellowship and the Congressional Hunger Center to external audiences and help identify and develop new programmatic and recruiting partnerships.
Advise Fellows:
o Track fellows’ workplan progress and provide regular and ad hoc guidance to fellows on workplan, workplace issues, and long-term professional goals.
o Develop and maintain positive and productive relationships with host organizations and fellow supervisors to accomplish programmatic goals.
Support Training and Professional Development of Fellows:
o Support the Leland Director and the Learning Manager in establishing learning and development goals for learning events and designing and executing learning events for fellows, including selection of content and speakers.
Stay abreast of Global Food Security programs and policies:
o Maintain knowledge of global food security policy and programs and federal policy initiatives relevant to the Hunger Center’s international policy agenda.
o Represent the Hunger Center at occasional coalition meetings and advocacy fora on global food security and humanitarian nutrition.
Compensation & Location:
This is a full-time, exempt position based in Washington, D.C. We currently maintain a hybrid work schedule and employees are expected to work in-person from our office once a week.
The salary range for Manager roles starts at $60,000, with exact salary depending on experience.
The Hunger Center provides an attractive benefits package that includes employer-paid health, dental, life and disability insurance, a retirement plan that provides for up to a 4% employer match contribution, and a generous paid-time-off policy, including a one-week organization-wide vacation at the end of each calendar year.
How to Apply:
Applications will be accepted until our ideal candidate is identified. Candidates are encouraged to apply promptly, as the review of applications will begin immediately. To be considered, please apply through the Hunger Center’s website, at https://www.hungercenter.org/who-we-are/jobs/
People of color, women, people with disabilities, Veterans, LGBTQ people, returning citizens, and gender non-conforming people are strongly encouraged to apply. The Hunger Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE).
Only applications submitted via the application link above will be considered. No phone calls, please.
The Congressional Hunger Center is on a mission to develop, inspire, and connect leaders, and advocate public policies that create a food secure world. We envision a world without hunger and poverty where every person can achieve their full potential because equitable systems exist to achieve financial freedom and full access to healthful, affordable, and culturally appropriate foods.
Our program work consists of:
1. Leadership Development – We provide leadership development opportunities for hunger fighters to connect policy with practice, learn together in peer cohorts, apply an equity lens to their work, and make meaningful contributions to the fight against hunger in the U.S. and overseas. Our programs include the Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellowship, the Mickey Leland International Hunger Fellowship, Zero Hunger Internship, and Zero Hunger Academy.
2. Network Building – We facilitate collaboration across our network of more than 1,000 program alums and 300+ partner organizations and work at the intersection of hunger and its root causes. We break down silos and engage a broad range of allies who have a vested interest in ending hunger.
3. Advocacy – We are a one-stop-shop for policymakers in need of accurate, field-based information and expertise on hunger and its root causes.
Woven into all the work we do is a commitment to equity and ensuring that people who have experienced hunger and poverty are leaders in designing, implementing, and evaluating community solutions and public policies. We also believe that leaders at the field and policy levels must collaborate and share knowledge to effect the systemic changes required to end hunger and poverty.
