Position Title: Good Food Fellow
Host Site: Michigan Sustainable Business Forum
Position Type: Teleservice*
Site Supervisor: Daniel Schoonmaker
Slot Type: Full term (11 months)
Hours: Full-time placement (40 hours/week)
Dates of Service: November 13th, 2024 – October 17th, 2025
Stipend: $35,200
Location: Grand Rapids, MI
Join the MI Healthy Climate Corps (MHC Corps) and make a lasting impact on Michigan’s carbon-neutral future! The MHC Corps accelerates Michigan’s climate action through capacity building and leadership development. Members serve across the state to advance the MI Healthy Climate Plan’s (MHCP) goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. The plan, unveiled by Governor Gretchen Whitmer in April 2022, aims to avert the worst impacts of the climate crisis; create good-paying jobs; position Michigan as a climate action leader; and build a healthier and more prosperous, equitable, and sustainable Michigan for all Michiganders.
Michigan Sustainable Business Forum promotes business practices that advance climate leadership, social justice and the creation of a circular economy. The organization hosts a statewide network with regional programs and strategic alliances that provide education, sustainable business resources, and opportunities for collaboration and civic engagement to businesses and private and public-sector institutions.
Through our membership program, we are Michigan’s leading organization for beyond-compliance sustainability practitioners, serving its most recognizable brands, largest employers and most innovative entrepreneurs, advocates, educators and local government. Through our campaigns and advocacy, we serve partners and diverse stakeholders as a boundary organization committed to the development of practices, policies and partnerships that improve environmental sustainability and economic resilience.
The Michigan Food System Waste Reduction Roadmap Initiative was a stakeholder-driven process to create a strategy for the state to reduce waste and loss in the Michigan food system. It identies barriers to the removal of 1.2 million tons of food loss and waste from the Michigan food system per year and highlights potential solutions and opportunities. The Forum has been working to develop projects to advance the identied priorities of the Roadmap initiative. This includes eight interrelated initiatives to improve food rescue, promote food loss and waste prevention through technical assistance and education, map byproduct value chains, improve state and local policy, and advance composting and alternative packaging pilot projects.
The appropriate candidate will have a strong interest and/or background in environmental issues, coalition building and/or community organizing, and communications or a combination of such interests. The appropriate candidate must possess strong verbal and written communication skills, excellent attention to detail, the ability to work within a team or as an individual and be familiar with the Microsoft Oce suite and Google Applications. Members are required to work the standard oce hours of their host communities.
No specic background or education is required to join the MHC Corps!
But a minimum of 2 years of experience in these types of situations is essential for success:
Members will receive a living allowance of $35,200 distributed in even increments, bi-weekly. Members will receive student loan forbearance for qualied loans, health care benets, child care assistance upon eligibility, and continual professional development. Upon successful completion of service, an education award in the amount of $7,395 will be issued. Members will serve approximately 40 hours per week (a total of 1,700 hours during the service term).
The MI Healthy Climate Corps Program is an equal opportunity employer. Reasonable accommodations will be made for interviews and service as needed.