CalFresh Healthy Living Student Assistant
California State UniversityAbout the role
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- Position Summary
- One temporary hourly-intermittent Student Assistant position available in the Basic Needs department for CalFresh Healthy Living program.
- Days/Hours
- Availability to work during the hours of 8:30 - 5:00. Some evening and weekend hours.
- Start Date
- Position available on or after December 16, 2024 and ending on or before May 30, 2024. Possibility of reappointment based on budget, department needs, and job performance.
- Job Description/Duties
- Duties include but are not limited to:
• Prepare and deliver both single session and series-based sessions to Stan State students in a virtual and/or face-to-face format (e.g. Building a Healthy Plate, Shopping on a Budget, reading a Food Label, Rethink your Drink, and Planning Healthy Meals) using approval curricula.
• Engage with students through social media platforms (Instagram (IG)) via posts, videos, reels, stories, etc.
• Use design software (e.g.Canva) to create promotional content surrounding classes and indirect education materials.
• Record, edit, and post recipe videos that involve student-friendly recipes from Eatfresh.org.
• Create Harvest of the Month posts that involve the nutrient profile of seasonal produce, as well as a recipe from Eatfresh.org that features the seasonal produce.
• Collaborate with Basic Needs through IG live sessions, to showcase how CalFresh benefits can be used after becoming approved.
• Form cross campus partnerships to promote and recruit participants (with a focus on students with limited resources) for classes.
•Keep records of class attendance, Instagram content, and CFHL data in Word/Excel spreadsheet.
•Attend weekly meetings with CFHL Coordinator, and brainstorm ideas surrounding policy, systems, and environmental changes that support healthy food availability.
•Attend monthly CFHL collaborative meetings to provide updates on CFHL at Stan State.
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Assist with training of volunteers.
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Collects and maintains documents, information, and records for submission to supervisor.
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Support the campus by providing feedback on the climate of healthy behavior, including the most pressing concerns they are seeing/experiencing in interactions.
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Assist with Basic Needs and Warrior Food Pantry programming and awareness through virtual or in-person tabling and outreach events.
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Serve as Basic Needs Ambassador, participating in virtual or in-person pop-up pantry events, and Basic Needs programming, such as National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, Share the Love Week, or CalFresh prescreening events.
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Provide CalFresh pre-screenings to Warrior Food Pantry participants. Complete necessary confidentiality training and other CalFresh training.
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Assist with efforts to educate and market via social media, print, and other formats.
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Identifies and develops material for Basic Needs Newsletter.
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Develops content for digital signage.
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Knowledgeable of and ability to use independent judgement to refer students to additional campus resources. Refer students to Basic Needs Coordinators or Care Manager for additional resources as needed.
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Attend meetings with Basic Needs team as needed.
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Provide regular updates to supervisor(s).
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Performs other duties as assigned.
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- Qualifications
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