Community Nutrition Program Director

The Community Nutrition Program Director will help manage the YMCA of Southwest Florida’s regional efforts to reduce food insecurity, expand nutrition education, and increase access to healthy foods across rural and underserved communities. This position assists in the oversite of food access initiatives funded under the Florida Blue Foundation Food Security and Y-USA grants, including community outreach events, nutrition workshops, Mobile Markets, pantry operations, education resources, and partnerships with regional food banks. This role will support staff hiring/training, and administration of USDA food security evaluations. This role will work with the Nutrition team to ensure the YMCA’s strategies align with grant milestone activities, annual output targets, and outcome measures.

The Program Director helps ensure compliance with evidence-based nutrition practices, provides oversight in developing and providing new staff for nutrition education, coordinates food distribution expansion, provides insight and helps develop website resource tools, and monitors program impact to guide efforts to ensure target outcomes are achieved annually through 2029.