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Blue Zones is a well-being transformation company that partners with communities and private enterprises to make healthy choices easier. Today we are in over 70 cities impacting over 4.5 million Americans, helping them live better, longer. We do this by encouraging sustainable changes in the built environment, food environment, and social networks, often suggesting policy changes throughout a community including such places as worksites, schools, restaurants, grocery stores, faith-based communities, convenience stores, and neighborhoods. By helping people live longer and better by making the healthy choice the easy choice, communities can lower healthcare costs, improve productivity, access grants and funding available locally and nationally, and enjoy a higher quality of life as they live, work, learn, worship and grow.

The program is based on principles identified during an ongoing twenty-year worldwide longevity study commissioned by National Geographic, and detailed in the New York Times best-seller, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who’ve Lived the Longest, and The Blue Zones Solution by Dan Buettner. The Blue Zones Project is based on this innovative approach. Our work has been featured in media from Oprah to NPR, the New York Times, WSJ, NPR, National Geographic, and the New England Journal of Medicine.

Blue Zones provides equal employment opportunities. Discrimination of any type will not be tolerated. Blue Zones is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law.

Organization & Well-Being Coordinator, Blue Zones Project Jacksonville

Location:

Jacksonville, Florida

Overview:

If you have account management, client services, sales, employee engagement, restaurant or grocery store experience and are driven to make a difference; If you enjoy interacting with people and are passionate about improving the well-being of others; If you thrive while collaborating with a strong, results-driven team and enjoy challenging yourself and others to find creative solutions, join us!

Be part of a team that’s bringing innovative people together from across the community to lead and ignite a movement to improve well-being on a significant scale – a movement that promises to help your friends, family, and neighbors in Jacksonville live better, longer.

Blue Zones Project is rooted in lessons learned from the world’s longest-lived cultures. We translate these lessons into sustainable environmental changes that strengthen social ties, reshape the places where people spend their time, and sharpen policies to support healthy choices. By engaging a critical mass of individuals and organizations to participate — from worksites and schools to restaurants and grocery stores — the small changes contribute to huge benefits: lowered healthcare costs, improved productivity, and ultimately, a higher quality of life. For more information regarding Blue Zones Project please visit bluezones.com/bzpjacksonville/

Job Summary:

Reporting to the Organization and Well-Being Leader, this person is responsible for the successful advancement of the Blue Zones Project in the places sector and will engage employer worksites, grocery stores, restaurants and other organizations with a particular focus on the neighborhoods and zip codes chosen for implementation of Blue Zones Life Radius Model. Success is achieved when the local employers and other organizations adopt the recommended changes to improve well-being and achieve the organization certifications necessary for the community to earn certification as a Blue Zones Community.

Essential Job Functions:

• Develop strong relationships with target organizations to encourage their participation and support them in becoming a Blue Zones Approved Organization (worksites, restaurants,grocery stores).
• Drive comprehensive adoption and advancement of the Blue Zones Project blueprint within the local business community and organization leaders, including identifying and leveraging contacts, creating partner relationships, and educating organizations on becoming a Blue Zones Approved Organization.
• Actively work with the local Blue Zones Project leadership team and maintain momentum and advancement of the assigned group’s strategic plans within the community.
• Ensure coordination and integration of the organizational strategies and group initiatives so they are fully maximized and leveraged with each other to drive maximum exposure to all the touch points with the Blue Zones Project.
• Develop and meet monthly targets to ultimately achieve annual community blueprint places
• Compile organization performance/value measures, outcomes and community impact stories.
• All other duties as assigned.

Specific Skills/Attributes:

• Strong self-starter and team contributor.
• Proven track record working on strong, results-driven teams.
• Strong relationship building skills; capable of working with internal and external teams and partners.
• Adept at working with all levels of organizations to secure ongoing participation and utilization of the appropriate tools and resources.
• Compelling written/oral communication skills as it relates to driving initiatives within employer worksites, grocery stores and restaurants.
• Ability to represent Blue Zones Project with partners, the public, and media.
• Strong project management skills to ensure initiative strategies stay on track and within budget.
• Proficient in Google Workspace and Microsoft Office. Experience in the use of CRM software is a plus.
• Knowledgeable of and connected in the local business community.
• Experience working in multi-disciplinary, multicultural, and multi-sectoral partnerships.
• Strong facilitation skills.
• Inspiring, influential, collaborative, and responsible.
• Energized by Blue Zones Project mission.
• Spanish bi-lingual preferred

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required. Experience in lieu of education is also considered.
• 3+ years experience in Human Resources/Benefits/Employee Wellness; Grocery or Restaurant; and/or business development required.
• Resident of Jacksonville required.
• Position is onsite and will require a COVID-19 vaccination or qualifying exemption.