We're Hiring!

The HEAL Food Alliance is currently accepting proposals for a Website Developer. Details below!

Launched in 2017, HEAL (Health, Environment, Agriculture, Labor) Food Alliance was born from the knowledge that no individual, organization, or sector could transform the interwoven systems of colonialism, capitalism, white supremacy, and hetero-patriarchy in isolation. HEAL was co-founded by four organizations that saw their struggles are interlinked: Food Chain Workers Alliance, National Black Food and Justice Alliance, Real Food Generation, and the Union of Concerned Scientists. We firmly believe that true transformation requires our diverse skills, roles, and resources, working together to build our collective power for change.

Today, HEAL is a national multi-sector, multi-racial coalition of 43 organizations. We are led by our members, who represent over 2 million rural and urban farmers, ranchers, fishers, farm and food chain workers, Indigenous groups, scientists, public health advocates, policy experts, community organizers, and activists. Together, these groups are building a movement to transform our food and farm systems from the current extractive economic model towards community control, care for the land, local economies, meaningful labor, and healthful communities nationwide, while supporting the sovereignty of all living beings. 

We want healfoodalliance.org to be the go-to resource for HEAL Food Alliance members, allies, and supporters to learn about and engage with our members, our shared work, and our solutions for changing the current policies that shape this country’s food and farm systems (aka our Platform for Real Food). We want to creatively showcase the content we create (blog posts, press releases, member stories, toolkits, news) and we’d like users to be able to easily take action and utilize the resources that are on our website. 

The HEAL Food Alliance is looking for a developer to build a new site - preferably on Wordpress, at healfoodalliance.org. We’re looking for a streamlined, clean, modern new website that matches the organization’s growth over the past seven years.

What’s not working
Our current website, built in Wordpress using the Bateaux theme, is over seven years old. The theme developer is not making updates anymore which means that plugins and wordpress itself are becoming increasingly incompatible with the current site.

Our organization and website have grown over the years, and the current format doesn’t enable us to showcase our work or engage users in the way we’d like. We're hoping a fresh website will help us better engage the audience we’ve been cultivating over the past seven years by showcasing members stories, our news, making resources accessible, providing opportunities for people to take action in support of our campaigns, and more

What we need
We’re looking for a partner in this project who will design and build our new website, make recommendations, and have knowledge and know-how in the world of Wordpress sites. The ideal partner will also help manage the process and discussion with a group of internal stakeholders, sharing information on the cost and use implications of the implementation of various tools. Security, accessibility, and ease of use are also important to the organization, and essential points of consideration in the development of the new website. If project management is not within your proposal/scope of work, please do still apply!

• Lead the organization through process of designing and building a new website, involving key stakeholders such as HEAL staff and selected members, throughout the process
• Make recommendations and implement our decisions on:
• the best technology, tools, and processes to most effectively reach and engage our target audiences through the new site
• security and accessibility for the site
• Consistent with our brand guide and work, build and develop a site that is modern, visually pleasing, easy to update and navigate, and that amplifies and meets the goals of the organization from a digital perspective
• Develop a site that is accessible in multiple ways: it is easy to read for older folks, has high contrast options, and is multilingual and can easily be translated/read in spanish, or other languages
• Evaluation of our current analytics and incorporation of analytics into the new site
• Training of staff to update the new site and development of a user manual

Our new website must:

• Be secure
• Be easy to navigate
• Our new website must:Make it easy for staff to easily create additional pages, microsites, and feature posts
• Be fully responsive for mobile devices
• Integrate externally hosted video
• Be ADA-accessible
• Have an option to view website content in Spanish  

• RFP submission final date: September 3
• Review: September 2024
• Selection: End of September
• Start of work: October 2024
• Launch: March 2025 

Our budget for building the website and project management is 25K. If you have a budget proposal that varies from what we have allocated, please still apply – just include a detailed cost breakdown that helps us understand how you got there.

Submit your proposal via this form no later than September 2, 2024. A complete proposal in response to this RFP will include:

• A short explanation of your approach (no more than a page)
• When you’d be able to start
• A budget with a cost breakdown
• Links to your completed work or portfolio
• At least two references able to speak to your client-facing work