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Local Food Coordinator
Description
We are on the lookout for a Local Food Coordinator to join our team!
Do you want to work closely alongside people from all diverse backgrounds to provide welcoming havens for neighbors to find refreshment and nourishment through our community food ministries?
Your strengths include overseeing logistics with multiple parties, leading teams in meal planning and preparation, and organizing and managing inventory and supplies.
You are an empathetic and compassionate communicator who has a strong sense of self, and the ability to observe boundaries with strong conflict resolution skills. You know what it takes to adapt to a constant changing environment and can lead teams with patience, maturity, and tact.
If this describes you, we welcome you to explore this opportunity with us.
WAYS YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE:
Inventory Management and Organization for Community Food Ministries:
- Create weekly food orders and coordinate deliveries.
- Maintain food inventory ensuring cleanliness, accessibility, and organization of fridges, freezers, and shelves.
- Sort and distribute food donations ensuring food is safely stored, allocated, and redistributed employing a zero-waste approach.
- Restock supplies, as necessary.
Food Preparation and Meal Service:
- Lead meal planning with a dedicated team of people, while maintaining food safety standards, delegating tasks for:
- weekly for Oasis Café
- monthly for Shelter soup
- quarterly for Refugee Support
Administrative and Reporting:
- Complete financial tasks, including expense and reconciliation reports.
- Coordinate volunteer schedules for food deliveries.
WHAT YOU BRING:
- Post-secondary education in community development, social service work, or other relevant human services field is required; an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience (minimum 2 years) may be considered.
- Completion of Occupational First Aid (Level 1), Non-Violent Crisis Intervention Training and FoodSafe (Level 1) preferred within one year of employment.
- Knowledge of substance use care, mental health, food insecurity, homelessness, poverty, and housing in the City of Vancouver.
- Basic home cooking skills. Knowledge and experience of food service industry practices is an asset but not essential.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to adapt to a constantly changing environment, quick to problem solve, and de-escalate conflicts as they arise, and an ability to maintain harmonious relationships while leading with emotional maturity.
- Ability to work and empathize with people who may have experienced abuse, poverty, grief and loss, oppression, violence, mental health challenges, substance use, or may be living with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions.
- Demonstrated ability to lead teams and work within a team setting, with an emphasis on leadership, self-initiative, patience, empathy, maturity, and tact, especially with teammates with varied social, economic, ethnic, and spiritual backgrounds.
- Strong sense of self and ability to observe boundaries, engage in appropriate emotional regulation, refrain from dual relationships with employees and guests, maintain confidentiality, and engage in reasonable self-care strategies designed to reduce stress by balancing work / life responsibilities.
- Strong ability to work under minimal supervision and act with a high degree of integrity, independent judgement, and acting on a variety of matters as required.
- Ability to provide Christian spiritual support to staff and program participants as needed.
- Embrace the opportunity to creatively steward varying resources, recognizing non-profits work with a limited budget.
- Mature individual who possesses a deep and vibrant faith in Christ with a desire to foster spiritual growth in others and experience mutual spiritual transformation.
- Compassionate, humble, and teachable spirit with the ability to provide and receive constructive feedback.
- Must obtain Criminal Record Check with vulnerable sector search and be legally entitled to work in Canada.
- Must have valid BC driver’s license, and access to a vehicle.
- Physical ability to lift 50 lbs.
- Committed to a faith community through gatherings and regular participation.
- Agree with Statement of Faith of Tenth Church and dedicated to the overall goals, health, and vision of Tenth Church.
This a full-time position where you will work 30 hours per week.
Salary is commensurate with experience; the salary range is $34,320 - $35,880 per annum.
Benefits and perks include generous vacation policy, sick time, group health care benefits, RRSP matching program, and professional development and financial support towards spiritual direction.
We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
At Tenth Church, we are dedicated to employment equity and a workplace reflective of the diversity of the multicultural communities in which our sites reside.
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