Company description

ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION

FareStart has been helping people transform their lives through food for 30 years — one person, one job and one community at a time.

People experiencing poverty struggle to escape the cycle they are in and often face other compounding barriers to getting and keeping a job. At FareStart, we help people overcome barriers by teaching work and life skills needed to succeed in employment and in life. By investing in people, providing meals and building community, we transform homelessness, hunger and poverty into human potential.

Job description

ABOUT THE POSITION

This position is responsible for coordinating and executing necessary operations to support our food access team, with a primary focus on the Mobile Community Market, lending support to food resourcing including acquisition of donated, recovered, and gleaned items, and possible light food processing. This role provides oversight to volunteers and students operational work activities for those assigned to support food security activities such as Mobile Community Market events, prep, and cleanup, farm gleaning events, and value-added processing of donated products. This position supports inventory tracking and other program data to facilitate and strengthen collaboration with other internal departments and community partnerships.

This is a limited-duration position, anticipated to end on October 31, 2025.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:

• Execute Mobile Community Market event operations, including coordinating with internal and external stakeholders, receiving and conditioning inventory, load in/out of the farm truck.
• Maintain accurate inventory, program data, and other program records and reports to ensure adequate procurement for mobile market and kitchen operations, as well as data processes for in-kind donation, grant reporting, etc.
• Represent FareStart in the community with an understanding of departmental goals and strategic plan, with knowledge of ongoing work and integrations.
• Participate in relevant internal and external meetings as directed.
• Support the training of interns/participants of external programs.
• Provide training and oversight to scheduled Mobile Community Market volunteers in collaboration with the Volunteer Engagement Manager.
• Collaborate with student trainers and oversee operational work activities of students assigned to support the Food Security Team.
• Drive FareStart vehicles, including the Market Truck, as needed to pick up and deliver food donations and provide delivery fleet coordination assistance.
• Coordinate with department leadership to minimize operating costs and consider potential cost vs benefit when exploring opportunities and activities.
• Perform other related assignments as necessary

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.

• This position is exposed to typical office and kitchen environments, warehouses, farmers markets, and other food resources spaces.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
  There may be a combination of remote work and onsite work dependent upon business needs.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.

• This position may occasionally be required to lift and/or move up to fifty (50) pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit. The employee is frequently required to walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk and hear. The employee is frequently required to stand, climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, or crouch.

Compensation

this position is: hourly, varies DOE, $23.00 - $25.00

Application instructions

Deadline

no deadline