Company description

Located in the Pacific Northwest, the Snoqualmie Valley Farmers' Co-op is a hub for sustainable, community-centered agriculture. Created by committed local farmers, our co-op promotes organic and sustainable practices, delivering unparalleled produce. By providing marketing and wholesaling services, we enable our farmers to focus on growing. The co-op weaves tighter bonds between Puget Sound residents and their food sources.

Job description

The Co-op Operations Manager oversees the daily functions of the co-op, ensuring smooth operations across fulfillment, purchasing, finance, staffing, safety, and communications. This role manages the logistics of product delivery, maintains strong relationships with member farmers, oversees produce sourcing, ensures accurate recordkeeping, and collaborates with the Board of Directors on staffing and policy decisions. As the main point of contact for customers, vendors, and farmers, the Manager plays a key role in ensuring a positive, reliable experience for all stakeholders.

The ideal candidate for this role is someone who will actively participate in the work - touching the vegetables and meeting the farmers, and who will delegate responsibilities and tasks to other staff members.

Hours can be variable depending on season, but guaranteed 20 hours per week.

Responsibilities:
This role is responsible for ensuring successful operations of all facets of the Co-ops activities. These include:

Fulfillment

Oversees logistics and delivery of all SVFC products, including direct-to-customer deliveries and delivery to third party vendors.
Ensures an easy-to-use purchasing experience for customers
Serves as point-of-contact for all customer inquiries

Purchasing

Maintains relationships with member farmers
Oversees all aspects of purchasing and sourcing produce for SVFC products
Facilitates crop-planning and projection of produce needs - in collaboration with board of directors.

Financial

Ensuring timely payment of invoices and receipt of payment for sales
Ensuring up-to-date record keeping of financial activities

Staffing

Collaborates with the Board of Directors to determine appropriate roles and positions to meet operational needs.
In collaboration with the Board of Directors, recruits and hires staff.
Delegates and ensures successful completion of tasks and responsibilities.
Ensures compliance with organizational policy on labor standards.

Safety and Security

Ensures that operational staff follows all organizational safety policies.
Monitors the workplace for safety issues and makes recommendations to Board of Directors for policy improvements.
Ensures that all relevant food and other product safety requirements are met.

Communication

Serves as the main point of contact for customers, main point of contact for purchasing and logistics with farmer-owners, and point of contact with all vendors.
Provides monthly operational report to Board of Directors, and Communicates clearly with Board of Directors to identify operational issues and recommend updates to policy or practice.
Works effectively under the supervision of a volunteer Board of Directors.

Required Skills

Strong communication - able to communicate with member farmers and with CSA customers with a service mindset
Organization - able to ensure that all co-op operations are well-structured and organized
Financial Management - able to ensure that bookkeeping is handled in a timely and accurate manner and that expenses are in keeping with the budget.

Compensation

this position is: hourly, varies DOE, $24.00 - $30.00

Application instructions

Deadline

no deadline