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Food Bus: Market Assistant

Job in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Listing for: New Dawn Enterprises
Full Time, Seasonal/Temporary position
Listed on 2026-05-27
Job specializations:
  • Entertainment & Gaming
    Customer Service Rep
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 16 CAD Hourly CAD 16.00 HOUR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position: Good Food Bus: Market Assistant
Division:
Meals on Wheels Final date to receive applications:
June 8, 2022, 4:00 pm Email resume to:
Emma Jerrot ()

Schedule:

Full-time, Temporary (8 weeks with the possibility of extension to 12 weeks) Salary/Wage: $16/hour Openings: 1

Job Description
The Good Food Bus is a retrofitted bus that travels throughout Cape Breton, making healthy food more accessible to communities.

The Good Food Bus welcomes all customers who wish to attend a market. We make every effort to make the shopping experience fun and easy, and to make it affordable for those who might otherwise not have the means to access the Good Food Bus.

As the Good Food Bus Market Assistant, you can expect to spend a significant amount of your time outside while ’ll travel with the coordinator throughout the island, bringing a food market on wheels to communities without easy access to fresh fruits and vegetables.

This is a unique summer employment opportunity, unlike any other!

This position requires strict adherence to all policies and regulations related to safety, hygiene, food safety, and preventing COVID transmission.

Customer Service
Perform customer service duties such as greeting customers, taking orders, accepting and processing payments, preparing produce packs, answering customer questions about items, attending to customer concerns, and regularly cleaning the service area of the Good Food Bus.

Market Operations

Preparing the Good Food Bus for community markets (heavy lifting bulk produce, cleaning duties, repackaging produce etc.).

Money handling and using a point of sale system

Actively snap photos and videos for creating social media content (Facebook and Instagram)

Stock and monitor inventory of a dry food pantry on the Good Food Bus

Support, create and conduct customer surveys

Brainstorm and produce GFB merchandise

Communicate with community partners

Ensuring that all produce is at the highest quality

Other Duties

Demonstrate ability to follow instructions and to take on new responsibilities

Arrive to work at the scheduled time

Participate actively in problem solving and decision making

Supports decisions made by the team and managers

Stay productive at all times; anticipate and prepare for future needs

As with all positions within A Better Bite Community Kitchen, assistance with the production and delivery of the Meals on Wheels Program when necessary

Core Competencies

Customer Focus

Quality Orientation

Attention to Detail

Work Well Under Pressure

Teamwork

Communication

Problem Solving

Accountability and Dependability

Time Management

Multitasking

Ethics and Integrity

Flexibility

Required Skills and Certifications

Clear criminal background and vulnerable sector check

Assets

Access to own transportation and driver’s license

Food safety training and certification

First aid/CPR training and certification

Experience using a Cricut Maker machine

Work Conditions

Interacts with volunteers, customers, staff, and community partners

Heavy lifting (50+ lbs) required for market set up

Long periods of standing required from time to time

Evenings and weekends as required

Overtime as required

PLEASE NOTE
This is a Canada Summer Jobs funded position. The funding requires that those hired be between 15-30 years of age, and either a Canadian citizen, permanent resident, or person to whom refugee protection has been conferred (international students are ineligible) and be legally entitled to work in Canada.

AIP Employer
New Dawn is proud to be an Atlantic Immigration Program (AIP) employer. This means that New Dawn has been approved as an AIP employer and, as such, can endorse the AIP-PR application of an eligible employee.

Note:

employees are responsible for verifying that the employment position/category is eligible under the AIP program, or any other immigration program/stream for which they intend to seek the support/endorsement of New Dawn.

New Dawn
New Dawn is Canada’s oldest Community Development Corporation. Since 1976, we’ve been working to create a more just, healthy, and self-determined community by responding to local needs and driving long-term, systems-level change. Today, New Dawn continues to focus on self-reliance, resilience, and community-led transformation. Every day, we engage thousands of community members and employ over 150 Cape Bretoners through programs and services that are practical, creative, and grounded in care.

Our work spans health and social care, housing, the arts, youth, immigration, and community development. Some of these services generate revenue, which we reinvest into our organization — fueling sustainability and deepening community impact.

Meals on Wheels
Are you (or a loved one) recovering from a recent hospital stay? Do you (or your loved one) find grocery shopping or meal preparation to be increasingly difficult? Do you worry that your loved one is not eating properly? We can help! Meals on Wheels provides delicious, healthy meals to individuals in the CBRM who are unable to prepare meals for themselves.

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