Volunteer Coordinator

ORGANIZATION

SUMMARY:

Every Meal exists to fight child hunger through community and schoolpartnerships. Through our network of community partners, we work hard to get food to kids who live in food insecurity, which means they don’t always know where their next meal is coming from. Every Meal strives to make a difference in children’s lives by specifically focusing on food “gaps” - the times when the children aren’t at school to access the meal programs.

We have had tremendous growth in the last ten years, going fromserving one school to over 500 distribution sites, but there are still 300,000 kids in Minnesota who don’t have enough to eat.

Every Meal develops and supports successful partnerships between sponsoring community organization and schools in need. This partnership-based model has allowed us to make a broad and sustainable impact in thefight against child hunger, because we believe that it is not a supply problem, but a distribution problem.

MISSION:
Fight child hunger through community and school partnerships.

VISION:
Every Child. Every Meal.

• Relationships:
  All our work relies on intentional relationships. We take care of each other and work together to best fight child hunger in our community. At Every Meal, relationships are key to learning, building, and taking action to create an organization and culture that is welcoming, inclusive, and anti-racist.
• Commitment:
  Ambition and drive are fundamental aspects of our mission and program, and we must employ them every day. We recognize that mere adequacy does not align with our mission. To be a dynamic team, we need versatility and a commitment to getting the job done.
• Thoughtful Communication:
  We use thoughtful communication in all our interactions by being timely, informed, purposeful, and on-brand.
• Positive Impact:
  Our actions must deliver a positive and equitable impact on children and the community through measurable results, continuous improvement, and a dignified experience. We always strive for program growth to provide more nutritious, delicious, and relevant meals to more children through community engagement and innovation.

Every Meal intentionally creates a team-focused environment. While our departments and staff have areas theyspecialize in, we have a regular practice of events and activities that allow our staff to engage in activitiesoutside of their specialties. For example, staff might help set up and facilitate a mobile packing event or talk todonors during a donor event. While these activities don’t happen often, they help us all have a more complete perspective on our organization and recognize that we can’t feed more children without working together to accomplish our goals.

Volunteers are critical to the success of Every Meal. Our Volunteer Coordinator shares responsibility for recruiting, training, developing, and retaining volunteers. This is accomplished by leading a mission focused, caring, consistent, and energetic volunteer experience for all Every Meal volunteers.

This position has authority to formulate, affect, interpret, or implement management policies or operating practices in order to carry out major assignments in conducting the operations of the business. There is autonomy to do and consider what is best for Every Meal and each of its volunteers. As a result, this position is critical to being involved in planning long- or short-term business objectives, such as packing bags for children more efficiently and effectively.

Every Meal reserves the right to alter job duties at any time, with notice.

• Model Every Meal core values to all internal and external partners.
• Ensure all position related processes are understood and followed.
• Schedule all volunteer packing events held on-site at Every Meal to meet long term and short-term objectives and inventory minimums.
• Facilitate packing events up to 24 hours each week; on-site and off-site.
• Ensure timely and consistent communication.
• Point person for staff and volunteers on the facilitation of volunteer packing events.
• In collaboration with key stakeholders plans and executes objectives related to all packing events for the…