Who We Are:
The Atlanta Community Food Bank is working to end hunger in our community with the food, people and big ideas needed so that no one worries where their next meal is coming from. Since 1979, we’ve been providing food for a growing network of nonprofit partners – including food pantries, community kitchens, childcare centers, night shelters and senior centers. We currently serve more than 700 partners in 29 counties across metro Atlanta and north Georgia.
About the Role:
As an integral member of the Development Team, the Volunteer Coordinator works to engage the community in support of our mission. The individual in this role will coordinate all elements of?volunteering?either within the Food Bank or on behalf of our community partners for which we recruit?volunteers. The role involves the recruiting, scheduling, training, and retaining of?volunteers.
Where You’ll Work:
Volunteer Services / Development
What You’ll Do:
Program Coordination
Recruits, interviews, screens, and places volunteers in specific roles. Effectively recruits and places the right volunteers with the right skills in the right volunteer positions
Administrative activities
Maintains accurate documentation of volunteer assignments including documentation of hours served, personal data, contact information, evaluations, etc.
Our Inclusive Hiring Process:
At the Atlanta Community Food Bank, we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We understand that skills can be gained through a variety of experiences – educational and work. Towards that end, our Inclusive Hiring process is grounded in a skills-based hiring approach. That means, we are looking for resumes that demonstrate key transferrable skills that can be applied to our job roles to support both our mission and culture.
Key Competencies we look for in All our Food Bankers are:
What You’ll Need: Skills and Experience your resume should demonstrate:
And You'll Love this Position if:
There may be some Physical Demands and Travel:
The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
This position works in a typical office setting and within the community. There may be extended periods of sitting, standing and/or bending; listening, talking and/or visual concentration; writing and/or computer use.
Expectation:
We are committed to providing employees with an environment of mutual respect in which the values of Diversity, Safety, Continuous Improvement, and Hard Work are supported and encouraged.? We work diligently to engender fairness, responsibility, trustworthiness, and teamwork to advance our mission: To fight hunger by engaging, educating, and empowering our community.?
Final Thoughts:
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At the Atlanta Community Food Bank, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.