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 no one must worry 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.
Where You’ll Work:
Operations / Supply Chain
About the Role:
The Operations Coordinator will support the operations of the Atlanta Community Food Bank’s Community Food Center. The Community Food Center utilizes volunteers and staff to execute food distributions in the community to clients experiencing food insecurity. The individual in the Operations Coordinator position will assist with food packing, client distributions, warehousing, and non-CDL transportation processes, while maintaining compliance with food, personnel, and DOT safety. Support for some evening and weekend operations is required. This position reports to the Operations Manager.
What You will Do:
Support warehouse operations
Provide outstanding customer service
Ensure food quality and safety
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 on 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:
If you’re excited about this role and can clearly demonstrate these and the other skills named below, we encourage you to apply.
What You will Need: Skills and Experience your resume should demonstrate:
Even Better if you have:
This role may be a fit for you if you:
And you will love this position if:
There may be some Physical Demands:
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.
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:
Do not 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 are excited about this role but your experience does not align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.