Careers

Description:

Ballard Food Bank’s mission is to bring food and hope to our neighbors because there can be enough for everyone. To achieve our mission, we provide access to nutritious foods through our grocery model food bank, Kindness Café, and Community Resource Hub, which encompasses financial resources, referral, and mail services that support self-sufficiency. We also advocate for food equity and justice. Our home, which opened in October 2021, serves as a Hub for Hope as it brings together food, services, and community partners in a one-stop shop. The Ballard Food Bank actively strives to be an anti-racist organization and promotes the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion in its work.

Position Summary:

The Weekend Food for Kids (WFFK) Specialist will join our Food Access Team at the Ballard Food Bank (BFB) to oversee the WFFK program, a service that addresses child hunger in our local community. This position partners with 21 Seattle Public Schools in our service area as well as volunteers to ensure students in northwest Seattle have access to healthy, kid-friendly food over the weekend. This position offers the opportunity for direct community care by managing the menu creation, ordering, production and feedback for over 600 WFFK bags per week, as well as other food access projects that cater to K-12 youth in the community.

Responsibilities:

• Develop healthy weekend bag menus that are nutritious, culturally appropriate, and age appropriate for K-12 students, adapting menus for students with a variety of dietary restrictions
• Collaborate with school representatives to coordinate WFFK programs at each partner school
• Coordinate purchasing, receiving, and inventory management for WFFK programs
• Manage WFFK program volunteers including recruitment, scheduling, and training
• Forge strong relationships within Seattle Public Schools by meeting with program partners at least once a year and attending community events.
• Host WFFK off-site markets
• Collect feedback from student participants via an annual survey, focus groups and other strategies
• Compose regular WFFK newsletter that is distributed in print and online
• Complete monthly reporting for both internal and external records
• Work with Community Engagement Specialist to facilitate corporate group projects related to WFFK and other Food Access programs
• Collaborate with Food Access Team to support other programs as needed

Hours:

This is a full-time, Monday – Friday position, with some evening and weekend hours for events or programming. Ballard Food Bank currently works a 35-hour work week.

Skills/Eligibility:

Qualifications:

An ideal candidate will have:

• 1-3 years of experience working in nutrition, food systems, youth social services or other relevant work
• Commitment to racial equity and social justice
• Ability to serve children, adults, and families from diverse backgrounds and cultures in a respectful manner
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and meet deadlines
• Excellent customer service and commitment to quality service
• Highly organized, detailed, flexible and creative
• Strong computer and relational database skills, comfort with and proficiency in Microsoft Excel
• Excellent conflict management, written and oral communication
• Proficiency in Spanish, Amharic, Tigrinya or another language spoken by recent immigrants to Seattle a plus
• Valid Driver’s License and comfort, or willingness to learn how to, drive company vans and trucks
• Ability to lift up to 50 lbs. safely

How to Apply:

How to apply: Please answer the following question and submit your response, along with your resume and cover letter, to careers@ballardfoodbank.org with Weekend Food for Kids Specialist in the subject line. Please, no calls or email inquiries.

Application Question: Below are Ballard Food Bank’s core values. Please share which of these values resonates with you the most and why.

• Access to food is a human right, as is access to housing, education, and healthcare. Lack of access to these fundamental rights is a direct result of systemic racism and other systemic injustices that lead to poverty.
• Every individual is worthy of respect, and we value each person’s dignity, worth, and lived experience.
• We commit to centering relationships and meeting people where they are in the moment.
• We strive to create a welcoming, intentionally inclusive environment.
• We seek to include perspectives, input, and guidance from the people we serve.
• Healthy, culturally appropriate food is critical to our community’s wellbeing.
• We are stewards of the land. We aim to minimize our environmental footprint, promote sustainability, and support local farmers and communities to grow their own food.