Temporary Volunteer Coordinator

Community Servings•Mansfield, MA

1d•$0 - $20•Onsite

About The Position

Community Servings' mission is to actively engage the community to provide medically tailored, nutritious, scratch-made meals and medically tailored groceries to chronically and critically ill individuals and their families. In addition, we are committed to prioritizing racial and economic justice and health equity in all our programs and business practices. We are a dynamic and fast-growing agency at the forefront of the "Food is Medicine" field, providing over 1M medically tailored meals annually to clients and their families experiencing illness and food insecurity in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. In addition, our work strongly focuses on supporting the regional local food system, delivering high-quality nutrition education to the community, and hosting an on-site food-service workforce development program. Over the past 36 years, the agency has provided 15M+ free, scratch-made meals. Community Servings seeks a Volunteer Coordinator whose main role is to recruit, schedule, train, and oversee the volunteers who provide the workforce needed to help our distribution center staff produce and package medically tailored meals for our clients.

Requirements

Experience working with large groups, delegating tasks, and public speaking.
Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree or at least 3 years’ experience in the area of volunteer or project management or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience working with Salesforce preferred.
Nonprofit experience preferred.
Ability to speak multiple languages a plus.

Responsibilities

Welcome volunteers and assign duties/tasks in collaboration with distribution center staff, this could include tasks that are not in the main distribution center workspace.
Design and conduct daily volunteer orientations to volunteer groups and individual volunteers.
Enforce sanitation and safety policies, including administering appropriate first aid, if needed.
Engage with volunteer groups from start to finish, answering questions, providing support, and taking photos.
Recruit and retain individual and group volunteers by actively engaging in community events, fairs, and targeted marketing efforts.
Represent Community Servings at community events in efforts to recruit new individual and group volunteers.
Schedule and confirm individual and group volunteers and respond to volunteer inquiries in a timely manner.
Maintain and build relationships with our diverse base of volunteers from all backgrounds and with different abilities.
Assist in the development of new, in-person, remote and virtual volunteer opportunities that are safe, fun and impactful for volunteers.
Maintain effective communication among volunteers, staff and clients.
Recruit volunteers for agency fundraisers and special events.
Work collaboratively with the Manager of Volunteer Services to manage a system of ongoing appreciation and recognition for volunteers.
Identify and nurture leadership abilities in volunteers.
Complete any necessary hour’s documentation that volunteers might need (DTA, community service, and other agency verification).
Maintain accurate volunteer data and assist the Manager of Volunteer Services in agency volunteer reporting efforts.
Complete incident reporting documentation for volunteers, as needed.
Support the reception team in greeting visitors, as needed.
Other duties as assigned by the Director of Programs and the Manager of Volunteer Services.