The Role
Coordinate and lead volunteer packing sessions, provide hospitality, perform repetitive warehouse tasks (cleaning, labeling, palletizing), operate retail/donation register, maintain food safety and facility cleanliness, assist with site projects and trainings, and support a welcoming, mission-centered volunteer experience.
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Your Role:
Facilitate safe, efficient, and mission-centered volunteer engagement at Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) by guiding packing sessions, providing exceptional hospitality, and supporting site operations to ensure a clean, organized, and welcoming experience. Perform repetitive warehousing tasks. Assist with site initiatives and special projects.
Pay, Schedule, & Benefits:
Facilitate safe, efficient, and mission-centered volunteer engagement at Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) by guiding packing sessions, providing exceptional hospitality, and supporting site operations to ensure a clean, organized, and welcoming experience. Perform repetitive warehousing tasks. Assist with site initiatives and special projects.
Pay, Schedule, & Benefits:
- This is a part-time, non-exempt (hourly) position. The set starting pay is $17.45 per hour. This is not a seasonal position.
- Regularly scheduled for part-time hours to include a combination of weekdays, weeknights, and Saturdays, subject to staffing needs. Occasional Sunday and holiday availability required. Must occasionally pick up sub shifts.
- Monthly trainings and meetings are required.
- Our part-time benefits package includes paid time off (PTO), vision, a 401(k) plan with employer match, and an employee assistance program. Detailed benefit information can be found here: https://www.fmsc.org/about-us/careers/fmsc-benefits.
- Provide exceptional hospitality: warmly greet volunteers, answer questions, provide clear instructions, engage in friendly conversations, and express appreciation for their contribution to FMSC.
- Orchestrate packing sessions. Anticipate needs, troubleshoot problems, and remain flexible with the unpredictability of a volunteer workforce.
- Clean and set up supplies before and after each volunteer packing session.
- Monitor the time, manage transitions, flex with changing production needs, and track production.
- Provide packing and clean-up instructions to a large group of volunteers.
- Lead a Christian prayer over packaged food and invite volunteers to join.
- Conduct retail and donation transactions on a cash register.
- Clean, label inventory, palletize boxes, and store pallets using a pallet jack.
- Maintain a clean and food-safe facility, which includes doing laundry and cleaning floors, dishes, and bathrooms several times per day.
- Uphold food safety, food quality, volunteer safety, and personnel safety policies and procedures. Ensure compliance.
- Assist with site initiatives and special projects. Ex:, implementing safety processes, handling retail inventory, reorganizing materials, or training peers.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- Passionate about FMSC’s Christian mission and living it out in the workplace.
- Must be 18 years of age or older.
- Minimum of high school diploma or GED equivalent and 1 year proven work experience.
- Able to exert yourself physically for a 6-8 hour shift. Able to walk and stand in intervals up to 6 hours. Able to push, pull, lift 30-50 lbs. repeatedly, bend, twist, and use hand tools like utility knives.
- Thrives in a team setting. Able to pitch in, fill in gaps, remain flexible, ask for help, and share responsibilities.
- Able to confidently instruct large groups.
- Focused on hospitality: can build rapport and resolve volunteer concerns.
- Able to identify and solve problems. Responsible and able to use good judgment and discretion.
- Respect and value FMSC’s volunteers and supporters, varying in beliefs, backgrounds, and abilities.
- Able to tolerate consistent exposure to soy (an allergen).
- Reports to Assistant Site Manager.
Skills Required
- Passionate about and willing to live out FMSC's Christian mission in the workplace.
- Must be 18 years of age or older.
- Minimum high school diploma or GED equivalent.
- Minimum 1 year proven work experience.
- Able to walk and stand in intervals up to 6 hours and exert physically for 6-8 hour shifts.
- Able to push, pull, and lift 30-50 lbs repeatedly; bend, twist, and use hand tools (utility knives).
- Able to confidently instruct and manage large groups of volunteers.
- Strong hospitality skills: greet volunteers, answer questions, build rapport, and resolve concerns.
- Ability to maintain food safety, food quality, and volunteer/personnel safety policies and ensure compliance.
- Willingness to perform cleaning tasks several times per day (floors, dishes, bathrooms) and laundry.
- Comfort working in a team setting; flexible, reliable, and able to fill in gaps.
- Able to tolerate consistent exposure to soy (an allergen).
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The Company
What We Do
Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) is a Christian nonprofit organization dedicated to feeding starving children worldwide by providing nutritious, volunteer-packed meals through distribution partners, aiming to see every child whole in body and spirit.
