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Job Title: Grocery Run Operation Coordinator
Organization: Multicultural Health Brokers Cooperative
Location: Edmonton (9538 - 107 Avenue),  Alberta

• Duration: July-December 2025, 6-month term with option for renewal pending on funding availability.
• Regular working Hours: Tuesday 2- 4 pm, Thursday 8 am- 5 pm, Friday 12 pm- 5 pm (in person) with some in-person/ remote hours during the week
• Hourly Rate: $18.00-$23.00/hr (depending on experience)
• Hours: 15- 20 hrs/ week
• Reporting to: Food Justice Action Coordinator and Executive Director

Submit resumes and CV’s to: Celia@mchb.org . Feel free to send along other material that you feel supports your application. Please send your cover letter, resume, and other materials in attachments (please don’t put your cover letter in the body of the email text). Please mention you saw this at FoodWork.ca.

Application deadline: July 18th, 2025 or open until a suitable candidate is found

About the Multicultural Health Brokers (MCHB) Cooperative:

Supporting the health and socio-economic wellbeing of ethnocultural families, breaking the poverty cycle, and helping people reach their potential in a peaceful, just, and interculturally strong society is what the Multicultural Health Brokers Cooperative (MCHB) works to achieve.

Representing over 30 cultural and linguistic groups, the MCHB team of 104 Health Brokers (community health workers) have delivered responsive programs and services to Edmonton’s ethnocultural communities for more than 25 years.

About the Grocery Run (GR):

The Grocery Run is one of the MCHB’s food security strategies responding to urgent family needs for food access. The GR operated in partnership with the Edmonton Food Bank, Leftovers Foundation YEG and volunteers. Working together, GR currently provides weekly essential hampers to over 100 newcomers, refugees, immigrant families and seniors who are experiencing chronic poverty & food insecurity in Edmonton.

The Grocery Run, a weekly food hamper program, began as an interim response program to help families and seniors struggling with crisis or chronic poverty, while more innovative solutions can be pursued. It is a food access hamper program whereby families and seniors of different cultural backgrounds receive fresh produce & pantry staples.

About the Role:

This position is for someone who is passionate about food justice and food dignity, working with ethnocultural populations and would like to cultivate diverse skill sets. Important qualities include a person who is self-directed, works well independently and among a large, dynamic team, able to work in a fast-paced environment, comfortable learning new skills/troubleshooting, appreciates ambiguity and uncertainty, patient and highly flexible.

Full Job Descriptions:

Grocery Run Operations Coordination & Support

• Maintain a dignified food space & respectful workspace for GR recipients, volunteers, and visitors
• Delegate tasks to the Grocery Run team & volunteers to ensure efficiency and safety
• Support the Grocery Run team to oversee and facilitate volunteers' processing, packing and portioning foods according to health & safety & food safety standards
• Ensure food safety standards outlined by Alberta Health Services are met during operations, through proper space set up, food handling & distribution
• Maintain program service delivery tracking records
• Provide the correct number of food hampers for GR recipients, brokers, and volunteers, and assist in loading food hampers into vehicles
• Coordinate with stakeholders to ensure excess hampers are redirected
• Assist with general clean up: sweeping, mopping, sanitizing materials, and common touch points

Volunteer Management:

• Support onboard and orientation of new volunteers to ensure understanding and compliance with safe food handling and protocols, and MCHB privacy and confidentiality of clients accessing the Grocery Run
• Support volunteer tracking and volunteer appreciation activities

Food Donation Coordination & Delivery Reception

• Coordinate with stakeholders to receive food donations
• Maintain inventory, cleanliness and organization of the operation space, and operate pallet jack as required
• Assist with documenting inventory and food donations received to plan food purchasing
• Seek additional opportunities for other food donations
• May require heavy lifting of 50lb

Food & Material Purchasing & Program Budget

• Purchase food and program materials according to the program budget
• Maintain regular communication with Brokers- work with brokers to improve Grocery Run food hampers for the most relevant and priority food items, and support other programs' continuous quality improvement efforts
• Build and maintain a strong working relationship with suppliers and vendors
• Maintain clear and organized invoices to track program expenses

Overall Program Coordination and Support

• Build strong working relationships with internal stakeholders & external stakeholders
• Support Food Justice Action Coordinator and Executive Director with additional tasks such as program reporting, evaluation, program fundraising, grant writing, social media etc. as needed

We are looking for a candidate who has:

• Class 5 Driver's license with regular access to personal vehicle
• Safe Food Handling Certification is required or the willingness to complete the training
• CPR and First Aid Certification is required or the willingness to complete the training
• Ability to communicate effectively via phone, video conference, or electronically with supervisor, key stakeholders, and clients
• High attention to detail, especially pertaining to efficient and accurate documentation
• Experience working in a complex, busy organizational environment and meeting deadlines
• Proficiency in Microsoft applications, particularly Microsoft Excel
• Excellent communication skills and resourcefulness
• Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills
• General knowledge about social determinants of health and food security

Knowledge, qualifications, and experience in the following would be considered valuable assets of the candidate:

• Broad understanding of community-based organizations, city and provincial programs that support individuals living in poverty, especially in the areas of food security and food rescue
• Connections with community health organizations and agencies
• Experience working with newcomers to Canada and individuals with refugee status
• Understanding of pre-migration challenges, resettlement barriers and experience

The Multicultural Health Brokers Cooperative is committed to employment equity and strives to employ a workforce that reflects the communities it serves. We value applications from individuals who are rooted in movements for equity and justice, and will give preference to applications from those who identify with equity- deserving groups (including racialized groups, newcomers & refugees, Indigenous communities, 2SLGBTQI+, people living with disabilities, and those with lived experience of food insecurity).