Local food, Social enterprise

Job Opportunity with Roots CFC

Position: Manager - Community Food Markets
Organization: Roots Community Food Centre
Location: Thunder Bay, Ontario

This position will assist with multiple aspects of the organization but primarily the Community Food Markets and social enterprise products.

The Basics:

• Job Term: Full time, permanent - Some weekend and evening work will be required (and organized ahead of time).
• Start: After May 15th, before June 1st.
• Wage: $25.00/hr; 40 hrs/week
• Vacation and holiday time: 2 weeks paid vacation (accrues each pay period), 1 week paid time off between Christmas and New Year’s, 3 extra statutory holidays (National Indigenous People’s Day, Truth and Reconciliation Day, Easter Monday).
• Benefits: Comprehensive benefits package paid 100% by Roots CFC after 3 months. After 1 year, the option to opt into a group savings plan through RBC – RRSP or TFSA options – Roots matches up to 2% in the first year and increases over time.

About us:

Roots Community Food Centre is first and foremost about working with people, particularly those experiencing food insecurity. We seek to create meaningful opportunities to engage our community, using food as the medium to connect with the community and each other. We work hard to find the delicate balance between challenge and achievement in all our programs and projects.

Our approach:

Roots Community Food Centre is a small, grassroots organization that works in many sectors of our community. Every position involves elements of organizational development and maintenance. We aim to foster a workplace that is transparent, inclusive, progressive, and productive. As staff, we work collaboratively, we work hard, we do what needs to be done and we try to keep the big picture in mind.

There’s no real typical day at Roots CFC, and schedules often change depending on the weather, who shows up or what’s going on in the world. We work hard to be nimble and adaptable for the changing needs of the folks we work with. It is a supportive work environment, and it is also a fast paced, multifaceted, energizing and rewarding work environment that will challenge you.

We welcome applications from all ages and backgrounds and hope that a diversity of community members will see themselves as a good fit for this position.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate food ordering, procurement and inventory for 6 or more weekly food markets;
• Record keeping, price comparisons and tracking;
• Operate onsite and offsite local Community Food Market locations;
• Manage and trouble shoot point-of-sale systems locally and remotely;
• Training community members and volunteers on point-of-sale systems and market processes;
• Communicate with and support remote Community Food Markets;
• Periodic evaluation of Community Food Market impacts;
• Establish and maintain a welcoming space and atmosphere for community members;
• As needed, help to coordinate and fulfill social purpose enterprise food activities such as granola, canning and preserves and apple cider;
• Assist kitchen team with kitchen maintenance and upkeep;
• Assist in wholesaling social enterprise and garden produce;
• Assist the programs and teams to operate and maintain urban farm spaces;
• Work closely with program facilitators to deliver community food programs

Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience:

• Demonstrated ability to work respectfully with others, including in a facilitation role;
• Demonstrated ability to work within a diverse community (people of different ages, abilities, cultural backgrounds etc);
• Effective communication and organizational skills;
• Excellent customer service skills;
• Experience with point-of-sale systems, excel-sheet tracking, report writing an asset;
• Demonstrated ability to problem solve in the moment;
• Valid Class G drivers license with a clean driving record and access to a reliable vehicle;
• Current safe food handling and first aid certification (or willingness to get) within the first three months of employment;
• Up to date Covid-19 vaccination record;
• Ability to lift 50lbs repeatedly

Please submit a cover letter and resume by email or in person by Thursday April 30th at 4:00 pm. Email to maryd@rootscfc.org with the job title in the subject or drop off at 450 Fort William Rd, Monday to Friday, 8:30 – 4:30 pm (attn: Mary deBakker).

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