START/END DATE: 9/3/2024 - 8/31/2025
FamilyWorks:
FamilyWorks partners with families to alleviate food insecurity and ensure they have resources and support to overcome systemic barriers to equity, build stable communities, and thrive. We operate two brick-and-mortar food banks as well as 10+ mobile sites and home grocery delivery service. Through our Family Resource Center, we offer family programming like playgroups, parenting classes and essential resources like diapers and kids’ clothing.
United Way of King County:
United Way of King County’s vision is to build a community where people have homes, students graduate, and families are financially stable. As part of our work to end poverty, we are committed to ensuring that children, particularly children of color, have access to healthy food in the places where they live, learn, and play.
Everyone deserves access to nutritious and culturally relevant food, but during the COVID-19 pandemic, local experts estimate that hunger in our community tripled. Low-income families and families of color were disproportionately impacted by the pandemic and are experiencing hunger at unprecedented rates. United Way is working to support an equitable recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic in our community, by developing and scaling high-impact strategies to reduce food insecurity.
You will join a dynamic cohort of direct service AmeriCorps members working in partnership with United Way staff, AmeriCorps, school districts, and community-based organizations to connect families with the food they need.
Your Role:
Our HungerCorps member will support FamilyWorks in expanding our Food Access Program, including Home Delivery, our Mobile Food Pantry program and Online Marketplace, reaching over 800 households across North Seattle who face barriers to accessing food through the traditional food bank model.
Member roles and responsibilities include:
- Facilitate an efficient and quality food distribution at our Wallingford location and through our mobile pantry sites
- Respond to participant requests via drop-in visits and over the phone
- Assist in supervising and delegating volunteer tasks
- Receive and record deliveries, rotate stock and monitor inventory levels
- Process incoming pallets; unpack, sort and store product
- Plan weekly menus and pack bags
- Assist with food sourcing to meet various dietary needs and expand our culturally specific food choices
- Complete grocery rescue and other local pick-ups as needed
- Assist with data entry and monthly reports
- Attend staff meetings, conferences and other meetings as required.
- Maintain a clean, orderly facility that meets or exceeds sanitary and safety guidelines/regulations
As a part of this team, you will be supported with a robust orientation, ongoing training, and the tools and resources you need to be successful. Full training and certification provided.
Benefits & Compensation
- Bi-weekly stipend of $1,385.18 (pre-tax)
- $7,395 Education Award upon successful completion of service
- Loan deferment and payment of interest accrued during service year on qualified student loans (loans must be federally-backed; personal/private loans not eligible)
- Health benefits that meet the minimum standards of ACA compliance
- Unlimited free transportation with a pre-paid ORCA Card
- Childcare assistance
- 10 days sick leave, 10 days personal leave plus 11 federal holidays
- Enrollment in an assistance program with 24-hour access to phone counseling
- Access to emergency assistance program to mitigate unforeseen financial emergencies that put your continued participation in AmeriCorps service at risk
- Lifelong friends and colleagues who are passionate about service!
Eligibility
- 18 years of age or older
- US citizen, US national, or lawful permanent residents, or persons legally residing in a state. Persons legally residing in a state include (but not limited to) those having the following legal residency classifications: refugee status, asylum or asylee status, temporary protected status, deferred action for childhood arrivals (DACA) status. Unfortunately, F1 Visas are not sufficient.
- Available full-time (40 hours per week) from September 3, 2024, to August 29, 2025
- Must go through background check
Desired Qualifications:
- Self-starters who are passionate about supporting their community and public service
- Experience working independently in high-energy environments
- Flexible, resourceful, and adaptable
- Ability to build relationships and effectively communicate information to a broad audience, including conducting outreach to parents, youth and other community members
- Experience working with diverse populations and an ability to apply a racial equity lens towards anti-hunger work
- Second language skill (especially Spanish, Somali, Amharic, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Russian, or Ukrainian) is highly desirable so that we can offer services to families in their preferred or native languages.
- Consistent access to a personal vehicle is needed. Members who travel between service sites will receive mileage reimbursement at IRS standard rates
Members will frequently move or lift boxes weighing up to 30 pounds. This position may frequently involve service in outdoor weather conditions, and may involve standing, walking, or moving around the service location for the duration of a shift. This position frequently communicates with staff and community members, and must be able to exchange accurate information.
Commitment to Equity in Hiring: Hunger and poverty disproportionately hurt the most marginalized people in society — including people of color, people from working class backgrounds, women, and people who identify as LGBTQ+. We believe that these communities must be centered in the work we do. We strongly encourage applications from people with these identities or who are members of other marginalized communities.
To Apply: Create an application on My AmeriCorps Portal or click here: https://my.americorps.gov/mp/listing/viewListing.do?fromSearch=true&id=105666
- No resume or cover letter is required.
- The application process moves quickly, please expect a response within 1-2 days.
- Please contact unitedwayamericorps@uwkc.org with any questions.