Careers
Interested in working at Gleaners? The following positions are currently available (EMAIL ONLY. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE):
The Program Coordinator is responsible for the day-to-day coordination of the Cooking Matters Program operated in partnership with Generation with Promise (GWP) of Henry Ford Health (HFH) (.7 FTE/70% of time) The remaining time (.3FTE/30% of time) will support Gleaners’-run nutrition education programming.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities related to GWP Cooking Matters programming (approximately .7 FTE/70% of time) include the following:
• Coordinate Cooking Matters programming in accordance with stated national program
implementation guidelines and USDA SNAP Ed requirements.
• Provide support for other Henry Ford GWP programs as needed, including programming with youth
and seniors.
• Perform administrative tasks which includes but not limited to: maintaining program storage areas; taking inventory of program supplies; shopping for weekly groceries and weekly produce pick up for all Henry Ford GWP programming.
• Produce monthly reporting of program expenses and compile reports of program outcomes.
• Cultivate relationships with schools and community organizations through speaking engagements, culinary and nutrition education, and other activities.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities related to Gleaners’ Nutrition Education Programming
(approximately .3 FTE/30% of time) may include the following:
• As needed, provide facilitation support for Gleaners’-run Cooking Matters’ programming at assigned sites.
• Coordinate/support activities related to virtual programming and social media, such as content creation, production and/or sharing content.
• Communicates regarding special projects and expected deadlines with Program Manager.
• Produce monthly reporting of program expenses and compile reports of program outcomes.
• Support nutrition education programming at mobile and stationary pantries.
• Support Food Zoo Garden activities as directed.
Other Essential Duties and Responsibilities
• Demonstrate and support the Gleaners mission, vision and values throughout all professional responsibilities and activities.
• Promote and enable a positive work environment where team members feel empowered, engaged and connected to Gleaners mission and strategic plan.
• Foster a culture of professionalism, team cohesion and accountability.
• Other duties as assigned.
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Essential Duties and Responsibilities
• Assist with development, organization, and management of major community food drives & fundraising campaigns including, but not limited to, community organizations, schools, hospitals, and corporate partners.
• Work with Community Giving Manager and other Coordinators to support smaller, ad-hoc drives, as necessary.
• Solicit community organizations, corporations, and other local groups to participate in fundraising campaigns and food drives to benefit Gleaners. Solicitations will be made by phone, email, letter, and in other ways as deemed appropriate.
• Provide ongoing and engaging stewardship to ensure donor retention.
• Develop all written materials and mailings for fundraising campaigns and food drives. Prepare and deliver information and materials to participating groups.
• Work closely with communications team to promote fundraising events and food drives through social media, web site, PR.
• Work with Community Giving Manager to schedule and execute drop-offs of donation materials and pickups of food and monetary donations.
• Drive Gleaners vehicle to assist with fundraising events and food drives in the community, as needed.
• Collect all essential information from donors for receiving of monetary and food donations.
• Ensure proper acknowledgement of monetary and food donations by preparing and sending thank you letters to donors.
• Accurately organize and track activities providing weekly status reports and results before, during, and after each fundraising and food drives event.
• Assist with coordination and execution of virtual food drives.
• Provide input in the goal-setting process for major fundraising and food drive campaigns.
• Represent Gleaners as needed at community fundraising and food drive events.
• Demonstrate and support the Gleaners mission, vision and values throughout all professional responsibilities and activities.
• Other duties as assigned.
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Interested parties should send cover letter and résumé to Krista Cierpial.
Posting Date: 9/15/2022
The Position:
The Data Analyst will lead and facilitate the implementation of the Gleaners client data management program.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Bridge data from Gleaners Link2Feed system with other agency data systems.
- Build and maintain tabular and/or visualization reports for regular and/or automated reporting and analysis.
- Become the subject matter expert on Gleaners business intelligence software (Domo)
- Coordinate and communicate between the food bank, other data owners and the business intelligence software organization.
- Participate in meetings and conversations to better understand the food bank’s operational and strategic needs.
- Develop and build processes to capture data integrity issues
- Define new data collection and analysis processes.
- Work to form data management and governance processes.
- Identify patterns and trends in data sets.
- Create document processes, perform data validation and quality assurance analysis and train other on the skills needed to maintain data analytics processes.
- Demonstrate and support the Gleaners mission, vision, and values throughout all professional responsibilities and activities.
- Other duties as assigned.
Application Process:
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Interested parties should send cover letter and résumé to Krista Cierpial.
Posting Date: 10/31/2022
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- 1. Supervise and direct staff and volunteers to ensure food distributions run smoothly and all aspects of distributions are sufficiently covered to ensure achievement of distribution goals.
- 2. Manage food orders and donated deliveries from Forgotten Harvest and other community donors.
- 3. Track and report donations to Gleaners Operations team.
- 4. Establish and maintain adequate records to track inventory coming into Food Hub; maintain inventory accuracy.
- 5. Maintain and update client enrollment documents and other resources for distribution, including client texting service for appointment reminders and alerts.
- 6. Oversee training, supervision and recruitment of volunteers and Food Hub interns; track and report volunteer hours to Gleaners Volunteer team.
- 7. Oversee pantry administrative tasks including enrolling new clients, conducting client intake, scheduling appointments, recording visits, completing program reports, and answering and returning phone calls.
- 8. Ensure adherence to food safety standards by all employees and volunteers.
- 9. Work with building security team to maintain best practices for safety.
- 10. Accomplishes staff job performance results by coaching, encouraging, counseling, and/or disciplining employees; planning, monitoring and appraising job results; conducting training; reinforcing policies and procedures.
- 11. Demonstrate and support the Gleaners mission, vision and values throughout all professional responsibilities and activities.
- 12. Promote and enable a positive work environment where team members feel empowered, engaged and connected to Gleaners mission and strategic plan.
- 13. Foster a culture of professionalism, team cohesion and accountability.
Application Process:
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Interested parties should send cover letter and résumé to Krista Cierpial.
Thank you so much for your interest in helping out Gleaners Community Food Bank.
You will be outside in the elements (sunshine, rain, snow) and on your feet for at least 6 hours a day. You would be working on a team and will be working at 2 different sites in and around metro Detroit. We serve the counties of Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Monroe, and Livingston. You would start at one site in the morning for 3 hours, and then travel to a second site for 3 hours. Food will be dropped off at each site. Your team will be responsible for taking food off of the pallets, organizing, bagging, handing out, and keeping track of all food that is distributed. Different team members will be performing different tasks.
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Posting Date: 11/29/2022
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Develop and distribute weekly orders/menus for CM, SFM, and SrFM food distributions in line with nutritional guidelines, budgetary parameters and site volume performance.
• Lead mobiles food inventory management and tracking in collaboration with warehouse operations team, in line with inventory utilization (FIFO, aging) and budgetary parameters.
• Support director in development of the mobile food and expense forecast, food purchase orders and food performance tracking.
• Conduct SFM/SrFM site partner trainings, including annual civil rights training; program compliance training; and service reporting training.
• Lead in onboarding SFM/SrFM locations, including developing onsite logistics; processing application paperwork; and tracking/updating responses.
• Act as contact point for SFM/SrFM site partner questions, concerns, and support needs.
• Proactively and consistently follow-up and track site compliance with Link to Feed and USDA client service reporting.
• Refine/create consistent program workflows and written SOPs for the SFM and SrFM programs.
• Collaborate with team members on special events and media opportunities.
• Conduct site visits with adherence to Feeding American and USDA guidelines and as needed.
• Demonstrate and support the Gleaners mission, vision and values throughout all professional responsibilities and activities.
• Promote and enable a positive work environment where team members feel empowered, engaged and connected to Gleaners mission and strategic plan.
• Foster a culture of professionalism, team cohesion and accountability.
• Other duties as assigned.
Application Process:
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Interested parties should send cover letter and résumé to Krista Cierpial.
Posting Date: 9/15/2022
The Program Coordinator is a full-time position responsible for the facilitation and day-to-day operations of wellness & nutrition education programming operated by Gleaners Community Food Bank. The position may also support additional Gleaners’ healthcare partnership programming as needed.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Coordinate and facilitate virtual and in-person Cooking Matters (CM) classes for youth, parents and older adults facing food insecurity in Gleaners’ five county service area. Educational content for this program focuses on healthy cooking, nutrition, and food budgeting. Ensure coordination is in accordance with Cooking Matters’ national evidence-based program implementation guidelines.
- Coordinate and implement nutrition education and wellness-related interventions at Gleaner’s food access sites (e.g., food pantries, mobile food distributions) according to program implementation guidelines and the unique needs of the community served by the site.
- Coordinate/support activities related to Gleaners’ virtual programming and social media accounts, such as content creation, production, editing and/or posting content.
- Develop nutrition education materials such as recipes, tip sheets, and video content to support food access sites and their guests.
- Work cross functionally with Gleaners’ Agency Relations, Operations and Marketing & Communications departments to further support partner sites, streamline communication and identify opportunities to expand programming.
- Assist department support staff such as AmeriCorps members, student interns and/or volunteers, with meeting learning objectives.
- Assist with the promotion and outreach to potential sites and volunteers; other administrative tasks as needed.
- Organize and maintain program storage areas; inventory of program supplies, shopping for weekly groceries and produce pick up for all programming
- Administer evaluation tools to partners and community participants as needed; participate in routine quality assurance checks to ensure program fidelity.
- Maintain program records in Excel and other platforms as applicable, including but not limited to, logging, tracking and analysis of program activities and client/site participation. Prepare and submit monthly progress reports.
- Cultivate relationships with schools and community organizations through speaking engagements, nutrition education and other activities.
- Participate in Gleaners’ fundraising activities as needed/per request.
- Demonstrate and support the Gleaners mission, vision and values throughout all professional responsibilities and activities.
- Promote and enable a positive work environment where team members feel empowered, engaged and connected to Gleaners mission and strategic plan.
- Foster a culture of professionalism, team cohesion and accountability.
- Other duties as assigned.
Application Process:
For additional job details and to apply Click Here
Interested parties should send cover letter and résumé to Krista Cierpial.