Traveling Program Supervisor

Feed My Starving Children is dedicated to providing meals for children in need, and they are seeking a Traveling Program Supervisor to oversee MobilePack™ events. This role involves supervising logistics, leading a team, and ensuring a positive volunteer experience during food packing events.

Responsibilities

• Supervise local and out-of-state MobilePack™ events
• Complete pre- and post- event logistics and administrative tasks
• Lead a team of FMSC staff on events
• Supervise Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) food packing processes
• Facilitate volunteer experiences through hospitality and authentic connections, ask for donations, uphold safety and compliance, and perform general labor and warehousing tasks
• Travel to and from MobilePack™ events, encompassing both air travel, rental and/or personal vehicle usage
• Supervise and execute events: coordinate on-site logistics, manage food production, and cultivate cooperative relationships with event hosts before, during and after events
• Lead and provide work direction to Volunteer Program Facilitators
• Assist with training peers
• Perform all aspects of Volunteer Program Facilitator duties at events as necessary, including:
• Orchestrate packing sessions. Anticipate needs, think ahead, troubleshoot problems and be flexible with the unpredictability of a volunteer workforce
• Create an impactful and dynamic volunteer experience. Tell volunteers about our mission and invite them to volunteer again. Provide exceptional hospitality. Warmly greet volunteers, create a great first impression, answer questions, authentically thank them and express how important their contribution is to FMSC
• Give large group presentations that include food impact stories and information about FMSC
• Ask volunteers to donate. Share how volunteers can invest in feeding kids with their time, finances and prayers
• Clean, label inventory, palletize boxes, and set up/ tear down supplies
• Direct volunteers on how to safely pack food and handle supplies
• Monitor the time, manage transitions, flex with changing production needs and track production
• Lead a Christian prayer over packaged food and invite volunteers to join
• Conduct transactions on a cash register
• Confirm and finalize pre-event details: introductory meetings, paperwork, travel plans, logistics, etc
• Finalize post-event tasks: record food production, reconcile expenses and merchandise sales, provide feedback, etc
• Operate powered industrial forklift and pallet jack to organize, load and unload inventory (training provided)
• Uphold food safety, food quality, volunteer safety and personnel safety policies and procedures. Ensure compliance
• Perform other duties as assigned

Skills

• Passionate about FMSC's Christian mission and living it out in the workplace
• Must be 21 years of age or older
• Must have a valid driver's license and proof of the minimum insurance coverage as required by law
• Minimum of associate's degree and 1 year of leadership experience
• Strong leadership skills; able to be assertive, coordinate, delegate and positively motivate a team
• Able to exert yourself physically for a 8+ hour shift
• Able to walk and stand nearly continually
• Able to crouch, push, pull, lift 30-50 lbs. repeatedly, bend, twist, and use hand tools like utility knives
• Able to climb in and out of a trailer
• Thrives in a team setting
• Comfortable independently navigating through travel logistics (airports, rental cars, etc.)
• Enthusiastic, assertive and confident when sharing information with groups and individuals
• Focused on hospitality: recognize and meet volunteer needs
• Able to identify and solve problems
• Responsible and able to use good judgment and discretion
• Excellent organizational skills with a high degree of attention to detail, accuracy and follow-up
• Proficient with Microsoft Office and database systems
• Respect and value FMSC's volunteers and supporters, varying in beliefs, backgrounds and abilities
• Able to tolerate consistent exposure to soy (an allergen)
• Supervisory experience preferred

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k) with employer match
• PTO
• FSA
• Dental
• Vision

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