Nourish Program Coordinator
Jewish Family Services of Washtenaw County
Operations
United States · Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Posted on Oct 1, 2025
Job Details
Company HQ - Ann Arbor, MI
Full Time
High School
Nonprofit - Social Services
Description
- Assist in the food production and maintenance of the commercial kitchen
- Food production duties
- Ensure compliance with the applicable regulations, ServSafe program, and local health department regulations
- Assist with receiving, checking temperatures, and putting away deliveries. Following FIFO guidelines
- Ability to read and follow recipes (multi-step written and oral instructions)
- Math skills sufficient to comprehend and manipulate weights and measures.
- Able to operate, maintain and clean steam, electric and gas cooking equipment
- Monitor equipment and facilitate maintenance activities
- Assist managerial staff in the costing and budgeting for the kitchen.
- Post relevant information needed for staff and volunteers in appropriate places
- Interact with clients and community sites for coordination and quality assurance
- Understand and comply completely with all policies, procedures, standards, specifications, guidelines, directives, assignments, and training programs.
- Supervise and provide guidance, to volunteers, for interns/Americorp staff
- Volunteer Services responsibilities
- Promote and provides a positive volunteer experience
- Train and organizes tasks for volunteers
- Supervise volunteer groups and reports back to Volunteer Services if required
- Provide instruction to volunteers on key safety and cleaning tasks
- Assign activities
- Oversee the safety of volunteers
- Help in the administrative duties of Nourish Nutrition Services by assisting as a back up to managerial staff. Duties would include:
- Monitoring of databases for new referrals
- Tracking and organizing food pantry reservations
- Providing routes to volunteers
- Entering in software programs visits and usage data
- Ordering of meals and food
- Assist in the Food Pantry by preparing orders, stocking, and delivering items as needed.
- Deliver food items utilizing safe transport practices
Qualifications
- Ability to multi task
- Experience working with a diverse population of clients
- Must have working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Outlook, and Excel
- Must have excellent organizational skills to work in a team-oriented, fast-paced environment
- Proficient knife skills
- Able to operate all food service equipment
- Proficient in food prep for large groups
Physical Qualifications
- Constant use of manual dexterity, auditory and visual skills and gross motor skills with frequent use of bi-manual dexterity and fine motor skills.
- Ability to use the sense of smell and the sense of taste to recognize and distinguish odors and flavors.
- Can be frequently exposed to hot water, garbage disposals and cleaning chemicals.
- Ability to reach, bend, twist, squat, kneel, push and pull.
- Ability to lift/carry up to 30 pounds.