High School Diploma

JVC Northwest; Alaska; On-site; USD 14,000 - 20,000; Part time

Job summary

JVC Northwest in Anchorage, AK seeks a St. Francis House Client Choice Coordinator to serve in Alaska's largest food pantry, developing programs to address client preferences, health needs, and cultural specificity in a drive-thru model.

The position is part-time and outdoors, offering boots-on-the-ground engagement with clients ranging from elders to families experiencing housing instability, while collaborating with staff and donors to connect people with community resources.

Qualifications

• Expressed interest in issues of food sovereignty.
• Outdoors work and boots-on-the-ground community engagement may be required.

Responsibilities

• Develop client-choice programs addressing preferences, health needs, and cultural specificity in the drive-thru pantry model.
• Serve outdoors part-time and build relationships with clients while coordinating with program staff.
• Assist with daily food pantry operations and food distribution.
• Design and implement client-choice programs, such as culturally specific food boxes and nutrition education.
• Coordinate volunteers, respond to emails, and assist donors at St. Francis House.

Skills

Relationship-building

Community outreach

Client engagement

Education

High School Diploma

Job description

Opportunities to serve with JVC Northwest exist in the five beautiful states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska in remote, rural, and urban settings. Click the pins to read about each locale.

Jesuit Volunteers also have the opportunity to serve in other US regions through our sibling organization, Jesuit Volunteer Corps .

Below is a list of opportunities organized by location and by category of service. As part of your application to become a Jesuit Volunteer, we’ll ask about your service preferences, but we ask all applicants to be open to where the need is greatest, and we may ask you to consider options you had not initially thought about. Visit The JV Experience to learn more about the application process and please contact us if you have any questions.

• Children and Families
• Current or formerly incarcerated
• Immigrants and Refugees
• Indigenous Communities
• Individual with physical or intellectual disabilities
• Latinx communities
• LGBTQIA2S+ communities
• Seniors/Elders
• Survivors of DVSA
• Teens/At-Risk/Opportunity Youth
• Individuals experiencing housing instability and/or houselessness
• Individuals with mental illness
• Other

Other Issues and Roles

• Ability/Disability Resources
• Food and Hunger
• Health and Health Education

Brief Position Description:

The St. Francis House Client Choice Coordinator will serve in Anchorage, Alaska's largest food pantry and develop programs to address challenges of individual preference, health/dietary needs, and cultural specificity in the drive-thru food pantry model. This position will serve part-time outdoors and is a boots-on-the-ground, relationship-building role. As such, the JV/AmeriCorps member will also serve closely with program staff to connect clients with community resources that are specific to their needs

Day in Life of JV

The JV/AmeriCorps member will arrive at service at 8:00 am to help program staff (a client coordinator and two pantry assistants) prepare for daily food pantry operations. The JV/AmeriCorps member will be serving outdoors when the food pantry is open from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm, assisting with food distribution (this includes frequently and repetitively lifting 40+ lbs food boxes) and building relationships with clients. Clients will range from elders to refugee and immigrant families with language barriers to people experiencing homelessness. During these hours, the JV/AmeriCorps member will implement any client-choice programs they have designed, such as offering a culturally specific food box or providing nutritional education that addresses a particular health condition. When the pantry closes, they will take a 30-minute lunch break before returning to service. From 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm, the JV/AmeriCorps member will engage in a combination of researching/designing client-choice programs and/or implementing those strategies. Examples include packing meal kits, coordinating a group of volunteers to pack meal kits, responding to emails, and other computer-based tasks. JV/AmeriCorps member will also engage while assisting SFH donors.

Required & Preferred Skills

Education Requirements

High School Diploma

Driver's License Requirement

No

Vehicle Requirement

Nature of Driving

Spanish Language Requirement

No requirement other than English

Preferred Spanish Language Level

No requirement other than English

Additional Languages and Level Preferred

Required experience, qualities, or specialized training

Expressed interest in issues of food sovereignty.

Preferred experience, qualities or specialized training

Bilingual in Spanish, Tagalog, Korean, Samoan, Russian or Ukrainian.