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Good Food Project Manager

412 Food Rescue
Pittsburgh, PA Full Time
POSTED ON 2/5/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 3/5/2025
412 FOOD RESCUE JOB POSTING

TITLE: Good Food Project Manager

FLSA: Exempt

HOURS: Full-time

SALARY: $51,000-56,000

Summary

A Pittsburgh Technology Council Tech 50 winner for Company Culture, 412 Food Rescue is leveraging technology to solve last-mile food recovery challenges through our groundbreaking Food Rescue Hero app, which has mobilized over 56,000 volunteer drivers. Our zero waste kitchen, the Good Food Project, is seeking a motivated Kitchen Manager to join our innovative team. In this role, you'll ensure meaningful impact and engagement by crafting healthy meals from rescued foods and cultivating relationships with individual and corporate group volunteers. As a key member of our Initiatives department, you’ll help drive our ambitious growth strategy by leading a sustainable and impactful production kitchen, supporting and strengthening our other food recovery programs; and helping us define and refine our strategies through data-driven decisions within an organization that has been recognized by Fast Company, .ORG, and Stanford Social Innovation Review.

Position Overview

The Good Food Project Manager is a pivotal role within the Initiatives team: exploring diverse approaches to impacting food insecurity while fostering positive volunteer and donor engagement.

Managing a production kitchen offering daily hands-on volunteer experiences, and maintaining the relationships, facilities, and information required to sustain an innovative program, this role blends strategic and creative thinking, as well as strong relationship skills to positively impact food security and stakeholder engagement.

You’ll oversee a unique food production facility, its partner and vendor relations, and a rotating team of volunteers, as well as collecting and reporting on data for the Initiatives department.

Primary Responsibilities

Kitchen Management & Impact

  • Daily management of ~5 volunteers in complex food preparation
  • Maximize quality and efficiency of food preparation and distribution
  • Upkeep product and facilities in accordance with industry best standards and practices

Volunteer & Donor Stewardship

  • Support Advancement and Community Engagement Manager in corresponding with individual volunteers
  • Consistently provide a safe, memorable, and inclusive volunteer experience
  • Represent and share the values and mission of 412 Food Rescue to all stakeholders
  • Assist and support cross-departmental campaigns and digital communication strategies

Data Management & Insights

  • Maintain and manage production, impact and waste data for Good Food Project, oversee data aggregation for all Initiatives Department programs
  • Generate reports and actionable insights to drive program decisions

Cross-Department Collaboration

  • Align program strategies and activities with organizational goals and campaigns
  • Represent Initiatives department in Operations Management meetings

What You Bring:

  • Minimum 2 years of professional kitchen experience and/or culinary training
  • Minimum 1 year food service management experience
  • Servsafe Manager Certification (can be obtained upon hire)
  • Hospitality mindset

Why You’ll Love Working With 412 Food Rescue:

  • Mission-Driven Impact: Be part of a team solving food insecurity and food waste every day.
  • Benefits that Support You: Health, dental, and vision insurance, generous PTO, 403(b) with employer match, and professional development opportunities
  • Dynamic Work Environment Flex your creativity while directly addressing food waste and hunger.

We value diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging and are encouraging applications from veterans; people of color; those who identify as women, non-binary, two-spirit, or gender queer; and people who are LGBTQ .

A Full Job Description Can Be Found Here.

Ready to Join Us?

Submit your resume and cover letter to greg@412foodrescue.org with "Good Food Project Manager" in the subject line. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.

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