Harvey Kornblum Jewish Food Pantry Director

Job Description

Job Description

Summary :

The Food Pantry Director ensures that more than 15,000 people each year in the St. Louis region receive the food they need by inspiring, motivating and managing a diverse team of volunteers and staff. The Food Pantry Director ensures safe, effective and efficient operations by implementing and enforcing policies and procedures, planning and coordinating day-to-day activities, and building community relationships to ensure sufficient procurement of food.

Essential Functions

• Recruits, hires, trains, motivates, and supervises all pantry staff and volunteers.
• Ensures adequate staff and volunteer coverage.
• Ensures sufficient procurement and effective distribution of food.
• Develops and ensures effective staff and volunteer training, coordination and supervision.
• Oversees day-to-day activities of staff and volunteers.
• Oversees and ensures safe and effective implementation of all food pantry services, as well as all associated administrative operations and activities.
• Reviews, updates, and maintains food pantry protocols and standards. Ensures that all federal and state policies, guidelines, and regulations for client care are met.
• Evaluates and monitors established client outcomes and service outputs. Prepares and provides summary reports to JFS’s Performance and Quality Improvement (PQI) committee and other reports as required by outside agencies and donors.
• Maintains demographic and service data and reports weekly, monthly and annually.
• Facilitates and documents ongoing and annual performance evaluations for staff.
• Facilitates ongoing communications with pantry staff and volunteers.
• Analyzes operational procedures and implements new strategies to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
• Manages food pantry budget of $1M and maintains control of operations and costs.
• Collaborates with JFS grant writer, and writes grant applications and grant reports as requested.
• Supports relevant board committees as assigned.
• Represents JFS and the Harvey Kornblum Jewish Food Pantry throughout the community and provides outreach, as requested, for the purposes of program awareness, education, and promoting cooperation and collaboration in support of the food pantry.
• Monitors and maintains facility, equipment and vehicles, and communicates with leadership regarding capital needs, cleaning, repair, and overall safety issues.

Additional Responsibilities

Qualifications

To be successful in this position, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skills and / or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with varying abilities to perform the essential functions.

Education : Bachelor’s degree in business or non-profit management or equivalent experience.

Work Experience : A minimum of five years of experience in program management

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Licenses, Certifications and Professional Affiliations : N / A

Supervisory Responsibilities :

Food Pantry Assistants

Operations and Supply Chain Supervisor

Administrative Support Staff

Volunteers

Work Environment

Work is typically performed in an office, warehouse and outdoor environment.

Physical Demands

This position requires prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer, as well as prolonged periods of walking, standing and lifting containers of food. Must be able to lift up to 25 pounds. The potential exists for stressful and emotionally charged encounters with clients and / or family members.

Travel

Travel may be required for picking up and / or dropping off donations and client food packages.

Other

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this position. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

JFS provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.