Job Description

Position Type: Non-Exempt

Wages: Living allowance of $2,823 paid by AmeriCorps Campus Compact

Position Overview

Available Positions: 5

This is a temporary full-time (40 hrs/week) position starting June 3rd and ending August 12th.

Missoula Food Bank & Community Center seeks AmeriCorps summer staff to help ensure success of the summer Kids Table program. The AmeriCorps staff help supervise and support volunteers in preparing meals for community families. The AmeriCorps staff will lead an open meal site, including planning and implementing engagement activities, connecting families with additional resources, providing a safe place for children, and supervising volunteers who assist at meal sites.

Missoula Food Bank & Community Center is a non-partisan, anti-racist, LGBTQ2s+ ally organization. All service members sign a Code of Conduct agreeing to behave within these values while serving as part of our team.

Weekly activities:

• Support summer meal sites through meal distribution and engaging participants, 2-5 hours each day (40%).
• Lead and support volunteers in meal production, 2-4 hours each day (40%)
• Organizational reporting and record keeping, developing engagement programming, attending trainings and meetings, 2-3 hours each week (10%)
• Support other services offered by MFB&CC: store and pantry services, twice monthly senior and homebound individual’s home-delivery nutrition programs, and weekly distribution of weekend backpack program, 1-2 hours each week (5%)
• AmeriCorps meetings and reporting, 1 hour each week (5%)

Benefits:

• End-of-service Education Award of $1,459.26. Eligible for Education Award matching programs at many Colleges and Universities.
• Option for temporary hire by Missoula Food Bank & Community Center with same job duties May 27-June 2 and August 12-27 at $15/hour
• No work June 19th in honor of Juneteenth, or July 4-5th in honor of Independence Day
• Daily one hour paid lunch break, with lunch provided.
• Professional development and traiing opportunities
• Possible internship credit, if desired

More Information

Missoula Food Bank & Community Center’s mission is to lead the movement to end hunger through advocacy, volunteerism, and healthy food for all. We nourish community.

We are a private, non-profit organization with a 42-year history of filling the hunger gap in Missoula County. In 2023, we served 1 in 5 people countywide. MFB&CC pursues our mission through direct nutrition program and through advocacy effort that impact the upstream causal issues of food insecurity. We have been carrying out this model of service since 1982 and take tremendous pride in the diverse network of support that keeps our community nourished, our food service programs effective, and our organization healthy.

Missoula Food Bank & Community Center is an anti-racist, LGBTQ2S+ ally organization.  BIPOC and gender diverse applicants are encouraged to apply.

To Apply

Email a cover letter and resume to Ashley Clark at aclark@missoulafoodbank.org. 

Applications are due by April 22, 2024

Visit the Campus Compact Montana website for more program information.