Who We Are

The Atlanta Community Food Bank is working to end hunger in our community with the food, people and big ideas needed so that no one worries where their next meal is coming from. Since 1979, we’ve been providing food for a growing network of nonprofit partners – including food pantries, community kitchens, childcare centers, night shelters and senior centers. We currently serve more than 700 partners in 29 counties across metro Atlanta and north Georgia.

Where You’ll Work

Network Growth / Partner Relations

About The Role

This role is responsible for implementing our learning cohort through transforming access together. The Learning Cohort is comprised of group of 10 Food Bank partners who share their experiences and work together to co-create tools that support each other in discovering, developing, and implementing neighbor-centered practices. The Learning Cohort was established to support the implementation of our Transforming Access Together initiative. Utilizing this initiative, we are able to work collectively with our partners to increase food access and enhance the service experience for our neighbors in need.

The individual in this role will provide both administrative and operational assistance to our Network Cohort partners. Some of the key responsibilities include analyzing, summarizing, and evaluating information throughout and at the conclusion of each cohort cycle. This role reports directly to the Network Cohort Manager

What You’ll Do

Collaboration with Partner Agencies in Cohorts:

Share stories of partner agency successes through our cohort website, social media, partner newsletter and other forms of communication to internal staff and external stakeholders
Track prototype (Action/tool/tactic) implementation that supports the organization neighbor-centered practices
Track and notate any cohort(s) changes on our internal and external platform(s).
Support execution of a piece of our strategic framework (Transforming Access Together)
Collaborate cross-functionally within the team and across departments to proactively address issues and troubleshoot problems
Organize, maintain, and document processes
Assist partners with understanding timeframes, forms/application deadlines and the overall grant process
Track impact metrics

Our Inclusive Hiring Process

At the Atlanta Community Food Bank, we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We understand that skills can be gained through a variety of experiences – educational, work and life. Towards that end, our Inclusive Hiring process is grounded in a skill-based hiring approach. That means, we are looking for resumes that demonstrate key transferrable skills that can be applied to our job roles to support both our mission and culture.

Key Competencies we look for in All our Food Bankers are:

Customer Focus
Decision Making
Accountability
The Ability to adapt and Navigate Change

What You’ll Need: Skills and Experiences your resume should demonstrate:

Strong Microsoft Office Skills, especially in PowerPoint design and Excel
Familiarity with Microsoft 365 (sharepoint, teams)
Excellent professional verbal and written communication skills. Communicate comprehensively with internal and external stakeholders.
Project coordination and/or coordination of multiple priorities and meeting assigned deadlines.
Professional demeanor and excellent judgment

This role may be a fit for you if you have:

Incredible relationship-building skills, able to comfortably interface with a diverse set of constituents.
The ability to manage multiple priorities and work under tight deadlines.
If you are creative
If you are collaborative and enjoy working as part of a team.

There may be some Physical Demands and Travel:??

?? The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.??

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Expected travel time for this position is up to 15% per year (1-2 times a month)
Must have a reliable vehicle and a valid driver’s license
Expectation:??

We are committed to providing employees with an environment of mutual respect in which the values of Diversity, Safety, Continuous Improvement, and Hard work are supported and encouraged.? We work diligently to engender fairness, responsibility, trustworthiness and teamwork to advance our mission: To fight hunger by engaging, educating, and empowering our community.????

Final Thoughts:???

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At the Atlanta Community Food Bank, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.??

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