• Use your excellent stakeholder and relationship management and engagement skills and effective organisational skills to lead a dynamic volunteer team improving food security in Darebin and to engage with community, businesses and services to extend DIVRS's reach to more people and to increase the diversity of our volunteers.
• Join an organisation that is energetic, passionate, innovative, champions social justice and sustainability and has been working with the Darebin community for more than 30 years.
• Part-time 22 hours per week. Some flexible work and not-for-profit salary packaging (such as up to $15,900 for everyday living expenses per FBT year) available.
• Contract to 30 June 2024.

THE ROLE

This is a role for someone passionate about community, engagement, building partnerships, food security, health and nutrition with excellent stakeholder management and engagement skills.

Food Sharing Coordination: Our Food Services team supports the effective operation of our Community Information and Support Program including emergency relief and food relief. We share fresh food, pantry goods and frozen meals with people in Darebin on no or low income or experiencing financial stress. Our aim is to increase people’s access to healthy and nutritious food that has travelled low food miles and to ensure consistent and varied fresh food supply. The role manages more than 30 volunteers and works closely with the Health and Wellbeing Program Leader and the Urban Food Program Leader to source and share food with our community and promote nutrition and healthy eating.

Volunteer and Community Engagement: DIVRS is a volunteer powered organisation with a small part-time staff and more than 100 volunteers and students across our programs. We have many and varied partnerships across government, business, education and community which helps us deliver on our mission to connect people to opportunity, community and support.

The role engages with community, businesses and services to extend our reach to more people and to increase the diversity of our volunteers, considering barriers to access and how we can work together to support the Darebin community. This includes extending our reach to and considering how we work with young people, people in public housing, people living with a disability, culturally and linguistically diverse people and First Nations peoples. The role also works on engagement projects, responding to organisational and community strengths and needs.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Food Sharing Coordination

• Coordinate logistics of sourcing, collection, warehousing, merchandising and sharing of all DIVRS food resources including rostering volunteers.
• Recruit, onboard, train and supervise volunteers and students on placement creating an engaging and well-managed experience for them.
• Develop health and food literacy resources for people we share food with.
• Increase quantity, quality and access to low and no cost food for sharing to meet the growing need of households experiencing food insecurity.
• Develop and maintain partnerships with food suppliers.
• Develop and maintain partnerships with local community services to increase food relief support to Darebin residents experiencing food insecurity at outreach sites.
• Implement new programs aligned with DIVRS’s purpose to address food insecurity and promote social connection.
• Work with the Executive Officer to manage the Foodstore and Food Services budget.
• Manage the DIVRS van, fridges, freezers and other equipment including maintenance and cleaning.
• Develop promotional material, social media and website content as needed.
• Data collection and reporting.

Volunteer and Community Engagement

• Promote DIVRS’s volunteer opportunities including to diverse communities.
• Develop partnerships to increase access to volunteering and strengthen volunteer pathways.
• Engage with local community organisations, peak bodies and others to strengthen pathways for systemically disadvantaged and excluded communities to access DIVRS programs and services.
• Develop and implement new engagement projects in response to DIVRS and community strengths and needs.
• Assist the Administration Officer with organising whole of DIVRS volunteer gatherings.
• Develop promotional material, social media and website content as needed.
• Data collection and reporting.

ABOUT YOU

• Tertiary qualifications in community development, community services, health promotion or a related field.
• Excellent ability to communicate with people from diverse backgrounds and strong relationship management, verbal communication and engagement skills.
• Experience leading and coordinating volunteers (or related experience) with the ability to work sensitively, respectfully and with flexibility when working with volunteers and an understanding of the role of volunteers and how to empower them.
• Effective prioritisation, organisational and problem-solving skills, with sound judgement.
• Ability to take initiative, be adaptable and work collaboratively with others.
• Good written communication skills.
• Resonate with our values and bring kindness, a willingness to listen and positivity to how you work.
• Current driver’s licence.

WORKING WITH US

You will be joining an organisation that is energetic, passionate, innovative and champions social justice and sustainability. We value all people from all walks of life. As a team, we co-create a culture of connection, communication, learning, respect and making time for joy in our day.

ABOUT DIVRS

DIVRS is a not-for-profit, volunteer powered organisation working with people living, studying and volunteering in Darebin. Our mission is to connect people to opportunity, community and support. We reduce financial stress and social isolation. We increase access to community information and build capability. We promote health and well-being, inclusion and sustainability. We create opportunities for community participation. DIVRS offers a service that is free, confidential and impartial and recognises peoples right to make their own decisions.

To submit your application, click Apply Now. We are reviewing applications as they come in and will be interviewing suitable people before the closure date so we suggest you apply as soon as you can.

Please call Christina DiPierdomenico, Executive Officer on 9480 8202 if you’d like to discuss this opportunity.

A position description is attached.