Waste Less Solutions is a local non-profit organization who aims to reduce food waste in Utah through education, prevention, and diversion. As part of our mission, we operate a food rescue program. We utilize a smartphone app and our large contingency of volunteers who rescue edible surplus food that would otherwise go to waste from food producers, caterers, cafeterias, restaurants, farmers, farmers markets and backyard gardens and transport it to receiving agencies to feed those who are food insecure. Additionally, we focus on education. Education is the core of our mission as our goal is to reduce food waste. We seek to educate the community on the problem of food waste on our environment and how to reduce their food waste at home as well as how to be good stewards in the community.
We have been in existence for almost seven years and are experiencing a great amount of growth. We are in Salt Lake, Box Elder and Weber County. Now we are looking to launch in Summit County, with an initial focus on the Park City area. We are a small team doing big things so we are looking for someone who is a go getter, driven, wants to be part of the solution, thinks creatively, takes ownership, is connected in the Park City area and is able to implement their creative ideas to help us continue to grow. This position is part-time and the pay is hourly. The ideal candidate needs to reside in Park City. The right candidate would be joining a great group of very passionate people who want to make a difference in our community and our world!
Responsibilities
- Creative thinker passionate about food, the environment and feeding people in need.
- Collaborate with the CEO to identify leads and partners to launch food rescue in Park City, seek to have conversations and build relationships with these partners.
- Seek events to attend to get the word out about our program to recruit community partners, food donors, receiving agencies and volunteers.
- Work with nonprofit partners to build processes to ensure surplus edible food gets to people in need.
- Research food landscape and seek applicable partnerships to get the word out.
- Be willing to do last minute rescues or help with large-scale rescues as needed
- Work with new potential food donors to implement sustainable rescue processes.
- Oversee reporting to ensure tracking against program funding.
Qualifications
- Preference is for candidate to reside in Summit County.
- Be a self-starter, organized, and proactive.
- Be personable and customer service-focused, conscious to put your best foot forward in every interaction with food donors, receiving agencies, and volunteers.
- Has experience and passion for our food system.
- Comfortable facilitating conversations with all levels of partners, community members, businesses and volunteers.
- Have preexisting connections with the Park City community, businesses, nonprofit organizations, and networking groups.
- Have a vehicle, clean driving record and able to spend 2-4 hours a week visiting potential food donors.
- Be willing to take risks and pilot ideas to help solve a societal need.
- Must have access to an internet connection and work from home space.
- Be able to work 10-20 hours a week. Some of these hours being nights and weekends.
Salary
- Hourly position working approximately 20-25 hours per week.
- Pay range is approximately $28-35 an hour.
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