Community Food Engagement Coordinator - Midlands

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About Harvest Hope Food Bank

Embark on a fulfilling journey at Harvest Hope Food Bank, where your talents play a vital role in our mission to end hunger. As the largest hunger-relief organization in South Carolina, serving 20 counties, we annually distribute 30 million pounds of food across the Midlands, Pee Dee, and Upstate regions. Our dynamic nonprofit values innovation, collaboration, and diversity, offering a uniquely rewarding experience for employees dedicated to making a meaningful difference in their communities. Join our dedicated team in building a hunger-free tomorrow through active engagement with nearly 400 partner agencies. Together, we strive to address food insecurity and positively impact lives across the state.

LogisticsWork Environment:

This full-time position at our Midlands (Columbia) Branch involves extended desk work, frequent computer use, and occasional daytime travel. Good vision, mobility, and awareness of warehouse hazards are essential. Hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM, totaling 37.5 hours per week.

A Day in the Life:

The Community Food Engagement Coordinator is r esponsible for identifying, qualifying, and managing a food drive portfolio with an emphasis on ensuring that as many pounds of food as possible are sourced for various programs at HHFB. The Community Food Engagement Coordinator will focus on all aspects of relationship management including growing the food drive participants knowledge of the organization, involvement, and financial support. Duties include, but are not limited to, personal meetings, tours, food drive engagement events, and other methods of cultivation food drive partnerships. This position will be responsible for meeting an annual poundage target by working with an assigned portfolio of existing food drive partners and prospects, including schools, churches, corporations, civic organizations, and others as identified by HHFB. This position will be responsible for coordinating pickups from donors whether it is the warehouse driver or the food drive employee.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Manages a portfolio of 150 existing and potential food drive sponsors.
• Qualifies identified prospective and current sponsors.
• Creates poundage goals for each drive in their portfolio based on the sponsor's history of giving.
• Creates a plan with timeline for each food drive in their portfolio that is based on principles of donor-driven relationship building.
• Executes food drive plans such that groups in the portfolio are retained and/or upgraded in the future.
• Creates offers, proposals, and asks that will provide opportunities for other volunteerism based on personal interests and passion for specific aspects of the mission.
• Works with Food Sourcing and Acquisition Manager to create reports as required to accurately reflect portfolio activity and performance.
• Meets established food raising goals to support organizational needs.
• Performs ongoing statistical analysis and revenue benchmarking to evaluate the overall growth and performance in focus area.
• Actively manages the day-to-day relationships with food drive sponsors and prospects through various activities including meetings, phone calls, letters, reports, emails, timely responses to donor inquiries and acknowledgements of gifts.
• Log contact reports to the donor database(s).
• Passionately represents Harvest Hope Food Bank's mission, programs, and message with stakeholders and actively networks within the community to activate support behind our mission.
• Performs other food raiser/development activities as may be required (i.e., tours, public speaking, or spokesperson activities).
• Serves as a community ambassador/spokesperson as needed.

To Qualify for this Position, you must have:

• Bachelor's Degree in Communications, Business Administration, or related study: preferred.
• Three or more years of experience working in nonprofit development or other related field.
• Demonstrated experience in cultivating and soliciting prospects for donations.
• Self-starter, strong organizational skills, and attention to detail.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite.
• Excellent communications, interpersonal and customer service skills; comfortable with public speaking and cold calling.
• Ability to pick up 30 pounds
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Must be able to clearly articulate HHFB's mission.
• Ability to relate effectively and professionally with other staff, volunteers, agency representatives and the public.

Thrive

We offer a competitive rate of $40,000 for this role, equal with experience and qualifications.

SOME OF THE VAST REWARDS OF WORKING HERE

As we work to eliminate hunger throughout, we state, we also work to care for our teams' professional and personal growth and well-being.

• Full support and career development resources to expand your skills, enhance your expertise and maximize your potential along your career journey.
• A diverse and inclusive community of belonging, where teammates empower each other.
• Generous Total Rewards Plan - comprising health, finance, and wealth work/life balance.
• 13 Paid Holidays
• Paid Annual Leave - the longer you work here, the more you earn.