Summer Meals Program Associate- F/T Temporary
Location: Pennsauken, NJ
Type: Temporary
Min. Experience: Entry Level
Department: Programs and Services
Reports to: DSP Coordinator, Children & Senior Programs
Overview
The Summer Meals Program Associate, reports to the Programs and Services department. This position assists in implementation and daily operation of the Food Bank of South Jersey’s Summer Meals programs, including site monitoring, conducting surveys and back-up van driver for additional deliveries of fresh or shelf stable meals, and may assist with any warehouse activities van loading as needed. This is a full-time, in-person, temporary position beginning June 1 and continuing through September 4, 2026. Workdays are Monday – Friday, approximately 8AM – 4PM. Unpaid time-off requests evaluated on a case-by-case basis. The pay rate is $20.00/hr.
Specific Responsibilities
The Summer Meals Program Associate will work closely with the Compliance & Community Impact Administrator, DSP Coordinator, Children & Senior Programs, and Summer Meals Program Administrator to ensure all compliance and impact work related to the Summer Meals Program is on track.
Qualifications and education requirements
Reports to: DSP Coordinator, Children & Senior Programs
Overview
The Summer Meals Program Associate, reports to the Programs and Services department. This position assists in implementation and daily operation of the Food Bank of South Jersey’s Summer Meals programs, including site monitoring, conducting surveys and back-up van driver for additional deliveries of fresh or shelf stable meals, and may assist with any warehouse activities van loading as needed. This is a full-time, in-person, temporary position beginning June 1 and continuing through September 4, 2026. Workdays are Monday – Friday, approximately 8AM – 4PM. Unpaid time-off requests evaluated on a case-by-case basis. The pay rate is $20.00/hr.
Specific Responsibilities
The Summer Meals Program Associate will work closely with the Compliance & Community Impact Administrator, DSP Coordinator, Children & Senior Programs, and Summer Meals Program Administrator to ensure all compliance and impact work related to the Summer Meals Program is on track.
- Works directly with the Compliance & Community Impact Administrator to conduct pre-op site visits (materials delivery, etc.); monitor summer meals sites to ensure compliance with food safety and meal reporting requirements
- Maintain monitoring forms and site notes
- Follow up on corrective actions from monitoring and pre-op visits
- Works directly with the Compliance & Community Impact Administrator to conduct on-site parent surveys to assist in evaluating the Summer Meals Program impact and effectiveness
- Assists Summer Meals admin team with site communications and document management
- Assists Summer Meals admin team with scheduling and confirming shelf stable meal deliveries with program sites
- Assist with submitting order changes
- Assists with pick-ups from fresh meal caterer and shelf stable meal deliveries to sites as needed
- Assists loading vans with shelf stable meals as needed
- Other duties as assigned
- Embrace Servant Leadership; acknowledging other people’s perspectives, giving support where needed to help others achieve their work and personal goals, involve team and clients in decision making processes, building a sense of community within team
- Ability to assess and solve situational challenges of community need in neighborhoods of color, foreign descent poverty and multilingual communication
Qualifications and education requirements
- Must have a valid, unrestricted driver’s license (not probational, temporary or jr.) and 3 years of clean driving experience; any offer of employment is conditioned on ability to be covered under the food bank’s vehicle insurance
- Knowledge of Microsoft Suite (especially Teams and Excel)
- Good customer service skills
- Strong time-management skills
- Serve Safe SFH Certification preferred (can be certified on the job)
