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Oregon Food Bank Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Public Policy Advocate

Portland, OR ยท On-site

$71K - $81K/yr

Oregon Food Bank (OFB) believes that no one should be hungry. Our mission is to eliminate hunger and its root causes. We believe that food and health are basic human rights for all. We know that ...

Cook Assistant (GRC)

Portland, OR ยท On-site

$22.23/hr

... Bank and other donation sites. * Prepare for site inspections from various regulatory agencies ... Oregon Food Handler's card. * Basic Life Support (BLS) certification or ability to acquire within ...

Cook Assistant (GRC)

Portland, OR ยท On-site

$22.23/hr

... Bank and other donation sites. * Prepare for site inspections from various regulatory agencies ... Oregon Food Handler's card. * Basic Life Support (BLS) certification or ability to acquire within ...

Count cash drawers, maintain safe, and run bank deposits. * Interview, hire, train, develop ... Possess or be able to obtain a valid Oregon Food Handler's Permit. * Possess a valid State-issued ...

Count cash drawers, maintain safe, and run bank deposits. * Interview, hire, train, develop ... Possess or be able to obtain a valid Oregon Food Handler's Permit. * Possess a valid State-issued ...

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What are some common challenges faced by employees working at the Oregon Food Bank, and how are they addressed?

Employees at the Oregon Food Bank often encounter challenges related to managing high volumes of food distribution, coordinating with a diverse network of partners, and responding to fluctuating community needs. The work can be fast-paced and occasionally emotionally demanding, especially when addressing food insecurity in the community. To support staff, the organization emphasizes teamwork, regular training, and open communication channels. Employees are also encouraged to participate in professional development opportunities and utilize available wellness resources to maintain a healthy work-life balance.

What is the difference between Oregon Food Bank vs Food Pantry Coordinator?

AspectOregon Food BankFood Pantry Coordinator
Primary RoleCoordinate food distribution at a regional or statewide levelManage daily operations of a local food pantry
Required CredentialsTypically a bachelor's degree in social services, nonprofit management, or related fieldHigh school diploma or equivalent; experience in social services preferred
Work EnvironmentOffice settings, regional distribution centers, community outreachFood pantry facilities, community centers, volunteer coordination
Employer & IndustryNonprofit, charitable organizations, food assistance programsLocal nonprofits, religious organizations, community centers

While Oregon Food Bank focuses on regional food distribution and program management, a Food Pantry Coordinator handles daily operations at a local level, working directly with clients and volunteers. Both roles require a passion for community service, but differ in scope and responsibilities.

What is the Oregon Food Bank and what does it do?

The Oregon Food Bank is a nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating hunger and its root causes in Oregon and Southwest Washington. It collects and distributes food to a statewide network of partner agencies, including food pantries, meal sites, and shelters. In addition to food distribution, the Oregon Food Bank advocates for policies to address hunger, offers nutrition education, and supports community programs to increase food security. Their goal is to ensure that everyone has access to nutritious food and to build resilient communities.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a Food Bank Worker, and why are they important?

To thrive as a Food Bank Worker, you need organizational skills, basic food safety knowledge, and often a high school diploma or equivalent. Familiarity with inventory management systems and food handling certifications are common technical requirements. Compassion, teamwork, and strong communication skills help in serving diverse clients and collaborating with volunteers. These abilities ensure efficient operations, safe food distribution, and a supportive experience for individuals facing food insecurity.
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Community Philanthropy Individual Giving Developer II

Oregon Food Bank Inc

Portland, OR โ€ข On-site

$62K - $70K/yr

Full-time

Posted 3 days ago

New


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Job Description: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Kq22MYyN8bpiPaTigKtSwLzTygEHQWRVNb2z2v6XiUE/edit?tab=t.0 Job Title: Community Philanthropy Developer - Individual Giving Job Homebase: 7900 NE 33rd Dr. Portland Oregon 97211 Site requirement: Hybrid Reports To: Community Philanthropy Manager - Individual Giving Oregon Food Bank has partnered with Scion Staffing for this recruitment. Please apply directly at Scion's website via this link: https://scionstaffing.com/job/15124/?jobTitle=individual-giving-specialist-portland-or Who We Are: Oregon Food Bank (OFB) believes that no one should be hungry. Our mission is to eliminate hunger and its root causes. We believe that food and health are basic human rights for all. We know that hunger is not just an individual experience; it is also a community-wide symptom of systemic barriers to employment, education, housing and health care such as systemic racism, sexism, and cissexism. Thatโ€™s why we work systemically to achieve our mission to end hunger: we foster community connections to help people access nutritious food, and we build community power and strengthen networks of support and the safety net to eliminate the root causes of hunger for good. We build community power to dismantle systems and policies that drive hunger and poverty. Oregon Food Bank is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we strongly encourage applications from candidates who can increase the diversity of our organization and strengthen our capacity to eliminate hunger. We believe strongly in the power of lived experience โ€” and we actively seek individuals who have experienced hunger and its root causes to join our team. Our organization is stronger because of the leadership of people who have faced food insecurity in their own lives and/or hail from historically under-represented communities. Learn more about our commitment at oregonfoodbank.org/equity. Who You Are: You care deeply about community, about people experiencing hunger and hold them in the center of all that you do. You are committed to apply equity as a process and an outcome of your work to disrupt systemic social patterns that promote hunger such as racism, sexism, and cissexism. You have a strong affinity with OFBโ€™s 10 Year Vision and are profoundly excited to achieve this vision for and with our community. Position Summary: You will join 40+ Community Philanthropy colleagues, passionately and collaboratively building relationships to end hunger and hungerโ€™s root causes. Together we mobilize $40M+ in annual support for Oregon Food Bankโ€™s mission and to realize OFBโ€™s 10-Year Vision. We undertake this work while reclaiming philanthropyโ€™s true meaning, a love for humankind. Love manifests as action in many forms, taken for the common good, which we inspire and facilitate through the design of community-centric programs with equity at their core. Learn more from our team members daring to imagine and leading to create a more just experience of philanthropy. As the Community Philanthropy Developer - Individual Giving, you will contribute to the organizationโ€™s success through relationship development and resource mobilization, engaging individual supporters to meet Community Philanthropy and Oregon Food Banksโ€™s goals and strategic priorities. This position reports to the Community Philanthropy Manager - Individual Giving with primary duties focused on relationship management with individuals, donor outreach and stewardship, and prospect qualification. The Community Philanthropy Developer - Individual Giving can perform their duties onsite with dedicated desk space within an Oregon Food Bank facility, or predominantly working from a home office while maintaining a regular in-person presence with supporters in the community and periodically-required visits to OFB facilities. Accommodations can be made and candidates are encouraged to inquire. Primary Responsibilities (Essential Functions): Successfully develop and engage with a broad portfolio of individual donors (giving mid to major-level gifts between $1,000-$10,000) with a focus on cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship, and work to deepen relationships and advance OFBโ€™s 10 year vision. Discover and qualify donors from mid- ($1,000+) and major-level ($10,000+) cohorts to move to Community Philanthropy Senior Developer - Individual Giving portfolios. Work alongside Community Philanthropy Senior Developer - Individual Giving and Prospect Research & Development colleagues to facilitate smooth transitions to managed portfolios for qualified donors. Develop solid understanding of OFB programs and priorities for your strategic engagement of donors and to retain philanthropic partners - making Oregon Food Bank a political home and facilitating donorsโ€™ political journey while fostering transformational and regenerative relationship development over time. Maintain donor records in a detailed and timely fashion in our database to department standards in quantity and quality of information entered in philanthropy systems and technology - Raiserโ€™s Edge NXT. Collaborate with other departments, organizations and groups to build partnerships to enhance collaborative fundraising activities and opportunities. Assist in brainstorming and creating new methods to raise funds for OFB. Organizational level responsibilities of exempt employees include: To be an ambassador and a leader for OFBโ€™s vision and mission, a cross-departmental collaborator, and an active contributor to building a movement to end hunger for good by addressing the root causes of hunger: systemic oppressions such as racism, xenophobia, sexism, and cisexism. In consultation and coordination with the supervisor, actively contribute to: cross-departmental efforts work culture activities and programming advisory and consultative groups such as the compensation committee, affinity groups, Equity Ambassadors, Equity Think Tank meetings, among others plan and engage in professional development activities that strengthen your capacity for your specific role as well as your capacity to contribute and advance organizational goals, OFBโ€™s vision and mission. Identify, share, engage in, and collaboratively adjust and make necessary changes to this description of duties according to the inevitable evolution of the role over time. Skills and Experience Required: Deep passion for eliminating hunger and its root causes. 3 years success in nonprofit fundraising with progressive responsibility in donor relationship management, community organizing, or volunteer/client/member services. Interacting with a diversity of individuals personably and respectfully to OFB standards. Demonstrated ability to use persuasive communication to engage current and future donors to raise funds for OFB through the development of proposals, grants, and advocacy calls to action. Ability to generate and personalize phone calls, emails and letters to donors, and respond to donor inquiries in a timely manner for increased communication resulting in greater donor engagement. Demonstrated experience with planning and leading effective meetings and/or events for donors. Demonstrated knowledge, experience and actions incorporating and initiating development and fundraising activities through an equity lens for equity and racial justice. Knowledge of and experience with Moves Management, Community-Centric Fundraising principles, and/or other philanthropic development concepts and methodology. Proficiency with office technology and information systems (including GSuite, Microsoft Office) and donor databases, preferably Raiserโ€™s Edge. Ability to quickly adapt to new software and online tools a plus. Organizational level skills and experience required for exempt employees include: Disposition and willingness to maximize multiple perspectives to innovate, problem solve and seek creative solutions. Experience in modeling intercultural competence and demonstrated commitment to equity and social justice. Demonstrated ability to think strategically, collaborate, take initiative, and to maintain confidentiality. Project coordination and organization skills; ability to manage multiple projects with attention to detail; ability to handle interruptions, and produce timely, accurate work. Ability to both work independently and as part of a team; comfortable working in an office environment and offsite. Ability to thrive in a diverse, creative, responsive, mission-driven, and fast-paced work culture. Experience of successful multicultural immersion working and/or living within OFB's Equity Constituencies: BIPoC, Immigrants & Refugees, Single Mothers, Trans and Gender-Non-Conforming folx. Multicultural Immersion defined as: Actively integrated in one or more communities, interacting with individuals and groups, and seeking to understand the diversities within and between communities by being there and engaging in daily life activities. Preferred Qualifications: Association of Fundraising Professionals CFRE 40+ hours of: AFP and/or APRA and/or CASE and/or AASP and/or People's Nonprofit Accelerator (formerly WVDO) Certifications (role specific) 40+ Hour Leadership Development Certification from Rockwood Leadership Institute (or "like" institution of comparable credibility) 40+ Hour DEI Certification (from Oregon Food Bankโ€™s Equity Institute, State of Oregonโ€™s Sexual Assault Training Institute, YWCA of Columbia-Willamette, Raphael House of Portland or "like" institution of comparable credibility) Experience working in a non-profit with an affiliated 501(c)3 and 501(c)4 Organizational level preferred qualifications of exempt employees include: Multilingual skills at a minimum professional level of proficiency or greater in English and any additional language/s, defined as being able to speak the languages with sufficient structural accuracy and vocabulary to participate effectively in most formal and informal conversations on practical and professional topics. Multicultural skills of adaptation and integration are strongly preferred. Adaptation is defined as the capacity to communicate and interact with people of multiple cultures, backgrounds, and styles by incorporating and adapting to the world view and perspectives of others. Integration is defined as being able to โ€œcode-switchโ€ or move in and out of one's worldview and help others understand different cultures, backgrounds, and styles to promote diversity and inclusion. Commitment to continued professional development to strengthen capacity to work through an equity lens for equity and racial justice. Strong capacity to consider multiple perspectives, to pivot to respond to emerging needs and lead through organizational changes. Years of successful multicultural immersion either working with and/or living within one or more of OFBโ€™s Equity Constituencies at the time of hire. An additional step for at least 10 years above minimum required of successful multicultural immersion working with and/or living within one or more of OFBโ€™s Equity Constituencies at the time of hire. Multicultural Immersion defined as: Actively integrated in one or more communities, interacting with individuals and groups, and seeking to understand the diversities within and between communities by being there and engaging in daily life activities. The Fine Print: Work environment: Work is performed in an office environment while sitting in meetings or at a computer screen for extended periods inside and outside of Oregon Food Bank and will use computers and phones extensively. (Yes) Work is performed in a warehouse environment while moving around and/or using heavy machinery for extended periods of time. (No) Work primarily performed independently driving for extended periods of time, collecting and delivering food. (No) May work outside of general working hours of 8:00 โ€“ 5:00 p.m., such as evenings and weekends, and occasional travel out of town may occur. (Yes) This role requires travel/personal vehicle use /work outside normal hours. (Yes) Work may require to lift, move and carry objects from 20 to 40 pounds, such as boxes containing office and other supplies. Crouching, bending, kneeling and reaching when filing. Accommodations may be available upon request. Background Check: This position doesnโ€™t require a criminal background check. Criminal background checks may be required for the following reasons: Insurance requirement Y/N Third party contractual requirement/s Y/N Job duties requirements include unsupervised administration of cash or other liquid assets. Y/N Job duties include unaccompanied work with minors, elders, or anyone legally unable to consent to touch, discipline, or sexual contact. Y/N A criminal record unrelated to theft, assault, or sexual violence may not make you ineligible to work at Oregon Food Bank. We actively support all our staff in developing relevant skills and capacities to improve job retention and advancement. Inclement Weather, Service Disruptions and Disaster Response expectations: OFB is part of the regional disaster response network and, as part of our commitment to our community, we all are expected to report to work as soon as itโ€™s safe to do so and to respond to the disaster, emergency, inclement weather or extended service disruption as needed and as possible. Work and paid designations are described in OFBโ€™s Inclement Weather Guidelines. At all times staff is supported to prioritize their safety and those of their dependants, families and loved ones while in communication and coordination with supervisors. 1. Exempt classification refers to employees who earn a salary rather than an hourly rate for the work they do instead of the number of hours they take to complete the task. Exempt employees are not eligible for overtime pay or minimum wage. They; 1) Supervise two or more full-time employees or four part-time employees regularly; 2) Are responsible for managing at least part of a business; 3) Play an important role in the job status of other employees, including hiring and delegating tasks; or 1) Perform office or non-manual work directly related to the business operations or management of an organization and its customers; and 2) Exercise independent judgment and discretion over important business decisions.