Greater Vancouver Food Bank is Hiriing!

As most of you know, the Greater Vancouver Food Bank is undergoing many changes. Not only are we looking to increase the amount of fresh and nutritious foods available to our members and partners, we are also looking to increase our support in the community to support the continuum of food literacy. We spoke to our partners and our members and have looked at ways that we can best support this. Over the next few months, you will see us hiring new staff and an increased presence in the community.

Our first step is re-igniting our support for community kitchens in the community. As a result, we will be hiring a Community Kitchen Program Coordinator. Working closely with the Food and Education team, the Community Kitchen Program Coordinator will promote and support food literacy through community kitchens and advocate for a stronger spectrum of health and wellness supports for the community.  More specifically, this role is responsible for establishing, nurturing, and deepening collaborative and reciprocal relationships with Community Kitchens throughout our catchment including providing training and support for facilitators and organizations. The Coordinator will be responsible for overseeing programming, logistics and curriculum development for the program as well as overseeing the program delivery.

Our ideal candidate has a solid foundation in the world of facilitation and training and a passion for food literacy and food programming. Someone who has experience developing curriculum for facilitators, working with vulnerable populations and a track record in communicating in ways that excite and encourage people about community kitchens. We are looking for someone to join our tight-knit, collaborative team who has their finger on the pulse of food and education and can bring a creative, flexible, and self-starting approach to the Community Kitchens Program.

The full job description can be found here: https://www.foodbank.bc.ca/our-careers/community-kitchen-program-coordinator/

We would greatly appreciate you sharing this posting with your networks and anyone who you think might be a good fit for the position! We look forward to connecting in further and growing our support in the community.

All the best!

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Lindsay Miles-Pickup

Food Literacy Manager

Thank you to all who donated in support of the Greater Vancouver Food Bank in 2017. With your assistance, we are closer to making our vision of accessible, healthy and sustainable food for all, a reality

Director of Patient and Retail Food Sales - Mission Memorial Hospital

Position: Director of Patient & Retail Food Services

Location: Mission Memorial Hospital (7324 Hurd St, Mission, BC V2V 3H5)

Imagine belonging to a team that delights in the power of healing and bringing out the best in others. Working in the healthcare food industry is amazing, because you can have a positive impact every day—on medical professionals, patients and visitors. This is so much more than a job. This is an opportunity to change lives—one day at a time.

Why work with Morrison? We are a member of Compass Group Canada, the leading foodservice and support services company. Nutrition is critical in healthcare and healing. That’s why we’re focused on delivering quality food services to patients, visitors, and hospitals employees. In addition to our culinary programs, we provide laundry, housekeeping, and facilities management.

The Food Service Director is responsible to manage the overall patient dietary program, featuring our exclusive Steamplicity system, and our retail food service operations, onsite at an acute care facility.

Now, if you were to come on board as one of our Food Service Directors, we’d ask you to do the following for us:

• Manage, coach and mentor a team of approx. 50+ associates.
• Coordinate service and build relationships with other departments and clinical representatives.
• Build and maintain strong client relationships and communication.
• Operational planning, inventory management, budget and financial management, costing and sales reporting, as well as support the implementation of retail and marketing programs.
• Establish departmental goals and objectives, develop operating and capital budgets, and ensure all departmental systems are in compliance with industry, regulatory and legislative standards.
• Ensure strict compliance with Compass' Quality Assurance and Health and Safety Program, Occupational Health & Safety Act and WHMIS regulations.

Think you have what it takes to be one of our Food Service Directors? We’re committed to hiring the best talent for the role. Here’s how we’ll know you’ll be successful in the role.

• Current active status as a Registered Dietitian (membership in College of Dietitians of Canada) or Canadian Society of Nutrition Management (CSNM) with strong clinical experience
• Outstanding client relationship management skills and a passion for excellence in service delivery
• Bachelor or advanced degree from a recognized university in Nutrition or Food Service Administration
• Progressive management and leadership experience in healthcare food services/dietary
• Solid experience in fiscal analysis and management of budgets, P&Ls, contracts, project costs and planning
• Current with the latest innovative trends in patient food delivery models
• Demonstrated ability to lead, motivate, coach and develop direct reports during times of change and shifting priorities
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as solid interpersonal skills
• Well-developed proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) and working knowledge of food service IT systems
• Advanced Food Safety Training (AFST)
• Labour relations experience in a unionized setting is strongly preferred
• Branded Retail (eg. Tim Horton's etc.) food service experience strongly preferred

This position is offering a very competitive salary, position is bonus eligible as well up to 20%. Interested candidates can email their resumes directly to: matt.bateman@compass-canada.com