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Community Outreach Team Member - Dallas Branch

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ORGANIZATION: Rescuing Leftover Cuisine Dallas

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Rescuing Leftover Cuisine, Inc. ("RLC") is a non-profit food rescue organization based in New York City that delivers excess food from food businesses and corporations to local human service agencies such as homeless shelters and soup kitchens to feed the hungry. We have thus far delivered over 4.6 million pounds of food with the lowest cost per delivery in the industry. Our business model is centered around four stages: (1) proactively seek out businesses with leftover food for partnerships, (2) deliver excess, wholesome food directly to local agencies, (3) use our expertise in food rescue to consult each partner different ways to reduce food waste, (4) partners successfully graduate from the RLC food rescue program with reduced food cost and food waste.

Position Summary:

RLC is seeking a community outreach team member to strengthen our organization by developing new partnerships with two key groups in Dallas: charitable organizations and volunteers. The team member will have the exciting responsibility of overseeing all parts of the partnership development process.

Responsibilities:

  • Recruit new Rescuers
  • Keep up with current Rescuers via Facebook group (weekly)
  • Collect feedback on how to improve experience
  • Collect pictures/videos from Rescuers to share with Media team
  • Carry out recruiting campaign for Rescuers (quarterly)
  • Find organizations and businesses for RLC Dallas to partner with
  • Helps Outreach team when needed

Qualifications:

  • Self-starter; ability to initiate and work independently
  • Persistent, tactful, outgoing, and persuasive
  • Ability to interact professionally with potential partners in person, via phone, and email
  • Previous experience canvassing is a plus
  • Loves variety in their work and is comfortable balancing many competing priorities
  • Has a history of achievement in an academic and extracurricular environment
  • Is excited about the opportunity to work in a young, growing, mission-driven nonprofit

RLC team members have the chance to work closely with the founders of the branch and have the opportunity to make a true, meaningful impact in their time with the organization. This is a part-time, unpaid position. Team members will be expected to work 5 - 7 hours per week for at least 4 months (tentative exact start and end dates).

APPLY:

Interested applicants should apply by submitting a resume. Candidates for initial phone screenings will be contacted on a rolling basis until the positions are filled.

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About Rescuing Leftover Cuisine Dallas

Location:

1902 Main St, Dallas, TX 75201, US

Mission Statement

To become the world’s most widely used solution for companies and individuals to eliminate food waste in their communities.

Description

Rescuing Leftover Cuisine is a non-profit food rescue organization based in New York City that provides solutions to prevent excess wholesome cuisine from being wasted. RLC provides services such as food waste consulting, excess food delivery, co-branding services, and tax credit assistance.

RLC approaches the two large issues of hunger and food waste in three main ways. First, we localize the issues into sets of communities that can help sustain themselves. After identifying the homeless shelters of a needy community, we proactively find restaurants, hotels, and catering companies with excess food in that vicinity that could help support these disadvantaged communities.

Second, we leverage technology to facilitate the identification and handling of excess food. Thus, these partner food providers will be using a smartphone application to report when excess food is occurring, and the same app is used to engage community members, because volunteering with us can be as easy as taking a brisk walk.

Third, we tackle food waste at its root, aiming to eliminate as much food waste as possible and bringing the remaining excess food to where it is needed most. The data of when food waste occurs is used in our analysis of what types of food waste could be avoided, and RLC suggests ways that partner food providers can reduce waste at its root.

CAUSE AREAS

Environment
Homeless & Housing
Hunger
Environment, Homeless & Housing, Hunger

WHEN

We'll work with your schedule.

WHERE

This is a Virtual Opportunity with no fixed address.

SKILLS

  • Recruiting
  • Community Outreach
  • Multi-Tasking
  • Verbal / Written Communication

GOOD FOR

N/A

REQUIREMENTS

  • Driver's License Needed
  • 5 - 7 hours per week

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