Lend your Administrative Skills! Become a Senior Hunger (CSFP) Administrative Volunteer

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Through our Senior Hunger Program, Second Harvest Heartland provides a box of nutritious food each month to low-income seniors 60 years and over. Your capacity-building support is crucial to help seniors at risk of hunger. The Senior Hunger (CSFP) Administrative Support Volunteers will provide support to our staff in opening and closing site paperwork, as well as other administrative tasks such as paperwork scanning, data entry, and data updates.

What You'll Do in this Role:

• Perform data entry and record keeping tasks
  
• Complete assigned aspects of CSFP food distribution paperwork and reporting, including site paperwork
  
• Accurately maintain, enter and process CSFP client information on the computer
  
• Efficiently complete and process client certifications and re-certifications as well as monthly issuance logs
  
• Assist with paperwork scanning and filing as needed
  
• Perform other duties as needed

Minimum Requirements:

• Customer Service - demonstrate the ability to respond with a high degree of urgency to the needs & requests of others, internally and externally. Understand the impact of their work on others.
  
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize tasks appropriately with a strong attention to detail
  
• Ability to maintain confidentiality of sensitive information
  
• Experience with culturally diverse communities
  
• Accurate typing and data entry
  
• Proficiency with computer applications, including Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook and comfort learning a database
  
• Fluent in written and verbal English
  
• Understand safety policies and actively promote safe practices in the workplace
  
• Maintain constructive relationships and demonstrate respect for everyone contacted
  
• Comfort with a desk position, ability to sit at computer desk and work for 2 hours at a time
  
• Ability to meet Second Harvest Heartland guidelines for background check: we will be conducting criminal background checks for all volunteers in this position. We reserve the right to decline working with a volunteer, or dismiss a current volunteer, based on the results of the background check.

Time Requirements and Schedule:

• Total time requirement: Six-month minimum commitment
• Days of the week: Flexible
• Time of day: Flexible with one shift per week during the Monday - Friday 8am - 4pm workday

Next Steps

To Apply: Visit the opportunity on our portal, https://volunteer.2harvest.org/, and if the opportunity sounds like a good fit for you, click on "Respond" to express your interest and complete the initial steps in the process. After responding, you’ll get an email confirming your interest and a link to our application.

Questions?: Contact Bri Johnson, bjohnson@2harvest.org