Position: Program Assistant
15-20 hours per week
Reports to: Executive Director/Operations Manager
Company Summary
Aurora Interfaith Community Services (AICS) is a non-profit organization whose aim is to express Christian concern for our community by providing substantive emergency assistance to the residents of Aurora. AICS does not charge a fee for any goods or services. AICS provides wrap around services to Aurora residents in need to nurture each person as a whole. Services include pantry food pantry visits, the Mobile Food Pantry distribution, a clothing program, utility bill assistance and our new Envision Program.
Responsibilities
- Assist with mobile food pantry prep, day of set-up and breakdown.
- Drive box truck to and from mobile food pantry and food pickup locations.
- Assist participants in finding resources to better their life situations through our Community Navigation program.
- Manages volunteer mobile food pantry prep tasks.
- Helps with social media and marketing tasks.
- Assist participants when volunteers are unavailable at the brick and mortar pantry
- Operate electric pallet lift to load and unload food from truck and in warehouse areas (certification and training provided).
- Additional tasks and duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Repeated lifting of donated food weighing 80 pounds or more.
- Repeated climbing up, into and out of box trucks.
- Repeated pushing, pulling and loading & unloading of large pallets of food
- Team player a must
- Required to excel at Customer Service
- Proficient at computer programs such as Word and Google Suite a plus but not required.
- Bilingual conversational or more English/Spanish a plus but not required.
Benefits
Pay starts at $15/hour. AICS offers a competitive PTO plan that includes 20 paid holidays in addition to regular PTO.
How to Apply
Qualified and interested candidates should submit a resume and cover to office@aurorainterfaith.org.