Substitute Senior Center Congregate Site Coordinator

Purpose:

Substitute for the Traverse City Senior Center Congregate Site Coordinator to help seniors receive well-balanced meals, along with fun and fellowship, while ensuring that all regulations and requirements are met.

• Coordinate Senior Center Congregate site volunteers.
• Help seniors receive well-balanced meals along with fun and fellowship.

Essential functions:

• Serve as host or hostess, ensuring everyone feels welcome and to do everything possible to encourage increased attendance.
• Promote volunteerism and encourage volunteers to document their volunteer hours. Coordinate all kitchen volunteers and ensure that regulations and program requirements are followed for the following tasks:
  • Ensure attendance and reservations for future meals are maintained each day, issuing receipts for non-seniors, working to minimize wasted meals, maintaining written records and turning them into the office in a timely manner.
  • Ensure participant registration with required NAPIS reporting system by helping to ensure individuals complete with at least their name, date of birth, and nutritional risk information.
  • Ensure volunteers take temperatures of the food daily and record on appropriate form.
  • Coordinate the volunteers who set up each day, including sanitizing tables before and after each meal.
  • Coordinate volunteers serving the meals, including following Standard Operating Procedures of Health Department guidelines and utilizing appropriate utensils to ensure both food safety and proper portion control.
  • Ensure any leftovers are offered as “seconds” and that other food, with the exception of milk in good date status, will be thrown away, and that any required documentation for leftovers is completed.
  • Ensure Project income is counted and recorded each day by two unrelated individuals. Make arrangements for funds to be sent to the Senior Nutrition Program on a predetermined schedule.
  • With the help of volunteers, ensure serving utensils, any dishes, and transport containers are cleaned. Transport containers will be sanitized at the Goodwill kitchen. Leave facility as clean as it was before arrival and ensure garbage is disposed of daily.
  • Notify the office when problems arise.
  • Attend required trainings.
  • Perform other duties as required and assigned.

Minimum Experience:

Working with the public in related field or with the senior population preferred.

Minimum Education:

A minimum of a high school education or equivalent.

Minimum Skills Required:

• Collaboration skills
• Client focus and concern for the well-being of recipients
• Flexibility and resourcefulness
• Composure in emergency situations
• Positive verbal and non-verbal communication and interpersonal skills with clients, families, staff, and volunteers
• Strong organizational and management skills
• Leadership skills to develop and mentor volunteers
• Must be computer literate

Substitute Senior Center Congregate Site Coordinator

Substitute for the Traverse City Senior Center Congregate Luncheon Site Coordinator to
help seniors receive well-balanced meals, along with fun and fellowship, while ensuring
that all regulations and requirements are met in a safe environment.
Serve as host, ensuring that everyone feels welcome, and encourage increased attendance
and participation. Coordinate volunteers in tasks such as reservations, sign-in,
food temperatures, project income, clean up, special events and activities, etc.
Qualifications include: Positive verbal and non-verbal communication, interpersonal and
collaboration skills with co-workers, clients and families; client focus; strong organizational
skills and attention to detail; ability to involve and develop volunteers, and innovative
approaches to senior center activities.
A minimum of a high school education or equivalent.

Working with the public in related field or with the senior population preferred.

EOE. 9-15 hours per week, 52 weeks per year. $10.33 per hour.

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