Volunteer Member Services Team Member
Wigston, Leicester, LE18 4TP
FareShare Midlands is the region’s largest food redistribution charity, fighting food poverty and hunger by tackling waste. We source good quality food that is surplus to requirements from the food industry. An army of volunteers help redistribute this food to around 800 frontline charities and community groups such as school breakfast clubs, community centres and organisations supporting those who are homeless, unemployed, socially isolated and recovering from addiction. These organisations provide meals and food parcels to around 83,000 vulnerable people every week. We also support people through our Employability programmes, enabling them to learn skills and find rewarding work – some for the first time.
Hunger is a growing issue in the UK and while there is surplus food that is otherwise going to waste, we believe that this food should be used to feed people first.
The Role
Working within a central Membership Services team, you will ensure that food stock is allocated in a safe, timely and accurate way to optimise the service provided from each of our warehouses to our community members whilst ensuring excellent customer service with members.
Key duties and responsibilities:
* Contacting and liaising with members as appropriate in relation to food orders and processing using online system. Confirming with members via email any stock changes made.
* Dealing with telephone and email enquiries effectively and with high standards of customer service.
* Developing and maintaining good, sustainable relationships with community food members.
* Working in accordance with our Customer Services Charter and to communicate this to relevant parties.
* Helping to deliver excellent customer service to our groups and holiday programmes within the Midlands, ensuring that we work closely with funders and groups to deliver good quality food to all our projects.
Person Specification - Skills, Qualities & Experience
Essential
* Competent in IT literacy.
* Sound numeracy skills.
* Exceptional planning and organising skills, including attention to detail, an ability to prioritise and meet deadlines working with own team.
* Good communication skills, including a good telephone manner, with experience of customer service.
* Ability to multitask, prioritise and manage time effectively, with flexible working including weekends when required.
* A good knowledge of food would be desirable.
Values and behaviours
* A commitment to Equal Opportunities.
* An appreciation of FareShare Midlands’ mission and vision.
* Flexibility of approach and ability to work in a team.
How to Apply:
To apply for this role, please fill out the online application form. For an alternative format, please contact our Volunteer Team at volunteer@faresharemidlands.org.uk .
FareShare Midlands is a great place to work; our staff arefriendly, experienced and enthusiastic about what they do. In return we providea positive working environment in which staff and volunteers can flourish. Ifyou join our team, you will make a real difference to the lives of local peopleliving in poverty.
FareShareMidlands wants to grow by recruiting and retaining excellent,committed staff and volunteers. We want to develop and support them to improvetheir knowledge, wellbeing and satisfaction. We communicate regularly withstaff and volunteers, and listen to their feedback, to ensure everyone feelsinvolved and valued.
Wecontinue to strive to ensure that the profile of our staff and volunteersreflects the diverse communities we serve across the Midlands. As such, weencourage and welcome applications from all our communities. We particularlywelcome applications from people from ethnically diverse backgrounds as theyare currently under-represented within FareShare Midlands.
Thesafety of the people we support always comes first, so some of our vacancieswill require you to complete a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
Toapply for a job, please fill out the online application form. For analternative format, please contact our Recruitment Team atrecruitment@faresharemidlands.org.uk or call 0116 286 7735.
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