Operation Frontline
Volunteer Job Description
Class Assistant/Shopper
Share Our Strength’s
Operation Frontline is a nutrition education program that fights hunger by
teaching families how to make healthy and budget-wise choices. Operation Frontline’s cooking-based nutrition
education classes are taught by professional chefs and nutritionists who volunteer
to share their expertise with participants.
Each class is built around a participatory cooking lesson designed to
teach the basics of healthy eating, cooking, food safety and food budgeting.
Help facilitate classes that
teach low-income individuals at risk of hunger how to select, purchase, and
prepare healthy low-cost meals.
Volunteers are needed to
facilitated classes in two ways:
- Manage onsite or offsite class preparation
including but not limited to: shopping for food needed for the cooking
lessons, and preparing grocery bags that adult students take home each
week
- Manage class materials, including food,
supporting the volunteer instructors, helping with set up and clean up and
working with students as needed.
Class series meet once a week
for six weeks and are coordinated by Operation Frontline staff. Classes are offered for adults, teens, and
children and re held at community agencies around the state.
Qualifications and Requirements
- Interest in working with low-income individuals
with diverse backgrounds
- Dedication to helping alleviate hunger and
poverty
- Ability to lift 20 pounds
- Ability to travel to class locations
- Willingness to work as a team and adhere to
program policies and procedures
- Ability and willingness to communicate with OFL coordinator during the weeks of active volunteering.
Time Commitment
- Assisting class:
1-3 hrs/wk for duration of class series, plus travel time to and from
class locations
- Shopping for class: Approx 1 hr/week plus travel
time
- Training: Orientation, class observation, ongoing
training as needed
Benefits to volunteering
Make a real difference in the lives and health of people at risk of hunger and malnutrition
Learn about low-cost, healthy cooking
Meet new and diverse groups of people
Do something new, different and have fun!