Operation Frontline
Volunteer Job Description
Nutrition Instructor
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.
Teach low-income individuals
at risk of hunger how to select, purchase and prepare healthy low-cost food.
Operation Frontline’s
volunteer instructors teach multi-session class series, using the lesson plans
and recipes for each class provided in the Operation Frontline curricula. Nutrition volunteers work in partnership with
volunteer chefs to teach nutrition lessons and highlight nutrition information
within cooking lessons
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. Operation Frontline provides all the
materials needed for class including teaching guide, participant handouts,
cooking supplies and food.
Qualifications and Requirements
- Professional nutrition experience or training
- Interest in working with low-income individuals
with diverse backgrounds
- Dedication to helping alleviate hunger and
poverty
- Comfort speaking in front of an audience
- Ability to travel to class locations
- Willingness to be trained in Operation Frontline
curricula
- 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: At least 3 hrs/wk for duration
of class series, plus travel time to and from class locations
- Shopping for class: at least ˝ hr preparation
each week before classes plus travel time
- Training: Orientation, class observation, ongoing
training an communication as needed
Benefits to Volunteering
Make a real difference in the lives and health of
people at risk of hunger and malnutrition
Gain teaching experience
Meet new and diverse groups of people
Do something new, different and have fun!