Fresh Vibes Market Coordinator at The Campaign Against Hunger Inc. – Brooklyn, New York

Fresh Vibes Market is a mobile farm fresh market featuring low cost produce from The Campaign Against Hunger’s Urban Agro-Ecological Centers and local farmers. The Campaign Against Hunger’s Fresh Vibes Market provides fresh, affordable produce to the community and additional services. The mobile unit is equipped with a mobile classroom, a benefits access area, produce storage bins, as well as a cook-top and refrigerated areas for the storage of prepared foods. This allows TCAH to offer a wide variety of services in a single stop, including one-on-one benefits counseling, tax preparation and filing, SNAP screenings, fitness classes, nutrition workshops, cooking demos, as well as fresh produce and other healthful foods. Thanks to the support of the Fresh Vibes Market, we expect to continue making progress in fighting obesity, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and other chronic diet-preventable illnesses, just as we have been doing for more than 20 years.
The Fresh Vibes Market Coordinator must be an outgoing, friendly, and dependable individual, who is consistently available to work on designated market days and during events.
Responsibilities
1. Compose market operations each week making sure all support materials are charged, ready, and onboard the vehicle (materials include the cash box; iPad/POS system, SNAP machine, price signs, market signs, etc.)
2. Ensure that the Fresh Vibes vehicle maintains its cleanliness, safety and appeal to customers.
3. Organize produce for display, set-up, and break down
4. Determine when produce is expired and remove expired products
5. Establish priorities, work independently, and proceed with objectives without supervision
6. Provide above-and-beyond customer service at market sites engaging and encouraging current and potential customers to try new products
7. Coordinate leftover produce for future market sales
8. Must have excellent oral communication and leadership skills
9. Dissolve conflicts and handle customer complaints in a professional manner
10. Interact with colleagues, supervisors and customers face-to-face
11. Accurately administer cash, credit, SNAP, and FMNP sales transactions to customers using a custom POS application
12. Complete end-of-day financial report and enter into database
Qualifications
Experience in retail sales and management (produce is a plus)
Comfortable communicating through email and text
Ability to learn and use the following tools and systems quickly: iPad, POS systems, basic accounting, and data-tracking in excel
Maintain high-energy and a friendly attitude while working in a fast paced, physically demanding work environment
Purchase fresh produce from various vendors
Exceptional interpersonal customer and communication skills
Some Spanish-speaking ability is a plus
Working Conditions
Capable of lifting up to 50 pounds, carrying large boxes, stepping up and down out of a truck and standing for several hours at a time
Independently travel back and forth to different locations
Dependable and available to work at delegated weekly markets, which includes Saturdays