Market Lead

**EMPLOYMENT STATUS: Regular, Ongoing**

**HOURS/WEEK**: 21 hours per week**

**What We Live By**:

- **Our Vision**:
A community without barriers to health and wellbeing.
- **Our Mission**: We reduce health inequities by providing interprofessional primary health services and community programs, focused on the populations we prioritize, in collaboration with community partners.
- **Our Values**: Innovation, Accountability, Person-Centred, Health Promotion, Excellence, Sustainability, Accessibility

Guelph Community Health Centre prioritizes people who face barriers to health and accessing services, and people who identify as:

- Homeless or at risk of homelessness
- Living on low income
- Newcomers to Canada with language barriers
- Having moderate to severe mental health and/or addiction issues
- Having moderate to severe disabilities
- Indigenous First Nations, Inuit and Métis
- Black, mixed race and racialized populations
- Experiencing intersectional oppression
- 2SLGBTQIA+
- Vulnerable children and their families experiencing conflict, isolation or attachment struggles

**The SEED’s vision**: Everyone in Guelph-Wellington has enough good food to be well.

**The SEED’s mission**: to run programs and social enterprises that increase physical and financial access to nutritious food among people facing food insecurity.

**Eligibility Criteria**:

- a G licence and comfort driving a large van is required

**Brief Description**:
The SEED is a community food project of the Guelph Community Health Centre. About 16% of households in Guelph are food insecure (Guelph Wellbeing study, 2014). The SEED’s goal is to change that by offering programs and services that tackle the root causes of poverty. We are supported by hundreds of amazing community members and by many partner organizations.

**About The SEED’s sliding scale markets**:
At the SEED Markets, we sell food on a sliding scale. This means that you can pay anywhere between our low price and our retail price. Lowest price is 33% off retail. You choose what’s best for you, no questions asked. By paying the retail price you help to subsidize the cost of selling the food at a discount. We sell both local and imported fruits and vegetables, soup starters, dried goods, and our frozen meals and Makeover Muffins from the Upcycle Kitchen.

Our innovative model brings together people of all incomes for a common purpose - good food and social connection. As the Market Lead, you'll provide that direction connection between The SEED and our community.

**Specific duties and roles for this position**:

- Prepare food, materials and signage for the market
- Load and drive cargo van to market sites
- Set up and tear down of market
- Oversee market operation
- Greet customers, partners, volunteers, visitors and answer questions and provide guidance where appropriate
- Lead the training and supervision of volunteers
- Communicate challenges and opportunities to the Market Coordinator, collaborate on solutions
- Support quality improvement (customer experience, feedback collection and analysis, process improvements, etc.)
- Keyholder position, some warehouse opening and closing procedures required. Door checks, alarm, lighting etc.
- Cash handling and reporting

**Qualifications**
- Understanding of Food Insecurity: Knowledge of the causes and effects of food insecurity, particularly within the Guelph-Wellington community.
- Availability: Available to work 21 hours per week on a regular, ongoing basis. Thursday and Friday, occasionally Saturday.
- Valid G Driver's license
- Able to lift up to 50lbs consistently
- A working understanding of Excel and Word software
- Ability to work as an effective member of a team as well as individually
- Commitment to equity and anti-oppressive practices
- Punctual and reliable
- Show initiative and enthusiasm
- Keen eye for product displays
- Excellent customer service skills
- Highly organized, keen attention to detail

We thank, in advance, those who apply, but will contact only those who qualify for interviews.

If at any stage in the selection process you require accommodation, please let us know the nature of the required accommodation.

We require that all finalist applicants undergo a Criminal Record Check and Vulnerable Sector Screen through their local Police Services Branch prior to start date.