Engage and inspire volunteers during food packing sessions through storytelling, hospitality, and public presentations. Lead mission-centered experiences, invite volunteer support, conduct retail/donation transactions, maintain a clean food-safe facility, complete session reporting, and collaborate with site leadership to plan and execute sessions.
Your Role:
Engage and inspire volunteers throughout the packing session utilizing dynamic presentations, hospitality, and mission focused storytelling. Enhance volunteer engagement and supporter relationships through meaningful connection and storytelling. Contribute to session success by delivering an impactful volunteer experience and fostering deep connection with FMSC’s mission to feed God’s kids.
Pay, Schedule & Benefits:
Engage and inspire volunteers throughout the packing session utilizing dynamic presentations, hospitality, and mission focused storytelling. Enhance volunteer engagement and supporter relationships through meaningful connection and storytelling. Contribute to session success by delivering an impactful volunteer experience and fostering deep connection with FMSC’s mission to feed God’s kids.
Pay, Schedule & Benefits:
- This is a part-time, non-exempt (hourly) position. This is not a seasonal position. Set starting rate is $17.45 per hour.
- Regularly scheduled for part-time hours to include a combination of weekdays, weeknights, and Saturdays, subject to staffing needs. Occasional Sunday and holiday availability required. Must occasionally pick up sub shifts.
- Monthly trainings and meetings are required.
- Our part-time benefits package includes paid time off (PTO), vision, a 401(k) plan with employer match, and an employee assistance program. Detailed benefit information can be found here: https://www.fmsc.org/about-us/careers/fmsc-benefits
- Engage meaningfully with current and prospective volunteers during food packing sessions, inspiring deeper investment in feeding kids.
- Create an impactful, mission‑centered volunteer experience by sharing FMSC’s story, providing exceptional hospitality, and inspiring continued engagement. Greet volunteers warmly, answer questions, express genuine appreciation, and reinforce the importance of their service.
- Invite volunteers to invest in feeding kids through their time, finances, and prayers.
- Lead a Christian prayer over packaged food and invite volunteers to join.
- Implement and apply effective, innovative storytelling techniques; tailor messaging to varied audiences and confidently engage and inform large groups.
- Collaborate with site leadership on duties before and after sessions as assigned. Work with assigned engagement supervisor to develop session presentation plans that include celebrations, milestones, food impact stories, and invitations.
- Provide end‑of‑session updates to leadership using the designated form, noting key session parameters.
- Conduct retail and donation transactions on a cash register.
- Maintain a clean and food-safe facility, which may include doing laundry and cleaning floors, dishes, and bathrooms several times per day.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- Commitment to support and promote FMSC’s Christian mission and goals.
- Must be 18 years of age or older.
- Minimum of high school diploma or GED equivalent and 1 year proven work experience as a public/motivational speaker required.
- Thrives in a team setting. Able to pitch in, fill in gaps, remain flexible, ask for help, and share responsibilities.
- Technologically proficient, with the ability to confidently conduct research and communicate through digital platforms; experienced in operating projectors, presentation software, and audio systems..
- Engaging public speaker skilled in audience-focused storytelling and confident communication with large groups.
- Exceptional listening, verbal, presenting, and written communication skills.
- Excellent organizational skills with a high degree of detail, accuracy, and follow-through.
- Respect and value FMSC’s volunteers and supporters, varying in beliefs, backgrounds, and abilities.
- Able to walk and stand in intervals up to 6 hours.
- Able to tolerate consistent exposure to soy (an allergen).
- Reports to Assistant Site Manager.
Similar Jobs
.png)
Fintech • Information Technology • Software • Financial Services • Quantitative Trading
Supports employee experience programs, workplace initiatives, company events, recognition activities, wellness programming, and office operations. Coordinates end-to-end event delivery, including budgets, vendors, communications, registrations, logistics, onsite support, and follow-up. Gathers employee feedback and engagement data to improve programs and strengthen workplace culture. Partners with People Team stakeholders, office management, and business leaders to create welcoming, inclusive, and memorable employee experiences.
Top Skills:
A/V TechnologyExcelMicrosoft 365Microsoft FormsMicrosoft TeamsOutlookPowerPoint
Events • Professional Services
Connect with individuals who have requested information, conduct introductory phone and Zoom conversations, explain online education programs and live events, answer questions, follow up with interested prospects, and maintain organized communication workflows. The role requires independent schedule management, relationship-building, consistent activity, and performance ownership within a flexible remote environment supported by training, mentorship, digital tools, and AI-assisted systems.
Top Skills:
Ai-Supported Digital ToolsZoom
Edtech
Coordinates client and patient appointments, specialty service scheduling, cancellations, waitlists, referrals, medical records, and pre- and post-appointment communications at a veterinary hospital. Provides compassionate client service, resolves scheduling concerns, supports clinical teams, and maintains accurate records in a fast-paced onsite environment.
Top Skills:
Billing SystemsElectronic Medical Records SystemsEzyvet
What you need to know about the Chicago Tech Scene
With vibrant neighborhoods, great food and more affordable housing than either coast, Chicago might be the most liveable major tech hub. It is the birthplace of modern commodities and futures trading, a national hub for logistics and commerce, and home to the American Medical Association and the American Bar Association. This diverse blend of industry influences has helped Chicago emerge as a major player in verticals like fintech, biotechnology, legal tech, e-commerce and logistics technology. It’s also a major hiring center for tech companies on both coasts.
Key Facts About Chicago Tech
- Number of Tech Workers: 245,800; 5.2% of overall workforce (2024 CompTIA survey)
- Major Tech Employers: McDonald’s, John Deere, Boeing, Morningstar
- Key Industries: Artificial intelligence, biotechnology, fintech, software, logistics technology
- Funding Landscape: $2.5 billion in venture capital funding in 2024 (Pitchbook)
- Notable Investors: Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Arch Venture Partners, MATH Venture Partners, Jump Capital, Hyde Park Venture Partners
- Research Centers and Universities: Northwestern University, University of Chicago, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Institute of Technology, Argonne National Laboratory, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
