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Requisition ID:req9029Job Title: Spice Kitchen Incubator Summer Associate VISTASector: Food SecurityEmployment Category: Fixed TermEmployment Type: Full-TimeOpen to Expatriates: NoLocation: Salt Lake City, UT USAJob DescriptionIRC Background:Founded in 1933, the IRC is a leading nonsectarian, voluntary organization providing relief, protection and resettlement services for refugees and victims of oppression or violent conflict. In the U.S.; IRC provides assistance to refugees resettling here through 25 offices operating in 16 states. IRC resettles approximately 11,000 refugees per year and provides numerous program services to assist the refugee from their arrival through citizenship. The IRC in Salt Lake City opened it office in 1994, and provides resettlement services through extended case management to newly arrived refugees for up to 24-months as well as over twenty different programs to educate and empower refugees. Job Overview:The AmeriCorps VISTA Summer Associate program offers individuals the opportunity to become engaged in a community through the International Rescue Committee in Salt Lake City for 10 weeks during the summer, June 15 – August 21, 2020. While not a job, Summer Associates receive: A living allowance for the time served ($1040 a month). Choice between a Segal AmeriCorps Education Award ($1,289.95) or an end-of-service summer stipend. Only those Summer Associates who successfully complete their full term of service are eligible to receive the education award or end-of-service summer stipend.Spice Kitchen Incubator is a food business incubator program assisting low-to-moderate income individuals, primarily refugees, asylum seekers and asylees and other new Americans to start food businesses. This position will focus on liaising market access by increasing program and entrepreneur capacity at various seasonal events while also researching and developing guides to scale businesses into new market avenues such as packaged products, online catering platforms, boxed lunch delivery, and café and storefront opportunities.Major Responsibilities:
Support Spice Kitchen participants to access market opportunities including assisting participants to register for online market access platforms such as EZ Cater, Grub Hub or other identified e-commerce platform.
Support Spice Kitchen participants to successfully apply for, set-up and sell at farmers markets and special events.
Assist participants, with the support of Spice Kitchen staff, to research packaging and product standards to develop packaged products with FDA compliant labeling. Assist participants to access markets to sell developed packaged products.
Assist staff to research and refine café and storefront concept
Develop materials and implement a series of workshops for entrepreneurs preparing to sell products in the café and storefront
Assist staff to develop standard operating procedures for the storefront and make into user-friendly fact sheets in various languages
Qualifications
Must be able to clear an FBI Criminal Background Check
Currently pursuing or recently completed undergraduate degree
Experience and/or interest in food service and social justice issues a must
Ability to communicate effectively with people of different linguistic backgrounds
Must be able to work early mornings, evenings, and weekends as needed
Has or is willing to get Utah Food Handler’s Certification in the first week
Highly organized with excellent time and space management skills
Patience, flexibility and a good sense of humor a must
Ability to speak passionately and articulately about our mission
